[PDF] The Cab Drivers Daughter eBook

Author : Julia Darling
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dysfunctional families
ISBN : 9780141012612

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When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up.

Author : Julia Darling
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781407403120

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It is late December and fifteen year old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced street in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police who have come to the house to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing shoes in a department store in town. Caris's father Mac, a taxi driver, struggles to keep the family together as Christmas looks set for disaster, especially when Louise's drunken, dishevelled mother moves in...

Author : Mary Williams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101611065

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“I always hoped [Mary Williams] would tell her incredible story. She's a writer of uncommon clarity and humor, and the arrival of her memoir is cause for celebration." —Dave Eggers, author of What is the What As she grew up in 1970s Oakland, California, role models for Mary Williams were few and far between: her father was often in prison, her older sister was a teenage prostitute, and her hot-tempered mother struggled to raise six children alone. For all Mary knew, she was heading down a similar path. But her life changed when she met Jane Fonda at summer camp in 1978. Fonda grew attached to the bright girl and eventually invited her to become part of her family, becoming the mother Mary never had. Mary’s life since has been one of adventure and opportunity—from hiking the Appalachian Trail solo, working with the Lost Boys of Sudan, and living in the frozen reaches of Antarctica. Her most courageous trip, though, involved returning to Oakland and reconnecting with her biological mother and family, many of whom she hadn’t seen since the day she left home. The Lost Daughter is a chronicle of her journey back in time, an exploration of fractured family bonds, and a moving epic of self-discovery.

Author : Diane Anderson-Kelley
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1615797920

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The Bishop's Daughter is a refreshing, romantic love story that looks at love's unpredictability. It is a charming account of what may innocently begin in the head but soon lead to the heart. Unlike the hot, steamy bedroom scenes featuring the cheating spouse, (who never seems to get caught) these genuine lovers realize the essence of love...The essence of love is always purity; Purity in motives and actions. The Bishop's Daughter is a compilation of events and mishaps, certain to keep the imagination guessing and the appetite whet until the very end. Diane Anderson-Kelley is a seasoned, ordained Minister, transformational prophetic teacher, life coach and entrepreneur. Who has spent years equipping young and old for success in life and ministry. She is dedicated to empowering people to believe in themselves and to live out their dreams. Her genuinely, contagious enthusiasm will inspire and challenge you to seize the moment and embrace the next level and dimension. She is the founder of The Daughter's of Zion Ministries, Inc., an innovative personal and spiritual development, and success training alliance designed with women in mind. She is a dedicated marital strategist and consultant, who along with her husband are founders of the Marital Strategist Institute that hosts Power Marriage Conferences. They are a practical, revelatory, teaching outreach team dedicated to supporting and empowering marriages. She is also owner and designer of DKDesigns, an inspirational t-shirt and specialty design products company.

Author : Roxana Robinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150402561X

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A New York Times Notable Book: A luminous, deeply affecting story of divorce, remarriage, and parenthood. Peter and Emma, two single parents who have found love again after failed first marriages, dream of a peaceful and happy blended family with each of their daughters under one roof. They navigate this treacherous territory with the best of intentions, but face resistance from the girls, who, like many children of divorce, find their relationships tinged by grief, anger, and resentment. Emma’s three-year-old daughter, Tess, takes to the arrangement while Amanda, Peter’s sullen and unhappy seven-year-old, views it as a disaster rather than a fresh start. Over the course of this emotional powerhouse of a novel, Amanda becomes increasingly hostile and alienated—until one night she commits an act that threatens the already fragile bonds of the fledgling family. Set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, This Is My Daughter is a skillful and sensitive portrayal of the challenges facing modern families from master of the contemporary novel Roxana Robinson, whose acute observations of domestic life invite comparison to John Cheever and Henry James.

Author : Julian Sher
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 161374935X

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They are America's forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands. In reality, the majority of teens caught in the sex trade are American girls--runaways and throwaways who become victims of ruthless pimps. In Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them, meet the girls who are fighting for their dignity, the cops who are trying to rescue them, and the community activists battling to protect the nation's most forsaken children. Author Julian Sher takes you behind the scenes to expose one of America's most underreported crimes: A girl from New Jersey gets arrested in Las Vegas and, at great risk to her own life, helps the FBI take down a million-dollar pimping empire. An abused teenager in Texas has the courage to take the stand in a grueling trial that sends her pimp away for 75 years. Survivors of the sex trade in New York, Phoenix, and Minneapolis set up shelters and rescue centers that offer young girls a chance to break free from the streets. &“The sex trade is the new drug trade,&” says one FBI special agent, and Somebody's Daughter is a call to action, shining a light on America's dirty little secret.

Author : R J Blute
Publisher : robert blute
Page : pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 1613647190

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Sixteen year old Cassandra is pissed off. Her family's a disaster since her parents divorced. Her father, Armando, is never around. But now, she really needs him. He's the only one who can help her get rid of Milton, her mom's repulsive boyfriend who keeps putting moves on her. Can she get her unavailable father to help her? Meanwhile, Armando's got plenty of problems, too. He's tired of his gangster lifestyle, which has caused the disintegration of his family. He needs to extract his irascible mother, the Senora, from a nursing home, while enlisting her aid in averting the closing of some public pools by corrupt bigwigs who want to snatch the only source of relief from the summer heat from New York's poor and minorities. The Senora's got the goods on these sleazy movers and shakers, including the great builder, Robert Moses. But, can these three stop bickering long enough to aid each other? Can they put aside their differences to stop corrupt men from defrauding the less fortunate? Will they be able to forgive each other and become a family once more? They're all in for a bumpy ride as they take on perverts, powerbrokers, assassins and mobsters.

Author : María Amparo Escandón
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307336999

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From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision). “1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”—John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life—that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González & Daughter Trucking Co. is born. Joaquín and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything—adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl’s mother—until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another. With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. In González and Daughter Trucking Co., bestselling author María Amparo Escandón seamlessly blends together these elements into one compelling and unexpected conclusion that will have you cheering for Libertad and filled with joy.