Whistling Girl
Author: Ann Marcus
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781880867006
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Author: Ann Marcus
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781880867006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joy Ingram
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-06-19
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1645151239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou may have heard that actions speak louder than words. This is very true, but for myself and for many others, the words and phrases that we grew up with as children have influenced our actions and therefore ring very loudly in our lives. I grew up on a rich diet of words and phrases that shaped and molded me into my adulthood and even until today. You see, I did not grow up influenced by the writings of Voltaire or the paintings of Rembrandt, but I grew up on the words and phrases of a little Southern black woman with a man's middle name""Mamie Floyd. This work is a compilation of stories and sayings from and about Miss Mamie. Many of these sayings were, in some cases, casually spoken. In other cases, they came as strong admonition as a result of or to prevent some undesirable action. Whatever the reasons, these sayings have become internalized as part of a rich family legacy, affecting my life in quiet, unspoken ways. For example, to this day, I cannot whistle. It is certainly not because I am not physically able to whistle, but like many other African American and Southern women I grew up with, I believed that this was not only unladylike but could possibly affect the way I would turn out as an adult. I rarely, if ever, talked back to my parents, especially my mother. If I did not find myself in the "middle of next week" or "wake up dead," I knew I at least wanted to live past that day. It is funny. I don't believe anyone really knows where the place called the "middle of next week" is, but few have dared to do what it took to venture there. I am also very thankful for my taste buds. As a matter of fact, long before I studied science in grade school and found out exactly what and where taste buds are, I knew they had to be very special because Mama frequently threatened to slap them out of my mouth. In an age of jargon and political correctness, they are a refreshing oasis from which to draw.
Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 030742457X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives. “Rich, acerbic, wise.... [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human.” —Vogue Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in academic research, the university is planning a prestigious conference on body and mind, and a group of students and agitators is establishing an “anti-university.” And nearby a therapeutic community is beginning to take the shape of a religious cult under the influence of its charismatic religious leader. A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.
Author: Phoenix Stigall
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-06-25
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1450094805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sandra Jane Larson
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781589982376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen Lawrenson
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780385115735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Crandall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1476707731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip. Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear... In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 976
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 100
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 488
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