Download or read book Glass Houses Life is a Story story one written by Francesca Grace and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor felt young and hopeless. Growing up in a glass house was not the easiest thing to do. And Alex, was right there with her. Sometimes life throws you curve balls. You can either catch them or move out of the way. And Taylor with her sharp intelligence was beginning to figure that out. Here, we can be intimate with her and her thoughts. It took a lot of courage for her to become the woman she is, and she can thank herself for that. She decided that it ends with her. And there would be no more shards of glass to clean up. This story explores the complex dynamics of a young girls challenging upbringing. Through poetic prose and vivid storytelling,offering readers a heart-wrenching yet hopeful journey of self-discovery. The philosophical undercurrents invite readers to reflect on the nature of trauma and the transformative power of love and healing. It is a timeless piece, resonating with readers of all ages drawn to stories of personal growth and the strength of the human spirit.
Download or read book Boat Girl written by Melanie Neale and published by Beating Windward Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the author's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the U.S. East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. As an adult, she lived aboard her own 28-foot sailboat and had several relationships trying to find someone who wasn't intimidated by her stubborn independence and free-spirited lifestyle.
Download or read book Marked for Life written by Isaac Wright, Jr. and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system. “If I waited around for someone to save me, I’d be waiting my whole life. Unless I took the reins of this thing myself, I was going to die in prison. If that was my destiny, then I was going to die fighting. The desperation of that equation kept me up most nights. I would never find a gladiator. So I had to become him.” In the summer of 1989, Isaac Wright Jr. was a 28-year-old independent music producer, who’d struck out on his own and became one of hip hop’s early success stories. With his dance crew Uptown Express, Wright won recognition on Star Search, toured with Run-DMC, and transitioned into management, co-founding his wife Sunshine’s music group, The Cover Girls. They’d settled in the New Jersey suburbs to raise their six-year-old daughter, never imagining that Wright would fall victim to gross police misconduct and a corrupt district attorney. Accused of being a drug “kingpin” and incarcerated in Somerset County while the prosecutor and police built their case of lies against him, Wright realized he would get no help from any defense attorneys—white men uninterested in uncovering the truth or in proving the innocence of a black man. Pressured to take a plea deal offer of 20 years behind bars, Wright chose to take the law into his own hands by educating himself in the legal system so he could represent himself in court. Studying statutes and cases in the jail’s law library, Wright became an adept legal mind. But despite acquiring knowledge that he put to use in defending his fellow inmates, he lost his trial and was sentenced to Trenton State Prison for life, plus 70 years in 1991. For the next five years, Wright would continue learning law, become a paralegal with the prison’s Inmate Legal Association, and appeal his case. Threatened by corrupt correction officers and convicts, his family falling apart, Wright fought for his life with every legal means at his disposal, eventually uncovering the smoking gun that unraveled the conspiracy perpetrated by law enforcement officials against him. Marked for Life is not just the story of how Isaac Wright Jr. won his freedom. It is the story of how he found his true calling as a gladiator fighting on behalf of the oppressed and marginalized communities victimized by an unjust system of law.
Download or read book Braced written by Alyson Gerber and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first contemporary novel about a disease that bends the lives of ten percent of all teenagers: scoliosis. Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.Then the doctor delivers some terrible news: The sideways curve in Rachel's spine has gotten worse, and she needs to wear a back brace twenty-three hours a day. The brace wraps her in hard plastic from shoulder blades to hips. It changes how her clothes fit, how she kicks a ball, and how everyone sees her -- even her friends and Tate. But as Rachel confronts all the challenges the brace presents, the biggest change of all may lie in how she sees herself.Written by a debut author who wore a brace of her own, Braced is the inspiring, heartfelt story of a girl learning to manage the many curves life throws her way.
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Download or read book Br cke Life is a Story story one written by Linda Prey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wenn eine Brücke zum Zoo wird, ist nur ein weiterer Tag angebrochen. Biber sucht in der Konstruktion nach sich selbst. Libelle nach den Lippen der Muse. Kolibri erblickt auf ihr die Tränen eines Fremden. Kater sieht unter ihr ein gläsernes Gesicht. Ob Hirsch sie überquert, um zu neuen Orten zu gelangen? Das entscheidet ein Plastikbecher voll Kaffee. Und wenn Luchs ihr bei Nacht und Nebel ein Geheimnis anvertraut, hat Schwan bereits vergessen, wo ihr Anfang und Ende ist ...
Download or read book My Old Man and the Sea written by David Hays and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-04-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and son sail 17,000 miles in a 25 foot boat they built together.
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Download or read book Papa Put a Man on the Moon written by Kristy Dempsey and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marthanne's whole community is excited about the moon landing, and Marthanne is especially proud because her father helped create the fabric for the astronauts' spacesuits.
Download or read book Light as a feather Life is a Story story one written by Julia Busse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine warm summer nights, eating ice cream by the pier or going on a long-awaited holiday! This and more was what Lila had been dreaming about for months. Life seemed perfect until one step brought chaos into her seemingly perfect life. We've all been there, wishing for a little more perfection in our lives, but what would life be without any ups and downs? Accepting that there's more to life than happiness or sadness, and that it's okay to ask for help, are important steps Lila needs to take if she wants to be able to enjoy living again. What makes life worth living?
Download or read book The Story of My Teeth written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. . . Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York Times I was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous" like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences. Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. Her novel, The Story of My Teeth, is the winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.
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