Wednesday's Child

Wednesday's Child

Author: Tina Rae Boyer

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2023-07-08

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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As Miriam Martin stood at her father's graveside, she recalled the complex story of her parents' marriage. Her mother's family migrated from the Mid-West in 1887 on the expanded line of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad from Kansas City to San Diego. Miriam's grandfather was looking to find the "golden fruits, the gardens of this sunset land." It was there in San Diego County, on a windy summer day on the beach, that her mother, Suzanna, met her father, Victor. She was 13. He was 20. By the time Suzanna was 14, they had been secretly married. Suzanna still lived at home, meeting Victor on weekends. Miriam couldn't help but smile as she recalled the story she had been told about how the secret was revealed. But she also knew that the happiness her parents had at the beginning was short-lived. Victor, a pharmacist, and his family had the only pharmacy in San Diego, and he was a prominent citizen of the city. Yet all his education and charm could not overcome his alcoholism, and Miriam (called Merry by her beloved father) was caught in the middle of her parents' stormy relationship. Miriam's story unfolds against the backdrop of California's earliest days, when most residents lived a rural life. And when "the town of San Diego reeked of newness, with its crude dirt streets and sparsely placed wooden buildings. Strange trees called palms flanked the roadway." Yet it was growing day by day as Easterners and Mid-Westerners made their way to Southern California's sunny shores.


Wednesday's Child

Wednesday's Child

Author: Shane Dunphy

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2006-02-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0717159124

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Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distillation of some of the cases he encountered in that time into a single, year-long narrative. In spite of the narrative's compression, and allowing for the necessary change of identifying details, everything in this book is true. And what the truth reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional families, struggling at the margins of a society that barely acknowledges their existence. This is a portrait of fatalistic despair, of families so sunk into chronic poverty and neglect that they are beyond saving themselves or their children. All the elements of social dysfunction are present: the unkempt houses, truant children, endless television, anorexia, alcoholism, suicidal depression. Yet out of this mess there is hope as well as tragedy. Many of Wednesday's children don't make it, but some do, surviving the most appalling childhood horrors to make it through to the normal adult world. But more are doomed. Despite the heroism of child protection workers and the best efforts of well-intentioned people, we still face a hidden mountain of avoidable human misery. Wednesday's Child is shocking and disturbing and, most of all, true.


Wednesday's Child

Wednesday's Child

Author: Rhea Côté Robbins

Publisher: Orono? Maine : s.n.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780966853605

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Wednesday's Child is the winner of the Maine Chapbook Award. It is in its fourth printing. It is taught in many university courses. This is a book about a female growing up, living in, trying to leave her cultural self behind, and then returning to the Franco-American cultural group which exists in the Northeast, and more specifically in Waterville, Maine. The book addresses what has been asked of me to be present to this cultural group of people. As a girl/woman who or how have I been asked to be? What has been asked of me? The book is written from the perspective of a contemporary woman who is also a historical person. The book is also as much about the conditions in which the Franco-American group exists as well as the writing about what it means to be Franco-American and female. This is a book about how we are our historical self while we are in the present. I am more of my past--than I am of the present moment--when it is in the present moment that I now exist. What is, or is not, reflected in my reality and the reality of other Franco-Americans? This book is about the female self and her formation through the many individuals and institutions around her. Through story and cultural filters, the book illustrates family, friends, religion, health, alcoholism, superstitions, art & craft, beliefs, values, song, recipe, story, coming-of-age, generations, motherhood, language, bilingualism, denials, sexuality and what constitutes a cultural individual in a society that will not always allow that person full access or realization to who she is. But she does it anyway.


Journal of a Wednesday Child

Journal of a Wednesday Child

Author: Veronica H. Ayres

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-08-29

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1426992483

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This is a three-part sagathe story of Veronica Murray Ayres, an English woman whose life began in the pre-WWII days in Wimbledon, a suburb of London. And later it describes her travels to many countries.


Wednesday's Child

Wednesday's Child

Author: Barbara Hazard

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780449222096

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Life should be an adventure, but how much of one? That's what Miss Penelope Shaw wonders when she's snatched by a nobleman's cronies in a case of mistaken identity. Laurence Russell, Marquess of Thornbury, can't help being intrigued by the woman his cousin has abducted in error. . . . Original Regency Romance.


The Encyclopedia of Adoption

The Encyclopedia of Adoption

Author: Christine A. Adamec

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0816075042

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Includes information on the Adoption and Safe Families Act, a federal law created to encourage the adoption of foster children. This encyclopedia also includes information on other adoption issues such as laws concerning adoptions by gays and lesbians, tax issues, school and adopted children, birthfather rights, transracial adoptions, and more.


English! English!

English! English!

Author: Carole Nicoll

Publisher: Intrinsic Books Ltd

Published: 2021-10-09

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13:

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The English! English! Pack consists of a full colour Songbook with links to download over 200 topic-related songs, raps, rhymes and poems, on 4 Audio CDs in MP3 format and the contents of the Teacher’s Resources CD Rom in PDF format, which be printed for classroom use. Topic related teaching resources and activities that accompany all songs. Accompanying videos on YouTube (https://youtu.be/onIxCk55Frc )


Black Enterprise

Black Enterprise

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.