[PDF] Two Sisters Torn eBook

Author : Mary Carr Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477158685

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The story unfolds in modern day Atlanta, tracing the lives of Delilah and Sarah Bell. In this story we watch these sisters grow from babies to young womanhood. The Bell sisters come from a loving home with a strong family history, but we see feeling of hatred and confusion developed between them. Sarah is smart and, pretty , but lacks confidence. Delilah is beautiful and unlike her sister has plenty of confidence. Because of family demands and their vast personality differences, a level of resentment and hatred, grows as they grow. This family has deep roots within the New world Baptist Church and when a new young interim minister Harold Gray enters the lives of our sisters, he adds to their hatred and confusion. Harold is attracted to both sisters. He like Sarah because of her kindness and similar personality traits, but he loves Delilah. Harold spend a night of passion with Sarah in response his own weaknesses, this only complicates all their lives. The solving of murder and the mystery that follows it, helps to mend these complications. As the story ends the lives of Sarah and Delilah Bell along with Harold and others come together, the two sister are torn no longer.

Author : Blanche Le Fleur
Publisher : Random House
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845968654

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When Sybil and Blanche Le Fleur were growing up in idyllic Burma in the 1920s and '30s, little did they realise the changes and challenges that they would face during their lives. With the death of first their mother and then their father, they had to cope with enormous personal tragedy, including the loss of all their family wealth. Then the Japanese bombed Rangoon on 23 December 1941. Sybil managed to get out of the city, but there was no way for her to return to her sister, or even to know if Blanche was still alive, as the death toll was so high. While Sybil escaped from Burma and settled in Scotland after marrying a Scottish soldier, Blanche lived for over three years under Japanese occupation. After leaving for India in 1958, Blanche made a new life while still thinking of and praying for her sister. Decades later, a chance set of circumstances led to the discovery by Sybil's son that Blanche was alive and living in India. Torn Apart is the heart-rending, inspirational account of how the Le Fleur sisters lived separate lives for more than 65 years before an emotional reunion brought them together again in 2007.

Author : Åsne Seierstad
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0374716285

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The riveting true story of two sisters’ journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home Two Sisters, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters, Leila and Ayan, have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. Employing the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought to The Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.

Author : Zhuqing Li
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0393541789

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A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.

Author : Barb Hendee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101605693

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National bestselling author Barb Hendee presents a dark, fascinating new world and the story of two sisters who will discover they have far more power than they ever envisioned…. In a small village in the nation of Droevinka, orphaned sisters Céline and Amelie Fawe scrape out a living selling herbal medicines in their apothecary shop. Céline earns additional money by posing as a seer and pretending to read people’s futures. But they exist in a land of great noble houses, all vying for power, and when the sisters refuse the orders of a warlord prince, they must flee and are forced to depend on the warlord prince’s brother, Anton, for a temporary haven. A series of bizarre deaths of pretty young girls is plaguing the village surrounding Prince Anton’s castle. He offers Céline and Amelie permanent protection if they can use their “skills” to find the killer. With little choice, the sisters enter a world unknown to them—of fine gowns and banquets and advances from powerful men. Their survival depends on catching a murderer who appears to walk through walls and vanish without a trace—and the danger grows with each passing night.

Author : Cynthia J. Faryon
Publisher : Prince George, BC : Caitlin Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780920576922

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A true story of hope that must be shared.

Author : Anne Isaacs
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590603645

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Holocaust survival story. Two young sisters are sent to a Nazi work camp. 10 yrs+

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250005027

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Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.

Author : Libby Fischer Hellmann
Publisher : The Red Herrings Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938733681

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A Bend in the River is #5 in the Revolution Sagas. IS THERE A WARNING MOMENT BEFORE LIFE SHATTERS INTO PIECES? In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground. The sole survivors of the brutal massacre that killed their family, the sisters struggle to survive but become estranged, separated by sharply different choices and ideologies. Mai ekes out a living as a GI bar girl, but Tam’s anger festers, and she heads into jungle terrain to fight with the Viet Cong. "A polished segue into historical fiction…simple but elegant prose… offers nuance and depth to a war we thought we knew but did not entirely understand.” A.E. Feldman, BookTrib For nearly ten years, neither sister knows if the other is alive. Do they both survive the war? And if they do, can they mend their fractured relationship? Or are the wounds from their journeys too deep to heal "This is a beautifully done depiction of two very real young women living through incredible hardships and challenges. It's the Vietnam war, from not an anti-American, but from simply a Vietnamese perspective--the viewpoint of ordinary people trying to survive, not a particular ideological perspective. It's very moving, and I'm finding it staying in my head, actively." Elizabeth Carey, Reviewer If you enjoy historical novels of Ken Follett, Kristin Hannah, and Kate Quinn, you'll love Libby Hellmann's Compulsively Readable Thrillers. Scroll down and make sure to read them all!

Author : Anna Maxted
Publisher : Random House
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1446493563

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They were the best of friends, they were the worst of friends ... Lizbet and Cassie are close, yet far apart. After a clueless upbringing (their parents' basic childrearing beliefs: 'play a trombone, see a monkey, get some fresh air'), the two sisters strike out in opposite directions, both desperate to escape... Cassie is skinny, clever, charismatic, successful - every right-thinking girl's worst nightmare. The one flaw in her quality-controlled life may be her marriage - and if there are any other flaws lurking, Cassie has them covered. Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier - more concerned about the design on her coffee cup than whether she can afford her new house. She works reluctantly for Ladzmag, desperate to make her name as a writer, but stuck writing embarrassing articles on sex. Her one achievement is her relationship with Tim, who thinks she's cute not stupid for asking why Jesus has a Mexican name. Despite Cassie being the favoured child, she and Lizbet have managed to stay friends. Perhaps because - as Cassie says - they've always wanted different things. But that's about to change. Confronted by challenges that they never asked for, forced apart by mistakes not their own, will Cassie and Lizbet ever realise the real meaning of sisterhood, or will true nature ruin everything...?