Page publishing inc sep 2021 (3 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book tells a couple of short stories. Although the stories in the book are not real, they portray the things that are going on in our everyday lives, and because they seem so real, people are able to relate. And that is the main concept of me writing this book. I hope my readers enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this semi-biographical work, R. D. McCord uses fifty-two loosely connected stories that document leaving a 1957 Northeast Alabama sharecropper farm for duty with the US Naval Security Group on the island of Oahu. The coming-of-age vignettes center on Hawaii's last year as a territory and first as a state. Passing through the pages is a hodgepodge of twenty-odd characters that manned Bravo watch at radio station Wahiawa. For the better part of four years, the young sailors brought humor, camaraderie, romance, and adventure to the island, making the Navy and Hawaii a better place. The publication coincides closely with the sixty-second statehood anniversary of the paradisiacal islands.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Author Sankalan was in the sixth grade when his guardians threw him out of their government-owned house in the picturesque community of Germany, Kakata, Liberia, West Africa. Why Because he went to borrow a uniform from his friend to sit for the Liberian Government national examinations designed for sixth, ninth, and twelfth graders in the sixties and seventies. Booker Washington Institute (BWI) campus was the site of the exams. The old uniform he had showed his naked anatomy in public, which was not only humiliating but embarrassingly inappropriate in such public arena. How did he continue school as an independent homeless youth in his home country, Liberia What difficult circumstances did he experience in Liberia during his formative years in the quest of education What propelled him to undertake this incredible journey to the United States of America, a country in which many Africans or Liberians believe that 'Money grows on trees,' a country in which people are territorial by nature and protective of their personal space, a country in which the culture values are diametrically opposed to the African or Liberian way of life How did he maintain his moral integrity to his family, after he was pressured to engage in an illegal marriage proposal to obtain permanent resident status (Green Card) in his first year in the America And how did he successfully complete his educational journey with perseverance despite insurmountable problems along his path in the US Answers to these questions are chronicled in this riveting account of an intrepid Liberian in his book: My Improbable Journey to America-A Memoir of Reflections.…