Download or read book Fragile Hope Premium Hardcover Edition written by R. S. Penney and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the SuperGates open, civilizations once separated by unimaginable distances can now interact for the first time. And of course, what follows is tension. In a desperate attempt to preserve the fragile peace, Antaur calls a summit to discuss a potential alliance with Leyria. Jack Hunter and Anna Lenai are assigned to protect the delegation from mercenaries loyal to Admiral Telixa Ethran. Melissa Carlson investigates a growing fascist movement on Leyria, hoping that her world can change course before it's too late. Meanwhile, her father, Harry Carlson, is tested like he has never been tested before.
Download or read book Fragile Hope Premium Hardcover Edition written by Rs Penney and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the SuperGates open, civilizations once separated by unimaginable distances can now interact for the first time. And of course, what follows is tension. In a desperate attempt to preserve the fragile peace, Antaur calls a summit to discuss a potential alliance with Leyria. Jack Hunter and Anna Lenai are assigned to protect the delegation from mercenaries loyal to Admiral Telixa Ethran. Melissa Carlson investigates a growing fascist movement on Leyria, hoping that her world can change course before it's too late. Meanwhile, her father, Harry Carlson, is tested like he has never been tested before.
Download or read book Love s Gamble Premium Hardcover Edition written by Betty McLain and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life was always a struggle for Lanie. Widowed at a young age and left to raise a baby by herself, she was abandoned by her family when she needed them the most. She worked two full time jobs to make ends meet. But she had her son. For her, that was enough. Then, as her fragile world began to crumble around her, a stranger swept in with the promise of a better life. Marcel knew all about true love. His family was full of stories of how magical the bond could be and how unexpectedly it could appear in one's life, so when he met the young waitress on his way back home, he recognized their connection instantly. Seeing her struggle, he opened his home and heart to Lanie and her son. But can she learn to trust in a future of hope and love, when the past has been so bleak? Can he persuade her to take the leap and build a future with him? And if he can, with outside forces threatening to tear apart their burgeoning family, will their gamble be enough?
Download or read book Beautiful Broken Things written by Sara Barnard and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Broken Things is a moving story of friendship from debut author Sara Barnard, shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and selected as part of Zoella's Book Club. Now with a bold cover look. I was brave She was reckless We were trouble Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns sixteen Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie – confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives: beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious, and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be. But the course of both friendship and recovery is rougher than either girl realizes, and Caddy is about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own. 'I felt like I was living this book' - Zoella 'This book is exquisite, and exactly what YA needs . . . This author is one to watch!' - Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?
Download or read book Fragile States written by Lothar Brock and published by Polity. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Explores the connections between fragile statehood and violent conflict, and analyses the limitations of outside intervention from international society."--P. 4 of cover.
Download or read book A Fragile Hope written by Charles R. Ringma and published by Cascade Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in challenging times. And it is easy to escape, pine for the "good old days," or unrealistically dream our way into the future. Instead, we are invited, in this book, to face our troubled world, to identify our inner struggles of faith, and to voice our anxieties and pain. And most importantly we are invited to wrestle with the God who so often seems absent. Living with a fragile hope, we are called by the gospel to nurture an inner life that responds with faith and courage to the brokenness of our world and the woundedness of our inner being.
Download or read book Fragile written by Howard Buffett and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated examination of the challenges of life for some four billion people on our planet, offered by the author/photographer in an effort to effect change through knowledge and awareness.
Download or read book Fragile Innocence written by James Reston, Jr. and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal memoir by the author of Warriors of God describes his own daughter Hillary's courageous battle with a devastating chronic illness, its impact on the entire family, and the daunting medical and social implications of such controversial issues as stem cell research, animal organ transplants, and reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Download or read book Fragile by Design written by Charles W. Calomiris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.
Download or read book Stronger Bible Study Book written by Angela Thomas and published by Lifeway Church Resources. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7-session study by Angela Thomas teaches that God is stronger than every struggle you will ever face.
Download or read book Fragile Beginnings written by Adam Wolfberg, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a gripping medical narrative that brings readers into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. Dr. Adam Wolfberg--journalist, physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, and father to a child born weighing under two pounds--describes his daughter Larissa's precipitous birth at six months, which left her tenuously hanging on to life in an incubator. Ultrasound had diagnosed a devastating hemorrhage in her brain that doctors reasoned would give her only a 50 percent chance of having a normal IQ. With the knowledge that their daughter could be severely impaired for life, Adam and his wife, Kelly, consider whether to take Larissa off life-support. As they make decisions about live-saving care in the first hours of a premature infant's life, doctors and parents must grapple with profound ethical and scientific questions: Who should be saved? How aggressively should doctors try to salvage the life of a premature baby, who may be severely neurologically and physically impaired? What will that child's quality of life be like after millions of dollars are spent saving him or her? Wolfberg explores the fits and starts of physicians, government policy makers, and lawyers who have struggled over the years to figure out the best way to make these wrenching decisions. Through Larissa's early hospital course and the struggle to decide what is best for her, Wolfberg examines the limitations of newborn intensive-care medicine, neuroplasticity, and decision making at the beginning of life. Featuring high-profile scientific topics and explanatory medical reporting, this is the first book to explore the profound emotional and ethical issues raised by advancing technology that allows us to save the lives of increasingly undeveloped preemies.
Download or read book The Nature of Fragile Things written by Susan Meissner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.
Download or read book Goodbye Perfect written by Sara Barnard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This gripping novel examines anxiety, identity, pressure, and power with Barnard’s characteristic lightness of touch.” —The Guardian “Nuanced, compelling, honest, and important.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Winner of The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize Friendship bonds are tested and the very nature of loyalty is questioned in this lyrical novel about a teen whose best friend runs away with her teacher after suffering the effects of too much academic pressure. Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Jennifer Niven. Eden McKinley knows she can’t count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it’s a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their final exams. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that Bonnie’s boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr. Cohn. Sworn to secrecy and bound by loyalty, only Eden knows Bonnie’s location, and that’s the way it has to stay. There’s no way she’s betraying her best friend. Not even when she’s faced with police questioning, suspicious parents, and her own growing doubts. As the days pass and things begin to unravel, Eden is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the world, her best friend, and herself. In this touching and insightful novel, bestselling author Sara Barnard explores just what can happen when the pressure one faces to be “perfect” leads to drastic fallout.
Download or read book The Fragile Mind written by Jarik E. Conrad and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-07-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race has always been an emotional and contentious subject in America. Too often, the focus has been on one extreme or the other. Dr. Conrad provides a refreshing perspective that goes beyond news program sound bites and newspaper headlines to tackle some difficult questions, such as: Why do some people born into difficult circumstances succeed in life where others fail? What are the causes of urban violence in America? What does emotional intelligence have to do with understanding and appreciating diversity? What are the most common problems with diversity initiatives in many organizations? Dr. Conrad explores these questions based on what science tells us about our brains-their tremendous potential, and their fragility. The Fragile Mind is a valuable resource for you if you are: . A business leader or supervisor seeking to maximize the talents of your employees . An elected official or government representative seeking to understand the unique needs of your constituency . A school administrator or teacher seeking to prepare tomorrow's leaders . A non-profit leader or community worker seeking to provide the appropriate help for people in need
Download or read book On Fragile Waves written by E. Lily Yu and published by Erewhon Books. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR Books We Love 2021 | Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021 | Booklist Best of 2021 | Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles | NYT Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 | Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021 “On Fragile Waves is a tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. It is devastating and perfect.” — New York Times Book Review The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award winning author, traces one girl’s migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found. When they arrive in Australia, what seemed like a stable shore gives way to treacherous currents. Neighbors, classmates, and the government seek their own ends, indifferent to the family’s fate. For Firuzeh, her fantasy worlds provide some relief, but as her family and home splinter, she must surface from these imaginings and find a new way.
Download or read book Fragile written by Sarah Hilary and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Stunning’ – Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups ‘Chilling’ – Val McDermid, author of The Wire in the Blood Fragile is a modern Gothic psychological thriller with a contemporary twist on the classic novel Rebecca, from award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Sarah Hilary. Everything she touches breaks . . . Nell Ballard is a runaway. A former foster child with a dark secret she is desperate to keep, all Nell wants is to find a place she can belong. So when a position comes up at Starling Villas, home to the enigmatic Robin Wilder, she seizes the opportunity with both hands. But her new lodgings may not be the safe haven she was hoping for. Her employer has secrets of his own and lives by a rigid set of rules she must abide by. But is Nell’s arrival at the Villas really the coincidence it seems? After all, she knows more than most how fragile people can be – and how easy they are to break . . . Further praise for Fragile: ‘Perfectly plotted, beautifully written modern Gothic. I absolutely loved it’ – Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said ‘Beautifully crafted, smart and unsettling’ – Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses ‘A dark, mesmeric fever-dream of a book’ – Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10 ‘Ingenious, original and brilliant’ – Will Dean, author of Red Snow ‘Extraordinary’ – Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London ‘A modern-day Highsmith’ – Steve Cavanagh, author of Thirteen ‘A truly outstanding work of modern Gothic’ – Eva Dolan, author of Between Two Evils ‘Highly original, beautifully written’ – Sharon Bolton, author of The Split ‘A beautifully written modern Gothic masterpiece’ – Liz Nugent, author of Skin Deep ‘So elegant, so restrained’ – Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane ‘A gorgeously written, tense and atmospheric novel’ – Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait
Download or read book Hope for Hurting Hearts written by Greg Laurie and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have a tendency to go about our day-to-day routines under the assumption that this earthly existence of ours will never change. But it does, and it will. Our residency here on Earth is quite brief and precarious. Nothing brings that more to light than when a loved one unexpectedly steps out of this life into eternity. We are shaken and begin to ask the bigger questions: Is Heaven real? Will I see them again? How can I know for sure? In these pages, Greg Laurie shares the good, bad, and ugly of his own heartbreak from the unexpected loss of his son, Christopher. He offers comfort to other bruised hearts and provides a hope that will sustain you through this life and beyond.
