Author: Jen Sookfong Lee Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 1459819012 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 153
Book Description
What drives people to search for new homes? From war zones to politics, there are many reasons why people have always searched for a place to call home. In Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees we discover how human migration has shaped our world. We explore its origins and the current issues facing immigrants and refugees today, and we hear the first-hand stories of people who have moved across the globe looking for safety, security and happiness. Author Jen Sookfong Lee shares her personal experience of growing up as the child of immigrants and gives a human face to the realities of being an immigrant or refugee today. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Author: Ken Pursley Publisher: Rizzoli Publications ISBN: 0847870820 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
In their first book, acclaimed architects Ken Pursley and Craig Dixon explore how to create gracious homes with welcoming entryways, soulful interiors, inviting porches, and ebullient gardens. Founded on the simple principle “Build beautiful things,” the architectural team of Pursley Dixon, like populist architects Bobby McAlpine and Jeff Dungan, is known for blending elements of tradition with a modern lifestyle. In Finding Home, they share 15 stunning houses in three distinct styles: rustic mountain escapes, dreamy retreats by the water, and elegant houses in town. Each house has its own thoughtful visual narrative, but all are connected on an innate and authentic level by their sense of proportion, attention to detail, and a marvelous affinity with nature, displayed in their soothing neutral palettes, oversize windows that bring the outdoors in, and natural materials such as rough-hewn stone and unfinished wood. Little touches of humanity await discovery, such as a sleeping nook perched right out into the highest branches of a tree. These eccentricities and secrets add to the distinctly Southern sense of warmth and refuge these homes provide, homes whose open interiors and majestic porches easily accommodate family and gatherings. Featuring their own interior design work as well as that of acclaimed decorators such as Suzanne Kasler, Phoebe Howard, and Circa Interiors, Finding Home is about creating houses of inherent beauty that will spark an emotional connection to last a lifetime.
Author: Jackie Weger Publisher: Written Musings ISBN: 1945143649 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
Book Description
A rich tapestry of wit, grit, and humor… Twenty-four-year old Phoebe Hawley is on a quest to find her family a home. On the road with two siblings, twelve-year-old Maydean and five-year-old Willie-Boy, Phoebe is out of money, out of gas and out of patience. The only things she owns in abundance are backbone and pride—neither of which she can trade for food or gas. A collision with Gage Morgan puts Phoebe’s mission in even worse jeopardy—until Phoebe discovers Gage owns the perfect place for her clan. However, she soon discovers that Gage is the unlikeliest man in the universe to offer a helping hand. Phoebe wields all the country smarts she owns to worm her way into Gage’s heart, but nothing works. With time running against her family, she plies one last inducement—her scarce feminine wiles
Author: Karen Kingsbury Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books ISBN: 1534412190 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of tens of millions of readers who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell inspire and entertain young readers by going back in time to tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxter children—Brooke, Kari, Ashley, Erin, and Luke. Summer is over and Dad begins his important position at an Indiana hospital. Like it or not, Bloomington is the Baxter Family’s new home. As school starts, everyone finds reasons to be excited about the move. Everyone, that is, except Ashley. Ashley desperately misses the home and friends she left behind. As she realizes her siblings have their struggles, too, she can’t help but wonder if unlikely friends can be the best friends of all? And could time and love from her family be enough to make a house feel like home? In the second book in the Baxter Family Children series, #1 New York Times bestselling Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell tell the funny and poignant tale of the Baxter children finding home!
Author: Brannen Basham Publisher: ISBN: 9781737273004 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Finding Home shows readers an inside look at the lives of six beneficial native creatures through an engaging and educational tale of a mason bee's search for a new home. North America is home to almost 4,000 species of native bees, most of which fly below our radar as they perform indispensable environmental services. Finding Home: A Story of a Mason Bee is an informational realistic fiction, with a focus on science, nature, and conservation written in prose focused on bringing attention to these forgotten creatures. Finding Home: A Story of a Mason bee shows readers the unique lives mason bees lead, and also gives a look at some other common beneficial wildlife. Follow a mason bee as she emerges from her nest to discover her habitat is being destroyed by human development and is propelled into the surrounding landscapes in order to find a place to make a new home. During her search, she comes across various other important wildlife, such as bumble bees, ants, and hummingbirds. Each encounter teaches the mason bee and the reader a little bit about the animals encountered, and the book ends with a glossary of terms including more information about each animal seen in the story.
Author: Emilia Finn Publisher: ISBN: 9781723886461 Category : Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Finding Home is Emilia's DEBUT novel, and the first of a 6-book saga jam packed with sexy fighters and strong heroines. Unhappy, and feeling older than her mere 25-years, Kit Reilly is trying to live a quiet life. When tragedy strikes and she's thrust into the role of motherhood to her unruly teenage brother, her life quickly transforms from quiet to chaotic. Overwhelmed, underappreciated, and unhappy, she's drowning in responsibility, and bogged down with life.*Bobby Kincaid is living his dream. Co-owner of a local gym, and successful professional fighter, Bobby's in the prime of his life. When a much-deserved girls night out throws Kit right in Bobby's path, he discovers his dream might now include a feisty mystery woman he can't get enough of. Fighting in the ring is one thing, but the universe has other plans for this couple, and he may have to fight for much more than a title to keep his new dream alive. What are reviewers saying about Finding Home? "Emilia Finn made me swoon, and tear up and literally clutch at my pillow. Her pain was my pain. I felt her swoon. I felt everything. Finding Home isn't just about love, it's about family, it's about finding your own and surviving life." "I loved every single minute finding new nuances of each character. Every single soul in the book left their footprint in my heart. Thank you, Emilia Finn." About the Author Emilia is a real life martial arts enthusiast. She's competed in full contact tournaments for years, and has a fancy display shelf full of pretty trophies to show for it. She's a mom to two littles who still keep her up at night, and she married her real life fighter, as well. Between changing diapers and cooking food her children refuse to eat, she writes her books, submerging herself in the world of Kincaid. It's a wonderful place to be. She hopes to see you there. Please Note This book is a republication of the 2017 version of Finding Home. It's rewritten, recovered, re-edited, and contains extra content and bonus scenes.
Author: Nancy Morley Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1468548441 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
This novel tells of a group of immigrants who were kept at sea for an extended time. The joy they expected when they finally arrived in Boston was overshadowed by the fact that most of them would be unable to travel to their destination until they paid off the amount they owed the ship's Captain. Those who reached their anticipated destination were shocked at the conditions in the mostly unsettled wilderness they would call home. The woman whose expectations did not match the reality of the situation would have to readjust her plans more than once.
Author: Tina Reiman Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1644683369 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 70
Book Description
Home... A word that can be a noun, an adjective, a verb, or an adverb, but all suggesting a sense of where one originated and where one belongs. This word can be used to describe a position in a game, instincts in the animal kingdom, a location on a computer screen, or the place where family gathers to support and celebrate one another. However, in our fractured world, filled with addiction, violence, illness, and broken relationships, too many are just wandering, lost, with no home, even when they find a roof over their heads. They look for a sense of belonging in groups and gangs where they hope for acceptance and support. Too many turn to drugs and alcohol to medicate their loneliness, some being drawn into the most sweeping opioid epidemic we have ever seen. What if we could find ways to create a stronger sense of "home" in our circles of influence? What if we learned how to open up the doors of our lives and bring people into the warmth and shelter that they have been looking for? What if we knew how to start conversations that would bring the issues of "finding home" to the forefront and help us find tools to assist those around us in building their own place of belonging? In the wake of losing her twenty-four-year-old son Nicolai to a fentanyl overdose, Tina Reiman began a journey to understand his struggle to find home. This path led her to reexamine what she believed about addiction, parenting, and love. One result was her establishment of a nonprofit dedicated to reducing addiction, homelessness, and suicide among the young men of her community through the coaching of those who understand "home."
Author: Colleen Johnson Publisher: Amazon Pro Hub ISBN: 1959566318 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 169
Book Description
This book takes a unique approach to the idea of soul care by comparing it to the concept of home. When we allow Jesus to do a transformational work in our souls to give us the feeling of home; loved, secure, nourished, accepted and healing every day. When we make it a practice to cultivate Jesus' presence within us, we will feel at home in our inner being instead of being spiritually and emotionally "homeless". When we cultivate the presence of Jesus and work through key soul care principles and develop a rhythm of a practices that incorporate the spiritual disciplines of feeding on God's Word, worship and thanksgiving, listening prayer, praying scripture, and times of fasting and solitude it leads our soul home. These practices create an atmosphere that God uses to fill us with more of Himself and His ways. The more of God we have, the more He guides us to tear down walls of self-protection, find the truth of who we are in Christ, and defeat the attacks of our enemy, Satan, so that we start walking more as Jesus walked. This process brings our soul to the home where it belongs.
Author: Erik Peacock Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467001376 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
At four years of age Erik emigrated from Britain to the island State of Tasmania with his non-conforming family. After living in the woods the family continued to home educate, helping to pioneer the home education movement in Australia. What followed was a long personal journey to find a place in a society undergoing rapid change. Intense religious experiences and hard edged political activism play out against a backdrop of ongoing conflict over the preservation and destruction of wilderness in one of the worlds special places. This gives a unique insider perspective on alternative education, nature and spirituality, social activism, and national identity. Often humorous, sometimes tragic, this is a very personal story of engaging with public life, about finding the divine in odd places, about social conflict, and about finding in the end those things that hold us together. It is about the strange ways that love finds us. It is a story of finding home.
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