Author: Esther Bganya Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1493193104 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 256
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Mamas Voice is the product of a middle-aged Christian psychiatrist and mother who journals her life observations and experiences, hoping to pass on some life lessons to her children. What started off as random journaling of thoughts ended up being a published book released as a birthday present for her children. The book is written in a random manner with life lessons ranging from self-esteem, bad habits, addictions, snobbery, conflict, money, selfishness, greed, and codependent relationships through to family dramas. The author attempts to capture some important life lessons with a touch of humor and rawness that depicts the real-life dramas. Both pleasurable and painful life observations and experiences are unapologetically expressed with a rawness that does not coat it with sweet candy. Its about real life seen through the eyes of a mother going through a midlife crisis and questioning most things she had taken for granted. The messages are given as direct instructions to her children in second or third person voices and riddles. The messages are just as random as they entered the authors thoughts. This is a light read for both the middle aged and young, who are questioning a few things in their worldview. Like the philosopher in the book of Ecclesiastes, the author grapples with certain life issues until she finally realizes that she cannot fix the world and she gives up control. The forty-five-year-old author starts off by writing a letter to her thirteen-year-old self and ends the book with her modified version of the Ten Commandments and a futuristic letter to her eighty-five-year-old self.
Author: Marie Louise Sisak Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1493121790 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
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The content of my book is based on my belief in God and my life story in depth. This book will be a learning experience and very entertaining as well. As we go through the pages of my life, you see how sexual, mental and physical abuse as a child led me to mental breakdown, alcoholism, drug addiction and prostitution I will show you how important a strong family foundation is needed in the home as a child. Even though as a child the abuse was intensive and consistent, I still had hopes and dreams like other kids with a heart of gold. At 13 years old, l left home. I learn how to survive off of fruit trees as I felt safe sleeping under a house. You will see after I was made a ward of the court how cruel society can be. You will learn why I was placed in a mental institution at the age 14. As I go through my teenage pregnancy and give birth to baby girl, you will hold my hand. As my story unfolds you will smile with me and say "a job well done!"
Author: Dionna L. Mann Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 0823459268 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
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Growing up in segregated 1930’s Charlottesville, ten-year-old Allie is determined to find a man for her mama to marry— but not just any man will do! Allie’s life with Mama isn’t bad, but she knows it could be better if Mama would find someone to marry. Allie’s worst enemy, her NOT-friend Gwen, has a daddy, and Allie wants someone like that—someone to fix things when they break, someone who likes to sing, and has a kind-smile. So Allie makes a plan—her super secret Man-For-Mama plan. She has a list of candidates with a clear top choice: Mr. Johnson, who owns the antique store. Best of all, Mr. Johnson went to school with Mama, and he wants to get reacquainted! The battle’s half won, and Allie is sure that when he tries Mama’s yummy chicken and dumplings, he’ll be head over heels. But someone else is interested in Mama: Mr. Coles, Allie’s teacher, who’s also Gwen’s uncle! Mama can’t marry him—no way is Allie going to be related to Gwen. On top of it all, Allie’s best friend is moving to Chicago; Allie keeps getting in trouble; and everyone seems to think she’s jealous of Gwen, for some reason. Nothing is going how she planned, but Allie is determined to get things back on track toward the life she knows she and Mama both deserve. . . even if Mama doesn’t agree yet. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Author: Francine Paino Publisher: céline bara ISBN: 9781479207916 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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A GREAT STOCKING STUFFER: Teaching children to consider other people's feelings begins as soon as they can relate to others. Mama's Little Lady, A Special Pony shows children how important it is to consider the feelings of others. Winner of a 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Award, Mama's Little Lady, A Special Pony is appropriate for ages 5-8.
Author: Rebecca D. Elswick Publisher: Abbott Press ISBN: 1458200655 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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By the time Sylvia Richardson is eighteen, she has buried her parents; given birth to a daughter; and become a widow. It is 1942, and World War II has destroyed Sylvias dream of dancing in red heels through life to the melody of a Hank Snow record. Instead, she is raising her daughter, Sassy, alone in the coal mining town she vowed to leave behind. By 1955, thirteen-year-old Sassy has been brought up on a stiff dose of Mamas lessons on how to be a ladyeven though Mama drinks, smokes, and dates a myriad of men. But everything changes the day a woman accuses Sylvia of trying to steal her husband, forcing Sassy to come to terms with her Mamas harsh teen years. For Sylvia, only the support of kith and kin can rescue her from her mistakes. Spanning twenty years, Mamas Shoes is a haunting saga of love, despair, and forgiveness as a cadence of female voices weaves a spell of mountain lore and secrets, defines family as more than blood kin, and proves second chances can bring happiness. An absolutely wonderful novel, its setting a beautifully realized small Appalachian coal town, its characters so vivid theyre practically jumping off the page. Lee Smith, author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger and The Last Girls
Author: Joan Steinau Lester Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451693192 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 307
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A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter. Mama’s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them—except when it didn’t. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative impact on their marriage, and they divorce when their children are still young. For their biracial daughter, this split further destabilizes her already challenged sense of self—“Am I black or white?” she must ask herself, “Where do I belong?” Is she her father’s daughter alone? As the years pass, the chasm between them widens, even as the mother attempts to hold on to the emotional chord that binds them. It isn’t until the daughter, Ruby, herself becomes a wife and mother that she begins to develop compassion and understanding for the many ways that her own mother’s love transcended race and questions of identity.
Author: Feazell Jim Feazell Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1440189064 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 198
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THE TERM "REDNECK" ORIGINATED FROM THE RED SUNBURNED NECKS OF FARMERS THAT WORKED IN THE FIELDS. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY IT WAS CHANGED TO DESIGNATE SCUMMY LOW-LIFE POOR WHITE TRASH. THEN ALONG ABOUT THE MID-SIXTIES IT MIRACULOUSLY TOOK ON A DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGY. THAT OF A CULTURED INTELLECTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ERUDITE. TO BE REFERRED TO AS A "REDNECK" WAS THEN TRULY A COMPLIMENT. 1967-MAMA'S PLACE, A SLEAZY BEER JOINT NEAR SMACKOVER, ARKANSAS WILL FOREVER HAVE THE FAME OF BEING THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE CULTURED ERUDITE "REDNECK". WARNING: If you are offended by crude, obscene, vulgar and downright sinful language. DO NOT read this book.
Author: Mary J. Boomhower Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450063454 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 194
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I’ll Carry You My Child I just remember praying so silently, “Dear Jesus, will you please take my trembling hand?” Lord, can’t you see I’m losing all of my courage? I’m weak, my legs are shaking, and I can barely stand. I know that you see this door in front of me; my precious daughter is resting in peace on the other side. I am just so afraid of seeing what I most want to see, “Lord, Do you think, this time, you could carry me inside?” Then Jesus said, “My child you must have forgotten, for this surely isn’t the very first time. You’ve had other troubling times in your life, as I did then, I’ll carry you now, and you will be just fine.” I can’t tell you this won’t be painful, for it will be, there will be things that you won’t want to see. But someday even painful memories become cherished, and they’ll remain “deep, in the heart of you and me.” Don’t you remember the day that you followed me child, as we walked lazily along in the sand? There was only “one set of footprints” then, don’t you know, “my child, I’ll carry you again?” 18 MARY J. BOOMHOWER Did You See The Angels? Danni, “Did you see the angels hovering near, and did you ask them to please go away?” “Did you tell them you would go another time, but that you just couldn’t go that day?” Danni, “Did you tell them you were on your way home, and that I was counting the minutes to see you?” “Did you tell them your new life had barely begun, and that you still had so many things to do?” Danni, “Did you tell them, that you really loved “The Lord,” and you would gladly go to Heaven someday?” “Did you tell them that we hadn’t said our good-byes, and that you just couldn’t leave me that way?” Danni, “Did you tell them that your mama wasn’t that strong, and that I just couldn’t bear losing my child?” “Did you tell them how we had to hug every day, and how much I would miss your smile?” MAMA’S HEART 19 Our Last Cuddle All signs of life were gone from you, when I first saw you that day. The pain that you had suffered was still on your face, and I wanted so badly to take it away. I needed to wrap my arms around you, and to give you lots of baby kisses. Just the way we did when you were small, and when you had all of those “near misses!” I gently blew kisses over your body, while I prayed that you safely made it “home.” Then I really thought I heard you say, “Mama, please cuddle me once more, while we’re alone.” I really wanted to lye down beside you, and wrap you up so tightly in my arms. I wanted assurance you’d never know pain again, I’d gladly lay there forever, protecting you from harm. I just went to my knees praying, Lord Jesus, will you please, please hold my hand? She had so much life left to live, Lord. I just don’t understand! Lord, you know I’ve lost my precious child, and I don’t know what to do. This is the hardest time in my life I’ve ever known. And now, Lord, I need so much help from you! 20 MARY J. BOOMHOWER Footprints On My Heart How very softly you tip-toed into my world, almost silently, and only a moment you stayed. I wasn’t prepared to let you go, and never dreamed you’d go away. I remember the day you took your first step, and how it made a footprint on my heart. I never thought your life would be so brief, or how soon we’d have to say good-bye and part. I used to think of the day you’d marry, and wonder about the man you’d choose. I prayed you’d find the right one, someone that would love you and always be true. Some say that God knows the day we are born, how long our stay on earth will be. If “He” knew from the beginning, I just wish ‘He” would have prepared me. MAMA’S HEART 21 What Would You Do Without Me? Please open up your big brown eyes; I just know if you’d try that you can. Can’t you feel me? I’m right here beside you! Oh my child, I can just barely stand. Please open your eyes, I know that you can. You can’t be gone, the dream wasn’t yours, it was mine! This was always a dream but I didn’t understand, but now you’re gone and you left me behind!
Author: Garrett Davis Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504980883 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 167
Book Description
Mamas Girls tells the story of a married woman turned single mother of five. All five of her daughters have very different personalities even in their youth. Mama has to find ways to balance meeting the needs of all five of her children, especially her youngest, Sonya, who is a part of a secret that she has no idea about. As the girls grow up, they begin to focus on their own needs and eventually delve deeper into their own lives. Sonya remains close to Mama; however, she denies herself a personal life to make sure that Mama is okay. Shes beginning to feel overwhelmed, and then one day, Mama has an accident. Sonya calls her sisters and asks them to come see Mama and help her get through this tough time. Will all of Mamas girls show up?
Author: Robin D.G. Kelley Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 080700958X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
In this vibrant, thought-provoking book, Kelley, "the preeminant historian of black popular culture writing today" (Cornel West) shows how the multicolored urban working class is the solution to the ills of American cities. He undermines widespread misunderstandings of black culture and shows how they have contributed to the failure of social policy to save our cities. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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