Daddy S Money

Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in the 1930s and 1940s. The Garot family's acreage near DeWitt and the town itself provide the stage for McDougall's wry, compelling, and layered account of the day-to-day of rice growing on the farm that her father inherited. In that setting she discovers a rich "universe of words" in the Great Depression, comes of age during World War II, and finds her way alongside "that whole quirky, compelling cast of characters" that comprised her kin. In this conflicted, ironic, southern-but-universal account of betrayal, heartbreak, loss, and joy, "the vagaries and the grace" of the land join forces with the power of money as family bonds are both forged and dissolved. Deeply felt, unsentimental, and often humorous,Daddy's Money presents McDougall's life and the lives of her relatives in the way that all our lives are eventually framed-as stories. "When all else is lost," the author maintains, "the stories remain."

Upon learning the age of the "child" in question, Eleanor Sims made a beeline for the door. Had this man lost his mind? She did not intend to be a nanny to a grown man, and out the door, she went. Jonathan Marcus Howell II was a thorn in his father's side. Money meant nothing to him, except for the fact it was necessary and certainly was always available when he needed it. His mornings were spent sleeping, and his afternoons were usually at a country club. But on this day, before the night would fall, he would find himself at the mercy of a woman he had never known. He would be homeless and alone, but little did he know, it would be a good thing.

“Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal

Join Jacob and Savannah as they embark on an incredible journey with their dad, to explore the basics of money, and how to manage it. Will they carry out what they learn? Will you? Through the use of stimulating and rousing rhyme, Wall Street CEO, Sean K. August, penned, Daddy, What is money? as the first book in the Self-Education Series that aims to teach children financial literacy.

At her father's death in the 1920s, the press tagged Doris Duke "the richest girl in the world". This biography offers a glimpse into a world where pain and boredom are the only enemies, and money is the whip that keeps them at bay. 8 pages of photographs.

When an elderly man turns up dead in a park, LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake suspects foul play. She soon learns that the man was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi concentration camps. When she discovers that his demise is one of several mysterious deaths among camp survivors, Jessica is determined to follow a trail of decades-old deceit to catch a killer.