Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops write by Allison Hong Merrill. This book was released on 2021-09-20. Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Allison Hong is not your typical fifteen-year-old Taiwanese girl. Unwilling to bend to the conditioning of her Chinese culture, which demands that women submit to men’s will, she disobeys her father’s demand to stay in their faith tradition, Buddhism, and instead joins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then, six years later, she drops out of college to serve a mission—a decision for which her father disowns her. After serving her mission in Taiwan, twenty-two-year-old Allison marries her Chinese-speaking American boyfriend, Cameron Chastain. But sixteen months later, Allison returns home to their Texas apartment and is shocked to discover that, in her two-hour absence, Cameron has taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Desperate for love and acceptance, Allison moves to Utah and enlists in an imaginary, unforgiving dating war against the bachelorettes at Brigham Young University, where the rules don’t make sense—and winning isn’t what she thought it would be.
Ivy Lodge
Ivy Lodge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ivy Lodge write by Linda Murphy Marshall. This book was released on 2022-07-12. Ivy Lodge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents’ house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past—to “translate” her memories and her life. In the process, she sees things with new eyes. All of her parents’ things, everything having to do with their cherished hobbies, are housed in a home that, although it looks impressive from the outside, is anything but impressive inside; in short, she now realizes that much of it —even the house’s fancy name—was show. By the time Murphy Marshall is done with Ivy Lodge, she has not only made new discoveries about her past, she has also come to a new understanding of who she is and how she fits into her world.
Immersion
Immersion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immersion write by Linda Murphy Marshall. This book was released on 2024-09-24. Immersion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fans of the self-discovering journeys in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Andrew McCarthy’s The Longest Way Home will love diving into linguist Linda Murphy Marshall’s adventure-filled international journey as she overcomes her past to find her place in the world—all over the world. Immersion is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical journey through Linda Murphy Marshall’s life: from the longstanding, crippling impact of family members’ low expectations and abuse, to her discovery as a young adult that she possesses special skills in foreign languages. Linda is taught from an early age that she has little of value to offer the world. But her love of and affinity for languages enables her to create a new life—to separate herself from her toxic environment and to build a successful, decades-long career as a professional multilinguist. It’s a rewarding vocation, but a challenging one: her assignments with the US federal government take her on some hair-raisingly dangerous journeys, some to countries with unstable governments and even active war zones. But these sometimes-harrowing experiences teach her how to open the “windows” around her, unearth her true self, and develop a healthy sense of self-worth—and ultimately, paradoxically, her work and travel so far from home allow her to come home to herself.
Nobody's Daughter
Nobody's Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nobody's Daughter write by Rica Ramos. This book was released on 2023-05-09. Nobody's Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Should Rica invite her mother to her wedding? In her early early forties and about to remarry, Rica Ramos realizes that starting over could mean leaving her mother behind. She longs to heal the relationship, but her mother still refuses to acknowledge the sexual abuse Rica suffered at the hands of her stepfather, or her own culpability throughout the years. With old traumas resurfacing and a new life unfolding before her, Rica grasps the power of unspoken grief—and the potential to suffer or heal. Will she and her mother ever cross the chasm between them, or are some secrets meant to stay buried? As Rica navigates her options, she faces two ultimate choices: submit to a culture that shames daughters for not honoring their mothers, or muster the courage to go her own way. Offering a bold and lucid look at mother-daughter relationships, Nobody's Daughter underscores every woman’s right to truth and validation.
Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters
Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters write by Larry Dobrow. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than 90 years, the Harlem Globetrotters have dazzled and entertained fans around the world with their incredible basketball skills. Kids can learn all about these wizards of the court and what it means to be a Globetrotter in this incredible leveled reader. Full color.
