Download or read book Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence written by Raymond Arroyo and published by Image. This book was released on 2016 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A portrait of Mother Angelica describes the influential nun's youth, her dedication to a cloistered order of Franciscan nuns, and her creation of the powerful, multimillion-dollar Eternal World Television Network,"--NoveList.

Download or read book Better Than Her written by Erica Yang and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney Shieh is pitching at top form for the Central High Seabirds, but isn’t good enough. No matter how hard Sydney works, Rebecca Howard, star pitcher for the Seacrest High Jaguars, does better and looks effortless in the process. Sydney swears to take Rebecca down or learn her secrets. Rebecca plays softball for fun, not competition. She doesn't believe in obsessive practice or softball camps or worrying too much about what other people think of her. But she keeps rising to Sydney's challenges. Rebecca and Sydney can't leave each other alone, and their friends keep asking when they're going to admit what they really want. Even if their friends are right, how can they be together when they're out to defeat each other every step of the way?

Download or read book We Are Not Free written by Traci Chee and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful, painful, and necessary work of historical fiction." --Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor winning author of The Night Diary

Download or read book Life in the Balance written by Jen Petro-Roy and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica struggles to balance softball, friends, and family turmoil in this new honest and heartfelt middle grade novel by Jen Petro-Roy, Life in the Balance. Veronica Conway has been looking forward to trying out for the All-Star softball team for years. She's practically been playing the game since she was a baby. She should have this tryout on lock. Except right before tryouts, Veronica’s mom announces that she’s entering rehab for alcoholism, and her dad tells her that they may not be able to afford the fees needed to be on the team. Veronica decides to enter the town talent show in an effort to make her own money, but along the way discovers a new hobby that leads her to doubt her feelings for the game she thought she loved so much. Is her mom the only one learning balance, or can Veronica find a way to discover what she really wants to do with her life?

Download or read book Coming Up Short written by Laurie Morrison and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt novel about a softball-loving girl coming to terms with her parents’ humanity after a scandal sends shock waves through her town Bea’s parents think she can accomplish absolutely anything—and she’s determined to prove them right. But at the end of seventh grade, on the same day she makes a gutsy play to send her softball team to the league championships and Xander, the boy she likes, makes it clear that he likes her too, a scandal shakes up her world. Bea’s dad made a big mistake, taking money that belonged to a client. He’s now suspended from practicing law, and another lawyer spread the news online. To make matters worse, that other lawyer is Xander’s dad. Bea doesn’t want to be angry with her dad, especially since he feels terrible and is trying to make things right. But she can't face the looks of pity from all her friends, and then she starts missing throws in softball because she’s stuck in her own head. The thing she was best at seems to be slipping out of her fingers along with her formerly happy family. She's not sure what's going to be harder—learning to throw again, or forgiving her dad. How can she be the best version of herself when everything she loves is falling apart?

Download or read book Descendants of Patrick O grady and Mary Steele 1757 2005 written by Betty O'Grady Matiskella and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a synopsis of many years of research in an eff ort to add a human face and personality to the data culled from various sources of vital records. As the family tree unfurls, it reveals the vivid contrasts between its many branches. It exposes the hardships and devastating eff ects of alcoholism that followed several branches, as well as the prestige and prosperity that were perpetuated in others. However, each individual is equally important to the color and texture of the fi ne tapestry created by this OGrady family history.

Download or read book Make Me Yours written by Devney Perry and published by Top Shelf Romance LLC. This book was released on with total page 1565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the love of books... Top Shelf Romance is devoted to bringing readers a new standard of Romance. Unforgettable books in a collection you'll cherish. Make Me Yours is a collection of four best-selling novels, including: ⁣ Devney Perry - The Birthday List Amo Jones - In Peace Lies Havoc Kristy Bromberg - The Player/The Catch Chelle Bliss - Enshrine ⁣ Top Shelf Romance represents the best of the best in romance. There are no cliffhangers. These are simply must-read novels for readers looking for the best in happily ever afters.

Download or read book Ever After Duet written by Liz Czukas and published by Liz Czukas. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever She’s the girl next door, my best friend, and all I want. If only I could figure out how to tell her. Ever since my dad took a job in Washington D.C., I’m used to picking up the slack around the house. Between school, taking care of my four sisters, and diving practice, I’m a master at handling whatever life throws at me. Except when it comes to the girl next door. Gwen has been my best friend ever since kindergarten. She’s the jelly to my peanut butter, the frosting to my cake. She’s there for me like no one else. The keeper of my secrets. Except there’s one secret I can’t figure out how to share—I’m hopelessly in love with her. And secrets have a nasty way of multiplying. Just when I need my best friend the most, another guy asks me for advice on how to win Gwen’s heart. How much can one person really handle? After I had my happily ever, but what actually happens after? Falling in love with my best friend was pretty much the best idea I ever had. Being with Sam makes everything better. Now all we have to do is get into the same college, and the future will be brighter than the sun. Then everything went supernova. A missed period and a positive pregnancy test. Suddenly the clock is ticking on the future. Every possible decision feels wrong. All I want is a way out. For someone—anyone—to take this choice away from me. But when fate takes choice out of the equation, I feel like I’ve been shredded in pieces. I don’t know what to feel, or who to turn to. The only person who might understand is Sam. But I’ve never felt further away from the person I love the most. How do you rebuild when you find yourself standing in ruins?

Download or read book Just Another Raggedy Doll written by Dr. Sharon Zaffarese-Dippold and published by ZeeT Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took less than four hours for Sarah Bailey and her younger brother Curtis to lose everything they knew. She lost her school, her mudpie stations, her church, her father, and her name. Everything they own is packed in garbage bags as they are moved to a new foster home. It’s supposed to be a safe haven for them, but as Sarah—now called Anna—learns, their so-called safety comes at a horrific price, as she is groomed and abused by her new foster mother. But Sarah/Anna is resilient. She adapts to wearing dresses after only dressing as a boy. She befriends a wild and dangerous horse. And for her first Christmas ever, she receives a rag doll, one she carries with her still today. For a child with so little, the rag doll comes to mean so much. Based on a true story, author of Just Another Slice, Dr. Zaffarese-Dippold continues to share her foster care story in the series “Garbage Bag Life.” This book in the series sheds light on the grooming behavior of some sexual abusers, and the risk to children in the foster care system.

Download or read book Up written by Hilary Tindle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why looking up matters A positive attitude is important, but until now we didn’t know how important. In Up, a practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our outlook on life— our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others, and the world—may be the key to how well and how fast we age. From wrinkles to cognitive decline, our outlook affects our health at every level. Using the framework of outlook GPS, Up illustrates how we can gauge our current attitude latitude and move to healthier ground. Tindle brings a fresh eye to attitudinal traits such as optimism, noting that it has many faces, including the face of her own struggling optimism. Using the 7 Steps of Attitudinal Change that she applies to her own patients, Tindle offers us a path toward healthy aging. Prescriptive and accessible, Up puts forward a paradigm shift in how we age and treat disease, giving even the most struggling optimists a chance for hope. It will appeal to readers of The Longevity Project by Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin as well as The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner.

Download or read book Happiness is Up to Me a Teacher s Journey to a Choice Theory Classroom written by Angela Ward and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of teaching the best you can teach and still waiting for that feeling happy of true accomplishment to appear? Are you teaching as hard as you can, and still feel the kids are not attaining their personal best? Do you want an 'on top of the world' feeling that only true happiness can give you? This book will help you to be a more successful teacher. It will help you focus on what is going well and help you change your behaviors to have better days. It will help you become the teacher that within your heart you are. Connect with someone who has climbed the mountain and celebrates being one of the champions.

Download or read book I Have the Right To written by Chessy Prout and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A bold, new voice.” —People “A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation.” —Vice A young survivor tells her searing, visceral story of sexual assault, justice, and healing in this gutwrenching memoir. The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls. In 2014, Chessy Prout was a freshman at St. Paul’s School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. Chessy bravely reported her assault to the police and testified against her attacker in court. Then, in the face of unexpected backlash from her once-trusted school community, she shed her anonymity to help other survivors find their voice. This memoir is more than an account of a horrific event. It takes a magnifying glass to the institutions that turn a blind eye to such behavior and a society that blames victims rather than perpetrators. Chessy’s story offers real, powerful solutions to upend rape culture as we know it today. Prepare to be inspired by this remarkable young woman and her story of survival, advocacy, and hope in the face of unspeakable trauma.

Download or read book The Phantom Files Eve written by Valerie Torres and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close your eyes, and imagine the world around you disappear. You hear nothing, but feel the air around you get colder. You open your eyes to see yourself surrounded by darkness, with a single swaying light above you. You cannot see anything, and believe that you are alone. You feel in your gut though, that there is someone watching you. As you try to get up, you realize that there are strings attached to your skin. Whoever is controlling you, forces you up, and begins to make you do things. He begins to force you to do things against your will, destroying everything you hold dear. Just before you find yourself in Hell, youre back to your old life. Youre back home, or at school. Everything you imagined was just a dreamat least for you. It is her reality. Even though she woke up, her hell has just begun.

Download or read book Kate Kellner Throws a Wicked Changeup written by Mindy Killgrove and published by Mindy Killgrove. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrate. Focus. Never, ever get distracted by anything…or anyone. Farrington High School Junior, Kate Kellner, has her whole future planned and a list of high-priority goals aligned. This season, she’s going to lead the Fighting Falcons to their first ever Midlands Conference title, break all the school pitching records, and impress a boatload of college recruiters so she can pick where she wants to go after she graduates from high school. But then, one day in the middle of a training session, Grady Hughes walks into her multipurpose room. Grady and his family just moved to Farrington. Because his mom is a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force, he’s used to leaving one town for another, but it’s rotten luck that she got her orders to get up and go in the middle of his senior year. He decides to try out for the baseball team and that’s when he first encounters Kate Kellner. She’s strong, powerful, and unbelievably intense. From their very first meeting, he’s blown away by her drive and determination. He’s never known anyone like her who is simultaneously stable and well-adjusted but also daring and audacious. Just watching her fire one pitch after another at the wall is enough to capture Grady’s interest. Smitten, he sets out to make friends with Kate, but not everyone in her life is thrilled by the way she reciprocates his attentions. Ty Masterson, Kate’s best friend since childhood and next-door neighbor, is less than pleased by Grady’s laid back, casual, and carefree attitude. And even Kate’s teammates speculate if having Grady as her friend is too much of a distraction. Will Kate be able to pull it altogether? Can she sacrifice a little of her self-discipline, in hopes of getting a whole lot in return? And is she really willing to risk losing everything she already holds dear just so she can have another close friend? Find out by reading...KATE KELLNER THROWS A WICKED CHANGEUP. #Youngadult #Romance #Lovetriangle #Sports #Softball #Comingofage

Download or read book When Two Worlds Collide written by Quinton L. Graham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is comprised of diverse people who hail from different backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities. Hence, the complexity of our reality is that everyone's world takes on a different meaning. For this reason, interpretations of universal practices and behaviors are quite different based on the context of personal experience. The conflict between two worlds is an intense battle that can only be conquered with respect, patience, and love. The Grahams share the woes of their personal journey to self-discovery and lessons learned as their two worlds intertwined. Admired by many, the doting couple invites you into their present world that offers a solid partnership based on biblical principles, mutual respect, and intentional acts of celebration. As you turn the pages, you will undoubtedly discover how different worlds complement each other in every facet of life.

Download or read book Every Soul a Star written by Wendy Mass and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now. At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun. It's also were three lives are about to be changed forever: Ally likes the simple things in life--labyrinths, star-gazing, and comet-hunting. Her home, the Moon Shadow campground, is a part of who she is, and she refuses to imagine it any other way. Popular and gorgeous (everybody says so), Bree is a future homecoming queen for sure. Bree wears her beauty like a suit of armor. But what is she trying to hide? Overweight and awkward, jack is used to spending a lot of time alone. But when opportunity knocks, he finds himself in situations he never would have imagined and making friends in the most unexpected situations. Told from three distinct voices and perspectives, Wendy Mass weaves an intricate and compelling story about strangers coming together, unlikely friendships, and finding one's place in the universe.

Download or read book Echoes of the Past written by Kathleen Sherwood and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney Taylor is a successful, independent children's cancer doctor who devotes her time to serving others. Through a chance meeting, she is reunited with the handsome Trace Jamison, who immediately recognizes the spark he felt for her a year ago. As Sydney's feelings for Trace grow stronger each day, she must put to rest the skeletons from years ago. But when her past resurfaces, will she be able to put her trust in God that all things work to his glory? Will her feelings for Trace be destroyed? Can Sydney silence the Echoes of the Past and hear the promise of her future? Author Kathleen Sherwood draws readers in with loveable characters and unexpected twists and turns in Echoes of the Past, the sequel to All My Tomorrows.