[PDF] Annas Sister eBook

Author : Eileen O'Toole
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1450204554

GET BOOK

Eileen OToole has written a frank and brave memoir about her years as a nun and her fearless decision to leave the convent. Every pre-Vatican II Catholic woman will identify with her story. OToole opens the door so all can see behind the walls and into the inner life of the convent. Her story is the stuff of fiction, but all too true. Everyone who reads this book will be greatly moved and cheer for the young nun with the big dreams. Patricia Eisemann, publishing executive Eileen OToole has written a true life tale that will make your spirits soar. This is required reading for anyone looking to keep the faith while making a difference in the here and now. Denis Hamill, author of Fork in the Road. Spurred on by her Irish Catholic upbringing in the 1950s, Eileen OToole decided to enter the convent and become a nun at the young age of eighteen. Almost immediately, she ran smack up against rules, regulations, and arcane practices that ran counter to her free-spirited nature. Deciding this life was not for her she tried to escape, not once but three times in the first year. During the second year in the novitiate she was assigned to a mission where she would meet the person who would change her life forever. There, the elderly mother superior, Sister Anna, taught her how to develop her true spiritual self. As the years passed, her work taking care of those who lived in the poverty-stricken Brooklyn neighborhood of her parish and beyond, brought her much joy and solidified her commitment to being a nun. However, all that would change when she was reassigned to a wealthy parish on Long Island. No longer allowed to attend to the poor, her life in the convent became unbearable. She knew the only way she could be true to herself and to the mission instilled in her by Sister Anna was to escape. But the decision was a lot easier than the deed.

Author : Robert Dunn
Publisher : Coral Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780970829351

GET BOOK

A lawsuit over rights to a suddenly popular 1960s ditty fuels a lively rock and roll nostalgia trip in Dunn's latest "musical novel." Songwriter Dink Stephenson, his partner, Princess Diamond, and producer, Punky Solomon, engineered the mid-'60s success of New York "bad girl" trio the Annas, fronted by the mega-sexy, beehived and heavily mascara'd Anna Dubower. The Annas score two #1 hits, but their time at the top is cut short by the British Invasion.

Author : Amy Cross
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category :
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Following the death of his girlfriend Anna, Stephen must fulfill her dying wish: he has to fly to Sweden and scatter her ashes on the remote farm where she grew up. The same farm where her sister now lives all alone. As soon as he reaches the farm, Stephen can tell that something's wrong. Anna's sister is behaving strangely, and the land surrounding the farm is clearly dying. The old farmhouse has changed, from a happy family home to little more than a ruin. And Anna's sister seems very keen to get hold of the ashes...

Author : Amelia Brunskill
Publisher : Ember
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1524720321

GET BOOK

"A gripping tale of suspense, secrets, and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood." —Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying If you loved The Twin and One of Us Is Lying, get ready for a heart-wrenching psychological thriller about a girl who knows her twin sister better than anyone . . . or does she? Taut and atmospheric, The Window will keep you guessing until the end. Secrets have a way of getting out. . . . Anna is everything her identical twin is not. Outgoing and athletic, she is the opposite of quiet introvert Jess. The same on the outside, yet so completely different inside—it's hard to believe the girls are sisters, let alone twins. But they are. And they tell each other everything. Or so Jess thought. After Anna falls to her death while sneaking out her bedroom window, Jess's life begins to unravel. Everyone says it was an accident, but to Jess, that doesn't add up. Where was Anna going? Who was she meeting? And how long had Anna been lying to her? Jess is compelled to learn everything she can about the sister she thought she knew. At first it's a way to stay busy and find closure . . . but Jess soon discovers that her twin kept a lot of secrets. And as she digs deeper, she learns that the answers she's looking for may be truths that no one wants her to uncover. Because Anna wasn't the only one with secrets. "Layered and compelling, The Window is a fast-paced mystery anchored by a bold and intriguing protagonist, and you won’t want to put it down until you’ve uncovered every last one of its secrets!" —Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving "Lyrical and haunting, with plenty of twists that kept me reading long into the night.” —Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners

Author : Norman Collins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448206235

GET BOOK

First published in 1942, Anna is the story of a woman and an era. Against the background of France and Germany at the time of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Norman Collins tells with great brilliance the story of Anna, a beautiful woman. Born in Rhineland, when she was nineteen she fell in love with a French cousin whom she followed to Paris on the eve of the outbreak of war. When he was killed by her compatriots she found herself in besieged Paris, destitute, alone, and a German. Thrown into prison, she got out only by marrying a middle-aged restaurateur for whom she had no feeling. These are the opening incidents in a novel which is full of incident, of tragedy and of adventure, and which carries Anna from France to Germany, and finally to England, where at last she finds both peace and happiness. Few historical novels have a wider scope, a more enchanting heroine and a stronger theme. Here is one of the best of Norman Collins' major novels.

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 143915726X

GET BOOK

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow fight the leukemia that has palgued her since childhood.

Author : Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher : Dial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780803720381

GET BOOK

Seven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an African American nun comes to teach at her parochial school.

Author : Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2015-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0691163650

GET BOOK

Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look at the links between American immigration and U.S. foreign relations. Donna Gabaccia examines America’s relationship to immigration and its debates through the prism of the nation’s changing foreign policy over the past two centuries. She shows that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their countries of origin or their families. Instead, their relations to America were often in flux and dependent on government policies of the time. An innovative history of U.S. immigration, Foreign Relations casts a fresh eye on a compelling and controversial topic.

Author : Vincenzo Rulli
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1669830411

GET BOOK

This book is in part autobiographical in that it examines the life of Vincenzo Rulli. It is a story that needs telling. It needs telling because his life commences with an awareness of him being disassociated from his body. It needs telling because it traces the struggles of his parents and the history behind their decision to leave their country of birth and migrate to Australia in search of a better life. It is a story that needs telling because it chronicles the happy years when the family lived, worked together, children married and grandchildren and parents visited grandparents on a weekly basis, and grandchildren played together. It needs telling because it is filled with paranormal phenomena that followed Vincenzo from birth to the murder of one of his nieces and beyond. It needs telling because it chronicles thirty-four years of struggles by Vincenzo and the police of the state of NSW who having arrested charged and convicted one person, rested on their laurels, notwithstanding evidence within their own brief that points to the complicity of others, it needs telling because Vincenzo gathered evidence that should have been gathered by police and that even though this evidence supports the hypothesis that more than one person was involved, the police could not be moved from their position that only one person was involved in the murder of his niece. It needs telling because this story is proof positive for the proposition that good guys don’t always win, and yes you can get away with murder.

Author : Fred Bull
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595440916

GET BOOK

This moving memoir recounts the story of a life well lived. With a positive attitude and an optimistic view, Fred Bull tells of his difficult upbringing in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. After running away from home at the age of sixteen, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He and his friends enjoyed traveling to different continents, serving their country in uniform in Korea, and constantly trying to adhere to their upbringing. Along the way, he became a husband and father, a musician and entertainer, and a cancer survivor. Honest and heartwarming, One Man's Walk through Life highlights some of the foundations of American society through the eyes of a hardworking man.