Download or read book Big Momma Makes the World written by Phyllis Root and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Mamma, with a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, makes the world and everything in it and, at the end of the sixth day, tells the people she has made that they must take care of her creation.

Download or read book Telling Time with Big Mama Cat written by Dan Harper and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cat describes her activities at various times throughout the day from morning to night. Features a clock with movable hands.

Download or read book Sparkly Green Earrings written by Melanie Shankle and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is really no better indicator you’re a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened.” This is the type of insight Melanie Shankle offers in this quirky memoir of motherhood. Written in the familiar, stream-of-consciousness style of her blog, Big Mama, Sparkly Green Earrings is a heartwarming and hilarious look at motherhood from someone who is still trying to figure it all out. Filled with personal stories—from the decision to become a mother to the heartbreak of miscarriage and ultimately, to the joy of raising a baby and living to tell about it—Sparkly Green Earrings will make you feel like you’re sitting across the table from your best friend. A must-read for anyone who’s ever had a child or even thought about it.

Download or read book Everyday Holy written by Melanie Shankle and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s easy to feel disheartened when you’re facing dreams that haven’t come true, heartbreak that never seems to end, or financial strains that weigh you down. Maybe you’re wondering if God can still use you with all your imperfections. In the 100 devotions in Everyday Holy, New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Big Mama Blog Melanie Shankle says absolutely yes. If you’re looking for the line that connects the dots, Everyday Holy is for you! Inside, Melanie reminds readers: God uses unlikely, ordinary people to accomplish His divine purposes. God specializes in using everyday acts of faithfulness to change the world around us. God has incomparable spiritual riches for us when we trust in Him. This keepsake devotional includes: 100 devotions, each with a Scripture and inspirational story. Everyday Holy makes a beautiful gift for any friend or loved one for birthdays, Mother’s Day, or the holidays. Or, curl up with it yourself when you want a reminder that the hope you’ve been called to is much greater, deeper, and more powerful than anything we can fathom when we trust in Him.

Download or read book On the Bright Side written by Melanie Shankle and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Mama blog founder and New York Times bestselling author Melanie Shankle helps us sort through our questions about being true to ourselves in a world gone crazy and what matters the most in the end. These days, so many voices tell us what to do, what to think, and what kind of parent or friend or spouse to be that it's easy to feel overwhelmed and defeated. Somewhere in the midst of online arguments and crazy politics and the ups and downs of life, we've lost sight of the gifts that are all around us: kindness, love, mercy, and joy. In On the Bright Side, Melanie Shankle reminds us of the unchanging principles we can count on in a changing world. These are lessons that Melanie has learned along the way about how to find all the joy that life has to offer--and why encouragement is never something to keep to ourselves. Melanie invites us to lead with love in all areas of our lives, exploring topics such as: Finding your people Giving up on comparing and competing Aging (kind of) gracefully Believing in ever after Staying mostly sane while raising kids Thinking before speaking Making decisions And more! This delightful memoir highlights the joys of life told in Melanie's down to earth, relatable, and totally enjoyable style. On the Bright Side is a how-to guide to knowing--and living--what matters most.

Download or read book House of Love written by Jason M. Dry and published by Jason Dry. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his sister drowns, seven-year-old Paul is sent away to live with his grandparents. He was too young to have been left to watch his sister while their mother slept off her depression. Luckily for Paul, a medium lives next door to his grandparents. She begins her own brand of tutelage to help Paul cope with the loss of his sister and family.

Download or read book Bigmama s written by Donald Crews and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 1998-01-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the train arrived in Cottondale, the summer at Bigmama's house in Florida began. Donald Crews brilliantly evokes the sights, sounds, and emotions of a memorable childhood experience. "A very special book by a superb artist and storyteller."--Horn Book.

Download or read book Girl Boy Volume 1 written by James Hill Jr. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional story of "Girl & Boy" takes place in a Midwest city in July of 1973. A heroin addict mother and a hot headed father leaves Junior without parents. He moves in with his father's mother. At the age of 17, he learns a lifelong lesson in a few years. With determination to succeed, he does it! With help and support of his girl and a strong willed uncle, he's wealthy before he's thirty years old. However, he has been through hell and back and recognizes love

Download or read book Soul Like a River written by J. B. Morton and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1959, and the winds of change rip through the bucolic river town of Jordan, South Carolina. On the cusp of the civil rights movement in America, ethnic tensions reach a boiling point within a cauldron of clashing ideologies and faiths. A devout family – one intimately connected to the land – awaits the homecoming of the eldest son from up north. He has been away at the seminary for some six years. In a highly anticipated event, he arrives home with none other than the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr, himself. In the tumultuous weekend that follows, the mighty King electrifies Jordon with the gospel of freedom and integration. But amidst the larger social conflict, another contrasting mindset intervenes, that embodied by the fiery young protagonist, Jimmy. A product of the mean streets of an urban ghetto, the precocious intruder is steeped in the militant ethos of Malcolm X, and his worldview amounts to a bombshell within this isolated, genteel community, a potent source of moral confusion that will wreak havoc, threatening to rip little Jordon asunder. Wendy Williams, syndicated television and radio host. “A treat for lovers of fiction.” RAWSISTAZ reviewers./em “Make note of the name and make sure to digest this important work. His is a new, refreshing literary voice.” Curtis Bunn, Founder National Club Conference./em

Download or read book Theda Surviving the Past and the Present written by Theda Brothers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: none

Download or read book Journey to Eternity written by Dr. Nellie M. Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a young woman whose life had many ups and downs. Her mother gave her to her father when she was three months old. Her father was a drunk and could not take care of her. Lee Ann was raised by Willie. Lee Ann called Willie Big Mama. Lee Ann's father picked her up from school and dropped her off at Big Mama's house every schoolday. Lee Ann's father was murdered when she was eight years old. She knew that day Big Mama picked her up from school something was wrong. Lee Ann left Dallas after graduating from high school. She moved to New York to live with an aunt to attend college. Before arriving in New York, her aunt took her to Chicago to meet her mother. That was the first and last time Lee Ann saw her mother. Lee Ann met and married Randy. They had a son. Randy murdered their four-month-old son and threatened to kill Lee Ann when he got out of prison. The most tragic things that happened to Lee Ann was the murder of her father and the murder of her four-month-old son. As if life had not been tough enough for her, she developed cancer. With all the abrupt, unexpected changes and shifts she often met in life, she had faith and moral strength that helped her to endure and achieve. Lee Ann faced situations after situations, crisis after crisis, circumstances after circumstances. Life for her strongly resembled a merry-go-round, and it seemed as if the carousel never stopped. One shocking thing after another. Her most valuable prize was her friends. She said, There is a miracle called friendship that dwells in the heart. You do not know how it happens or when it gets you, but you know the special lift it always brings, and you realize that friendship is one of Gods most precious gifts. I hope that Lee Ann's journey will be an inspiration to all. I say to you, know the good from bad. If you ever find yourself on the ground, crushed by lifes circumstances, do not get up the way you went down. Get up with a new mind-set.

Download or read book More Than You Know written by Rosalyn Story and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly crafted debut, Rosalyn Story, a successful musician herself, pens an emotionally consuming love story that tells of how long-buried family secrets devastate the marriage between a brilliant saxophonist and a singer.

Download or read book Rise Of A Kingpin s Wife 2 written by Vivian Blue and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life with Shade and Kingston is finally coming together. Shade has let her guard down, and decided Kingston is worthy of her loyalty. And, Kingston decides it's time to see if the proof is in the pudding, so he sends Shade out on a mission with Anthony to test her skills. But, the end result opens up a part of Shade’s past she buried while in jail, and conjured up an old mutual friend, that both Kingston and Shade share in common. Now back home in Jamaica, Kingston is faced with his brother Chauncey’s ploys to kill him and their father, in order to gain control of their families Jamaican drug empire with Kingston’s ex-wife Cynthia by his side. Kingston’s hate for her blatant disrespect drives his desire to take his daughters back to America with him. And, when Shade shows up unexpectedly to Jamaica, she is faced with the judgment of Kingston’s mother and his ex-wife. And the lust of Chauncey, the man who wants to destroy her beloved Kingston. But, when an assassination attempt goes wrong, Chauncey sets in motion a kidnapping plan with Jefferson, that could have deadly consequences if Kingston doesn’t play along with the demands.

Download or read book Free Beer Tomorrow written by Ellis Byers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau once surmised that most of us lead lives of quiet desperation. Reading these stories brings Thoreau's words to mind. The characters are found in settings in the Deep South in the days of Huey Long in Louisiana; in present day New York City with its current economic hardships and other difficult goings on; and in several Mississippi locales.. The characters exist in quiet desperation. Isolated within Themselves all face crisis and loss. And yet somehow they struggle to cope with the hope they will prevail. In the title story a Cajun bartender struggles against fate and the two sons who have "stolen" his farm. A farmer turned bartender, Joe Lee LeBlanc sues his boys to recover the farm. His story circulates. He has his few minutes of fame as interest in his case grows. People stop ignoring the khakis-clad bartender. They ask about progress in his cause. Of course free beer and tomorrow never arrive. The old bartender never gets his day in court. Chekhov's story, The Lament, is recalled as one reads FBT, set in Opelousas, Louisiana, during the Yambilee Festival. The shadow world of cockfighting with its unlawfulness and potential for violence is the environment where one youngster is coming of age. The Cockfighters, reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's I Want To Know Why, and Ernest Hemingway's My Old Man, also has a Louisiana locale where the law and the Church (ironically in the Parish of St. Landry) turn a blind eye to the blood "sport" in which fighting cocks usually duel to the death. An unknown assailant kills the boy's father after a highly wagered cockfight. The Lad, freed from the sport, is urged to get an education by his guardian, a former prostitute and the mistress of the dead father. At the end of the story, the father's murder remains unsolved. And a sable rooster with a fighting spirit, a bird the family pinned its hopes on, is killed in a cockpit battle it was supposed to win. We are left to ponder what part the little cock had to do with the death of the father after the little bird is found nailed to a post outside the cockfighting arena. The question of the boy's true understanding of his father's profession remains unresolved. The boy is last seen studying hard in school, reading Hemingway and thinking about horseracing as a career. In The Picaninny, an African American child is forced to leave the South after innocently kissing a white boy. Later she finds fame as a singer in the North. She returns to her "roots" in Mississippi. She finds change and understanding after talking to a crippled white man from her past. She leaves Mississippi a second time but without " baggage". The protagonist in To Kill A Kingfish races against time to stop his cousin from killing Louisiana's former governor (U.S. Senator Huey Long in the story). The tale unfolds as the protagonist's grandson attempts to unravel a relative's ties to the assassination plot. In the end the grandson "scruples" and decides to let the story remain unrecorded. The WWII pilot hero of Beau Chandler's Wonderful Bedroom returns from the Battle and settles in New York City. He finds the perfect one bedroom that eventually becomes the prize in a battle of another sort. Chandler, a gentile, and Kahan, a Jew who manages the building, are both obsessed with the apartment but for different reasons. Both men are oblivious to some of the reasons the war was fought. There is no brotherly love in the story. In the end the old pilot, an alcoholic, dies in a fall down a stairwell. Was he pushed over the railing by Kahan? Does the old man simply give up the fight? In the end the thought lingers: how easily man is motivated to kill.

Download or read book The Coin written by Glendon Chancey III and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You have to the count of three to get your ass on the ground with your face down and your palms up before we open fire. We will shoot to kill!” They fired into his back as he went around the back of the church. The officers cautiously ran after him and saw no body, nor a drop of blood! They searched the immediate area for some clue as to where the red-eyed driver could have gone. They assumed that he staggered off to die. Helpless in their efforts to find the strange-looking being, they turned to Big Mama, who was still screaming at the sky. The officers handcuffed her, and Big Mama was taken to the Troy Memorial Hospital, sedated, treated for shock, and evaluated by the emergency room psychiatrist. She was admitted to psychiatric unit thirty five for “bizarre behavior”. Big Mama was discharged ninety days later, and missed her husband’s funeral.

Download or read book Confessions of a Preacher s Wife written by Mikasenoja and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband accepts the pastorate of New Light Church in the small town of Southlake, Texas, Jacqueline Stevens, thinking this will be an easy transition, is unexpectedly faced with church drama, conniving members, loose women, power-playing deacons, and false accusations. Original.

Download or read book Savage d written by Courtney Harvey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-07-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cream, a young, independent, top fashion designer entrepreneur has blocked her heart from "LOVE" after a cold hearted, heart stopping break up. From that day forward self love, glow, and growth became the only intimacy Cream has known. All men were judged to be play toys, distractions, and simply a "pure waste of time." When a handsome gentleman by the name Surpreme walks into Cream's boutique her beauty and unique personality steals his attention immediately. Over the course of time his attractive charm raises a rock bottom battle of tuggle war between Cream and her internal struggle with the emotions that pained her in the worst way. "Love & Trust" unapologetically!!!!!!!!!!! Can Surpreme turn Cream's dark world for love back to light? Or once a good girl gone SAVAGE there's no turning back?