Download or read book My Name Is Mahtob written by Mahtob Mahmoody and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive. Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter—subsequently made into a film starring Sally Field—that told of an American mother and her six-year-old child’s daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter returns to tell the whole story, not only of that imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Tehran: living in fear of re-abduction, enduring recurring nightmares and panic attacks, attending school under a false name, battling life-threatening illness—all under the menacing shadow of her father. This is the story of an extraordinary young woman’s triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Taking readers from Michigan to Iran and from Ankara, Turkey, to Paris, France, My Name Is Mahtob depicts the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by faith in God’s goodness and in his care and love. And Mahmoody reveals the secret of how she liberated herself from a life of fear, learning to forgive the father who had shattered her life and discovering joy and peace that comes from doing so.
Download or read book The Engagement Game written by Joi-Marie McKenzie and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a supportive family, great friends, and an apartment in Manhattan. What she doesn't have is a husband. Ambitious, confident, and successful, Joi-Marie believes she has it all figured out. At 28 years old, she has an enviable job as a producer, covering entertainment in New York City. Her close-knit family is loving and encouraging, and her boyfriend, Adam, is as close to perfect as you can get -- except for the fact that he won't propose. Like most women, Joi-Marie has a checklist of what the perfect life looks like. She has the career, the friends, the apartment, and the lifestyle she has always wanted. But, when the husband she wants doesn't fall into place, she decides to play the game-theengagement game-in order to get Adam to drop down on one knee. After receiving a laundry list of advice on how to secure a proposal -- even researching how to cook "engagement chicken" -- Joi-Marie realizes that, in the process of trying to attain her perfect life, she has slowly become a person she doesn't recognize. With this discovery, she must make a decision: pretend to be someone she's not in order to have the life she envisioned. . .or have the courage to be herself and find her happily ever after in a way she never expected.
Download or read book Jane and the Raven King written by Stephen Chambers and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Alice in Wonderland-esque action-adventure fantasy, a young girl must save both the known world and the subterranean hidden world of Hotland from an evil King bent on destroying civilization. The animals clearly knew something was wrong. Even her pet iguana scrawled a warning in the sand of his tank: He is coming. Soon all the animals are fleeing the suburb where Jane lives. But they aren't the only ones acting strange. Jane's parents seem to be hypnotized by their cell phones and the TV. And her grandma starts controlling the weather and speaking in a funny language. But when Jane meets an old blind man who can drive a car and claims Jane is the only one who can save the world, well, that's when things really start to get weird...
Download or read book Grandma s in the Basement written by Elaine Webster and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s stories and comments addresses the important question of care for our elderly in today’s society. It is done in a compassionate, funny and descriptive manner leaving the reader with a definite feeling for the elder’s soul in America.
Download or read book Your Iowa Grandmother s Recipe Book written by Rachael Gatling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every recipe has a story and every story has a secret. For folks in Tatatonka, Iowa, the best recipes in town, and therefore the best secrets, have long been kept in the coveted recipe book of local cooking legend Trudie Melody. When Trudie becomes ill, her granddaughter, successful (at least by Tatatonka standards) garden gnome maker Margot, decides it's no time to be timid and boldly asks for the recipe book. Thinking she's secured the book for herself, Margot's life goes into a tailspin when, after her grandma's death, a crooked probate lawyer determines the book will go to Sheryl, Margot's shrewd first cousin, who needs the book to bail out her flailing career. Margot's only recourse is to sue Sheryl before she can take possession of the treasured book. The courtroom takes on a voyeuristic and carnival-like atmosphere when the Judge rules to have the recipe book read aloud in order to determine the rightful owner
Download or read book Letters to Nanette written by Bob Biderman and published by Black Apollo Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Uncle Florimond written by Henry Harland and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Uncle Florimond" by Henry Harland is a charming and heartwarming novel that explores themes of family, love, and the complexities of human relationships. Harland's narrative follows the story of the titular character, Uncle Florimond, and his impact on the lives of those around him. The novel is a celebration of the joys and challenges of familial bonds, with a touch of humor and insight into human nature. "My Uncle Florimond" is a delightful and emotionally resonant read for those who appreciate character-driven fiction and the exploration of family dynamics.
Download or read book I Don t Want to Dance written by Michelle Mahurin and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle weaves together stories of her childhood along with the trials of living in rural Idaho. Growing up, she received messaging that being different wasn’t acceptable, and worse, being a lesbian was a one-way ticket to burning in hell for all eternity. I Don’t Want to Dance is a coming-of-age, coming-out collection of stories written in an honest, funny, and sometimes raw manner. In her debut novel, she reveals her resilience growing up misunderstood as a daughter, friend, and eventually, partner through her poignant and relatable sense of humor. She also reminds readers relatives are part of your DNA, and family are the folks you choose and who choose you.
Download or read book Wide Awake written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tears from the Heart written by Mark Hodapp and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a principle in grief counseling that states, “In telling the story the healing takes place.” The book entitled Tears from the Heart by Mark Hodapp provides a springboard in which the healing can begin. Death brings grief which is a response to loss. The whole person, physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally reacts to this loss. If the loss is not addressed appropriately, it often times goes underground and can cause further pain. God created the human person to deal with loss, which is a part of the human condition, by giving the human person the ability to share his tears and his story. This work which is a collage of stories that covers the whole spectrum of ages from the child to the senior citizen as well as varied types of deaths provides the reader an opportunity to tap into his or her own story which can lead to healing. The season of grief, which each person experiences differently, can last for a year or more. The various seasonal photos selected in this work take this grief reality into account. Important to the grief process is the healing role of faith which the author brings to the forefront by his use of photos and grief story selections. No matter what stage of loss the individual may be in this book could assist them in the process. It allows them to go through the valley of tears and sadness and rise to the mountain top of hope and joy.
Download or read book My Name Aloud written by Harold Uriel Ribalow and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by 38 Jewich authors.
Download or read book Best to Laugh written by Lorna Landvik and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!” But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It’s good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living with them. With that, the irrepressible Lorna Landvik launches her latest irresistible character onto the world stage—or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start. Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and Minnesota roots to conjure Candy’s life in this strange new Technicolor home. Her fellow tenants at Peyton Hall include a female bodybuilder, a ruined nightclub impresario, and a well-connected Romanian fortune-teller. There are game show appearances and temp jobs at a record company and an establishment suspiciously like the Playboy Mansion, and of course the alluring but not always welcoming stage of stand-up comedy. As she hones her act, Candy is tested by humiliation, hecklers, and the inherent sexism that insists “chicks aren’t funny.” Written with the light touch and quiet wisdom that have made her works so popular, this is classic Lorna Landvik—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down.
Download or read book Just Kids From the Bronx written by Arlene Alda and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." —President Bill Clinton "Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." —Barbara Walters A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs—the Bronx—through some of its many success stories The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food—for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Al Pacino, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, Bobby Bonilla, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs—experiences spanning six decades of Bronx living. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, from looking for violets along the banks of the Bronx River to the wake-up calls from teachers who recognized potential, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx from the early twentieth century until today.
Download or read book Mysterious Places written by Jeffrey Gorney and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly told narrative, an American writer travels to Romania in search of long-lost relatives. His quest sheds light on other lives in other times and places, and forgotten yet chilling aspects of World War II. More than memoir, with photos and recipes, this book probes the many threads of a family destiny, and it reveals how event and migration shape future generations, and family stories can even lead to self-discovery.
Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 1949-05-21 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Runs Deep written by Nancy Weiser and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River Runs Deep is about a young girls life in a small Southern river town. It is seen through the eyes of a tomboy. Her manner is tough on the outside and soft and thoughtful on the inside. All names, places, and events have been changed to protect the innocent. Floods, illness, death, life, and hurtful prejudices run through her river of life. Being a Southern town it has its racial conflicts. But thankfully, it just isnt fair is finally resolved. Humor abounds because what is life without humor. It is a nostalgic tromp through times long past that shaped a young childs character.
Download or read book Lyrical Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
