Download or read book The Cleaned Up Woman written by DEANGLEA J. BELL and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cleaned-Up Woman: From the Pole to the Pulpit is a rags-to-riches story with a twist that tells the many obstacles Dalphne Reed faced growing up. Life was not fair for Dalphne from being rape, teen pregnancy, being homeless, and feeling worthless; no one loved her or cared for her. Her home life wasn't ideal: her mother showed her no love, and her father was there but did not protect her against her mother's wrath. After being kicked out in the streets, Dalphne only dreamed of love and success. When everything else fell, she decided to be successful by any means necessary and turned to the life of a stripper. Being a stripper allowed her to support herself and pay for her college tuition. She felt stuck and gave up on love because of her life as a stripper. But in the end, love found her and changed her life around completely.

Download or read book The Prosaic Journal of an Aspiring Writer written by Erik Gagnon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his sophomore year at college, Charlie is assigned to keep a journal. He can't imagine finding something to write about every day. After all, his life isn't very exciting. He goes to class in the morning, then drives home to make lunch for Grandma. She's been living with Charlie and his mother for over a year now. The rest of the family gave up on her. Charlie's trying not to, but it's hard to be optimistic when she's still using a commode. Written in journal entries, The Prosaic Journal of an Aspiring Writer, tells the story of Charlie's confrontation with cancer. One year removed from chemotherapy, Grandma struggles to regain her strength. Charlie and his mother walk beside her. They make her meals and give her baths. They endure the daily burden with the hope of one day rediscovering the pleasures of dinner at Grandma's house. Charlie's journal becomes his savior, a place to vent his frustrations. Comfort lies not only in his purging of raw emotion but also in the humorous observations he extracts from his daily routine. Were it not for his ability to laugh, Charlie might have given up a long time ago.

Download or read book From Grandmas Kitchen written by Gooseberry Patch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma's kitchen is full of wonderful memories of hearty meals, yummy breads, delicious desserts...From Grandma's Kitchen cookbook captures the tastiest recipes that have been passed down through the years. Try family favorite recipes like blueberry breakfast cake, country biscuits & eggs, baked potato soup, best beef brisket, stuffed cabbage rolls, vanilla drop cookies, golden bread pudding and more. The cheery art inside will even remind you of Grandma's apron! Filled with quick & easy ideas for making memories with loved ones, this cookbook is one to treasure.

Download or read book Cat astrophic written by Sue C. Dugan and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick, a popular and well-liked high school junior, is looking forward to another outstanding year, coasting toward graduation and a stellar football career like his dad. This all changes when a new girl, Cat, enrolls in school and says they were once boyfriend and girlfriend—years ago! But worse still, Nick begins remembering WWII and a boy named Jean Claude, who, while enrolled in a military academy in a small French town, was in love with a gypsy girl, Chaton. Nick’s perfect life begins to unravel bit by bit. And he’s starting to be attracted to Cat, much to the disbelief and anger of his class-president girlfriend, Emily. In one short moment, Cat has turned his life into a catastrophe.

Download or read book Nearing Eighty written by Carolyn Schwartz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple autobiography that records, so far, a few of the authors joys, disappointments, insecurities, triumphs, and turning points that collectively became the nuts and bolts of her life and which she wrote with the sole intent that it would inform, intrigue, and perhaps inspire some of her future descendants to become writers themselves. An old-fashioned reminiscence and an affectionate evocation of the authors ongoing satisfaction with her life.

Download or read book Good Genes Luck Lots of Prayers written by Bob Kascht and published by Nightengale Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD GENES, LUCK, A LOT OF PRAYERS by Bob Kascht, is a memoir of an ordinary life, written in a flowing style, which elevates the little things and the common people to a higher level where the mlange of memories evokes more reflections on life in the mind of the reader. "These memories were registered in detail, on a fine grain emulsion, and with full flavor. Thankfully, the retrieval is printed in gentle sepia, softening some of the glare and pain. I am now in a quiet time, a holding pattern, awaiting the landing.I hope our children can gain increased appreciation of our earnest efforts, and our love for them. As a side benefit, I should like those who follow to realize that we were more than just faded photographs, alive and "full of beans." It would be the ideal reward if they wish they had known us." Happily, every reader will know the people who step from these pages.

Download or read book Tugging on God s Hand written by Penny Estes Wheeler and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman's car is picked up by a tornado--while she's in it! This collection is a sampling of your favorite stories from Woman of Spirit magazine. It offers slices of real life, true love, solutions, healing, parenting, miracles, angels, humor, and heartbreak. Not to mention several doses of the inimitable wit of Kim Peckham. A pear tree is saved by prayer bees. These true stories are written by more than 50 women who live right in the middle of today's world--women who have seen God reach down and touch lives. A mother loses a daughter in an accident. Then her son dies of AIDS. Together they paint a mosaic of grace amid the grit of everyday life. So sit down, pick up a glass of lemonade, and settle in for a good long visit with some wonderful friends, old and new.

Download or read book Grandma s Potpourri written by Pearl Klusman and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma’s Potpourri is a collection of poems from Pearl Klusman. These poems reflect Pearl’s personal journey through life, love, joy, and loss. Through it all Pearl keeps her focus on the One who can bring healing and peace to a broken world. The poems in this book were written as a way of expressing feelings over the life and loss that we all experience. She uses her inspiration and life song to encourage her readers to trust in God and to know that He has everything and everyone in His hands. Topics include life, death, love, nature, Christ, and hope, and many others.

Download or read book Split written by Mel Bossa and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quiet and imaginative, Derek O'Reilly spends a lot of time watching a movie in his head. His fiancé Nathan wonders why Derek hasn't taken any interest in their wedding planning, and Aunt Fran -- his spiritual guru -- would like to know when her guilt-tripping nephew became a kept boy. When she drops Derek's childhood journal on his lap, he's forced to remember the name he's been trying to forget since he was twelve years old. Nicolai Lund. Nick was Derek's neighbor ... and first love. Weeks before Derek's engagement party, a chance meeting with Nick catapults Derek into the past. But Nick isn't that seventeen-year-old rebel anymore. He's a man hardened by invisible scars. A man struggling with grief. As Derek reads through his childhood diary, he realizes what Nick was to him, still is today, and yet might be ... NOTE: This edition has been expanded and substantially edited.

Download or read book Antique Roses for the South written by William C. Welch and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Belinda's Dream", "Katy Road Pink" and "Georgetown Tea." The names alone evoke images of glorious cottage gardens and arching trellises laden with perfumed blossoms. Offering gardeners hardiness and ease of care, some roses have even lived for decades untended. All provide their admirers with years of pleasure and enticing fragrances. In this revised edition, rose expert Bill Welch updates the latest information and top sources for antique roses. The improved Antique Roses for the South is filled with gorgeous images and offers chapters on care and propagation, landscaping and arranging, and rose crafts. The comprehensive dictionary lists more than 100 of these magnificent flowers, complete with helpful descriptions.

Download or read book Mothtown written by Caroline Hardaker and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including illustrations from bestselling illustrator and political cartoonist, Chris Riddell, Mothtown is the unsettling and eerie new novel by Caroline Hardaker, perfect for fans of Midsommar and Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland. As a child, David could tell something was wrong. The kids in school spread rumours of missing people, nests of bones and bodies appearing in the mountains. His sister refused to share what she knew, and his parents turned off the TV whenever he entered the room. Protecting him, they said. Worse, the only person who shared anything at all with him, his beloved grandpa, disappeared without a goodbye. Mum and Dad said he was dead. But what about the exciting discovery Grandpa had been working on for his whole life? Now 26, David lives alone and takes each day as it comes. When a strange package arrives on his doorstep, one with instructions not to leave the Earth, a new world is unfurled before David, one he’s been trying to suppress for years… Blending horror and literary fiction, Mothtown is the strange new novel from celebrated author Caroline Hardaker.

Download or read book Into The Fog written by Michelle Godard-Richer and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice fog descends upon Dickens, Alberta, growing thicker and thicker until Heidi Crawford can no longer see the coniferous forest and snow-capped mountains outside the windows of her Jeep. A huge four-legged shape moves in the mist. She slams on the brakes and squeezes her eyes shut. When Heidi opens her eyes, the fog is gone, but so is her life as she knows it. Instead of forest and snow, she’s on a single street in a tiny town, trapped in a scorching hot desert away from her daughter Emma. And she isn’t alone. Fifteen strangers are trapped in Ghost Town and soon, they begin disappearing, one by one. Michelle Godard-Richer's INTO THE FOG is an unputdownable, chilling isolation thriller about a single mother separated from her daughter and trapped with fourteen strangers — one of whom is a killer.

Download or read book Any God Given Day written by Annegret Werner Shaw and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitty Arnold, the 29-year-old granddaughter of Mavis Peterson, struggles with the responsibility of taking care of her grandmother who is afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. After the death of her mother, Peggy, when Kitty was two, she came to live with her grandmother and together, they became a family. As her grandmother loses more and more of her short-term memory and dives deeper and deeper into her past, she makes Kitty aware of a secret that has been hidden in her family for decades. As Mavis remembers the events of her past in her moments of lucidity, she struggles to tell her granddaughter the truth about that past. But much of what Mavis wants to tell Kitty becomes lost in the wasteland that is Alzheimer's disease. Kitty's quest for the truth about her family leads her into her grandmother's past. As the mystery unfolds, we begin to understand the pain and frustration that this disease brings to those who must suffer through the different stages of memory loss.

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Download or read book Looking for Anita written by Ramer Wendy Ramer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How important are childhood friendships in determining who we become? How crippling is nostalgia when it settles too deeply in our hearts? In the summer of 1976, newly-orphaned Jennifer meets Betty, who lives across the street with her overprotective immigrant parents. When the girls become best friends, they develop a camaraderie that erases the cultural divide of 1970s Miami. But when Betty's family mysteriously disappears four years later later amidst the news of Cuba's Mariel Boatlift, Jennifer's renewed sense of abandonment sparks her decades-long struggle to accept her past and find her place in the present. Winner of ForeWord Reviews' 2009 Book of the Year, Looking for Anita follows Jennifer through adolescence to middle age, from Miami to Spain and home again, as she fights the pain of inescapable nostalgia and unanswered questions. Just as she is ready to move on, Jennifer discovers what became of Betty. What she finds will challenge everything she believes to be true in this story of childhood friendship and the magic that can happen if we never lose hope.

Download or read book Celebrate Ros written by Ashley Rose Conway and published by Weldon Owen International. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rosé-lover’s guide to entertaining with more than forty creative cocktails and party inspiration from the creator of the Crafts and Cocktails blog. This enchanting book extols the many virtues of rosé—and shows how to craft enticing cocktails with this beloved pink wine that’s versatile, affordable, and fashionable. Choose from tried-and-true classics like sours, spritzes, punches, and palomas—or experiment with contemporary concoctions like a Rosé-Aperol Spritz or even your own Frosé. Organized by gathering, each chapter includes recipes and styling ideas for rosé-perfect occasions throughout the year like Mother’s Day, pool parties, and bachelorette celebrations. You’ll also discover tabletop styling tips, food pairings, and plenty of clever bar techniques, such as creating rosé liqueurs, flavoring and garnishing with botanicals, and more.

Download or read book The Art of Natural Cleaning written by Rebecca Sullivan and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy little guide is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to keep their home sparklingly clean without resorting to chemical products. Rebecca draws on traditional cleaning techniques, bringing them up to date to suit the modern home. Taking the time to create your own cleaning products, from floor polish to washing up liquid, creates a more mindful approach to the home and encourages greater respect and care for our surroundings. With just a few simple ingredients, such as salt, bicarb, lemons and essential oils, your home can be clean, fresh and fragrant, as well as environmentally friendly. This inspiring guide is a must for anyone interested in living a simpler, more purposeful life.