Rose's Story
Rose's Story

Author: Wanda Bibb

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1478608021

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Over the years, thousands of readers have immersed themselves in the world of Rose, an abandoned and abused child who stubbornly and defiantly became a caring and loving mother. In her honest and straightforward style, and in appreciation of those who have taken such an interest in her life, Rose continues her original storyrevealing events from the next two decades. Along with the discovery of some of the missing pieces of her childhood, Rose describes the frustration, hard work, and unexpected benefits found among the challenges of the social welfare system. This unique individual has made many of her readers reconsider their views of those in need, especially those we may consider undeserving of our help. In doing so, Roses Story proves to be a case that redefines what it means to help someone.

Guns and Roses
Guns and Roses

Author: Rose Keefe

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1620452626

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Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ...

Doghouse Roses
Doghouse Roses

Author: Steve Earle

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780618219247

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With the publication of his first collection of short stories, "Doghouse Roses, " singer, songwriter, and activist Earle reflects the many facets of his life and his hard-fought struggles--the defeats, and the eventual triumphs he has experienced during a career spanning three decades.

Rosa
Rosa

Author: Peter E. Kukielski

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780300251111

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A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the "queen of flowers" in art, medicine, cuisine, and more

Wanda's Roses
Wanda's Roses

Author: Pat Brisson

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1635924391

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This book about a child's simple faith is one that children will long remember--and adults will love to share. When Wanda discovers a thornbush growing in the empty lot at the corner of Fillmore and Hudson, she's quite sure it's a rosebush all ready to bloom. So she clears away the trash, checks on it every day, and brings water from the butcher shop across the street. But no roses appear. Wanda's neighbors and friends are all doubtful, but when she invites them to a tea party in her "rose garden" one day in June, they're in for a big surprise.

Roses and Radicals
Roses and Radicals

Author: Susan Zimet

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0451477545

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The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn't live to cast a ballot. The story of women's suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen.

The Blue Roses
The Blue Roses

Author: Linda Boyden

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781584300373

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A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather, who helps to raise her, and learns about life and loss when he dies, and then speaks to her from a dream where he is surrounded by blue roses.

Roses
Roses

Author: Leila Meacham

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2010-01-06

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 0446558109

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Two East Texas families must deal with the aftermath of a marriage that never happened leading to deceit, secrets, and tragedies in a sweeping multigenerational Southern saga "with echoes of Gone with the Wind" (Publishers Weekly). Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with consequences of their momentous choice and the loss of what might have been--not just for themselves but for their children, and their children's children. With expert, unabashed, big-canvas storytelling, Roses covers a hundred years, three generations of Texans, and the explosive combination of passion for work and longing for love.

No Bed of Roses
No Bed of Roses

Author: Cecil Rajendra

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9814484644

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Rose Chan, “Queen of Striptease” at just 27 years old, enthralled men young and old in the heyday of cabaret in 1950s Malaya. Her accidental shot to fame, thanks to a wardrobe malfunction in which her bra snapped, catapulted her into the limelight. In No Bed of Roses, Cecil Rajendra pens an account of her life — her childhood in Soochow, China, and then in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, her five marriages and personal struggles, how she circumvented the colonial decency laws that forbade nudity, and finally her fight with cancer that took her life in 1987 at the age of 62.