Green Stamps and The Wringer Washer
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Release | : 2006-08-15 |
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Author | : Jim Cohee |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2011-08-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0253005396 |
“Alternately funny, entertaining, and heartbreaking, The Swan is a fictional memoir about love, death and what a family can―and cannot―endure.” —Publishers Weekly Indianapolis, 1957. Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has left him unwilling to speak. Aaron copes with life’s challenges by disappearing into his own imagination, envisioning being captain of the Kon Tiki, driving his sled in the snowy Klondike, and tiger hunting in India. He is guarded by secret friends like deposed Hungarian Count Blurtz Shemshoian and Blurtz’s wonder dog, Nipper, who protect him from the Creature from the Black Lagoon—who hides in Aaron’s closet at night. The tales he constructs for himself, the real life stories he is witness to, and his mother’s desperate efforts to bring her son back from the brink, all come to a head at an emotional family dinner. “Funny, poignant and as endearing as its central character, The Swan is a wholly original tribute to childhood resilience.” —San Jose Mercury News “Had Kurt Vonnegut, William Saroyan, J. D. Salinger, Carlos Castaneda, Raymond Carver and James Thurber ever gathered at a writer’s workshop to co-author a short novel, the product might well have been The Swan.” —Terre Haute Tribune Star “A surreal study of a grief observed indirectly, The Swan serves as a testament to the unbridled power of childhood vision, even and especially in the wake of tragedy.” —Bloom magazine
Author | : Laura Wayman |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1421440075 |
An encouraging and compassionate guide for dementia caregivers. Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. But few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia—despite the fact that millions of people will struggle with it as they grow older. In A Loving Approach to Dementia Care, Laura Wayman, who is known professionally as the Dementia Whisperer, offers practical, compassionate advice on overcoming caregiving obstacles and maintaining meaningful relationships with loved ones who have dementia and memory loss. In this thoroughly revised third edition, Wayman includes • answers to common caregiver questions, such as "What is dementia?" • a detailed explanation of how to cope with and care for a spouse with dementia symptoms, including advice about communication • a new chapter on caring for someone who has dementia along with other health problems • recommendations about how to handle challenging situations and behaviors • dementia-aware activities that work for both family caregivers and professional care staff • fresh caregiving insights that emphasize the importance of taking time to care for oneself Each chapter contains two sections—"Lessons Learned" and "Perceptions and Approaches"—which provide details about how readers can apply lessons from the stories Wayman tells to their own caregiving practice. Providing support for the numerous difficulties and disruptions that all caregivers face along the way, A Loving Approach to Dementia Care is an empathetic guide filled with respect, calm, and creativity. It will leave readers feeling empowered and inspired.
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Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Dressmaking |
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Freedom (Outagamie County, Wis. : Town) |
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Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Corrections |
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Author | : Rosemary Bray |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1999-03-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0385494750 |
In her deeply affecting, vividly written memoir, Rosemary L. Bray describes with remarkable frankness growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and her childhood shaped by welfare, the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil rights movement. Bray writes poignantly of her lasting dread of the cold and the dark that characterized her years of poverty; of her mother's extraordinary strength and resourcefulness; and of the system that miraculously enabled her mother to scrape together enough to keep the children fed and clothed. Bray's parents, held together by their ambitions for their children and painfully divided by their poverty, punctuate young Rosemary's nights with their violent fights and define her days with their struggles. This powerful, ultimately inspiring book is a moving testimony of the history Bray overcame, and the racial obstacles she continues to see in her children's way.
Author | : Suzanne D. Lonn |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2004-03-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1462825532 |
Adoptions pose questions, often avoided or unanswered, but when little Katie was given and then adopted in the 1940's, the folks of the tightly-knit farming community of Wheatland were in shock. How was Margie Wentworth, an unmarried woman of 45 years of age, able to adopt a baby? It just wasn’t done! Who was the mother? Was it someone they knew? Suspicions, rumors, and questions ran through the party-phone lines and in and out of the homes of inquisitive residents of the town. The Wentworth family, genteel and well-educated, was respected in the town. Zoe and Frederick Wentworth had reared three distinctive daughters. There were raised eyebrows when the oldest daughter, Camille, had left home right out of high school and curiosity as to why she didn’t return home for decades. Margie, the middle child, attended college, but then chose to return home and live with her parents for the rest of their lives and to care for her mother until she died. Amanda, the youngest, was a college graduate and a science teacher. She married a local farmer’s son, Robert Shaw, who joined the Marine Corps and went to World War II soon after the novel began. He was unaware that his wife had a baby by another man. All three sisters were distinctive characters – one quiet and emotional; one bossy and devious; and the third, even in her absence, a force of friction and guilt, especially evident when she unexpectedly returned home in her mother’s latter years. Katie, adopted by Margie, was oblivious to much of what went on, but she felt different and questioned her adoption. As she matured and attended college, her questions became obsessions. She had to know who she really was. She married and had children, but still desperately needed answers. The shocking truth of her parentage is revealed at the end of the novel. The dichotomy of deceitfulness, lying, immorality, and secrecy that plays against the elements of Christian values and morality grasps and holds the reader’s attention as the characters play their cards in The Game of Hearts.
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Judy J. Blunt |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101973587 |
“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve never read anything that compares with it.” —James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to “rope and ride and jockey a John Deere,” but also to “bake bread and can vegetables and reserve my opinion when the men were talking.” The lessons carried her through thirty-six-hour blizzards, devastating prairie fires and a period of extreme isolation that once threatened the life of her infant daughter. But though she strengthened her survival skills in what was—and is—essentially a man’s world, Blunt’s story is ultimately that of a woman who must redefine herself in order to stay in the place she loves. Breaking Clean is at once informed by the myths of the West and powerful enough to break them down. Against formidable odds, Blunt has found a voice original enough to be called classic.