We Became Like a Hand
We Became Like a Hand

Author: Carol A. Ortlip

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780345443427

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As the oldest of five sisters, Carol Ortlip identified herself as the "translator, " the one responsible for making sense of the outside world for her four younger sisters. In this moving, beautifully written memoir, she seeks to make sense of her own world, of which her sisters are a deeply important part. As children, each sister seemed essentially placed, becoming the one the rest had been waiting for: Carol (translator and guide), Kate (nurturer and second in command), Shari (prophet and poet), Danielle (compliant mediator), and Michele (youngest and the family conscience). Their love for one another permeated their childhood and sustained them during their mother's depression, their stepfather's emotional abuse, the challenges of growing up, and the profound tragedies that threatened to break even the strongest heart. Throughout this touching, ultimately uplifting memoir, the "hand" serves as a poignant metaphor for how Ortlip is both intrinsically connected to and distinct from the people she loves most.

My Five Sisters
My Five Sisters

Author: Pam Franklin

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780996253123

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Told through the eyes of a young child... My Five Sisters is a psychological thriller written by a sibling who was tortured mentally and physically from the age of six until she was thirteen by her older sister who had five distinct personalities. How long can a child be tortured mentally and physically by a sibling and still not suffer permanent psychological damage? Patra will tell you an entire childhood. By the age of six, Patra realized there was something drastically wrong with her sister, Angela. Angela, not knowingly, could switch from one personality to another in a matter of seconds. Not only was there a mental change, but there was also a physical change. Each of the five personalities had their own voice and facial expressions. They dressed differently and reacted to Patra differently. Two of them loved her, Kind and Hero, two of them tolerated her, Normal and Sad, and one of them hated her and wanted her dead, Angry. Through the tumultuous journey throughout Patra's childhood there is an intriguing story of love, laughter, sorrow, and pain. It shows the great strength one can maintain throughout a young life seemingly without any hope. You will find Patra's determination to live is remarkable and her faith in her ability to survive is quite astounding. This is a psychological thriller focused on a child's struggle to survive her sister's mental illness. Follow as Patra navigates among her sister's five distinct personalities--some of which mean her harm. Get My Five Sisters now to experience this psychological thriller focused on mental illness and sibling dynamics. About Pam Franklin: Pam Franklin grew up in Jackson, Mississippi and lives in Celebration, Florida with her husband of twenty-five years, Bobby. When not working or writing she spends time in Charleston, South Carolina with her daughter, Whitney and her grandsons, Teague and Crews. Visit Pam online at www.pamfranklin-author.com and on her social media pages.

The Five Sisters
The Five Sisters

Author: Margaret Mahy

Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780670870424

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Before Sally's Nana can finish filling in the faces on a row of paper dolls which she has cut out, the five sisters are whisked off on a series of extraordinary adventures.

The Sisters of Versailles
The Sisters of Versailles

Author: Sally Christie

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1501102966

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Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young King Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the royal bed. The King's scheming ministers push Louise, the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the arms of the King. Over the following decade, of the five Nesle sisters-- Louise, Pauline, Diane, Hortense, and Marie-Anne-- four will become mistresses to King Louis XV. All will conspire, betray, suffer, and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and power.

The Baron of Grogzwig
The Baron of Grogzwig

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Modernista

Published: 2024-08-19

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 9181081405

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»The Baron of Grogzwig« is a short story by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1839. CHARLES DICKENS [1812–1870], born in Portsmouth, England, was the most popular English-language novelist of his time. He created a fictional world that reflected the social and technological changes during the Victorian era. Among his most famous works are David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Pickwick Papers.

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0062074954

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The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called “a transporting, enlightening book” tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, calls “one of the most inspiring books I have ever read,” Lemmon recounts with novelistic vividness the true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.

Fluffy, Funny, and Fabulous
Fluffy, Funny, and Fabulous

Author: Anita Lewis

Publisher: Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781621474647

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Five sisters from the small farming community of Virgil, Illinois reminisce about growing up together.

Great Lakes Folklore
Great Lakes Folklore

Author: Charles Cassady, Jr.

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764344800

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Superior. Michigan. Huron. Erie. Ontario. The Great Lakes have borne Native Americans, explorers, immigrants, bandits and entrepreneurs. Over the years the lake have inspired great tales of life on and around the water. What secrets do the Five Sisters hold deep? Cassady introduces you to the saga and tragedy of maritime ships; notorious lake monsters; and battles on and around the lakes.

Soul Sisters
Soul Sisters

Author: Pythia Peay

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-05-27

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1101497327

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A unique workbook to help women cultivate their full potential through the lives and lessons of the heroines of world spiritual traditions. Filled with exercises, anecdotes, quotes, and inspiration, Pythia Peay's Soul Sisters is designed to help women foster the traits that can be found in the great spiritual traditions of the world, and that are most needed in contemporary life. Each chapter shows how to cultivate the five "divine qualities": Courage, Faith, Beauty, Love, and Magic. Soul Sisters offers an abundance of examples of different female figures from the spiritual past and present who have embodied these characteristics in a distinctly feminine way. Through the road they have walked, readers can learn to discover their own individual heart-path to these strengths. Both an immensely practical workbook and an education in spiritual ideas, Soul Sisters is a companion for a lifetime.

The Wednesday Sisters
The Wednesday Sisters

Author: Meg Waite Clayton

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2008-06-17

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0345507843

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family. “This generous and inventive book is a delight to read, an evocation of the power of friendship to sustain, encourage, and embolden us. Join the sisterhood!”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature—Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens–and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year. As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.