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| ruby swanson: A Family Outing Ruby Remenda Swanson, 2016-09-15 Ruby Swanson’s life changed when her sixteen-year-old son walked to her office, closed the door, and with his hand still on the doorknob said, “I’m gay.” Despite her initial reaction of shock, fear, and denial, Ruby became a public advocate for equality and acceptance of the LGBT community. A Family Outing is the story of Ruby’s experiences. She addresses the deeply homophobic time in which baby boomers grew up, the emergence of the gay rights movement, and how the AIDS epidemic transformed the LGBT landscape. A Family Outing is a memoir about discovering gay great-uncles and learning about their lives. It is about operating spotlights at a drag queen show, and about marching in Pride Parades. It is about the discrimination that gay people continue to face today and what emerges from the direct, clear-eyed prose. Finally, it is the picture of a woman who endured taunts from religious fundamentalists and political protestors to become an LGBT advocate. |
| ruby swanson: Pride Robin Stevenson, 2016-04-19 This work of nonfiction for middle readers examines what, and why, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters celebrate on Pride Day every June. |
| ruby swanson: The Sisters Rosalind Noonan, 2018-11-27 Twelve years ago, Glory abandoned her two daughters—four-year-old Ruby and baby Aurora—at a fire station, running off to a man who promised love and protection. Though the refuge she hoped for turned out to be a sham, she believes Ruby and Aurora are better off without her. But Glory has since given birth to another daughter, who’s clamoring for a life beyond their close-knit, tightly controlled world. Sixteen-year-old Ruby loves her adoptive parents, but she hasn’t forgotten Glory. Now that she has her driver’s license, Ruby sets out in search of her birth mother. What she finds is a ramshackle house of castaway women, referred to as “sisters,” ruled over by a charismatic bully who monitors their every move. Glory would take ten-year-old Luna away in a heartbeat if they had somewhere to go. On good days, the girl is confined to the fenced-in yard; on bad days, she’s sent to the dusty attic as punishment. When Ruby makes contact, Glory seizes on a chance for escape. Ruby is desperate to help, but how much does she owe to family she barely knows—and how can she fix someone else’s life when she has so little power over her own? Praise for Rosalind Noonan’s Domestic Secrets “This suspenseful read is Noonan at her best. Fans will be eager to get their hands on her latest, and it doesn’t disappoint.” —Booklist “Noonan delivers another page-turning thriller whose deeply flawed characters draw you into a web of family secrets.” —Kirkus Reviews “Recommended for readers wanting stories of dysfunctional families, scandal, and violence that involve entire communities.” —Library Journal |
| ruby swanson: My Portable Life Jean Nelson Erichsen, 2009-11-23 Sacred Heart, Minnesota, 1934: Born in the Great Depression to a sadly mismatched couple, a child is moved from one small town to another in her familys quixotic search for affluence. She is neglected, abused, kept penniless in a middle-class family. She dreams of helping children find the stable family she is denied. Forced out of her home at sixteen, shes a runaway, a child bride, a battered teenage mother. While she observes major events of the twentieth century, she wins her private struggle for independence. Through romance with a former World War II German soldier during the social revolution of the 1960s, to moving to Texas in the 1980s, Jean Erichsen becomes an innovator in international adoptions and a widely acclaimed and emulated agency director, social worker, and author. On an international journey spanning three decades, she and her husband raise children while traveling abroad and shaping ethical adoption practices for the benefit of thousands of orphans. |
| ruby swanson: Aldebaran Beta Phi Alpha, 1927 |
| ruby swanson: Don’t Tell: Family Secrets Arleen Paré, Donna McCart Sharkey, 2022-11-28 Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré , sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don' t Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don' t Tell: Family Secrets, fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories &– some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery. |
| ruby swanson: Lock Every Door Riley Sager, 2020-05-05 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Looking for a suspense novel that will keep you up until way past midnight? Look no further than Lock Every Door, by Riley Sager.”—Stephen King No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story...until the next day, when Ingrid disappears. Searching for the truth about Ingrid’s disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's sordid past and into the secrets kept within its walls. What she discovers pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building’s hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent. |
| ruby swanson: Strike Zone Richard Curtis, 2014-05-27 A baseball strike puts one of the sport’s star players in the hospital—and agent Dave Bolt on the hunt for his assailant. When baseball's biggest rising star, Willie Hesketh, declares he is going to cross the picket line to play the game he loves, someone doesn't agree. Before Willie even has a chance to arrive at the battle, four thugs with bats waylay him. Now Willie is laid up in the hospital with a slim chance of walking again. All he knows is that he believes he put out the eye of one of the goons and he begs Dave Bolt to get revenge. It is a twisty road through the maze of managers, union leaders and players, but sports agent Bolt has a map . . . one that leads straight to a one-eyed man. |
| ruby swanson: Stories of the St Croix River Road , |
| ruby swanson: Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court , 1832 |
| ruby swanson: Leaves of Healing , 1904 |
| ruby swanson: Music and Musicians , 1919 |
| ruby swanson: Farm Mechanics ... Bernard Lyman Johnson, 1924 |
| ruby swanson: United States Investor , 1926 |
| ruby swanson: The Butcher Laura Kat Young, 2022-09-27 A suspenseful small-town horror novel of oppression, heartbreak and buried anguish – Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go with the wild west setting of Westworld. When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five’s guilty residents as payment for their petty crimes. An index finger taken for spreading salacious gossip, a foot for blasphemy, no one is exempt from punishment. But one day Winona refuses to butcher a six-year-old boy. So their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae’s house, and, right there in the living room, murder her mother for refusing her duties. Within twenty-four hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her new job. But a chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy that murdered her mother. Now Lady Mae must choose: will she flee, and start another life in the desolate mountains, forever running? Or will she seek vengeance for her mother’s death even if it kills her? A devastating, alarming page-turner infused with melancholy, humanity – and society’s maddening acceptance in the face of horror. |
| ruby swanson: McCoy's Rockford City Directory , 1920 |
| ruby swanson: Deadly Desserts C. A. Phipps, 2024-01-31 A Cry for Help from the Past… A Mystery Too Intriguing to Ignore! Ruby Finch always dreamed of becoming the town librarian—but she never imagined it would take a suspicious death to make it happen. Now, while helping her fiancé launch his new diner—the site of a recent murder and arson—she can’t help but wonder… why do bad things keep happening around her? When Ruby discovers an old note begging for help, the sheriff dismisses it as a hoax. But she knows better. With her sisters by her side, she dives into the dark history of a powerful family, unearthing secrets some would rather keep buried. But the deeper they dig, the more dangerous things become. Someone wants the past to stay in the past—at any cost. The Cozy Café Mysteries serve up small-town charm, amateur sleuthing, and a trio of witty, determined sisters—along with a few four-legged sidekicks! Perfect for fans of library mysteries, family secrets, and page-turning whodunits with a dash of humor! The Cozy Café Mysteries Sweet Saboteur Candy Corruption Mocha Mayhem Berry Betrayal Deadly Desserts Enjoy a FREE sweet or savory recipe in every book! |
| ruby swanson: From Past to Present Michael J. Goc, 1999 |
| ruby swanson: Battle Creek City Directories , 1914 |
| ruby swanson: Whispers in the Night Brandon Massey, 2014-09-02 Whatever you do, don’t turn off the lights… Cross the threshold into one man’s tortured mind, haunted by the mocking voices of his youth. Quench your insatiable thirst for terror at a bar where the drinks are abominable and the patrons never leave. Relive the harrowing Middle Passage that brought millions of African slaves to America—but this time with a spellbinding twist. Meet the malevolent entities that feed on human misery in the midst of a hurricane’s wrath. Endure a sweltering summer on a swamp inhabited by predatory spirits. From pulsating ecstasy to unspeakable tragedy, submit to the irresistible pull of the unknown in nineteen stories that will illuminate the horrors within—and without… Anthony Beal * Michael Boatman * Maurice Broaddus * Chesya Burke * Christopher Chambers * Lexi Davis * B. Gordon Doyle * Tananarive Due * Dameon Edwards * Robert Fleming * Rickey Windell George * L.R. Giles * Lawana James-Holland * Tish Jackson * Tenea Johnson * Brandon Massey * Terence Taylor * Randy Walker * Wrath James White PRAISE FOR WHISPERS IN THE NIGHT “Massey has another slam dunk with his third Dark Dreams anthology…excellent series. —Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| ruby swanson: The Dumbauld Family in America Joanne Teed Paro, 1982 |
| ruby swanson: The Billboard , 1927 |
| ruby swanson: The Santa Fe Magazine , 1925 |
| ruby swanson: Fateful Journeys Gary E. Parker, 2010-06-15 A heart-rendering epic of triumph on the costly road to freedom, Fateful Journeys sweeps readers away to experience the painful consequences of choices, the depth of unwavering love, and the indomitable spirit to rise above oppression. Who knows what will happen when those journeys end, and we come home again? asks Camellia York while the dark clouds of the Civil War gather around her South Carolina home. In this second installment of the popular Southern Tides Trilogy, Camellia confronts the secrets of her startling past while half-brothers Josh Cain and Hampton York grapple with their deepest convictions during these desperate days of national upheaval. |
| ruby swanson: Motorboating - ND , 1936-01 |
| ruby swanson: Howard University College of Dentistry at 140 Years: Jackson, Sinkford, Grant-Mills, 2024-02-04 Founded in 1881, Howard University College of Dentistry (HUCD) was one of the first United States dental schools to admit women equally as men. Now, HUCD celebrates one-hundred-and-forty years of educating minority dentists, dental specialists, and dental hygienists who practice in fifty states in America and fifty-three foreign countries. Howard University College of Dentistry 140 Years: Mission, Legacy, and Promise is an inspiring and informative look into the history of Howard University’s dental school and its mission to educate minority dental professionals who offer their skills to marginalized groups across the United States. It highlights how bleak the provision of black dental care was in the United States after the Civil War and how the HUCD has risen to meet a myriad of challenges for over a century. After two years of meetings, research, retrieval of archival materials, review of oral histories, and delving deep into the heart and soul of the dental school, three authors with close ties to HUCD share the college’s story with pride. The College of Dentistry’s mission, legacy, and promise still continue—Howard Forward! |
| ruby swanson: Annual Report of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society Minnesota State Agricultural Society, 1940 |
| ruby swanson: Research Paper PNW. , 1978 |
| ruby swanson: Annual Report Minnesota State Agricultural Society, 1942 |
| ruby swanson: History of Jackson County, Missouri W. Z. Hickman, 1920 |
| ruby swanson: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1960 |
| ruby swanson: The Motor Truck; the National Authority of Power Haulage , 1924 |
| ruby swanson: American Fur Breeder , 1955 |
| ruby swanson: The Circuit Rider , 1989 |
| ruby swanson: Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – The Final Advance in Picardy Paul Oldfield, 2025-01-30 Provides a detailed, strategic account of VC actions, complemented by maps, photographs, and biographies. In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – The Final Advance in Picardy is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close to, where each VC was won. Photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering every aspect of their lives warts and all parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events. |
| ruby swanson: Canadian Almanac and Directory 2018 House Canada Grey, 2017-12-21 The Canadian Almanac & Directory is the most complete source of Canadian information available - cultural, professional and financial institutions, legislative, governmental, judicial and educational organizations. Canada's authoritative sourcebook for almost 160 years, the Canadian Almanac & Directory gives you access to almost 100,000 names and addresses of contacts throughout the network of Canadian institutions. |
| ruby swanson: Municipalities Illinois. State Board of Elections, 1979 |
| ruby swanson: Western Farm Equipment , 1924 |
| ruby swanson: Who's who in Finance and Industry , 1993 |
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