Sister You Have A Special Place In My Heart

Author : SPS Studios
Publisher : Blue Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780883966136
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister, You Have a Special Place in My Heart written by SPS Studios and published by Blue Mountain Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sister exemplifies the best of family and friendship. She knows your past, and you know she'll be there when tomorrow comes -- whatever it may bring. The eloquent words gathered here will touch the soul of every sister and express to her the thanks and appreciation she deserves for being one of the most important people in your life. The unique handmade paper used for the cover of this book is first crafted from mulberry trees and then hand-colored by artisans. Each book cover in this eloquent series is distinct and different, and the environment is not harmed in the making of this paper.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Hachette Australia
ISBN 13 : 0733633250
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Your Sister written by Samuel Johnson and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015 A searingly honest memoir of family, cancer, love ... and unicycles by the founders of the Love your Sister charity, Connie and Samuel Johnson, that will inspire and they hope get people talking about boobs! Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close. Faced with the devastating news that they would soon be separated forever, they made a decision. After already surviving cancer twice in her young life, at 33 Connie was diagnosed with breast cancer. But this time it was a whole different ball game. This time she was told she will die, leaving behind her two sons. As a young mum faced with her own death, Connie wanted to make it all less meaningless, and she knew just the way to do it - send her brother, Sam, on a one-wheeled odyssey around Australia. The aims: to break the world record for the longest distance travelled on a unicycle. To raise $1 million for the Garvan Research Foundation. And, most importantly, to remind women to be breast aware and stop others having to say goodbye to those they love. Their message is simple: 'Don't fall into the booby trap.' Samuel has travelled through every state and ridden more than 150,000 kilometres to raise awareness and raise research dollars. But Connie had a secret fourth aim: to fix Samuel. And it worked. Sam cleared his diary, cleaned himself up and tenaciously kept his promise to his dying sister. For them the job isn't over. They are determined to raise more money for research. Connie vows to fight until her dying day and Sam says the fight will go on long after that. These two remarkable Australians share their tale, from childhood through to the finish line and beyond in this truly unique story. Part memoir, part travel diary, part conversation, Love your Sister is an inspiring and unforgettable story that shows just how far one man will go for his sister. The Johnsons' memoir is bracing and affecting. - Sunday Age, Sun Herald Part memoir, part diary, part conversation, this is an unforgettable story of how far a brother will go for his sister. - Brisbane News There are many joyous moments as brother and sister reflect, often wryly and honestly, on the power of their bond and the full catastrophe that is family life. - Sydney Morning Herald This book, like Connie and Samuel's lives, is much bigger than their experience of misfortune. - Canberra Times

Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476790
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister of My Heart written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their fathers died--mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well as their hearts were merged. But, when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing readers from the first page with the lush prose we have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed.

Author : Sonya Sones
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780064462181
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stop Pretending written by Sonya Sones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-01-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens just like that, in the blink of an eye. An older sister has a mental breakdown and has to be hospitalized. A younger sister is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief and friends who turn their backs on her. But worst of all is the loss of her big sister, her confidante, her best friend, who has gone someplace no one can reach. In the tradition of The Bell Jar, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and Lisa, Bright and Dark comes this haunting first book told in poems, and based on the true story of the author's life. 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) and 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults (Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers)

Author : Johnnie Sue Bridges
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781462817788
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motown Girl Sister Golden Hair written by Johnnie Sue Bridges and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnnie Sue Bridges incredible life story began with the release of her first book, the highly acclaimed Shadows And Scars, a beautiful story that captures the essence of living in the mountains of Middlesboro, Kentucky, with vivid imagery, comical moments and raw emotion. In one cold blue night, she writes of an already painful world turning into nothing short of a nightmare. Bitter coldness and survival starts the reader on a journey that portrays a young mothers fight against poverty, loneliness, and alcoholism, concluding in the riot-torn and racially divided city of Detroit. Shadows And Scars reveals a birds-eye view of the child that struggled to maintain stability in her hauntingly unstable world. Readers will gain the knowledge of endurance within themselves, despite adversity. Book # 2 Motown Girl Sister Golden Hair chronicles her roller coaster ride through the early 70s growing up in the inner city of Detroits Westside. Hitting the teen years during the underground time of extreme change, uprisings, experimenting with everything under the sun, came at a very high pricerobbery of her self worth and most importantly, the stolen innocence of the ones she dearly loved. Highly educated in cultured urban habit, she was forevermore restless and ran incessantly. And by the grace of God, she eventually changed and escaped. However, some of those she held closest to her heart paid the piper with their lives. In her own words, No one told us that stuff would kill ya. Book # 3 of the series Run BabyGirl Run Just Published! The year was 1973. A fourteen-year-old girl hitchhiked across the country to the Pacific Coast, then back to the Atlantic Ocean. Her mother died when she was only eleven years old and never knowing a father, there had to be a way of validating her very existence and to discover why she was on this planet. The answers were all around her; however, she would not be able to recognize them until years later. Meeting with many life-threatening situations, its a thousand wonders she is still alive to tell her story. Run BabyGirl Run is written with gutwrenching honesty and allows the reader to see into the very depths of this beautiful young girls soul. Editor: Jackie Hurst www.johnniesuebridges.com

Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 192516313X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister Heart written by Sally Morgan and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships. Poignantly told from the child’s perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of family and kinship. Suitable for ages 10–15, this compelling novel about the stolen generations helps teachers sensitively introduce into the classroom one of world’s most confronting histories.

Author : Kamané Malvo Marshall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465322463
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Praise Be to the Plus-Sized Sister written by Kamané Malvo Marshall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Summary Praise Be to the Plus-Sized Sister is a semi-autobiographical tale of seven women from the San Francisco Bay Area who are connected to each other by six-degrees-of-separation. Seeking redemption from heartbreak, infidelity, poor choices, rejection, self-sabotage, low self-esteem, and emotional and physical abuse, Natasha, Zinnia, Israel, Addison, Celeste, Lila, and Liberty endure the social and psychological pressures of being full-figured black women in a thin obsessed society. With wit, intelligence, glamour and style, and a twofold portion of sass, these soulful sisters possess faith in the midst of the storm, hope when tomorrow is not promised, and strength of character when giving up seems easier than doing the right thing. Praise Be to the Plus-Sized Sister is made up of six stories of redemption: Out of the Mind of Israel Ming, Daddys Girls, The Vibrator Virgin, Count it all joy, Saving Sister Jared, and Forgiving Liberty. Beautifully flawed, audaciously determined, and at times downright hilarious, Praise Be to the Plus-Sized Sister represents a new voice, an underrepresented story about the struggle of a unique minority group that has been misunderstood for a long time. Written in the rich and colorful language of the African American experience, by no means is this book tame. It deals with real issues women endure in modern day society, paying special attention to plus-sized African American females who confront prejudice and discrimination on three fronts: race, gender, and size. With messages of hope, self-acceptance, and second chances, Kamane Malvo Marshall encourages her readers to keep the faith no matter what.

Author : Patricia Clark Smith
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412000513
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Baiting Hollow written by Patricia Clark Smith and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through imagination, wonder, and love of family and friends, this comtemporary myth about twelve-year-old Brigit, a 4th generation descendant of Irish-American potato farmers on Long Island, unfolds. During her 2 week summer vacation with her family, Brigit's questions about her identity lead to storytelling adventures with her beach friend, Kevin, and her sister, Barbara. The stories are about mermaids, encounters with family ghosts, and the protection of angels. Baiting Hollow, a small beach nestled among tall cliffs on the north shore of Long Island, the Twoney farmhouse and farm, and the underwater world of Merpeople are the settings for this story. The Secret of Baiting Hollow confirms for young readers the importance of family and friends and that mermaids do live among us. Throughout the story, readers will wonder where personal memoir leaves off and fantasy begins. . .

Author : Rosetta Hargett
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977269451
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Shadow of His Wings written by Rosetta Hargett and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hi, this is Ruth Colon. May I please speak to Mack?” “Mack speaking, how can I help you, Mrs. Colon?” “I’m calling regarding my ex-husband Lonnie Colon; I just got a call from one of his co-workers to tell me Lonnie was in an accident and rushed to The Tremont Hospital.” “Mrs. Colon, your ex-husband doesn’t work here any more; he was fired about six months ago; as a matter of fact, we had to call the police to escort him out of here and get a court order to keep him off the premises! Mrs. Colon, I don’t know you, but I’ve heard some nice things about you from some of the guys here that know Lonnie personally. Look, I’m not trying to get in your business; anybody that knows me will tell you I am not one to get involved in my employee’s personal life. As long as my employees are doing their job, I stay out of their business, but just hearing your voice, I feel obligated to tell you this, you need to get as far away from Lonnie as possible. He has some serious mental issues! Your ex-husband is a very dangerous man and is not to be trusted; if I were you, I would never be left alone with him. When Ruth hung up from Mack, a feeling of dread swept over her.

Author : Christopher Gooden
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 159979862X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Releasing the Guards written by Christopher Gooden and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Gooden's Releasing the Guards is a testimony of healing from early childhood sexual abuse. His extraordinary courage in revealing his battles with rage and guilt provide the reader with a vivid series of snapshots following one man's pursuit of healing and wholeness. Gooden's story begins on the night, at the age of nine, when he put a stop to the attacks, and progresses to the present, which finds him an accomplished educator and author ministering healing and courage to others who are fighting the same battle against which he already has achieved victory.