I've Never Met My Grandpa

I've Never Met My Grandpa

Author: Shannon Zigmund

Publisher: Kind World Publishing

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781638940142

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A realistic story of a child's curiosity about death and lost loved ones. This sweet and poignant story paints a picture of a little girl's curiosity to know her grandfather, who died before she was born. What was he like? Will she ever be able to meet him? She starts off on her own discovery journey, gathering stories and memories, finding Grandpa's old things and trying out some of his favorites. As she pieces it all together, she realizes that maybe she doesn't have to meet her grandpa to really know him after all. Based on her own loss and parenting experience, debut author Shannon Zigmund has crafted a touching, timeless, and accessible tale of how a young child can come to know a loved one they've never met. Shared stories, memorabilia, traditions, and daydreaming weave together to create the fabric of a family member who is gone but certainly not forgotten. Readers everywhere can relate to the experience of both grief and love, and of realizing that we each hold pieces of one another in our hearts and lived lives.


The Grandma That I've Never Met

The Grandma That I've Never Met

Author: Maura Thomas

Publisher:

Published: 2023-02-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781088091227

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A beautiful story in which a mother explains to her child how her grandmother who has passed on loves them and lives on through emotional connection. With rhyming prose and soothing illustration this book will help a parent explain an intangible concept and maintain familial connection with the departed. At the end of the book there are activity pages on which you can add a photo of your loved one and favorite stories or anecdotes of their life. You can't see Grandma except in pictures, but she can see you anywhere. God gives angels special vision that zooms right in when they really care. A wonderful tool for parents and a thoughtful gift for those who have lost a mother.


My Grandad Is A Star

My Grandad Is A Star

Author: Lucy Thatcher

Publisher: Lucky Star Publications

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781838297824

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"Always twinkling and brightening my life from near and far, I know this to be true because my grandad is a star" A rhyming tale of love, loss and the everlasting beauty of the relationship between grandparent and grandchild. Follow along as a young girl and her grandad enjoy fun adventures and learn what it means to love your family.


I Miss My Grandpa

I Miss My Grandpa

Author: Jin Xiaojing

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0316417866

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A 2019 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book For fans of Ed Young and Peter Sis, this breathtaking picture book, from LBYR's first Emerging Artist Award Winner, Jin Xiaojing, is the perfect read for anyone who has lost a loved one. A young girl has never met her grandpa. He passed away before she was born, but she misses him every day. She often wonders...what did he look like? Grandma says: His face was shaped like the moon, his mouth was good at telling stories, and his hair was as curly as a bird's nest. With the help of her grandma and the rest of her loving family, will this young girl be able to imagine her grandpa's face in her mind--and feel the love that he shared with others?


Your DNA Guide - the Book

Your DNA Guide - the Book

Author: Diahan Southard

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781734613902

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You don't have to learn everything about genetic genealogy before asking specific questions of your DNA! That's the premise of Diahan Southard's brand new book, Your DNA Guide - the Book, now available for pre-order at a special sale price. Your DNA Guide - the Book is like no other genetic genealogy book on the market. Instead of learning more-than-you-need-to-know in textbook style, you'll choose a specific DNA question to start exploring right away. You'll follow concrete step-by-step plans, learning important DNA concepts--in plain English--as you go. Do you want to learn who your 2X great grandmother is? Turn to page 23. Do you want to know how you are related to one of your DNA matches? Page 37. As you proceed, you check your progress and get new guidance based on your specific results at each stage. (Including troubleshooting, like when your matches just aren't responding or your great-grandparents turn out to be first cousins.) This powerful, hands-on approach is based on Diahan's 20 years of experience in the genetic genealogy industry and especially in the past five years, as she helps clients one-on-one make DNA discoveries. It became clear to her that while each client's situation may be unique, there are patterns in how you can find solutions that you can apply yourself. Your DNA Guide - the Book is for anyone who has taken a DNA test or may want to. It helps genealogists reconstruct family trees. It helps adoptees identify biological relatives. It can help you identify a specific DNA match. In short, it helps anyone explore what their DNA--and their DNA matches--can tell them about their origins.


The Curve of Time

The Curve of Time

Author: M. Wylie Blanchet

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Published: 2024-10-05

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1990776795

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A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest classic, now available in paperback from Harbour Publishing! Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that followed and set sail aboard the twenty-five-foot Caprice. For fifteen summers, in the 1920s and 1930s, the family explored the coves and islands of the BC coast, encountering settlers and hermits, hungry bears and dangerous tides, and falling under the spell of the region’s natural beauty. Driven by curiosity, the family followed the quiet coastline, and Blanchet—known as Capi, after her boat—recorded their wonder as they threaded their way between the snowfields, slept under the bright stars and wandered through Indigenous winter villages left empty in the summer months. The Curve of Time weaves the story of these years into a memoir that has inspired generations to seek out their own adventures on the wild west coast. First published in 1961, less than a year before the author died, Blanchet’s captivating work has become a classic of travel writing, and one of the bestselling BC books of all time.


Things Hoped For

Things Hoped For

Author: Andrew Clements

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780142410738

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Seventeen-year-old Gwen is preparing to audition for New York City’s top music schools when her grandfather mysteriously disappears, leaving Gwen only a phone message telling her not to worry. But there’s nothing more stressful than practicing for her auditions, not knowing where her grandfather is, and being forced to lie about his whereabouts when her insistent great-uncle demands an audience with him. Then Gwen meets Robert, also in town for music auditions, and the two pair up to brave the city without supervision. As auditions approach and her great-uncle becomes more aggressive, Gwen and Robert make a startling discovery. Suddenly Gwen’s hopes are turned upside down, and she and Robert are united in ways neither of them could have foretold. . . .


Hour of the Bees

Hour of the Bees

Author: Lindsay Eagar

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0763687359

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What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots. Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . . While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree, a green-glass lake, and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur, Carol must decide for herself what is possible — and what it means to be true to her roots. Readers who dream that there’s something more out there will be enchanted by this captivating novel of family, renewal, and discovering the wonder of the world.


Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

Author: Sindya Bhanoo

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2023-05-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1646221737

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These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. Sindya Bhanoo’s haunting stories show us how immigrants’ paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.


The Melungeons

The Melungeons

Author: N. Brent Kennedy

Publisher: IET

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780865545168

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The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture. Includes lists of common surnames for Melungeons, Brass Ankles, Carmel Indians, Cubans, Guineas, Lumbee/Croatan Indians, Pamunkey/Powhatan Indians, and Redbones.