Somebody's Someone

Author: Regina Louise
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446556335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
In this poignant and heart wrenching true story, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for connection in the face of abuse, neglect, and rejection. What happens to a child when her own parents reject her and sit idly by as others abuse her? In this poignant, heart wrenching debut work, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for someone to feel connected to. A mother she has never known--but long fantasized about-- deposited her and her half sister at the same group home that she herself fled years before. When another resident beats Regina so badly that she can barely move, she knows that she must leave this terrible place-the only home she knows. Thus begins Regina's fight to survive, utterly alone at the age of 10. A stint living with her mother and her abusive boyfriend is followed by a stay with her father's lily white wife and daughters, who ignore her before turning to abuse and ultimately kicking her out of the house. Regina then tries everything in her search for someone to care for her and to care about, from taking herself to jail to escaping countless foster homes to be near her beloved counselor. Written in her distinctive and unique voice, Regina's story offers an in-depth look at the life of a child who no one wanted. From her initial flight to her eventual discovery of love, your heart will go out to Regina's younger self, and you'll cheer her on as she struggles to be Somebody's Someone.

How to Be Somebody

Author: Mark Mendes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692334638
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
In few words this book teaches you how to be "Somebody" in today's world. It shows you the keys to happiness and true joy in this life. You will be concisely led step by step to develop the virtue of humility using the examples from Scripture and of the saints as well as their advice. St. Augustine called pride the reservoir of all sin, the great sin, the head and cause of all sins! With this book you will be going FULL CONTACT in "Cultivating the Interior Garden" of the soul. Planting seeds is great but if you don't have fertile soil you will not grow anything but weeds!

Somebody Scream!

Author: Marcus Reeves
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865479975
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
"A strong and timely book for the new day in hip-hop. Don't miss it!"—Cornel West For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." With the onset of the Reagan years, we begin to see the unraveling of many of the advances fought for in the previous decades. Much of this occurred in the absence of credible, long-term leadership in the black community. Young blacks disillusioned with politics and feeling society no longer cared or looked out for their concerns started rapping with each other about their plight, becoming their own leaders on the battlefield of culture and birthing Hip-Hop in the process. In Somebody Scream, Marcus Reeves explores hip-hop music and its politics. Looking at ten artists that have impacted rap—from Run-DMC (Black Pop in a B-Boy Stance) to Eminem (Vanilla Nice)—and puts their music and celebrity in a larger socio-political context. In doing so, he tells the story of hip hop's rise from New York-based musical form to commercial music revolution to unifying expression for a post-black power generation.

Tell Somebody

Author: Harold J. Recinos
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666775126
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Tell Somebody is poetry about what is seen, touched, tasted, and heard that takes on the beauty and ugliness in society. Each poem seeks to persuade the overlooked into public light. The collection comments on the exclusion familiar to people that have their backs pressed against the wall and are concerned to arrest the consequences of inequality issuing forth from cultures of cruelty. Readers are welcomed to step into the existential reality of persons who challenge the moral claims of society upon the marginalized found on the streets, in the workplace, and crossing borders. The collection is a contribution to the artistic expression of a time of social conflict, and it offers a careful and thought-provoking resource by which to reflect on the complex issues of identity and justice in the United States.

Somebody's Luggage

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
3 historier.

Becoming Somebody

Author: Philip Wexler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135723257
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Offers a social psychological account of social life in three high schools, combining theoretical analysis with reflective methodology. The emphasis of the book is on how social relations have varying effects on the feeling of self in young people from different socioeconomic environments.

Somebody New

Author: L.J. Breedlove
Publisher: L.J. Breedlove
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
She's Changed Naomi survived. A serial killer kidnapped her along with dozens of other women over a three-year period. When they were rescued, Naomi wasn't the same person she had been. How could she be? She'd seen unspeakable things. Had unspeakable things done to her. Done unspeakable things. But then a woman named Dace Marshall swooped in and rescued them all. Now Naomi is facing the biggest challenge of all: learning to live again. Book 6 in the Talkeetna, Alaska, series featuring Dace Marshall and her fiance Captain Paul Kitka of the Alaska State Troopers.

Somebody's Girl

Author: Maggie De Vries
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554699681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Martha knows she is adopted, but she's well-loved and popular, at least until her mother gets pregnant and she feels her parents' attention start to shift. Upset and confused, Martha lashes out at—and loses—her friends. She also makes no secret about her annoyance at being forced to do a school project about sturgeon with Chance, a difficult boy whose foster parents are family friends. To add insult to injury, Martha's birth mother announces that she is getting married and moving away. Now Martha isn't number one in anybody's life. When her mom goes into labor prematurely, Martha realizes that she needs to figure out a way to be a better friend and daughter, and a great sister.

Somebody's Daughter

Author: David Bell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399586059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
A man must save the life of a little girl who may be his own flesh and blood in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of Kill All Your Darlings. When Michael Frazier’s ex-wife, Erica, unexpectedly shows up on his doorstep, she drops a bombshell that threatens to rip his family apart: Her ten-year-old daughter is missing—and Michael is the father. Unsure whether this is the truth but unwilling to leave the girl’s fate to chance, Michael has no choice but to follow the elusive trail of the child he has always wanted but never knew he had. Over the course of one night, lies that span a decade come bubbling to the surface, putting Michael, his wife, and his whole family in jeopardy. And as the window for a little girl’s safe return closes, Michael will have to decide who can be trusted and who is hiding the truth....

Somebody Simon

Author: Robin Ferris De Sapio
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557089239
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 39

Book Description
Beth never thought therapy would lead her to more questions than answers. Her therapist never thought she'd have all her magazines in her office organized.