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Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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The bestselling and award-winning author of The Skin I'm In and The Life I'm In returns with a novel that explores the complex relationships between Black boys and their fathers, and what it truly means to be a man. Sharon Flake's groundbreaking novel, The Skin I'm In ushered in a new voice that lit up the YA landscape, ignited important conversations about self-perception and racial identity, and became a modern classic that has been passed down...
Author:
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Description:
A lucid, moving view into an often-obscured part of our world, exploring notions of democracy, identity, and the resilience of the human spirit In the wake of losing her beloved grandfather, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution. It was 1998. She was twenty-two and a freshly minted journalist. She would stay for ten years. Quickly absorbed into the everyday life of the city, Minoui attends secret dance parties...
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
The author Phillip Daley was born and grew up in the small and obscure village of Slipe in Jamaica. Until he was a young teenager, that little hamlet of about 500 souls was the only world he knew. He could not even dream of a different future, because didn't know what to dream about. But cuddled in the insularity of his circumscribed environment, he found love and encouragement in his family, church and community. It was generally recognized at an...
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Publisher:
James Rogan
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Look Mom-I'm a Congressman! Takes you behind the scenes on what really happens after a guy wins election to the Big Show. Unlike most of his fellow conservative Republican colleagues, Rogan didn't spring from trust funds, prep schools, and inherited connections. He was the illegitimate son of a convicted felon--single mother who raised her four kids on welfare and food stamps; our future congressman grew up hanging out with street toughs: he hot-wired...
Author:
Publisher:
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date:
©2020
Language:
English
Description:
"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame...
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Publisher:
Global Summit House
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Im/Perfect Family takes place in Sanders, Kentucky in the early years of World War II. The Irish Catholic Maguire family is hated for that, plus the youngest brother, Barney, whom they have kept at home is Mongoloid (Down Syndrome). Dad, Jeff Maguire, goes to war to fight the Nazi's leaving wife, Jana the five kids to fight for her, Barney, the farm and each other. Their only back up is an unemployed Catholic priest, Uncle Angus Gallagher, and unpopular...
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Publisher:
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
German
Description:
Tagtäglich sind wir Teil eines kommunikativen Prozesses - sei dies in der Familie, mit Freunden oder am Arbeitsplatz. Nicht immer eine einfache Sache - ab und an sind wir hierbei mit Situationen konfrontiert, die zu Störungen und Disharmonie führen können. Jürg Isenschmid versteht es, unser Verhalten in den unterschiedlichsten sozialen Gefügen anschaulich zu analysieren und uns erkennen zu lassen, dass jeder dazu beitragen kann, ein friedliches...
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Publisher:
Engelsdorfer Verlag
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
German
Description:
Richard Fuchs, Autor zahlreicher populärwissenschaftlicher Bücher, enthüllt in seiner Autobiografie Erziehungsmethoden einer strenggläubigen Familie und gewährt damit Einblicke in eine Welt, die der Öffentlichkeit allgemein verborgen bleibt. Als Sohn eines Predigers der Evangelisch-Freikirchlichen Gemeinden beschreibt er einerseits die ethisch-moralischen Werte, die dort vermittelt wurden, andererseits auch die Schattenseiten des Dogmas, das...
Publisher:
HBO Video
Pub. Date:
[2008]
Language:
English
Description:
Presents timeless treasures from the world of poetry, including classics by William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Langston Hughes and William Carlos Williams. Let the rhymes and rhythms transport you and encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of the music of words.
Author:
Publisher:
Reichel Verlag
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
German
Description:
„Patchwork-Familien" haben mit der Romantik von TV-Familienserien nichts gemein, sondern spezielle Tücken, vor allem, wegen der Kinder aus früheren Beziehungen, mit denen eine solche Familie beginnt. Bei aller Verliebtheit und beflügelnder Zukunftspläne ist deshalb besonders am Beginn der neuen Beziehung Achtsamkeit angesagt, damit die Schatten der alten Beziehung das neue Glück nicht beschädigen.
17. Family
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Murat, a young Turkish immigrant boy whose parents die in an automobile accident in England after their arrival, is adopted by a British family and grows to become a successful businessman as a proper British subject. But when he marries a typical English lady, he yearns to have a family. His career-minded wife agrees to have one child only. But Murat wants a large family with more children. Unknown to himself, Murat's head is totally British but...
Author:
Publisher:
mysteria Verlag
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
German
Description:
››Das Standardwerk für moderne Hexenfamilien‹‹, meint Eliza Silverstone, und mit ihrer Aussage hat sie Recht! Denn keine Hexe versteht es besser, Handbücher und Ratgeber über das magische Leben innerhalb der Familie zu schreiben wie Tabitha Lockhardt. Sie zeigt in ihrem Buch, wie wir zusammen mit unseren Kindern Jahreskreisfeste, Rituale sowie andere Höhepunkte des Jahres- und Lebenskreises feiern, zelebrieren und ausgestalten können....
Author:
Publisher:
Bibellesebund Verlag
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
German
Description:
Kinder haben eine besondere Art zu leben und eine besondere Art zu glauben. Michael Job erklärt kompetent, leicht, verständlich und praxisnah, wie sich die Glaubensentwicklung bei Kindern vollzieht. Er veranschaulicht die Entwicklungsstufen des Kindes und zeigt die möglichen Glaubensschritte dazu auf. Der Autor ist selbst seit vielen Jahren in der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit einer Gemeinde tätig. Ein kompetenter und praxistauglicher Ratgeber für...