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Letters From My Sister began with a simple letter about a bad job interview or a bad hair day, seeking comfort from hundreds of miles away. One letter plus its response became two, two became four, and four became one hundred and twenty over the course of a year in which Faye approaches college graduation in Chicago while Eve establishes her career in New York City.

So many Australian parents are buying the government line about standardised testing of students through programs like NAPLAN and My School, which make them think they are getting results because of rankings and comparisons. But they don’t seem to realise that these new forms of assessment are actually negatively affecting our kids’ ability to gain the crucial life skills and appreciation for learning that have been, and should be, the main aim of teaching.

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At once spiritual and practical, Letters to My Son has been beloved by listeners from all walks of life, including single mothers seeking guidance in raising a son, fathers looking to share a voice of clarity about life's most important issues, and young men wanting an intelligent, sensitive, and streetwise companion on the journey toward a worthy manhood. In this 20th anniversary edition, Kent Nerburn adds to his classic reflections.

Co-written by the writer of Sunday Times bestsellers The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters and Abandoned, this is the harrowing emotional story of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a father.

Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and...

A short summary on the lesson on A letter to God

In sette toccanti lettere un uomo confessa all'amata il lungo travaglio sentimentale nel quale è maturato l'amore per lei, dal momento del primo incontro all'inizio della loro relazione. Ogni Lettera è un'esplorazione dell'animo umano alla luce rivelatrice dell'amore. Se l'Anima gemella è già nella tua vita, sentirai queste pagine come commovente conferma. Se scruti l'orizzonte in sua attesa, queste pagine saranno per te preparazione spirituale affinché tu ne sia degno ed Ella giunga a te.

One soon-to-be dad's journey as he comes to terms with his new upcoming stage of life.

Letters Never Sent: Still Waters Run Deep is a weekly podcast shaped like the seven layers of a formal letter — across the year exploring seven timeless topics, each with seven letters. These letters may not be your exact story, but they resonate with universal connection and ache. At year’s end, three bonus episode letters — Words, Story, Intent — close the circle. Hosted by Solo Wing for Decoders who seek validity and Dispatchers who act, this is where Silence finds her voice. This is not just a podcast; it’s a correspondence across time and experience. A place where still waters ...

Oliver Double lost his father in 2024. And while clearing out his house, he found a box containing every letter he'd written to his Dad since leaving for university in 1983. Scattered around various different rooms, he also found an amazing collection of objects relating to his family history, going right back to the late 19th Century. In each episode, you'll hear Double reading one of the letters and looking at an item from the Family History Box. Prepare to be amused, touched and surprised by a cosy podcast about life, death and the passage of time.Follow us on Instagram to see the items ...

New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row. An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when he...

Dear Jordan is a reflective podcast about the lessons no one hands you early enough. Through lived experience, hindsight, and hard-earned clarity, these episodes explore love, boundaries, identity, motherhood, healing, and the quiet truths you only understand after you’ve lived them. This isn’t advice from a distance. It’s honest conversation from the middle of life—navigating relationships, mistakes, growth, and the process of becoming yourself again after loss, trauma, or major life shifts. Each episode is a letter. Each letter is an offering. Something to sit with. Something to ...

After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters. This heartbreakingly funny book about the impact of discovering lost letters is a celebration of correspondence; those lost acts of penned love, the vivid snapshots in time scattered back through a life.

Two women. One secret. Will they be able to keep it under wraps? It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her...

When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER; More than 100,000 copies sold! More than 2.3 million people watched as Jeremy and Audrey Roloff shared their vows and committed their lives to each other. Now for the first time, the former co-stars of TLC's hit show Little People, Big World share their imperfect...

Born in Liverpool, Malik was taken into care at the age of nine after his seafaring father became paralysed. He would spend his adolescence in a system that proved violent, neglectful, exploitative, traumatising and mired in abuse. Aged 18, he emerged semi-literate, penniless with no connections or sense of where he was going - until a chance meeting with Gil Scott-Heron. Letters to Gil will tell the story of Malik’s empowerment and awakening while mentored by Gil, from his introduction to the legacy of Black history to the development of his voice through poetry and music.

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent...

Featuring a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing “Essential. . . . It is nonpolemical, lucid, and speaks eloquently not only to the victims of acquaintance rape...