Download or read book A Rose Only a Mother Could Love written by Gregory P. Scott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ten stories, plus one bonus, take place in Everytown, USA; in other words, the stories in this collection could take place in your backyard or on the other side of America. Still, no matter where you go, people are people, and they face the same daily struggles and horrific life tragedies but also joy, laughter, and redemption. Read of one boy who spent his life growing up in a poor household until the thrill of a day at the fancy Dairy Queen. Attend a child’s funeral, arranged and organized by the child herself. Find a family less than thankful on Thanksgiving and a Marine who receives a less than welcome homecoming, despite brave service to his country. Meet characters like “Steady Stuart” and good old “Pete the Pennyman.” These characters—and the tales themselves—will provoke, amuse, and enthrall. You’ll be left guessing how many of these stories are true and which are works of pure fiction, but actually, it doesn’t matter, since real life is the strangest story of them all.
Download or read book Only a Mother Could Love Him written by Benjamin Polis and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man takes readers on a deeply personal journey into the mind of an individual with ADD as he describes his struggle with hyperactivity and attention deficit, its effects on his entire family, and his own successful use of self-taught concentration techniques to overcome the problem, accompanied by advice on medication, discipline, schoolwork, and coping strategies. Original. 35,000 first printing.
Download or read book Lola California written by Edie Meidav and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2008, the place California. Vic Mahler, famous for having inspired cult followers in the seventies, serves time on death row, now facing a countdown of ten days. For years, his daughter, Lana, has been in hiding. Meanwhile, her friend Rose, a lawyer, is determined to bring the two together. When Rose succeeds in tracking down Lana at a California health spa, the two friends must negotiate land mines of memory in order to find their future. In sharp episodes infused with pathos and wit, Edie Meidav brings her acclaimed insight and poetry to the hope of friendship, parenthood, dystopia, and the legacy of the seventies. Lola, California speaks to our contemporary crisis of faith, asking: Can we survive too much choice?
Download or read book The Enemy Way written by Aimée Thurlo and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former FBI agent Ella Clah is now a Special Investigator with the native police force. Her brother, Clifford, a medicine man, says that her investigative skills are gifts from the spirits who guard and guide the Navajo, but Ella insists it's her FBI training that has honed her instincts. The Navajo are in turmoil. The tribal police are spread thin throughout the vast reservation, trying to rein in gang violence, murderous drunk drivers, and race riots. Ella's newest assignment is to solve the murder of an old friend's fiancée, apparently killed during a gang-related robbery. Ella is shocked to discover signs of skinwalker activity in the woman's home--was her friend's fiancée a Navajo witch, a hereditary enemy of Ella's family? Ella must solve the murder, do something to stop drinking and driving on the Rez, and keep Navajo teenagers from killing each other, while trying to find and fight her oldest enemies. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Love s Work written by Gillian Rose and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and endurance of love, love that becomes real and endures through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond All Imagination written by Tehan Leigh-Anna Tehan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world beyond all imagination and meet a little boy by the name of Henri Jorge. Although, Henri has a heart ailment that keeps him from being able to play outside like other children his age, he is a most contented little fellow. This truly puzzles most people he meets. When a friend of the family, Madeline Rose, comes for a month's visit to work on a children's book, she is delighted by Henri Jorge and all his imaginings. What a vivid imagination he has! He can sit for hours on end in his own little world, or that is what it seems to be from someone on the outside looking in. However, Mrs. Rose soon discovers that Henri's adventures are not just mere dreams and make believe. Come and join Henri Jorge on his first adventure to this land beyond all imagination, a land where Henri is no longer a sick child, but has rosy red cheeks and can run and play. Share in the excitement as Henri tries to rescue a lavender princess, escapes the clutches of the Keeper of the Keys, and comes face to face with Hayden the Horrible, all the while learning valuable lessons in honesty and forgiveness.
Download or read book Petticoat Detective written by Margaret Brownley and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinkerton detective Jennifer Layne is no stranger to undercover work. But posing as a lady companion named Amy at Miss Lillian’s Parlor House and Boots is a first for her. She’s finally landed a high-profile case and is on the trail of the notorious Gunnysack Bandit, when one of Miss Lillian’s girls essential to her investigation meets an untimely demise. Only a handful of people are in the house at the time of her death, including handsome Tom Colton, a former Texas Ranger determined to clear his brother’s name. Amy has many reasons to suspect Tom of murder—and one very personal reason to hope that she’s wrong about him.
Download or read book A Layman s Pearls written by Lawrence A. Weil and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each aphorism is a gem inspired by Lawrence A. Weil's grandfather's appreciation for his first bundle of joy, his mother. He named her Pearl. Encouragement to publish a book of aphorisms came from Lawrence's pastor who was served up a new on Sundays while the two prepared for worship. Many Sundays passed before Lawrence was satisfied that he had produced enough rhetorical thought that would capture the reader's imagination. Thanks go to Pastor Ron Unger, Pastora Rachel Ringlaben, and Phyllis Fitch for further encouragement.
Download or read book The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances written by Mark Millhone and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of one nine-month period, filmmaker Mark Millhone's youngest son nearly died from birth complications, his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his mother had a heart attack and passed away, a freak illness claimed the life of one of his friends, and his career imploded. As a result of his membership in what he calls the "tragedy-of-the-month club," his marriage also began to fray. Millhone responded to the chaos as many men might: Late one night, he logged on to eBay and bid on a vintage BMW—his fantasy car, but not exactly what the doctor ordered when it came to his family's finances. As if sharing the news that he'd won the auction with his already-peeved wife weren't bad enough, it turned out that he had to travel from New York to Texas to collect the car. His estranged dad joined him, and together they embarked upon a dysfunctional road trip—a comedy of errors that would lend Millhone the perspective he needed to save his marriage and to understand what was really important in his life: his family. Acerbic and hilarious but with heart, this memoir will appeal to readers of Chuck Klosterman, David Sedaris, and Nick Hornby, as well as readers of Millhone's "Guy Wisdom" column in Men's Health. His male perspective on a troubled marriage, raising children, coping with loss, and rejuvenating a relationship with a parent will appeal equally to both sexes.
Download or read book When You Think You re Not Enough written by Daphne Rose Kingma and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Better to Love You Than You? It’s time to stop feeling like we’re not enough. We’re either too fat or too thin. We're not good enough, pretty enough, popular enough, powerful enough, bold enough, brave enough, interesting enough... The solution? More self-love. Know yourself. Bestselling author and psychotherapist, Daphne Rose Kingma, offers a four-step plan to reclaim and love ourselves. Complete with stories and examples to drown out the inner critic, When You Think You’re Not Enough sets out to remind us that we’re more than enough. Be nice to yourself. If we’re being honest, we don’t take ourselves much into consideration. Acceptance, appreciation, respect, compassion… we reserve these virtues for others. Daphne reminds us that we need these to feel good too. It is only after we foster these in ourselves that we can apply it to a greater purpose. Inside, she’ll encourage you to love who you are, and look at and let go of: • Self-deprecating behaviors and beliefs • Old patterns and pressures • Imaginary ideals and standards If you’re ready to start loving yourself, and enjoyed books like, I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't), More Than Enough, or You Are Enough, then you’ll love When You Think You're Not Enough.
Download or read book I Told You Not to Climb the Cactus written by Wendy Hamilton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood is the toughest, most rewarding task a woman will ever face. For all those frazzled, guilt ridden mothers wresting with small children, take heart. A wheelbarrow full of manure mixed with ordinary dirt makes good growing conditions for young fruit trees. And even the prickly desert eventually blossoms.
Download or read book The Battle of the Beetles 3 Battle of the Beetles written by M.G. Leonard and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beetle adventure continues as Darkus and his friends seek wicked Lucretia Cutter's secret Biome in the Amazon rainforest. If they can't stop her from unleashing her hoard of giant Frankenstein beetles, the planet will never be the same again ...
Download or read book Love Kills written by Edna Buchanan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where the hell is Britt Montero?" So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after her lover, homicide cop Kendall McDonald, was killed three books ago in Buchanan's The Ice Maiden. When a bulldozer in the Everglades unearths the skull of an infamous kidnapper, the Cold Case Squad is brought in to investigate. Britt was the last person to see him alive, and the detectives have questions only she can answer. On a remote desert island where she has sought solace, Montero finds a camera on an isolated beach. The film inside yields photos of a happy young couple on their honeymoon. Soon after, Britt is shocked to learn the newlyweds were lost at sea. When only the groom is rescued, the connection between the reporter and the new widower astonishes her -- and Britt is even more astonished when she finds out the truth. Ultimately, her search for the bridegroom's secrets and the Cold Case Squad's search for the kidnapper's killer collide. Britt finds herself desperate and in danger, and only one person can help -- Cold Case Squad Lt. K. C. Riley, McDonald's childhood sweetheart. The two women must confront their differences in order to survive and to protect the life of someone they both care about deeply.
Download or read book The Battle of the Beetles The Complete Beetle Trilogy written by M.G. Leonard and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in the bestselling Beetles series by M.G. Leonard! 'Truly great storytelling' Michael Morpurgo Darkus can't believe his eyes when a huge insect drops out of the trouser leg of his horrible new neighbour. It's a giant beetle - and it seems to want to communicate. But how can a boy be friends with a beetle? And what does a beetle have to do with the disappearance of his dad and the arrival of Lucretia Cutter, with her taste for creepy jewellery?
Download or read book American Motherhood written by Della Thompson Lutes and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loving Yourself written by Daphne Rose Kingma and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingma shows how readers can start to love themselves through a simple four-step process of speaking out of one's heart's desires, acting out to meet them, clearing out old patterns, and setting out on a new path.
