Download or read book A Fragile Strength written by Patricia Berwick and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of A Fragile Strength differs from the first, showing why the father became so heartless and it also places the events at Parihaka, New Zealand, within the international colonization processes of the 18th and 19th centuries. The main character, a nameless girl, was at once both Maori and Pakeha and yet a misfit in both societies. Through the eyes of this brave girl, the story shows the multifaceted nature of processes involving outspoken parliamentarians, the colonizing land buyers and farmers, especially those who thought they bought land through the New Zealand Company in London. The Company had no rights to the land they sold. It destroyed the lives of many immigrants, but what happened to the Maori of the region - they lost everything, their language, their culture, their land, their all. Maori watched, waited and wondered how to retain their land, their turangawaewae. The messages from the wider Pacific spoke of kingships to create sovereignty over land and a new law in England prevented colonizers from taking native land, but this made little difference to the Parihaka land holdings. Parliament simply passed laws to say the government was the landholder and guardian. Te Whiti O Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi - leaders at Parihaka - spoke of peaceful protest, but this was read, by the wider society, as a prelude to violence. The girl tried to understand, to learn, and to find ways to help while looking for a solution for her own life difficulties.

Download or read book Pilates for Fragile Backs written by Andra Fischgrund Stanton and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The joint effort of a psychotherapist, a Pilates instructor, and a respected New York back surgeon, this book offers a step-by-step method for gentle rehabilitation and recovery, a proven program for regaining mobility and quality of life.

Download or read book Explorer written by C. J. Cherryh and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… It has been nearly ten years since the starship Phoenix returned to Alpha, the station orbiting the world of the atevi, which had been abandoned following a rift between a faction of the station's inhabitants and the spacers' Pilot's Guild. The unexpected return of the Phoenix has forever changed the lives of both atevi and Mospheirans, for over the ensuing decade, the captains of the Phoenix have brought both species into space. Their motivation seemed simple: Reunion Station, a human station in another sector of space, had been destroyed by aliens. But on his deathbed, the senior captain of the Phoenix admits that he lied to the crew—that Reunion was merely damaged, not destroyed, and many people may have survived. At this disclosure, the crew rebels and forces the Phoenix to undertake a rescue mission to Reunion. Onboard the rescue mission are Bren Cameron, brilliant human paidhi representing the atevi ruler Tabini-aiji, and Tabini's grandmother Ilisidi, a fearsome and ambitious atevi leader with an agenda of her own. Trapped in a distant star system with little fuel left, facing a bellicose alien ship, how can Bren help to avoid interspecies war when the notoriously secretive Pilot's Guild aboard Reunion Station refuse to cooperate, and may have kept the inhabitants of their own station ignorant of their true situation? The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments. Explorer is the 6th Foreigner novel, and the 3rd book in the second subtrilogy.

Download or read book Gentle Warrior written by Julie Garwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and queen of romance Julie Garwood comes this classic novel of a medieval lady who risks everything to win a champion’s heart. In feudal England, Elizabeth Montwright barely escaped the massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from her ancestral castle. Now, bent on revenge, she rides again through the fortress gates, disguised as a peasant…to seek aid from Geoffrey Berkley, the powerful baron who had routed the murderers. He hears her pleas, resists her demands, and vows to seduce his beautiful subject. Yet as Elizabeth fights the warrior’s caresses, love flames for this gallant man who must soon champion her cause…and capture her spirited heart.

Download or read book Unraveled Damaged Hearts 2 written by Skylar Heart and published by Easily Distracted Media. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Church in Ordinary Time written by Amy Plantinga Pauw and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liturgical season called “ordinary time” consists mostly of the weeks between Easter and the beginning of Advent. This season, generally ignored by theologians, aptly symbolizes the church’s existence as God’s creature in the gap between the resurrection of Christ and the consummation of all things. In this book Amy Plantinga Pauw draws on the seasons of the church year and the creation theology elaborated in the Wisdom books of Scripture to explore the contours of a Trinitarian ecclesiology that is properly attuned to the church’s life amid the realities of today’s world.

Download or read book The Dances of the Blind written by Paul Grimes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dances of the Blind is a look at a hard time three decades gone, or four.. The country was tense with a darkening war that few could understand. Some felt the ground of our nation would give, some that it ought to. This is the story of a group of young folks who for a time had no guidance but their own confusion, and it describes the gestures of this darkness. The pain is in the times. The peace is in the telling, so the author hopes, and hopes that he has brought the fitting word to the page. The word brought kindly down on the wilderness of deed-this, he hopes, will bring some rest to the all the workings of calamity.

Download or read book Mind Body Balance in Business written by Chris Welford and published by Sane Works. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eros Faces of Love written by Jeff Cannon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word, Eros, names not only a Greek god of love, but also an asteroid! What does an ecstatic filled epiphany of empathic compassionate fulfillment have to do with a hard and lifeless, rocky chunk of matter? Eros: Faces of Love fearlessly enters the spiral labyrinth of this paradox. With penetratingly tender reflection and bold confessional scrutiny, the author ponders whether love is the arrival of a “longed for gift” or the disaster of “an unexpected meteor”. As sensual descriptions reveal the ecstatic delight of “islands of paradise”, passionate metaphors uncover rocky “hidden coves of scorn”. Can unsettled dreams temper the hectic race to make space ‘to love’? Can fond remembrances call one home to rest and simply let space open ‘for love’? Eros: Faces of Love opens the space of the heart for both the lover and the beloved to find out.

Download or read book With Love Miss Americanah written by Jane Igharo and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Love, Miss Americanah—the Young Adult contemporary romance debut from Jane Igharo—sees a teenager move from Nigeria to America and navigate her senior year with the help of classic teen movies and a new crush, all while working through grief and the rigid expectations of her mother. 17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn’t dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America shortly after her father’s death, she wants to be extremely prepared before attending an American high school. Her cousin, Adrian, doesn’t have time to explain the ins and outs to her but, luckily, he recommends the perfect research tool: teen movies. Still dealing with grief but armed with a set of rules of survival gathered from these movies (including the crucial rule of keeping a low profile), Enore is ready for her senior year. But when she meets Davi Santiago, it may be much harder than she thought to keep to her rules. Because not only is he super thoughtful (and okay, very good looking), he constantly encourages her to share her incredible singing talent. Enore prefers the background but it just might be time for her to take center stage, even in spite of her mother’s strict expectations. Maybe it would be easier to follow all the rules, the ones Enore set for herself and the ones her mom imposes, but as every teen movie has taught her, a coming-of-age is nothing without a little rebellion. And with help from her crush, her sister, and some new friends who don’t quite fit the roles she expects them to play, Enore’s senior year might indeed be cinematic.

Download or read book Metallic Souls Part Three written by Matthew Harrington and published by Matthew Harrington. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the explosive climax, loyalties are pushed to the brink as Anna and Sara, driven by their quest for truth and freedom, uncover an unbreakable bond that ties them together more intricately than they ever imagined. Yet, as they face off against another of their own—Nakita—they find themselves mere pawns in a grand game orchestrated by the enigmatic Core. His cunning strategy hinges on exploiting Nakita’s thirst for vengeance to breathe life into his late brother’s ambitious vision for the Living Metal program. Now driven by stakes far greater than their own survival, Anna and Sara find themselves thrust into a confrontation that reveals deep-rooted histories and haunting secrets. This pivotal clash leads them to make sacrifices and choices that will reshape their lives forever. As they step into the shadows of fugitives, they refuse to cower before the oppressive threat of the Earth government and the CTC. In this high-stakes game, they must decide whether to fight back while holding onto their composure, fully aware that the repercussions of their actions could jeopardize the lives of countless unsuspecting Martians.

Download or read book Daily Redemption written by Jack A. Madson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a book about the greatest battle on earth, affecting every living being for eternity. A battle so intense if we could see it, we would stand frozen in awe and wonder! Yet we remain oblivious to the forces. We float comfortably in our own definition of life, what’s good and what’s bad. Things happen to us, and our hope rises and falls based on our daily circumstances. For some, all hope is gone, and life is marginalized to despair and total depression and sadness. For others, life seems to be ok, while I remain nervous about the potential bad “stuff.” I’ve adjusted my expectations and things are fine. I really don’t have any religious interests; I’m making it work. The enemy is leaving me alone, because I’m not part of the fighting force, I’m on the sidelines. For others, my childhood had a religious upbringing, and I value the principles, or I gained an appreciation of them along my life’s path. I believe I have faith in God, and my salvation is assured, yet I continue to live my life for the most part how I want. God may not know this person, and he/she could be lost, an eternal fate terrorizing beyond imagination at the end of this life. For others, life has dealt blows, and through it, an understanding of a “higher power” and the living incarnation of Jesus Christ’s redemption has invaded the “soul” and imparted power to overcome and be at peace with everything, because God is God. He is good, and he knows me, loves me, and is taking care of me and leading me to a good place – regardless of what happens this side of eternity. My choices have changed, I want to be holy. It is called Daily Redemption, a peace that passes all understanding. As atonement leads me to be one with the Lord Jesus Christ forever – His life living in me - perfect! Amen!!!

Download or read book Julie Garwood Box Set written by Julie Garwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ideal Man comes an eBook box set of passion, seduction, and revenge featuring three of Julie Garwood’s classic titles (The Gentle Warrior, Honour’s Splendour, and The Lion’s Lady).

Download or read book Second Nature written by Jacquelyn Mitchard and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing her father in a school fire that disfigures her face, Sicily is raised by a dynamic aunt who urges her to pursue a normal life, an effort that is influenced by her fiancé, a terrible drunken revelation and an opportunity for a risky full-face transplant.

Download or read book Curiosity and Cadence written by Chitra Bajpai and published by Book Rivers. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not just a collection of poems; it is a mosaic of experiences, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and a celebration of the love that has carried me through. As you turn these pages, may you find reflections of your own journey, and may the verses resonate with the universal quest for meaning and connection. I hope you feel a part of this shared human experience as you read these words

Download or read book Have You No Scar written by Ann Stewart Porter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which do you want us to save, your wife or your son? Your daughter is profoundly retarded. She is blind, deaf and will remain on a three month old infant level all her life...which we give to be two, maybe four years from now. Some days, aspirations, affirmations and one good aspirin is enough. For other days, you may need to know the secret of living in the Joy, of embracing the Grace of knowing how to live out your Faith in the most practical way. Knowing God does not make us exempt from hideous scars, shame, disfigurements or debatable issues. Already muddled with grief, frustration and struggles, I felt The Great Whisperer tug at my spirit. What was it He wanted this time?

Download or read book Seaview House written by Paula Hillman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unearthing of a long-hidden body stirs up a woman’s memories of a troubled relationship—and teenage trauma—in this suspenseful, emotional novel. When she was just fourteen, Jill’s family moved to Walney Island. Initially intoxicated by the freedom of the seaside setting—and fifteen-year-old Andrew Brownstone—she came to learn that her first impressions were very wrong. After making a shocking discovery in Seaview House, Jill fled the scene—a guilty secret she’s carried with her ever since. Now, thirty years later, when the decrepit Seaview House is being demolished, a body is found buried in the garden. But who is the deceased? Jill is soon drawn back into the past when police question her about the relationship she had with Andrew all those years ago. Yet as the pieces of the puzzle start falling into place, she discovers she’s not the only one hiding something . . .