Download or read book The Locket written by Teresa Mason and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Ross is a young woman intent on saving her institutionalized, unresponsive grandmother. Losing her job and discovering her partner, Jeff, is having an affair, Tracy begins to think she is following down the same path of destruction. Tracy decides to break the ties with her grandmother, but upon visiting, tears fall from her grandmother’s eyes and Tracy believes that she is not lost forever. Tracy takes a journey into her grandmother’s mysterious past, encountering people who knew her who possess supernatural powers. Murder and life-threatening peril will decide if she saves her grandmother or becomes a victim herself.
Download or read book Grandmother s Locket written by Elizabeth Norine Upham and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunt Bett tells Maia and Lacey a story about a German brother and sister who devise a scheme to save their pet goose from becoming the main course at their family's Christmas dinner.
Download or read book Modern Loss written by Rebecca Soffer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics. At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it’s clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let’s face it: most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We’re awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit. Enter Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who can help us do better. Each having lost parents as young adults, they co-founded Modern Loss, responding to a need to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief. Now, in this wise and often funny book, they offer the insights of the Modern Loss community to help us cry, laugh, grieve, identify, and—above all—empathize. Soffer and Birkner, along with forty guest contributors including Lucy Kalanithi, singer Amanda Palmer, and CNN’s Brian Stelter, reveal their own stories on a wide range of topics including triggers, sex, secrets, and inheritance. Accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and witty "how to" cartoons, each contribution provides a unique perspective on loss as well as a remarkable life-affirming message. Brutally honest and inspiring, Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share. Beginners welcome.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Grandmothers written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers celebrates the special bond between grandmothers and their grandchildren. Grandmothers of all ages and experience will delight in these stories. A great grandmother-to-be and Mother’s Day gift! The moment a grandchild is born, a grandmother is born too. This collection is full of stories by grandmothers about being a grandmother, and grandchildren about their grandmothers. Personal stories about legacies and traditions, grandma’s wisdom and lessons from grandchildren as well as the joys and challenges of grandparenting, will touch the heart and tickle the funny bone of all grandmothers.
Download or read book Grandma s Jewelry Box written by Linda Breiner Milstein and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lift-the-flap book in the guise of an old-fashioned jewelry box enables curious young readers to uncover such keepsakes as a charm bracelet, a pair of opera glasses, a baseball card, and a box containing baby teeth
Download or read book Silent Terror written by Helena Cowan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Terror has a powerful message for all adult readers. Treated cruelly by her mother Ilona's spirituality is rooted in her six-year old heart when she discovers the old rugged cross. Rape and rape attempts during WWII mature Ilona very quickly. Under the Communist regime she experiences theft, dishonesty, hatefulness and disregard for dignity and humanity. Ilona is pressured into an arranged marriage with a vindictive man, who defrauds the Communist military and is targeted for elimination. To save his life, she is forced by her husband to flee during the Hungarian revolution with two toddlers. After their struggle to freedom in January, they are captured at the Austrian border. While being shipped to a Siberian labor camp, they jump the train and sneak by the Russian patrols to catch a train to the Yugoslavian border, where they are captured again. Under tight security in a former concentration camp, near starvation, Ilona literally eats dirt to save her children's lives. When she finally gains her freedom and arrives in Canada, her troubles are not over. The description of these tragic events has all the sharpness and intensity of a fictionalized action adventure or mystery thriller story. Except that is real. The details are fascinating and spot on and give away the fact this actually took place. Sometimes it is grim to handle the silent terrors of life, but with faith it is possible. By reading Silent Terror you will realize it yourself.
Download or read book My Mother s Pearls written by Catherine Myler Fruisen and published by Star Bright Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful pearl necklace has passed from mother to daughter for seven generations on each daughter's wedding day.
Download or read book The Watch written by Michele Knecht and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you discovered that one choice could change your destiny? Would you take a chance, or would you walk away? When eighteen-year-old Katie O’Reilly unexpectedly receives a watch that once belonged to her late grandfather, she has no idea she has also gained the power to change the destiny of others. Katie is serving an internship in the behavioral science unit at the hospital, and there she meets Edith Sampson, who is being treated for alcoholism despite her youth, thanks to her dysfunctional family. As the two girls meet, Edith tells Katie she wishes she could have a redo for the events that led her to that point—and the watch grants her wish. Soon Katie learns that she can use the watch to help some people but not others. What’s more, the mystery surrounding the watch seems to grow deeper the more she uses it, and only time will tell what the consequences might be. In this young adult novel, a young woman finds herself in possession of a magic watch that can give some people second chances to correct their mistakes and make new choices.
Download or read book A Certain Slant written by Mary VanderGoot and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Barnes has left her journals to her son, Rowland, but he is puzzled by gaps in her accounts, and he turns to his mother’s dear friend, Alethea, for help. Rowland reviews memories he shaped as a naïve boy, and in the process is forced to admit that he was clueless about much of what was happening around him. Alethea tries to answer Rowland’s questions about his mother, but as she does she realizes that she cannot tell Maggie’s story without telling her own. The hidden stories Rowland and Alethea resurrect and share with each other change them, and their hearts are opened to a connection that bridges the generations.
Download or read book What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours written by Helen Oyeyemi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transcendent." —The New York Times Book Review "Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant." —NPR From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Peaces comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret—Oyeyemi’s keys not only unlock elements of her characters’ lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In “Books and Roses” one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers’ fates. In “Is Your Blood as Red as This?” an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. “‘Sorry’ Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea” involves a “house of locks,” where doors can be closed only with a key—with surprising, unobservable developments. And in “If a Book Is Locked There’s Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think,” a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason). Oyeyemi’s tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities. Is a key a gate, a gift, or an invitation? What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours captivates as it explores the many possible answers.
Download or read book Dramas and Miscellaneous Poems written by Jasper R. Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ephemeral Ani mari Saga Book One written by K.A. Poe and published by Frostbite Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Victoria Aldrich, death is everywhere. Cursed with powerful visions, she foresees the death of everyone she touches. Until she meets Spencer Manning. When Victoria touches this strange new boy she sees nothing but blinding light. But sometimes the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows. As Victoria tries to understand why Spencer’s death is hidden from her, she also begins to glimpse a shadowy figure lurking around town—a boy that no one else seems to see. The deeper Victoria pries into Hazel Grove's new inhabitants, the more she discovers their connection to her curse, and how she must use it to stop a fate worse than death. This novel is approximately 85,000 words in length - 335 print pages long. This series contains light language and violence. There is no graphic sex. These are clean reads intended for a PG-13 audience and have been rated as good books for teens and adults alike. SUGGESTED READING ORDER Twin Souls (Nevermore, Book 1) Hybrid (Nevermore, Book 2) Sacrifice (Nevermore, Book 3) Destiny (Nevermore, Book 4) Kismet (Forevermore, Book 1) Catalyst (Forevermore, Book 2) Solstice (Forevermore, Book 3) Eventide (Forevermore, Book 4) Coalesce (Forevermore, Book 5) Restore (A Forevermore Novella) Genesis (Eventide, Book 1) Synergy (Eventide, Book 2) Anathema (Eventide, Book 3) Schism (Forevermore, Book 6) Fracture (Forevermore, Book 7) Eclipse (Forevermore, Book 8) Closure (A Forevermore Novella) MORE BY K.A. POE Twin Souls (Nevermore, Book 1) Hybrid (Nevermore, Book 2) Sacrifice (Nevermore, Book 3) Destiny (Nevermore, Book 4) Kismet (Forevermore, Book 1) Catalyst (Forevermore, Book 2) Solstice (Forevermore, Book 3) Eventide (Forevermore, Book 4) Coalesce (Forevermore, Book 5) Schism (Forevermore, Book 6) Fracture (Forevermore, Book 7) Eclipse (Forevermore, Book 8) Genesis (Eventide, Book 1) Synergy (Eventide, Book 2) Anathema (Eventide, Book 3) Restore (A Forevermore Novella) Closure (A Forevermore Novella) Salem (A Nevermore Novella) Ephemeral (Ani'mari, Book 1) Evanescent (Ani'mari, Book 2) Darius - Episode One (Through the Rift) The King's Hourglass (Avarial Trilogy, Book 1)
Download or read book Sweet Dreams written by Colleen Fountain Skinner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A once beautiful woman filled with the joy of life, was now lying in a puddle of blood praying for death ́s sweet mercy. In a small attic room, she cried, still holding the knife used to slit her own wrists. He couldn ́t hurt her anymore; she was free of him, no more beatings...no more pain, just sweet silence. Now Decades later, Brandi and her husband move into this beautiful Victorian with so many hopes and dreams of their future. But something dormant awakes an evil presence that has waited so long for her to come back to him. And now that she was here, he would make sure she would never leave
Download or read book The Temperance Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Thief written by Judith Jaeger and published by Behler Publications. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Grey, the perfect daughter, obedient and devoted to her controlling mother, is a straight-A student and a champion distance runner. She also has a chronic stomach ulcer, a good sense of humor and kleptomania. A summer helping her grandmother move sheds a disturbing light on Connie's life that will leave Connie wondering how well she knows her mother.
Download or read book The Wisdom of My Grandmothers written by Adriana Trigiani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adriana Trigiani's two remarkable grandmothers, Lucia and Viola, lived through the 20th century from beginning to end as working women who juggled careers and motherhood. From the factory line to the family table, the two of them - the very definition of modern women - cut a path for their granddaughter by demonstrating courage and skill in their fearless approach to life, love and overcoming obstacles. Trigiani visits the past to seek answers to the essential questions that define the challenges women face today: how we hold on to the values that make life rich and beautiful, how we can take risks and reap the rewards, how to stand resilient in the face of tragedy. 'Be bold; 'be direct'; 'be different'!
Download or read book Grandmother s Child written by Annie S. Swan and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
