Download or read book The Me Without written by Jacqueline Raposo and published by Ixia Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Main Selection of the One Spirit Book Club! "Raposo's engaging report on stripping life down will inspire readers looking for manageable tweaks to hectic living." — Publishers Weekly At the age of thirty-four, journalist Jacqueline Raposo finds herself sick, single, broke, and wandering in a fog. Despite decades of discipline, her chronic illness is getting worse. Despite hosting a radio show about dating, she hasn't been in love in years. And despite a successful writing career, she's deeply in debt. Weary of trying to solve her problems by adding things to her life, she attempts the opposite and subtracts some of her most constant habits — social media, shopping, sugar, and negative thoughts — for periods of thirty to ninety days over the course of one year. In this intimately curated search for self-improvement (a quest that readers can easily personalize for themselves), Raposo confesses to the sometimes violent and profound shifts in her social interactions, physical health, and sense of self-worth. With the input of doctors, psychologists, STEM experts, and other professionals, she offers fascinating insights into how and why our brains and bodies react as they do to our habits. She also sheds light on the impact of our everyday choices on our mental state. Part memoir, part case study, this book offers you an inspiring example of how to forge your own journey, expose your wounds, and help yourself heal. "No cheesy self-help here, The Me, Without is sharply written and massively relatable. Raposo packs a powerful message into an emotional and entertaining read." — Kaia Roman, author of The Joy Plan "Jacqueline is able to make me chuckle with one sentence and then have a deep introspective moment in the next. Her openness and honesty is truly amazing. If you have been looking to examine your relationship with the world, this is the book for you!" — Travis McElroy, host of the podcasts My Brother, My Brother, and Me and The Adventure Zone "So many of us live in terror of deprivation, whether it's tangible, edible, social, physical, financial, or emotional, because we are terrified of what we'll see when we're stripped bare. In Jacqueline Raposo's brave, rigorous, and vulnerable exploration of what it means to live without, the author uses periods of deliberate abstinence from habits to find new ways to engage with the world, determine what's been pinning her in place, and reveal the person she truly can be when she's freed of it all. It's essential reading for anyone on the cusp of making a major life change — or even a minor one." — Kat Kinsman, author of Hi, Anxiety
Download or read book Read Me L A written by Katie Orphan and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Me, L.A. by Katie Orphan (manager of the famed Last Bookstore in Los Angeles) is an illustrated guidebook to all things literary L.A. past and present, featuring interviews with current Los Angeles writers, maps, day trips to follow the paths of your favorite fictional characters from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat, lists to expand your L.A. reading horizons, and a look at where writers have lived and worked in the City of Angels.
Download or read book Ilsa written by Paul Williamson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilsa is a passionate woman. Her life is a story of adventure, bravery, compassion, learning, leadership, triumph, and loss. She is a soul on a journey, learning many lessons as well as she can, living in an ancient Celtic world. The society where she lives is ruled by a spiritual government that espouses strong green values and respect for Mother Earth in all its forms; it is a place where people strive for peace and harmony in their lives. It is a very different world from the modern, high tech, and materialistic culture in which we inhabit today. However, even though this story is set in the more primitive past, there are many values in the lifestyle Ilsa and her friends live which could be applicable to our life today and could help us to move forward to a better future. All is not well in the land. There are threats of war and invasion, and Ilsa is confronted with personal struggles with some of those closest to her. Ilsa would wish to make everything right with everyone she meets, and she tries her utmost to do this. But sometimes, even the strongest and most determined souls meet limits to what they are able to do, and the lesson for her is about acceptance and letting go. However, Ilsa is not one to surrender, and her own fierce nature leads her on when, for others, all would seem lost. It is with this passion that she finally finds peace in this moving tale.
Download or read book Exploring Me written by Mara Krausz and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Me is a unique combination of guided journal and coloring book that encourages self-discovery as it sparks your creativity. Why just have a guided journal when you can have a coloring book too!
Download or read book Measures of Me written by Carlton M. Bass and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My poetry is my perspective on God, life, love, dreams, family, pain and integrity. Its an open dialogue about my deepest thoughts, the levels of my mind state, my vision. My poems are the prophecy of my life up to date. Its a mirror reflection of steps I take. The explanation of who I am.
Download or read book The Harvest written by Perry Brass and published by Perry Brass. This book was released on 1997 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future world where happiness is guaranteed - but at the price of human life - one all-powerful Corporation now runs America. It guarantees health, happiness, and prosperity, but at the destruction of individuality and privacy. And with the sacrifice of vaccos - Corporate cadavers - laboratory-produced human analogues, used for vitally needed organ, tissue, and body part transplants. Chris Turner, once a teenage thief, hustler, and renegade, now the adopted son of a wealthy Corporate leader, will find a vacco, Hart 256043, desperately running for his life. Together, Hart and Chris will bond, and do everything possible for their mutual survival.--From publisher's information.
Download or read book Reconstituting the Curriculum written by M. R. Islam and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on groundbreaking new ideas, this treatise signals a return to a rebuilding and reshaping of the curriculum as the primary tool for education This book presents a new definition of "curriculum" and what it should consist of, with a view toward creating a more ethical, educated, and thinking person. Rather than treating students as "products" for society, this approach returns to a view of the curriculum as a tool for educating students to reason through problems, be bold in creating new solutions, and contribute to a more vibrant, just world. The university curriculum introduced in the post-Renaissance era, dominated by doctrinal philosophy, is based on "learning" or "skill development," suitable for creating a "learned" society that would eventually serve the establishment. This curriculum has been promoted as the only form suitable for the modern education system. It has introduced a tremendous amount of tangible advancement in all fields of the structured education system. These tangible gains are often promoted as "knowledge." This has created confusion between education (acquiring knowledge) and learning, training or skill development. This book seeks to clarify the difference between these two divergent views of education. It has been shown that the current curriculum is not conducive to increasing a student's knowledge because it is based on consolidating preconceived ideas that have been either passed on from previous generations or gained through personal experience. In most cases, this mode of cognition will not create a pathway for gaining knowledge that brings one closer to discovery. The term "education," on the other hand, is always meant to be a process of "bringing forth" one's inherent qualities and unique traits, necessary and sufficient for increasing one's knowledge.
Download or read book Shifters of Black Forest Ridge Emmett A Fated Mates Shifter Romance written by Sedona Venez and published by Sedona Venez. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shifters of Black Forest Ridge Series is back for the thrilling 4th installment! Another hero from Black Forest Ridge finds his fated mate in this fun shifters and small-town romance. My fated mate is a hybrid witch/demon. Despite her being hated and feared among my kind, I'll stop at nothing to protect her. Yet if she doesn't accept our mated bond, I’ll go feral like every unmated male who haunts Black Forest Ridge. Forcibly removed from the life she once knew, she eagerly seized the life-changing opportunity. I like to think I had something to do with that. The instant our stares locked, I knew she was mine. Mine to love. Mine to treasure. Mine to protect. As the last of her bloodline, she is destined to become the savior of all supernatural kind. Unfortunately, her demon father seeks not only to destroy her but also to use her powers to unleash hell on Earth. Countless obstacles threaten our relationship, yet I’m more determined than ever to prove myself worthy of her love. Driven by my primal urge to claim and protect my mate, I vow to keep her safe at any cost. Now, she needs me more than ever. The stakes are detrimental as she struggles to choose between using her powers for good… or evil. Can I help my mate master her magic and accept her fate? Or will her chosen path cause me to be consumed by madness?
Download or read book La Batarde written by Violette LeDuc and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When first published, La Bâtarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A confession that contains portraits of several famous French authors, this book is more than just a scintillating memoir—like that of Henry Miller, Leduc’s brilliant writing style and attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of art.
Download or read book Most Likely to Succeed written by Jennifer Echols and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sawyer and Kaye fall in love despite hating each other"--
Download or read book Alan Moore written by Eric L. Berlatsky and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British comics writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same Midlands town for his entire life, he supposedly refuses contact with the outside world while creating his strange, dense comics, fiction, and performance art. While Moore did declare himself a wizard on his fortieth birthday and claims to have communed with extradimensional beings, reticence and seclusion have never been among his eccentricities. On the contrary, for long stretches of his career Moore seemed to be willing to chat with all comers: fanzines, industry magazines, other artists, newspapers, magazines, and personal websites. Well over one hundred interviews in the past thirty years serve as testimony to Moore's willingness to be engaged in productive conversation. Alan Moore: Conversations includes ten substantial interviews, beginning with Moore's first published conversation, conducted by V for Vendetta cocreator David Lloyd in 1981. The remainder cover nearly all of his major works, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, Marvelman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, From Hell, Lost Girls, and the unfinished Big Numbers. While Moore's personal life and fraught business relations are discussed occasionally, the interviews chosen are principally devoted to Moore's creative practices and techniques, along with his shifting social, political, and philosophical beliefs. As such, Alan Moore: Conversations should add to any reader's enjoyment and understanding of Moore's work.
Download or read book Troubles written by KC Enders and published by KC Enders. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One look. One taste. One distraction. AIDAN KEARNEY is desperate to escape—just for a little while. He never thought he’d be burying his older brother, but after that, slinging drinks for an old friend in a small pub is just what he needs. With a little luck, he might just find a bit of happiness far from Dublin. LISBETH RITTENHOUSE has been fighting her whole life: her parents, her sister, and now her boyfriend. Make that ex-boyfriend. Her nursing degree is her chance to get her feet on solid ground. To find even just a hint of happiness. But the blessings she’s looking for are nowhere to be found. Until she stumbles into the arms of the new bartender. The accent. The intensity. The secrets. May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.
Download or read book Deceptive Innocence written by Kyra Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ever since Bell's mother died while serving time for a murder she didn't commit, Bell's been focused on one thing: revenge. She knows her mother was set up by Jonathon Gable, the head of both the powerful Gable family and an international banking corporation. Now she's determined to take him down--from the inside. Bell needs access to the Gable home and offices, so she poses as a bartender to seduce her way into the bed--and life--of Jonathon's rebellious youngest son, Lander"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Tailored By The Mob Boss written by Lexy Timms and published by . This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVIL begins when you start to treat people as things… Just when I thought I had everything under control - the stakes are suddenly even higher than they ever have been before. A baby. We're going to have a baby. Which means I need to do everything I can to protect Charlotte against the onslaught that her ex and my brother are going to rain down on top of us. With the risk of her family turning against us over this new baby, it's just us against the world, and I know she is relying on me to do what needs to be done to keep our new family safe... Whatever it takes. Whatever. It. Takes. A Dark Mafia Romance Series Book 1 – Taken By The Mob Boss Book 2 – Truce With The Mob Boss Book 3 – Taking Over The Mob Boss Book 4 – Trouble For The Mob Boss Book 5 – Tailored By The Mob Boss Book 6 – Tricking The Mob Boss Search Terms: mafia romance, romantic suspense, dark romance, sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, stockholm syndrome, outlander, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance, crime, crime thriller, heist, thriller, kidnapping, vigilante
Download or read book WomanSpeak A Journal of Literature and Art by Caribbean Women Vol 6 2012 written by Lynn Sweeting and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WomanSpeak, A Journal of Literature and Art by Caribbean Women, Vol. 6, 2012, edited by Lynn Sweeting, brings together 25 women writers, poets and painters of the Caribbean in a new collection especially themed, Women Speaking for the Earth. Featuring the work of acclaimed writers and new voices, this journal is a must read for all who love women's literature and art, and for all who love and honour the Earth and are committed to her restoration and protection in these difficult times.
Download or read book The Great Quest written by Charles Boardman Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story opens in fictional Topham, Massachusetts, in 1826. After con man Cornelius "Neal" Gleazen unexpectedly returns to town, he involves boyhood friend Seth Woods and Seth's nephew, twenty-year-old protagonist Josiah "Joe" Woods, in a dangerous sea journey to retrieve a hidden treasure. Accompanying them are Seth's two store-clerks, Arnold Lamont and Sim Muzzy, and farmer Abraham Guptil, on whose mortgage Neal forced Seth to foreclose in order to raise money to outfit the expedition. When the travellers reach Cuba it is revealed that there is no hidden treasure, and that Neal's actual intent is to kidnap native Africans from Guinea to sell as slaves. However, it is not until they reach Africa that Joe, Seth, and the others find an opportunity to take control of the expedition from Neal. While in Africa, they rescue from danger a white missionary's daughter, who is accompanied by a native African slave or servant (his status is unclear) belonging to the Fantee nation. Both of these accompany them back to Massachusetts via South America. Arnold Lamont, however, stays behind in Valparaiso.
