When You Find Out Where You Arecall Me

Author : Abdi Nor Iftin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525433023
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me American written by Abdi Nor Iftin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills to post secret dispatches, which found an audience of worldwide listeners. Eventually, though, Abdi was forced to flee to Kenya. In an amazing stroke of luck, Abdi won entrance to the U.S. in the annual visa lottery, though his route to America did not come easily. Parts of his story were first heard on the BBC World Service and This American Life. Now a proud resident of Maine, on the path to citizenship, Abdi Nor Iftin's dramatic, deeply stirring memoir is truly a story for our time: a vivid reminder of why America still beckons to those looking to make a better life.

Author : Bev Sellars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889227415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Called Me Number One written by Bev Sellars and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xat'sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition, beginning at the age of five, Sellars was isolated for two years at Coqualeetza Indian Turberculosis Hospital in Sardis, British Columbia, nearly six hours' drive from home. The trauma of these experiences has reverberated throughout her life. The first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph's Mission at Williams Lake, BC, Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended the school, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. She tells of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings, often with a leather strap, and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution where children were confined and denigrated for failure to be White and Roman Catholic. Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph's Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph's Mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hubert O'Connor, which took place during Sellars's student days, between 1962 and 1967, when O'Connor was the school principal. After the school's closure, those who had been forced to attend came from surrounding reserves and smashed windows, tore doors and cabinets from the wall, and broke anything that could be broken. Overnight their anger turned a site of shameful memory into a pile of rubble. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution's lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.

Author : Michael Schiavone
Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781579622213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me when You Land written by Michael Schiavone and published by Permanent Press (NY). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the brink of her fortieth birthday, Katie Olmstead is in no mood to celebrate. Still tending bar to support a stalled art career, she continues to struggle with her temperamental teenage son, C.J., the death of her son's estranged father, her own troubled childhood, a bullying sister, an on-again, off-again boyfriend she just can't love, and a drinking habit. Katie finds support in an unlikely place--her eccentric and ailing great uncle, Walter.

Author : Logan Smalley
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982140585
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book written by Logan Smalley and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs, checklists, and more, from the creators of the popular multimedia project. The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is an interactive illustrated homage to the beautiful ways in which books bring meaning to our lives and how our lives bring meaning to books. Carefully crafted in the style of a retro telephone directory, this guide offers you a variety of unique ways to connect with readers, writers, bookshops, and life-changing stories. In it, you’ll discover... -Heartfelt, anonymous voicemail messages and transcripts from real-life readers sharing unforgettable stories about their most beloved books. You’ll hear how a mother and daughter formed a bond over their love for Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, or how a reader finally felt represented after reading Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, or how two friends performed Mary Oliver’s Thirst to a grove of trees, or how Anne Frank inspired a young writer to continue journaling. -Hidden references inside fictional literary adverts like Ahab’s Whale Tours and Miss Ophelia’s Psychic Readings, and real-life literary landmarks like Maya Angelou City Park and the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum. -Lists of bookstores across the USA, state by state, plus interviews with the book lovers who run them. -Various invitations to become a part of this book by calling and leaving a bookish voicemail of your own. -And more! Quirky, nostalgic, and full of heart, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is a love letter to the stories that change us, connect us, and make us human.

Author : Hector M. Santos Velez
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430329114
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Iliad written by Hector M. Santos Velez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iliad, my main character who suffers from amnesia after being shot by a pervert, is now pursued by another. Toerch is his name a man who will go to any extreme to get his way and his sights are on Iliad. So far she' managed to best him at every encounter they've had. But with every set-back, he's found new ways of retaliating. The last incident was especially hurtful for Iliad because the man shot two of her friends. One of them was Diana's brother, a policeman from California visiting her. The other was Trixie, a friend, who in the ensuing death struggle managed to put them both in the river. The raging waters separate the struggling duo and Toerch is picked up by Mahogany, an acquaintance of his. She takes him to the nearest hospital, but when he realizes she's done, getting out of there becomes a priority. He devices a clever plan and with her help, he's gone long before the law discover his whereabouts. Every officer in Athens wants to get their hands on Toerch, as does Iliad.

Author : G. B. Trudeau
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780030110313
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me when You Find America written by G. B. Trudeau and published by Henry Holt & Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cartoons depicting the response of Michael J. Doonesbury and his friends to the insanities and injustices of modern-day America

Author : Kelly Violet
Publisher : Pump Up the Violet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0999704834
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Names You Call Me written by Kelly Violet and published by Pump Up the Violet Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impulse in class... Rae-Ana Sharpe was like a brick wall. Solid. Steadfast. And hard to break through. Used to a long line of disappointing moments and heartache, this was now her life. Being hurt by her best friend Xander, though, was the absolute worst. She never really recovered from his unexpected dismissal. Then an impulsive moment in class one day brings him crashing back into her world. Gives them a second chance... Alexander Wirth made a colossal mistake the last days of high school. Two years later, it still weighed on his conscience. But Rae was never far from his mind or heart. Taking a chance, he enrolled in an elective way outside of his major. When his bet finally pays off, he gets a rude awakening and a shot at redemption. That's if she even gives him the time of day. When life constantly supplies you with lemons, do you lock your heart away for good? Or let the guy of your dreams fix you a glass of spiked lemonade? The Names You Call Me is a college romance with second chance angst. This novella features an impulsive hero and a heroine with better things to do than forgiving her ex-best friend. Make sure to grab your copy of the prequel, The Love You Give Me, for their backstory.

Author : Alison Kent
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459278321
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me written by Alison Kent and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Call me." How could two little words scribbled on a business card drive a normally sane woman to be so…impulsive? It wasn't Harley Golden's style to call a perfect stranger. But here she was, after one brief airport encounter, having phone sex with the obviously unforgettable Gardner Barnes. What next? Letting him fly her off to Texas in his jet? Falling in love with a man who was already married to a ranch? Getting pregnant…? "Alison Kent mesmerizes us with a compelling love story, brimming with scorching sensuality…." —Romantic Times

Author : Jacky Newcomb
Publisher : Piatkus
ISBN 13 : 0748128344
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me When You Get To Heaven written by Jacky Newcomb and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and moving memoir, sisters Jacky and Madeline share the communications they have received from their beloved father, Ron, since he passed away in February 2008. Ron reaches out to them from 'the other side' to show his family that there most certainly is life after death. Ron visits family and friends in dreams, shows them the future in visions, and plays havoc with door bells, light switches and alarms. He reaches out to them to prove that he is safe in the afterlife, and to offer reassurance and guidance from beyond. This extraordinary book shows that this life is not the end, and that happiness can be found in the afterlife. It is a touching and emotional tribute to their father that will offer comfort and hope to anyone who has lost someone they love.

Author : Philip Almy
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 146891913X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Call Me Lucky written by Philip Almy and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing true story of a young man learning to live with a serious disability, with his young wife aside. Take yourself along for a journey that could happen to anybody at any time. His triumph over tragedy attitude is the only thing that keeps them going. Read more about his life and his eternal source. It should leave you with a greater appreciation of life! Thanks for taking a look. Philip Almy