Mama Tina

Author : Christina Noble
Publisher : Transworld Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780552146326
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Tina written by Christina Noble and published by Transworld Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blonde Irish woman sits in an ice-cream parlour on Le Loi Street singing, a crowd of Vietnamese street children around her, their eyes riveted on her smiling face... Christina Noble knows the pain and loneliness of being left outside the door - of having no door of one's own to walk through, for she was once a street-child herself, alone on the streets of Dublin. When she told the story of her early life in her bestselling autobiography Bridge Across My Sorrows she had no idea that it would prove a catalyst for so many others who had suffered childhood pain and rejection, or that it would inspire them to take the first courageous steps towards self-acceptance and their own self-healing. In 1989, driven by a dream and by the memory of her own past, she travelled 6,000 miles to Vietnam, a country of great beauty where war has left a terrible legacy. Against extraordinary odds she opened the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, a haven of food, beds, medical aid and schooling where the street children of Saigon can find safety and new beginnings under the protection of 'Mama Tina'. In this vivid and moving book Christina's compelling story continues with the amazing tale of what she and her Foundation have achieved. She takes us from the streets of Saigon to the Children's Prisons of Mongolia. A staunch campaigner for children's rights, for her there are no frontiers, only a world filled with children reaching out. Finally she returns to Dublin, where the former street orphan is officially and proudly greeted by the President of Ireland herself.

Author : Harold Jaffe
Publisher : Fiction International
ISBN 13 : 9781879691773
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction International 39 written by Harold Jaffe and published by Fiction International. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marj Gurasich
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875656390
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to Oma written by Marj Gurasich and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Von Scholl learns that her family will leave their German homeland to seek freedom in Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And so, in a series of letters, she takes “Oma” on this great adventure with her family . . . and takes us as readers. Sometimes the letters are dark with discouragement, for the Von Scholls find, as did many German-Texas families, that the Society for the Protection of German Emigrants, known as the Adelsverein, was unable to fulfill its promises of land, housing, horses, and farm implements. But they are Germans, determined and willing to work hard. More often these letters—and the text woven in between them—are bright with adventure, for Tina finds Texas an exciting, if puzzling, place. There are new customs to learn, new foods to eat, even while the family preserves its traditional German ways. Tina’s adventures include a run-in with a mountain lion, an exciting trip across Texas with her father to Sisterdale, and a frightening encounter with Lipan Indians. Her lessons in being an American are helped by Jeff, a young man who becomes part of the family when he undertakes to teach them to farm in Texas. Tina, in return, teaches Jeff to read and learns a lesson in love that is without nationality. Letters to Oma is a charming, informative novel that sweeps the reader back to a very particular time and place. And Tina Von Scholl is irresistible as correspondent and as heroine.

Author : Rachel Nightingale
Publisher : Odyssey Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tales of Tarya (complete series) written by Rachel Nightingale and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mina joins a troupe of travelling actors, her aim is to find her missing brother, but her search unlocks a series of secrets that will change the world she knows forever. Tarya, the mystical realm spoken of in tales, is real, and her gift for story telling opens a way to it. But Tarya has a shadow side, and someone in the troupe of actors is using it to harm people. Mina soon realises she may be the only one with the power to stop them. The Tales of Tarya is a young adult fantasy trilogy about the gift of creativity and where it can take you. This book bundle contains all books in The Tales of Tarya trilogy: Harlequin's Riddle, Columbine's Tale, and Pierrot's Song.

Author : Diana Orgain
Publisher : Diana Orgain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Trouble (A new mom turns PI Mystery) (A Maternal Instincts Mystery Book 12) written by Diana Orgain and published by Diana Orgain. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing harder than solving a murder...giving birth to twins... Don't miss Kate's latest adventure and newest BUNDLES of Joy! To Do: 1. Buy diapers (double as many as I think necessary). 2. Plan Laurie's one-year birthday party. 3. Rest. 4. Do NOT get involved in another mystery... 5. Okay...solve said mystery before twins are born! Family life has never been so exciting, but after Kate launches her own female detective agency, she may just get more than she bargained for.

Author : Freddie R. Burnett
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465330194
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Deal written by Freddie R. Burnett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madam Nancy Mae Webster is a successful black nightclub and restaurant owner during the 50s and 60s Jim-Crow South. Due to her heroin addiction and a heroin overdose her lifes story becomes the body of the story as it is told by the conscious of her incarcerated son, while he waits to see her in the waiting room at the hospital. Her white-like skin and her sons very black complexion complicate everything. The great differences in their complexions are the results of her being raped and left for dead by two black men when she is an innocent young farm girl in West Tennessee. The son, Joel Webster, is the hopeful protagonist of his own story, while he is the despised antagonist in the story of his mothers trouble-ridden life. The two dramatic tales have him as a convict visiting the hospital to see his dying mother, while guarded by two sets of alternating prison guards one good and the other one bad. He tries to escape from his own impending death from jailhouse hit men because he witnesses two guards beating a black inmate to death in his jail cell and they want him dead where he can't testify against them. His and his mothers world are split in two black and white worlds that create tension and friction between family members. There are the two uncles Tom and Pete that add suspense to his every thought as he recalls his dying mothers life from her innocent childhood to her reprehensible demise at forty-one years old. Joel Webster is born into a life of rejection, hatred, and violence because of his black skin and being the son of one of the two black men that raped his mother and his uncles had killed for doing it. After much painful recalling a beautiful black woman that looks white, and his mothers double life as she passes for white in a bigoted society, and the rich white man that she loves and he loves her, he meets Bobby Lucky. He tells a different side of Nancys life and his own life and his wife is ready to kick him out and his mother threatens to disinherit him from the familys fortune if he doesnt dump his Negro mistress. He repents and begs Joel for forgiveness for separating him from his mother when he is younger. He befriends Joel and works to help him get out of jail. He tells Joel everything that has happened to Nancy in the white world where she lives in a fine mansion with her heroin addiction and her servants that she struggles to conceal her true identity from while he is in reform school and jail. Joel is arrested for a robbery that he doesnt commit. Joels life story is told in the present time of the early 70s when the civil-right struggles are in full-bloom and hes in the protests. Drugs and riotous living invade the black community like a wave of cold air and he sees the devastating effects of it in many of those around him. Nancys best friend, Helen Bond, sheds many tears while Bobby Lucky tells of Nancys heroin addiction and her betrayal. Nancy only wants to become a schoolteacher and have a family but life gives her everything but what she wants. She befriends the wrong person and it destroys her. Helen Bond serves her heroin when she is at her lowest point or what she thinks is her lowest point until the heroin hooks her. Her grandma Tina has long been dead but her pain goes deep into her grave. Her black son is a paradox in her life and he is the only link to her true identity in her white-world existence and she evades him at a great cost to both of their lives. She doesnt want to work as a five-dollar-per-day maid any longer and she takes a job in a house of prostitution as a recruiter. She is soon able to give her son everything he wants but her love and he goes to the reform school to escape his torment on the streets from everyone that knows him because of what his mother does for a living. She meets and old acquaintance who is rich and white and madly in love with her. He takes her out of the whorehouse and sets her up with a nightclub and restaurant. Still her jealous fr

Author : Rachel Nightingale
Publisher : Odyssey Books
ISBN 13 : 1925652386
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbine's Tale written by Rachel Nightingale and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three hundred years the travelling actors of Litonya roamed the land entertaining crowds, but secretly leaving devastation in their wake. Is Mina the only person with the power to stop them? In the ethereal otherworld of Tarya, Mina begins to master the rare, inexplicable powers attached to her gift for storytelling. She discovers she can touch dreams, influence the real world, and perhaps find out who is manipulating Tarya for dark purposes. In the waking world Mina is on the run, beset by divided loyalties between the travellers, and caught between two men she could love and a brother who desperately needs her help.

Author : Tina Swithin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615720555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divorcing a Narcissist written by Tina Swithin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tina Swithin was swept off her feet by a modern day Prince Charming and married him one year later. Tina soon discovered that there was something seriously wrong with her fairytale. The marriage was filled with lies, deception, fraud and many tears. Tina was left in an utter state of confusion. This wasn't the man that she married...or was it? Tina first heard the term, Narcissistic Personality Disorder from her therapist in 2008 but quickly dismissed the notion that something could be wrong with her husband. It took several years for Tina to begin researching the disorder and suddenly, the past ten years of her life made complete sense. Tina soon discovered that there is only one thing more difficult than being married to a narcissist and that is divorcing a narcissist. In her book, Tina will explain how a smart, independent woman can fall prey to a narcissistic man. Tina discusses the red flag reflections that she chose to ignore while dating and during the marriage. Tina acted as her own attorney in an extremely high-conflict divorce and she will share the strategies that helped her to navigate through this battle while maintaining her sanity and sense of humor. Tina will help you to feel less alone in your journey and will assure you that there is light at the end of the tunnel no matter how dark things are right now. While Tina endured a tumultuous 6-year custody battle, she prevailed and today, her daughters have peace.

Author : Jacob Grimm
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brave Little Tailor Or Seven at One Swat written by Jacob Grimm and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nuriz Aida
Publisher : Alaf 21
ISBN 13 : 9678604760
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misi Rebut Hati written by Nuriz Aida and published by Alaf 21. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syed Ikram Hakimi mempertaruhkan segala-gala untuk mencari kepuasan hidup. Jiwa muda membuatkan dia mudah tergelincir dari landasan sebenar. Baginya, muda hanya sekali. Jika tidak dinikmatinya sekarang, bila tua tiada maknanya lagi. Malah demi membuktikan dirinya bukan hamba cinta, dia juga sanggup menyahut cabaran sesiapa sahaja. Kehadiran Aleesya Arianna membuatkan Ikram berpaling dua kali. Gadis itu ibarat jinak-jinak merpati. Malah mampu menjadi mawar yang berduri. Mendekati gadis itu membuatkan hati lelaki ini bergetar hebat. Dalam masa yang sama, dia perlu membuat pilihan. Ketika hati mula menerima cinta, dia terpaksa menelan racun yang diciptakannya sendiri. Benar kata orang, ‘terlajak perahu boleh diundur, tetapi terlajak kata buruk padahnya.’ Sekali lagi Arianna terluka. Tapi kali ini dia sudah bersedia. Manusia seperti Ikram tidak layak mendapat cintanya.