People in My Family
Author: Jeffrey Moss
Publisher: Childrens Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780307689955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA little boy and a small monster count the five members in their families.
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Who's in My Family?
Author: Robie H. Harris
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0763636312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNellie and her little brother Gus discuss all kinds of families during a day at the zoo and dinner at home with their relatives afterwards.
Enemies of the People
Author: Kati Marton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 141658613X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
Help Me to Find My People
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0807882658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.
At My Family Table
Author: Mandy Dos Santos
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780648100003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople in My Family
Author: Jeffrey Moss
Publisher: Golden Books
Published: 1987-01-17
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780307100702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Difficult Relatives Happen to Good People
Author: Leonard Felder
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2005-05-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781594862274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe co-author of Making Peace with Your Parents explains how to cope with diificult relatives--from critical in-laws to troublemaking siblings and children--providing straightforward advice on how to counter the toxic influence of such individuals, alleviate tense family disagreements, and transform get-togethers into occasions for sharing. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Common People
Author: Alison Light
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 022633113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Family history begins with missing persons,” Alison Light writes in Common People. We wonder about those we’ve lost, and those we never knew, about the long skein that led to us, and to here, and to now. So we start exploring. Most of us, however, give up a few generations back. We run into a gap, get embarrassed by a ne’er-do-well, or simply find our ancestors are less glamorous than we’d hoped. That didn’t stop Alison Light: in the last weeks of her father’s life, she embarked on an attempt to trace the history of her family as far back as she could reasonably go. The result is a clear-eyed, fascinating, frequently moving account of the lives of everyday people, of the tough decisions and hard work, the good luck and bad breaks, that chart the course of a life. Light’s forebears—servants, sailors, farm workers—were among the poorest, traveling the country looking for work; they left few lasting marks on the world. But through her painstaking work in archives, and her ability to make the people and struggles of the past come alive, Light reminds us that “every life, even glimpsed through the chinks of the census, has its surprises and secrets.” What she did for the servants of Bloomsbury in her celebrated Mrs. Woolf and the Servants Light does here for her own ancestors, and, by extension, everyone’s: draws their experiences from the shadows of the past and helps us understand their lives, estranged from us by time yet inextricably interwoven with our own. Family history, in her hands, becomes a new kind of public history.
Reflection of Memories
Author: Tesa Jones
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2017-07-21
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1480847518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Malone and Caroline Sue Miller are born on the same day to parents who live on opposite sides of the societal fences in a small coal-mining town of western Pennsylvania. Despite the economic differences between their families, the two children become best friends, and their unexpected friendship eventually blossoms into forbidden love. In order to be together and escape their bleak, small town opportunities, they leave the security of their homes and settle in New Jersey where their future is a blank slate. As Richard and Caroline make their way through life, their choices often veer their love off course, but the bond they share has deep roots that continually pull them together again. This tale of family, friendship, and love incorporates the historical events and cultural changes of the tumultuous 1900s while following the course of one couple whose connection is stronger than class or circumstance. Whether youre sailing through youthful days or enjoying your golden years, Reflection of Memories will capture your heart and remind you of what is truly important in life.
Family Whispering
Author: Melinda Blau
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1451654510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the famous Baby Whisperer comes “this warm, accessible, and highly practical guide” (Gretchen Rubin #1 New York Times bestselling author) to help families of all sizes and backgrounds live, love, and thrive. “Parenting is something you do. Family is something you are.” —Tracy Hogg Before her untimely death in 2004, Tracy—aka the Baby Whisperer—and her longtime collaborator, journalist Melinda Blau, conceived a fourth book that would apply the commonsense principles of baby whispering to the “whole family.” This ground-breaking book explains why “family” is defined by much more than the relationship between parent and child. By widening the lens to focus on the family as an entity, Blau uses the Baby Whisperer philosophy to illuminate how the multiple bonds and interactions that unfold within a household of adults and children coalesce to form a larger family dynamic. By taking this wider perspective, she enables you to see everyday challenges—such as sibling rivalry, communication, and time management—with fresh eyes. Informed both by research and stories of real families, this new book is filled with the handy tips and memorable acronyms that Baby Whisperer fans have come to expect. The advice is simple, practical, and often counterintuitive (asking kids to help more around the home can make them happier; setbacks can often make a family closer). The hopeful message is that with insight, awareness, and “family-think,” we can actually design our families to be happier and more productive, improving the daily lives of parents and kids—and, thereby, benefiting society as a whole in the process.
