Download or read book Swings Hanging from Every Tree written by Susan Stone and published by Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Swings of Life written by Mahima Hasija and published by FanatiXx. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Swings of Life’ is an anthology of inspirational poems and prose written by Mahima Hasija, a 20-year-old girl. In this book, the author talks about the various phases and how we enjoy these swings of life. Despite obstacles and hurdles, most of us find the strength within us to overcome the challenges and that’s the beauty. The writer unwraps her thoughts and emotions and writes about innumerable experiences that we face every day as our lives swing back and forth between ups and downs as we traverse this journey.

Download or read book Porch Swings and Prayer written by Rob Goodwin and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porch Swings and Prayer is a southern memoir about faith, family, and triumph over tragedy. Rob grew up in a rural southern town where hard work and diligent faith in God were two important principles. Early in life, Rob faced great adversity. This is the story of his journey to find a better quality of life living with bipolar depression. The love and guidance of maternal grandmother Bertie Mae and her faith-based life lessons serve as a catalyst for a happy ending.

Download or read book I Know Who You Are written by Alice Feeney and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times and international bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie comes a brand new, highly anticipated, dark and twisted thriller: I Know Who You Are. Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from. Except one person. Someone knows Aimee very well. They know who she is and they know what she did. When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she’s hiding something and they’re right, she is—but perhaps not what they thought. Aimee has a secret she’s never shared, and yet, she suspects that someone knows. As she struggles to keep her career and sanity intact, her past comes back to haunt her in ways more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. In I Know Who You Are, Alice Feeney proves that she is a master of brilliantly complicated plots and killer twists that will keep you guessing until the final page.

Download or read book Do You Believe written by R. M. Cahill and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Matthews was a self- made man with a baby daughter, a bright future and a successful business. Through an unforeseen event, he loses everything that he has worked so hard for. Finding himself at a loss as to how to move forward, he proceeds to delve back into building up his business and hardens his heart so he will never be hurt again. Until he meets Dianna, who takes him on an incredible roller coaster ride of emotions. The world once again opens up to Robert as he learns how to let this woman enter into his heart and become the center of his universe until she inevitably strikes him a crushing blow. Now, he resigns himself to remain single and focus on whats most important in his life. His daughter and his career. Just when everything seems to be going according to plan, Robert is once again torn between what he deems is necessary to do and what in fact he actually feels in his heart. When Dianna has a sudden and devastating event happen to her, Robert struggles with the decision he needs to make. Does he take the risk of reopening his heart once more to his one true love paying the ultimate price for his effort to help or does he remain steadfast in his belief to close his heart and deny himself of what he wants most of all?

Download or read book Know the Mother written by Desiree Cooper and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives. While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women—both black and white—find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. In this heart-wrenching collection, Cooper reveals that gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life. An anxious mother reflects on her prenatal fantasies of suicide while waiting for her daughter to come home late one night. A lawyer miscarries during a conference call and must proceed as though nothing has happened. On a rare night out with her husband, a new mother tries convincing herself that everything is still the same. A politician's wife's thoughts turn to slavery as she contemplates her own escape: "Even Harriet Tubman had realized that freedom wasn't worth the price of abandoning her family, so she'd come back home. She'd risked it all for love." With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality. Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.

Download or read book Mood Swings written by Frankie Barnet and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who’s promised a time machine that will make everything normal again—whatever that means. Everyone knows something’s off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe it’s because everyone’s so sensitive these days. Jenlena and Daphne are two aimless humanities grads living in a crumbling Montreal when animals besiege cities and towns across the world, terrorizing their human residents. Though shocking, the threat is quickly neutralized when the animals are killed en masse for the safety of humanity. In the post-fauna world, Jenlena is transformed, shaking off her characteristic passivity to capitalize on other people’s heartbreak and grief by selling plants that have come to replace pets, and impersonating dogs for pay. Meanwhile, Daphne, a once-promising student, flounders in a deep depression, smoking weed and slacking off at work to hang out with her cancelled boyfriend. When Jenlena meets the California billionaire Roderick Maeve, and the two become romantically entangled, she is exposed to a new understanding of wealth, power, and the gender economy—just as the world hurtles toward its alleged salvation. Marked with Frankie Barnet’s poignant intelligence and sly sense of humour, Mood Swings is a stand-out debut.

Download or read book Daddy s Shoulders written by Laura Abbott and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oftentimes, young boys forget or don't know how to see themselves as the special gifts they are. But a strong, competent father figure can help teach their sons this mind-set. In Daddy's Shoulders, author Laura Abbott offers a way to view the world through the perspective of a young boy as he experiences his universe from atop his daddy's shoulders in this one-of-a-kind rhyming children's book. This is an eLIVE book, meaning each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book.

Download or read book Like Dandelion Dust This Side of Heaven Omnibus written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's most beloved novels are now available together in this expertly packaged omnibus. Like Dandelion Dust is a powerful novel about two parents, their love for their adopted son, Joey, and the surprising lengths they will go to keep their family together when a judge rules that Joey must be returned to his biological father. In the days that follow, Jack Campbell has a desperate and dangerous thought. What if they can devise a way out? Then they could take Joey and disappear...like dandelion dust. This Side of Heaven is a story of secrets, broken relationships, and a love strong enough to reunite a family. Annie Warren always wanted the best for her son, Josh. But years of failure and bad choices created a heartbreaking distance. When Annie sets out to defend her son, she might find a treasure more valuable than money, one she never expected, this side of heaven.

Download or read book The Lady Swings written by Dottie Dodgion and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a “man’s instrument” in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing. A Variety Best Music Book of 2021

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Download or read book Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley written by Ann Pancake and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Pancake's 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow–up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land––sometimes through love, sometimes through hate––and who experience brokenness and loss, redemption and revelation, often through their relationships to places under siege. Retired strip miners find themselves victimized by the industry that supported them; a family breaks down along generation lines over a fracking lease; children transcend addict parents and adult suicide; an urban woman must confront her skepticism about worlds behind this one when she finds bones through a mysterious force she can't name. Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley explores poverty, class, environmental breakdown and social collapse while also affirming the world's sacredness. Ann Pancake's ear for the Appalachian dialect is both pitch–perfect and respectful, that of one who writes from the heart of this world. Her firsthand knowledge of her rural place and her exquisite depictions of the intricacies of families may remind one of Alice Munro.

Download or read book Spit written by Nancy Long and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided by whoops and shouts, Nancy finds a footpath and runs into the high, dry woods. A half block in, trees and brush give way to a natural clearing bedded with sparse, short grasses. Straight ahead lies a swath of bare, gray dirt, and sweeping over it, a truck tire with Frankie sitting inside it and Benjy atop, straddling the thick rope holding the tire! Up, up, Nancy traces the thick rope, looking like many ropes twisted together, to where it is tied to a high horizontal limb branching from the arched oak. The tire returns to the tree; a third rider jumps on! When the swing loses height, the riders drag their feet and dismount, barely visible in a cloud of dust. From the highest board step up the tree, Buddy grabs a thinner rope tied above the tire, pulling it to bring the tire, and hands the source of their fun to Shorty. Grabbing the big rope above the tire, Shorty jumps, swings his legs through the tire in midair, and sits inside! The swing swoops down and down—across—up, and up to its farthest and highest point away, to come sweeping down, down—across—and up, up—back to the tree! Nancy holds her breath. The tire and Shorty are gonna hit the tree! Oh, the curved trunk, the swing doesn’t quite reach hit! Alan lunges from a lower step, mounting the top of the tire; two others start up.

Download or read book Redeeming Pawn Ticket written by Pk Nations and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Monday, September 1, 1951, Deborah Faye Banks gave birth to a seven-pound, six-ounce, little, pink bundle of joy. The only problem was no one bothered to explain to Deborah Faye the joy part. In fact, twelve weeks later, when prodded by her landlord to give her child a name, she announced, 'Mrs. Thatcher, I'd like you to meet Miss Pawn Ticket Banks. Miss Pawn Ticket Banks, I'd like you to meet Mrs. Thatcher.' A few days later, Deborah Faye Banks disappears from Catalpa, Louisiana, leaving Mrs. Rose Thatcher the unorthodox guardian of little Pawn Ticket. Though Rose is in her fifties and has no experience raising children of her own, she takes on the job of taking care of Pawn willingly. To her greater surprise, after many years of close friendship with her dearest friend, Henry, she receives an offer of marriage-which she accepts-making Pawn, Rose, and Henry a happy family. Together, the family teaches Pawn self-confidence, honesty, friendship, and love in a Christian home. However, lingering doubts play in the back of her mind as Rose fears that Deborah Faye will one day return to take Pawn away from her. And worse, she worries that Pawn will want to go with her. Will Deborah return for her child? Will Rose and Henry be able to give her up? Will Pawn leave the only home she's ever known? Find out in PK Nations's heartwarming and enchanting story of love and an unusual family, Redeeming Pawn Ticket.

Download or read book Roughneck Daddy written by Donna F. Orchard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My daddys daddy is my Big Papa, Leroy Percy Volmar. Thats where this story begins since I never saw the face of my great grandfather, James Joseph Volmar, whos buried somewhere around Etoil, Texas; except for one picture where hes lined up with members of the Masonic Lodge, upright dignified men in aprons, embroidered cowls down to their waists. And thats not a picture to be passed around to average folks or women. I expect that at my great grandfathers wake, a Mason sneaked the picture out from under his coat and gave it to my Big Papa who wears the black ring too. My grandfather had a big bunch of brothers and two sisters. Well, you might as well say one sister. My great-aunt Edna got TB when she was a girl and they sent her to Boonville, Arkansas, to a sanatorium for a twelve-year quarantine. When it was time to get out, shed been there most of her life and decided to stay. Big Papas wild brother Bill got the Volmars from Texas to Louisiana. They had to hotfoot it out after Bill went and killed a man during an argument. Leroy, Eb, and Bill ran to North Louisiana hoping the law would give out before they did. That dead body changed just about everything for the Volmars. Recently at a family reunion my brother and I were talking about our great-uncle Bill. Donna, do you think he was saved? Well, I know he was saved one day from the law when he made it to Louisiana where he married five times, a younger woman each time. Jim, my daddy, was a roughneck and picked up where his wild Uncle Bill left off. From Chapter 9 Blow Out I was up in the derrick and I heard a rumble down in the hole. I dont think the driller realized when he heard the kick what was happening. Before I had time to yell down, there was a flash, and then a blast jarred my feet off my board. The well was gonna go. I reached out to cling onto one of the steel shafts when I was knocked from one side to the other in that derrick. Thank God I didnt have on a damn safety belt up 120 feet high. Sounded like a freight train when we hit that gas. I leaned out and pulled the soft line close. Had to get ready to leap out on the damn thing. I hung out there seemed like forever while that rope swung me back and forth, banged me up against the derrick. I pushed away with one foot until I could get my legs around the rope and slide down. The whole shebang was about to blow. I was flying down that rope by the time my feet touched the ground. Looked up to see the god damn tubing bust clean off. Oil went spewing everywhere, shot way high in the air. It felt like hail until I looked down and saw grease plastered all over me. We fell over each other trying to get away. After we jumped in the car, we looked around at each other, What in the shit just happened? Are you hurt, Daddy? Im okay, but look at my arms, theyre already red and burning. I dont ever want to be caught up in that derrick again when some god damn driller isnt paying attention. Or maybe hed never seen a well come in. I wont ever work for him again. You can get fuckin killed. Honey, Ive got to hurry up and get in the tub. Find my lye soap and Petroleum Jelly. Youre a sight. Have you looked in the mirror? Im scared. Baby. Ill be alright. From Chapter 10 Greyhound to Cincinnati I see the faces of smutty, ragshag men watching me from all the rows clear to the back. Guess they decided they didnt need a shave to ride a Greyhound. Any one of them could be that serial killer on the news. Theres a bad smell in here, too. Granny says bouquet for smell. She says its more ladylike. But I think shed even agree theres no sweet bouquet on this bus. One day, Ill get me a ticket on an airplane. Hey, Bubba, I wonder what Mother will have for us to eat. Probably some of those store-bought cookies she sends for Christmas in the tin, crumbled up by the time they

Download or read book Crafting Stories A Guide to Creative Writing written by Ethel Rackin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portable, accessible, affordable, and packed with engaging examples, Crafting Stories is a friendly introduction to writing short fiction. It encourages students to read fiction actively, with a writer’s eye, and to approach their own work in a spirit of adventure without sacrificing rigor. It makes the elements of story-craft more engaging to student readers, so that beginning writers can see greater progress reflected in their short stories over the course of a single semester.

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Linguistics written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 15061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Applied Linguistics and Language Learning to Experimental Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.