Download or read book Fingernail Moon written by Janie Webster and published by Shaw Books. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fingernail Moon, the true story of a mother and daughter’s courageous journey. An inspiring story of Janie Webster’s daring quest to save her daughter’s life. When Webster discovered that her husband had sexually abused their daughter, her seemingly content life changed forever. She began divorce proceedings, but the court allowed unsupervised visits between father and daughter. Then her husband was diagnosed with AIDS. Terrified that he could further abuse and even infect their daughter, Janie Webster knew that she had to flee. Mother and daughter embarked on a five-year journey around the world. Although often discouraged, they found within their physical journey a deep spiritual meaning. With God’s guidance, they established and reestablished new lives in the countries where they stayed, finding people they could trust who provided them with friendship and assistance. Despite the threat of deportation and imprisonment hanging over them, they sensed the hand of God engineering their safe passage.
Download or read book Fingernail Moon written by J. Laura Chandler and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle can never outrun her guilt. One irrational act when her emotions were at their most vulnerable has placed her on a collision course with not only the law and the lives of strangers but the hearts of those she loved. Belle realizes her old life has to be placed in the past and her new life lived in total dependence upon God one day at a time or she will ruin the life of her child. She would die for this child, so why shouldnt she live for him? She struggles to protect their privacy when recognition and publicity promote her son as a child star. He becomes known as the Ghost Rider on national rodeo circuits. As Belles life evolves and meshes with a new husband and a daughter of their own, the battles in her head torment her until that dreaded day when her son forces her to face the truth of the past, a past that will release him to choose a new life. From the dark alleys of drugs and crime to the boardrooms of business moguls, you will catch a glimpse of Gods sovereignty and his thread of mercy and grace woven throughout the characters you will come to love.
Download or read book Alligator Pond and the Fingernail Moon written by Kimberly McIntyre and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali is an alligator living in the swamps of Louisiana. He is thrown into a cruel world after the violent death of his parents by hunters. He embarks upon a journey not knowing where he will wind up. He ultimately ends up in a magical world of a pond inhabited by talking creatures and trees. Ali comes to a realization that there is a reason for his ending up at this pond. He is the chosen one to rid the Land of the Pond from evil inflicted by the Lizard King, a bearded dragon who wants to rid the pond of its magic and good. Ali and his friends, Bubba, a bubbling bullfrog, Custer, an irate catfish, and Poe, a fiery firelfy, are dedicated and united in this adventure. Guided by the Moon, who has a character and identity of her own, Claire de Lune, remains Ali's constant companion, guiding him and his leadership, not only with soft illumination, but endowing him with the light of reason, judgment, comfort and warmth.
Download or read book Empty Cities of the Full Moon written by Howard V. Hendrix and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venturing into a universe different from where his previous novels—Lightpaths, Standing Wave, and Better Angels—were set, Howard V. Hendrix tackles one of life's most enduring questions: What does it mean to be human? In a dramatically altered near-future, the world's newest technology resurrects a plague of apparent global madness that not only destroys ten thousand years of urban civilization, but also creates a world under the sway of the full moon—and a human race transformed in astonishing ways.
Download or read book Fingernail Moon written by Cathy Clark Lager and published by Taylor Made Pub. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's experience giving birth to a daughter with acrania.
Download or read book Back of the Envelope Physics written by Clifford Swartz and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning teacher, “a delightful and instructive accessory to an introductory physics course” (Physics World). Physicists use “back-of-the-envelope” estimates to check whether or not an idea could possibly be right. In many cases, the approximate solution is all that is needed. This compilation of 101 examples of back-of-the-envelope calculations celebrates a quantitative approach to solving physics problems. Drawing on a lifetime of physics research and nearly three decades as the editor of The Physics Teacher, Clifford Swartz—a winner of two awards from the American Association of Physics Teachers—provides simple, approximate solutions to physics problems that span a broad range of topics. What note do you get when you blow across the top of a Coke bottle? Could you lose weight on a diet of ice cubes? How can a fakir lie on a bed of nails without getting hurt? Does draining water in the northern hemisphere really swirl in a different direction than its counterpart below the equator? In each case, only a few lines of arithmetic and a few natural constants solve a problem to within a few percent. Covering such subjects as astronomy, magnetism, optics, sound, heat, mechanics, waves, and electricity, this book provides a rich source of material for teachers and anyone interested in the physics of everyday life. “This is a book that will help make the study of physics fun and relevant.” —Mark P. Silverman, author of Waves and Grains: Reflections on Light and Learning
Download or read book Fingernail Art written by Tracy Maurer and published by Britannica Digital Learning. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids safely create fingernail art through illustrated step-by-step directions that require little or no assistance.
Download or read book Clearly Now the Rain written by Eli Hastings and published by ECW/ORIM. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of a relationship with a self-destructive woman is “as elemental, lyrical and cringe-inducing a love story as they come” (Kirkus Reviews). Suspenseful, darkly funny, and devastating, this is Eli Hastings’s true story of his troubled, decade-long relationship with his friend Serala. At family events, Serala wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry. But elsewhere, she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat; would regularly drink frat boys under the table; would sleep less than five hours a week; and would place herself in dangerous situations for another bag of heroin. Serala’s complex character and seemingly haphazard choices are brought to vivid life, from ill-advised quests for narcotics in Mexican border towns to unplanned fifty-hour road trips from Los Angeles to New York City. Although her dark and traumatic journey concluded tragically at age twenty-seven, Hastings writes with a sense of hope and tenderness in this “drug, romance and adventure-filled” memoir of their unique relationship (The Seattle Times). “An unflinching account of how it feels to be young and flirting with the abyss in America. The narrator’s observations as he and his friends ride rough across the U.S.A., all pulled to orbit around their friend, lover, and lost soul, Serala, are also an investigation into the dangerously different ways that people respond to addiction. This is an elegy, yes, as if told by a boy who began his quest tutored by Kerouac’s ghost, but became, on this hard road, a man schooled in love by the spirit of the Dalai Lama.” —Rachel Rose, author of Giving My Body to Science
Download or read book Iconic Tarot Decks written by Sarah Bartlett and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic Tarot Decks reveals the secrets, scandals, truths and mysteries behind over 50 of the most beautiful tarot decks ever created.
Download or read book Blackbird written by Jennifer Lauck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. The house on Mary Street was home to Jennifer; her older brother B.J.; their hardworking father, who smelled like aftershave and read her Snow White; and their mother, who called her little daughter Sunshine and embraced Jackie Kennedy's sense of style. Through a child's eyes, the skies of Carson City were forever blue, and life was perfect -- a world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with hairspray, powder, and a kiss on the cheek....But soon, everything Jennifer has come to love and rely on begins to crumble, sending her on a roller coaster of loss and loneliness. In a world unhinged by tragedy, where beautiful mothers die and families are warped by more than they can bear, a young girl must transcend a landscape of pain and mistreatment to discover her richest resource: her own unshakable will to survive.
Download or read book The Other Side of Love written by Donald and Mimi Boothby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald and Mimi Boothby wrote a book about their own lives hoping that it would help others to get the most out of their own relationships. The authors do not consider themselves particularly special, but they knew that they had something special. Their marriage spanned over 30 years, each year getting better. As their hair turned grey, they realized what a wonderful relationship they had, and their daily lives were filled with gratitude. When Donald was diagnosed with Cancer, they realized that they really had something important to share with the world, and here it is in book form.
Download or read book Jesus in the Mist written by Paul Ruffin and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen darkly comic and artfully crafted Deep South tales in the spirit of O'Connor "Mister, most stories about people are sad. The ones about animals sometimes turn out all right, but not them about people," muses a character in master storyteller Paul Ruffin's yarn of obsession and quest "In Search of the Tightrope Walker." Raging against this fated sadness—and often against a deadening and inescapable status quo—the characters in Ruffin's newest collection, Jesus in the Mist, populate an imaginative vision of the hardscrabble Deep South where history, culture, and expectations are set firmly against them. Like Flannery O'Connor before him, Ruffin views the South as dark with humor and rife with violence. He writes of places and times where religion, race, class, sex, abuse, poverty, mythology, and morbidity coalesce to expose humanity at its basest and its most redeeming. Peppered with the vivid dialogue, colorful descriptions, and idiosyncratic comedy that define Ruffin's work, this volume is divided into two sections: the first group of stories addresses complexities of relationships between men and women, and the second recounts episodes of initiation in which characters grapple with divided loyalties. Collectively these stories paint a panoramic view of Southern culture as dynamic characters take a stab at their destinies—and sometimes at each other. Whether they are facing the visage of Christ in a motel bathroom mirror, blasting a murder of crows with military-grade artillery, outrunning a mythical beast through moonlit woods, or taking an armed stance against integration at a gas station water fountain, many of Ruffin's characters are zealots on the edge of reason. Here confidence men, thugs, and rednecks push their agendas on unsuspecting audiences. But there are those as well who search for a lost childhood love, exorcise a sexual predator from the home, return to a discarded life, and spare a man's life when no one would be the wiser. These individuals long for restoration, redemption, and righteousness. Both populations come together in Ruffin's South, where madness and faith hold equal sway and no amount of sadness can keep yearned-for possibilities from still being perceived as attainable.
Download or read book OYIBO written by Ada Ihenachor and published by Ada Ihenachor. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: o·yi·bo (ōˈyiˈbō) - noun or adjective - Nigerian slang for a person who is fair skinned, mixed race, a foreigner, or white. Written in lyrical and deeply moving prose that evokes the literary tradition of contemporary Nigerian novelists like Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie, Ada Ihenachor introduces a haunting protagonist and deftly weaves a mythic coming of age story that will remain with you long after you’ve turned the last page. In 1976, prodigal daughter Songoli returns to her mother’s home in a remote south eastern Nigerian village—with a wailing toddler on her hip. Not long after, Songoli vanishes again, leaving the fair-skinned and dreadlocked child, Adesua, and unanswered questions behind. Fiercely devoted grandmother, Geraldine raises Adesua and is determined to shield the child from Songoli’s reckless absence. However, beyond the sheltered confines of their home, Adesua’s pale skin, head full of taboo dreadlocks, and indeterminate parentage raises questions throughout the village and invites dangerous scorn—which Geraldine stands up to. When Adesua comes of age, Geraldine sends her away to boarding school to distance her from the villagers’ persecution. Yet, even at the school, Adesua is shunned by her peers for her appearance and is forced to exist on the periphery, a risky place to which she becomes reluctantly accustomed. But after a tragedy occurs, Adesua is forced to flee and embarks on a poignant journey spanning Lagos, New York, and Heaven—and encounters vibrant characters including an ethereal moon, a teen who smokes expired cigarettes, an absent mother who subsists on a diet of Valium and talk shows, and a watchful gateman who spends his days vigilantly tuning a radio—in a desperate quest for answers and a place to belong. Narrated in Adesua's stirring voice, OYIBO is an unflinching novel, a powerful meditation on motherhood that illuminates the fragility of home, the hunger for redemption, and the cosmic boundaries of love.
Download or read book Fingernail Moon written by Janie Webster and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author and her six-year-old daughter began a five-year pilgrimage across the world to escape the child's sexually abusive father, finding guidance from God and a deep spiritual fulfillment along the way. --NoveList.
Download or read book Apparently written by Charles Joseph Albert and published by Dangeray Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten dozen poems about fathers, sons, and families. The poems are in a variety of forms from closed verse to free verse to prose poems.
Download or read book Visual Communication Design written by Meredith Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do design principles come from? Are they abstract "rules" established by professionals or do they have roots in human experience? And if we encounter these visual phenomena in our everyday lives, how do designers use them to attract our attention, orient our behavior, and create compelling and memorable communication that stands out among the thousands of messages we confront each day? Today's work in visual communication design shifts emphasis from simply designing objects to designing experiences; to crafting form that acknowledges cognitive and cultural influences on interpretation. In response, Meredith Davis and Jamer Hunt provide a new slant on design basics from the perspective of audiences and users. Chapters break down our interactions with communication as a sequence of meaningful episodes, each with related visual concepts that shape the interpretive experience. Explanatory illustrations and professional design examples support definitions of visual concepts and discussions of context. Work spans print, screen, and environmental applications from around the world. This introduction to visual communication design demystifies the foundational concepts that underpin professional design decisions and shape our experiences in a complex visual world.
Download or read book Soldier s Heart A Novel written by Pamela Foster and published by Oghma Creative Media. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Jones is a man haunted by the horrors of war. When he set off to fight in the Spring of ’61, he was but an ignorant boy seeking renown on the fields of glory. Fighting for the grays, he survives a score of battles with names like Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga with nary a scratch. What he witnesses in those fights, though, leaves behind scars far deeper than any bullet or bayonet ever could. Wounded to the depths of his soul, Jeremiah returns at war’s end to the girl he left behind. But four years is an eternity, and life back home has moved on without him. His soul seeking peace, but his warrior's heart desiring only battle, Jeremiah's mind is caught between heaven and hell. Though he rides the saddle-preacher circuit, bringing the word of the Lord to all who'll listen, inside rages the killing beast that war birthed within him. The only ones he can count on are two ghosts, the first two men—but far from the last—who tried to stand against him. Tried, and failed. While he rests overnight in the tiny town of Freshwater, a desperate young girl named Adeline steals Jeremiah’s horse trying to escape a life worse than death. Realizing her motivations, he pursues, as much to rescue her as to recover his horse. It’s a decision that will change Jeremiah’s life forever. In the days to come, he faces a rash of renegade Indians, desperate homesteaders, and an offshoot of the infamous James gang intent on taking the girl for their own amusements. Pairing up with an unlikely ally, an Osage renegade named Montega, Jeremiah gives his all to keep Adeline safe. Even as he does, though, a nagging fear pulls at his heart. Will Adeline be the death of him? Or his ultimate salvation?
