Papa's Pearls

Papa's Pearls

Author: Diane Flynn Keith

Publisher:

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780615661889

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"Papa's Pearls: A Father's Gift of Love and Wisdom To His Children and Grandchildren" is an engaging and uplifting memoir that tells the story of how the author's father transformed his own life as a Depression Era street kid on a fast track to prison, to become the archetype of a successful self-made man who was also a loving father. The nurturing customs, practical advice, and life success principles (learned through the school of hard knocks) that he imparted to his children and grandchildren are a prescription for how to live a happy, productive, and meaningful life.


Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar

Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780618216208

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A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.


Papa and Pearl

Papa and Pearl

Author: Annette M. Clayton

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Published: 2024-08-20

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13:

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A sweet story of the love between father and daughter that stays constant, even through big change. Pearl loves imagining she is a princess, with Mama and Papa in their magical castle . . . until Mama and Papa get a divorce, and Papa moves away. The story starts when Pearl spends her first day at Papa's new place and it's the opposite of magical when he has to get her ready for picture day. Everything is just too . . . different. But Pearl and Papa learn that different can be okay, and even special. Papa and Pearl explores a fresh perspective on divorce, focusing on the strength of the father-daughter relationship, not the divorce itself. Imaginative and captivating, Papa and Pearl draw young readers into their world of pirates, princesses, and mermaids, and the love between father and daughter that doesn't change even when other things do.


Pearl of China

Pearl of China

Author: Anchee Min

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-04-09

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1608191516

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It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.


Papa Panov's Special Day

Papa Panov's Special Day

Author: Ruben Saillens

Publisher: Lion Children's

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745945644

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As a shoemaker waits all day for Jesus to visit him on Christmas, he performs many acts of kindness for the passersby.


Papa's Blues

Papa's Blues

Author: Javon Johnson

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780871299789

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Hip-Pocket Papa

Hip-Pocket Papa

Author: Sandra Markle

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1607341824

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Little papa, big job Sandra Markle and Alan Marks, creators of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award-winning A Mother's Journey, offer an up-close look at the miniature world of the hip-pocket frog. The male Australian hip-pocket frog, no bigger than an adult human's thumbnail, cares for his children as they grow from tadpoles to young froglets inside the pouches on his legs.


Papa's Song

Papa's Song

Author: Kate McMullan

Publisher: Sunburst

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780374457181

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After Grandma, Grandpa, and Mama Bear unsuccessfully try to sing Baby Bear to sleep, Papa finds just the right song. By the creators of Hey, Pipsqueak! Reprint.


The Secret Pearl

The Secret Pearl

Author: Mary Balogh

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2005-11-29

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0440335671

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. Mary Balogh has no equal when it comes to capturing the complex, irresistible passions between men and women. Her classic novel, The Secret Pearl, is one of the New York Times bestselling author’s finest–a tale of temptation and seduction, of guarded hearts and raw emotion…and of a love so powerful it will take your breath away…. He first spies her in the shadows outside a London theatre, a ravishing creature forced to barter her body to survive. To the woman known simply as Fleur, the well-dressed gentleman with the mesmerizing eyes is an unlikely savior. And when she takes the stranger to her bed, she never expects to see him again. But then Fleur accepts a position as governess to a young girl…and is stunned to discover that her midnight lover is a powerful nobleman. As two wary hearts ignite–and the threat of scandal hovers over them–one question remains: will she be mistress or wife?


Written in Stone

Written in Stone

Author: Rosanne Parry

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0375871357

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Rosanne Parry, acclaimed author of A Wolf Called Wander and Heart of a Shepherd, shines a light on Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s, a time of critical cultural upheaval. Pearl has always dreamed of hunting whales, just like her father. Of taking to the sea in their eight-man canoe, standing at the prow with a harpoon, and waiting for a whale to lift its barnacle-speckled head as it offers its life for the life of the tribe. But now that can never be. Pearl's father was lost on the last hunt, and the whales hide from the great steam-powered ships carrying harpoon cannons, which harvest not one but dozens of whales from the ocean. With the whales gone, Pearl's people, the Makah, struggle to survive as Pearl searches for ways to preserve their stories and skills.