So people may say we do things on purpose and we love it. It's quite opposite for me... I didn't want the Marks to appear I don't know they did either. Things got complicated after my 17th birthday. Having a weight dropped onto your back, so big, ya know? I'm Annabelle Baker. This is my story, of my drama, heart break, and my friends being at my back the whole time helping me.
The objective of this book is to encourage all readers to try and expand our Rizq through Amal (good actions) and thereby live a life of happiness and tranquillity. Allah Ta‘ala says in the Quraan,
“As for that that male or female who does good and is a believer, we will certainly grant them a good (peaceful and contented) life (in this world) and most surely reward them (in the hereafter as well) for the good that they do.”
Liberty tries to drown out her sorrows by drinking one night, but she ends up meeting a vampire named who ignites a fire inside of her. She is not sure she loves him, but he certainly loves her.
As they get to know each other, a dead woman is uncovered. is one of the first to be suspected.
The woman is a member of The Bloodlusted Lips, a female vampire gang involved with murder and prostitution and contract killing.
Bonnie, age four, along with four of her siblings, was taken by force from her home in rural Canada and placed in the care of the Children's Aid Society. Over the next fourteen years, the children are split up and reunited multiple times, moving from foster home to foster home, always hoping to find one another again.
By luck or providence, the four sisters spend the majority of their young lives together working on a tobacco farm and living in an attic, where the stovepipe offers warmth, comfort, and news from the outside that they do not receive from their foster parents. Surviving some of the worst torments a child can know, Bonnie and her sisters depend on each other to meet even their basic needs, forming an unbreakable bond.
Bonnie Virag's heartrending yet triumphant memoir, The Stovepipe, recounts the author's experience growing up as a foster child in the 1940s and 1950s. In an honest, unflinching voice, Virag engrosses readers with not only the darkness that she and her siblings endured but, more important, their ability to join together to create a sense of light.
This unforgettable story is informed by Bonnie's recollections, remembrances from her sisters, and the official records received from the Children's Aid Society in Canada. This book is not an indictment of the foster care system and its many missteps. Rather, it is a testament to the resilience of the soul and the importance of family, friendship and fortitude.
So people may say we do things on purpose and we love it. It's quite opposite for me... I didn't want the Marks to appear I don't know they did either. Things got complicated after my 17th birthday. Having a weight dropped onto your back, so big, ya know? I'm Annabelle Baker. This is my story, of my drama, heart break, and my friends being at my back the whole time helping me.
The objective of this book is to encourage all readers to try and expand our Rizq through Amal (good actions) and thereby live a life of happiness and tranquillity. Allah Ta‘ala says in the Quraan,
“As for that that male or female who does good and is a believer, we will certainly grant them a good (peaceful and contented) life (in this world) and most surely reward them (in the hereafter as well) for the good that they do.”
Liberty tries to drown out her sorrows by drinking one night, but she ends up meeting a vampire named who ignites a fire inside of her. She is not sure she loves him, but he certainly loves her.
As they get to know each other, a dead woman is uncovered. is one of the first to be suspected.
The woman is a member of The Bloodlusted Lips, a female vampire gang involved with murder and prostitution and contract killing.
Bonnie, age four, along with four of her siblings, was taken by force from her home in rural Canada and placed in the care of the Children's Aid Society. Over the next fourteen years, the children are split up and reunited multiple times, moving from foster home to foster home, always hoping to find one another again.
By luck or providence, the four sisters spend the majority of their young lives together working on a tobacco farm and living in an attic, where the stovepipe offers warmth, comfort, and news from the outside that they do not receive from their foster parents. Surviving some of the worst torments a child can know, Bonnie and her sisters depend on each other to meet even their basic needs, forming an unbreakable bond.
Bonnie Virag's heartrending yet triumphant memoir, The Stovepipe, recounts the author's experience growing up as a foster child in the 1940s and 1950s. In an honest, unflinching voice, Virag engrosses readers with not only the darkness that she and her siblings endured but, more important, their ability to join together to create a sense of light.
This unforgettable story is informed by Bonnie's recollections, remembrances from her sisters, and the official records received from the Children's Aid Society in Canada. This book is not an indictment of the foster care system and its many missteps. Rather, it is a testament to the resilience of the soul and the importance of family, friendship and fortitude.