Download or read book A Broken Masterpiece written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the death of her father and unjust incarceration of her mother, Kayanni was placed in the care of her aunt where she soon learned nothing in life was free.Having endured years of abuse, rape, and eventually an unwanted pregnancy, Kayanni quickly became numb to the pain, leaving her to feel imprisoned in a life she never asked for.The death of her uncle brought an unexpected meeting with a handsome stranger, pulling Kayanni from her broken and battered shell, permitting her to feel again.Dallas was everything a young woman could want, as he was a law student, his family was quite fortunate, and he loved Kayanni despite her unpleasant past. Reluctant, but in an effort to know and accept love, Kayanni finally lowered her veil of protection, allowing love, affection, and emotion for another to ensue. But only then did she learn of Dallas' true motives.From selling to stripping, Kayanni acted as needed to provide for her man, and if she chose not to follow suit Dallas ensured she did.When enough is enough and another man steps in to demonstrate to Kayanni that even through all the brokenness she is worth more, she is no longer willing to keep up with the charades she once did to satisfy Dallas and his ever-growing ego.Will Kayanni have the strength to just walk away, or will the years of bottled up pain and emotion turn her vengeful?

Download or read book Broken Masterpiece written by Tee Smith and published by Tee Smith. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is as it seems. When Charlie wakes from a brutal attack, she finds herself in a strange new world. Desperate for answers, she searches for remnants of the life she had. Who do you trust when everyone seems to be hiding something? Are the answers she seeks the very thing she should be running from? Or is it necessary to walk through hell to see where the truth lies? TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic abuse. Amnesia, abuse, survival.

Download or read book Broken But Still A Masterpiece written by Miyoshi U Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some things are not only tough to endure but equally challenging to communicate. Miyoshi Umeki Gordon grew up in a loving and caring environment. She was raised to be strong and confident. However, there came a time in her life when her faith and strength were challenged. Faced with the choice to suffer in silence or speak her truth, the author chose to 'let go and let God.' The values her parents instilled, and her faith in God are what sustained the author when life seemed bleak and hopeless. Fueled by the love and desire to parent her only son well, the author persevered through her emotional and physical pain to live out God's purpose for her life. This book is her story of triumph.

Download or read book The Broken Masterpiece written by Wolkenzye Pascal and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about finding hope in the midst of darkness, rejection, molestation and suicidal attempts. The evidence of God's work is evident in all the pages. No matter what happens, there is and will always be light at the end of the tunnel.

Download or read book Broken and Beautiful written by Christine Soule and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning Tragedy into Triumph Do you ever feel stuck? Overwhelmed by fear? Do you worry that if people really knew the secrets you hide, they wouldn't want you? Do you wonder why you're even here? The things you hate about your life are the very things that excite God most. Your past doesn't repel Him and your present doesn't intimidate Him--because He knows what He can do with them! The places where you feel hopeless are exactly what He wants to redeem and fill with beauty, dignity, and strength. He has a plan for your pain. A wonderful intention for your failures. A purpose for your hardest, darkest stories. In Broken and Beautiful, Christine Soule shares the message of hope as she tells how God took the pieces of her own broken life--childhood abuse, poverty, human trafficking, and more--and turned them all into breathtaking joy and purpose. Told with honesty and humor, this is the story of a drug-addicted stripper's transformation into an exuberant Jesus lover with a passion for meeting others in their journey and watching God's love mend them together.

Download or read book Masterpiece of Broken written by Amy Dial and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many if not most of us, we have been walking along and been hit with the overwhelming thought of the current hard times in life, that has us questioning ourselves or maybe even out loud “Will I ever feel whole again?” or “Will I just always feel alone and broken?” Is what you are walking through really from God? Will life ever be simple? As she uncovered in her own life, God uses every part to build something beautiful along your journey. God is placing every piece of your life together for His Purpose. With every piece of life Amy grows stronger and closer to who God truly is for each of us. Discovering that broken has a lot more beauty when it is in the hands of our God. In this inspiring memoir you will read and relate to having a life of lessons, love, joy, hurt, pain and most of all the feelings of “broken” that truly transform in us for our beautiful purpose, one piece at a time.

Download or read book Broken Glass written by Alex Beam and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began an intimate relationship, spending weekends together, sharing interests in transcendental philosophy, Catholic mysticism, wine-soaked picnics, and architecture. Their collaboration would produce one of the most important works of architecture of all time, a blindingly original house made up almost entirely of glass and steel. But the minimalist marvel, built in 1951, was plagued by cost over-runs and a sudden chilling of the two friends' mutual affection. Though the building became world-famous, Farnsworth found it impossible to live in the transparent house, and she began a public campaign against him, cheered on by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mies, in turn, sued her for unpaid monies. The ensuing trial covered not just the missing funds and the structural weaknesses of the home, but turned into a trial of modernist art and architecture itself. Interweaving personal drama and cultural history, Alex Beam presents a stylish, enthralling tapestry of a tale, illuminating the fascinating history behind one of the twentieth-century's most beautiful and significant architectural projects"--

Download or read book The Masterpiece written by Francine Rivers and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller “This character-driven romance will enthrall [Rivers’s] many fans.” —Library Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want—money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist—an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, it’s as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship—and both their lives—forever. “Rivers deftly threads Roman’s and Grace’s lives together as they tiptoe around their emotional scars, eventually shifting into a dance of tentative steps toward a love neither can resist. Fans of Christian romance will delight in this tale of salvation through love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Richly detailed characters with traumatic pasts are woven together with biblical truths and redemptive themes. . . . This is an amazing, beautifully written tale to be savored and pondered and shared with others.” —Romantic Times “Readers will marvel at Rivers’s storytelling arc encompassing the reconciliation of gritty past misdeeds and the work in progress of a life of forgiveness.” —Booklist “Fans of Francine Rivers will eagerly devour The Masterpiece and find exactly what they are looking for: a beautifully written story of faith, romance, and the power that true freedom can bring.” —Bookreporter

Download or read book Broken Shards of a Masterpiece written by James Fuller and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the fractured mind of Unforgivable comes ten new stories that explore the fragility of perfection in Broken Shards of a Masterpiece.Each tale welcomes you to a world shattered by obsession, intrigue and desire where the remnants of reality and illusion meet at a razor edge."

Download or read book The Masterpiece written by Fiona Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For most New Yorkers, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future. It is 1928, and Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Though not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist," fiery Clara is single-minded in her quest to achieve every creative success—even while juggling the affections of two very different men. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression...and that even poverty and hunger will do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come. By 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay's life. Dilapidated and dangerous, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. Recently divorced, she has just accepted a job in the information booth in order to support herself and her college-age daughter, Ruby. But when Virginia stumbles upon an abandoned art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. She embarks on a quest to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece—an impassioned chase that draws Virginia not only into the battle to save Grand Central but deep into the mystery of Clara Darden, the famed 1920s illustrator who disappeared from history in 1931.

Download or read book This House Is Broken written by Dylan ón and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mentally ill mother of four, whose twisted interpretations of the Bible make life very hard for her children. As the events of their daily home lives take their toll, the children have to discover what faith is in the midst of their circumstances. Their mother has skeletons in her closet and some are divided between being led correctly or led astray...This is a story of faith, lack of faith, what real faith is if it does exist, depression and mental health, self-harm, murder, death and grief, philosophy, isolation, and loneliness, finding one's self, coming to terms with the harsh truths in life, going down a dark path, and finding the light. In honor of the art of Horror, this novel also has a very dark ending, which becomes a total game-changer. A door is left wide open for a trilogy that brings these characters into much darker circumstances. Introducing a new dark character that I vow will be iconic once given the chance to be shared with the world. It is fiction with a heavy dose of reality.

Download or read book I Made It Out on Broken Pieces From a Broken Piece to a Masterpiece written by Dr Taketa Williams and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her compelling expose on brokenness, author, pastor and international speaker, Dr. Taketa Williams helps you to identify the advantages of pain, hurt, affliction and brokenness. She reveals how all pain has a purpose and that brokenness is actually a blessing. Many times throughout life, storms will rise and winds will blow and cause disastrous shipwreck to take place. Dr. Williams teaches you how to survive shipwreck and overcome life's storms by inspiring you to swim your way out on broken pieces.

Download or read book The House of Broken Angels written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

Download or read book From Broken Pieces to Masterpieces written by Alford Pelton and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print is in Black and White What does it mean to become "Broken"? The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary gives several definitions for "Broken". One definition provided is "Violently separated into parts: SHATTERED." Another definition given is "Damaged or altered by or as if by breaking." A third definition given is to be "Made weak or infirm." No matter which definition we use, it is not good to become "Broken". When we become "Broken," we are no longer whole - we are no longer complete. We become separated into many pieces. When we become "Broken," what should we do with the many "Broken" and "Shattered" pieces of our lives? Those who are wise, will take the "Broken Pieces" of their lives and place them in the hands of the One who can take all our "Broken Pieces," put them together again, and turn them into His Great "Masterpiece". As you read this book, you will find people whose lives had become broken simply because of the everyday trauma of living in a world that is filled with trouble: a world filled with many trials and tribulations. It is my desire that all who find themselves "Broken" will place themselves in the hands of the One who can make us all become His Great "Masterpiece".

Download or read book Making Masterpiece written by Rebecca Eaton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! reveals the secrets to Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and its other hit programs For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time drama series in American history. From the runaway hits Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers, to the hugely popular Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect, and Poirot, Masterpiece Theatre and its sibling series Mystery! have been required viewing for fans of quality drama. Eaton interviews many of the writers, directors, producers, and other contributors and shares personal anecdotes—including photos taken with her own camera—about her decades-spanning career. She reveals what went on behind the scenes during such triumphs as Cranford and the multiple, highly-rated programs made from Jane Austen’s novels, as well as her aggressive campaign to attract younger viewers via social media and online streaming. Along the way she shares stories about actors and other luminaries such as Alistair Cooke, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Radcliffe, whose first TV role was as the title character in David Copperfield. Readers will also get to know Eaton on a personal level. With a childhood steeped in theater, an affinity for nineteenth century novels and culture, and an “accidental apprenticeship” with the BBC, Eaton was practically born to lead the Masterpiece and Mystery! franchises. Making Masterpiece marks the first time the driving force behind the enduring flagship show reveals all.

Download or read book Broken Crayons Still Color written by Shelley Hitz and published by Body and Soul Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma and Sophia discover the answer to this question in this fun and impactful children's book. This is a book adults will love reading over and over again as the message brings hope to those of any age. It's a perfect way to end the day and a gift appropriate for any occasion. The book includes discussion questions and a memory verse at the end.

Download or read book The Best Week That Never Happened written by Dallas Woodburn and published by Month9Books, LLC.. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. I couldn't put it down. Magic." —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe "Dallas Woodburn…shows real maturity about the complexities of relationships of all kinds, and she doesn't shirk from the painful experiences of her characters. Even so, the writing is so lively and the scenes so engaging that the reader gets to move fluidly between heft and lightness. A terrific debut!" –Aimee Bender, national bestselling author "Dallas Woodburn's…full of tragedy and grace in equal measure. Deeply moving." –Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars "Dallas Woodburn writes with rare insight and compassion about the aching glory of being young." –Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man After her parents' bitter divorce, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule, her best friend from childhood. Now, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet, no cell phone, purse, or plane ticket, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can't she reach her parents or friends from home? And what's with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds, Tegan will experience the magic of first love, the hope of second chances, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human.