Download or read book Heartbreak Cafe written by Penelope Stokes J. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching novel full of Southern comfort for fans of Joshilyn Jackson and Fannie Flagg. Dell Haley's mama always said there were two things a man couldn't get enough of: good cookin' and good lovin'. Well, Dell knows she's got the cookin' down pat, but her husband is getting more than his fair share of lovin'-in another woman's bed. And when he dies there, Dell's predictable life comes to a screeching halt. Short on money and education, Dell turns to the one thing that has never let her down: her cooking. For the first time in her life, Dell takes a huge risk and opens a restaurant in a derelict diner on the west end of town. The cafe gradually becomes a gathering place for a motley crew of people who become Dell's family. And yet, even as her life becomes more solid, Dell is plagued by the memory of her husband's betrayal-but the answers she seeks may have a higher price than she's willing to pay.

Download or read book The Real Rules of Life written by Ken Druck, Ph.D. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what we say, do, or believe in, life has its own terms. And they’re not what we thought. Life presents us all with challenges and setbacks. The life we thought we'd signed up for is not the one we get. Then what? How do we summon the raw courage and strength to go on? Create Plan B and grow wiser from the experience? Ken Druck’s personal journey through tragedy after the death of his daughter Jenna led him to discover the secrets of how we survive life’s worst losses and uncover its dark gifts—hidden opportunities for spiritual deepening, renewal, discovery, meaning, and even joy. We discover how to take off the blinders and be a part of the unseen miracles and opportunities that are right under our noses. From his own experience and as a trusted coach and confidant to people all over the world, including leaders facing their greatest challenges, Ken knows the difference between wishful thinking and grounded truth. His refreshingly honest approach to turning adversity into opportunity makes up the heart and soul of this book. The Real Rules of Life is not a quick fix, nor does it trivialize life’s struggles. It shows you how to heal. How to grow your soul. How to thrive. How to be both broken and whole at the same time. And how to live more consciously. Ken Druck inspires you to make peace with life as it really is. Once you know the Real Rules, you can balance life’s terms with your own and live boldly.

Download or read book Heartbreak Autopsy written by Amanda Mcleod and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda McLeod's debut poetry chapbook, Heartbreak Autopsy, begins with a tornado and ends with CPR. In between, McLeod avoids the usual sentimentality associated with love and heartbreak, and instead applies her keen observation and almost clinical language to dissect relationships with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel. In the landscape of love poetry, these poems are unique in their refusal to look away or romanticize the so-called unhappy endings. As a feminist author, McLeod also invites the reader to reimagine the expectations of women in terms of love, marriage, family, and self-sacrifice. "I'm the new Holly Golightly with a heavy step and unkempt hair; my mean reds are stormcloud grey, opaque. If I give heartbreak a name it'll stick around, so I'll make something up." There's a heartbreak story for everyone in this collection, a poem that will be like looking in the mirror and seeing "the truth of what you are / when you're not on fire."

Download or read book The Broken Heart of America written by Walter Johnson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

Download or read book THE HEARTBREAK KILLER written by Pamela Proehl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Carter is a twenty-eight year old school teacher who is haunted by troubling dreams of being murdered by the notorious Heartbreak Killer. Being psychic and having dreams that have resulted in deadly outcomes before, she is terrified of being the killer’s next victim. Through the encouragement of her best friend, Heather Bankston, Rachel consults with another psychic who is world renowned for dream translation to determine if she is, in fact, envisioning her impending death. Will the Heartbreak Killer hunt her down and massacre her as part of his master plan or is her dream just a play of her own mind? Enter into the mind of a deranged not-so-ordinary killer who, driven by a force so uncharacteristic, leaves numerous beautiful women dead in his wake. His grisly slayings are triggered by a psyche so demented that he, himself, is slowly going mad. Travel through the unraveling of a mystery that takes you from murder, to love, to deception, and finally to a truth so shocking and a secret so unimaginable that it leaves all who are involved shaken to the core.

Download or read book Who Killed the Heartbreak Kid written by Mel Waldman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "G-d wears many masks. And one is Groucho Marx," a narrator of Mel Waldman's daring and profoundly thoughtful novel declares. It is a clue and testimony to the threads of humor and irony that weave through this tale of erotic encounter, romance, insanity and murder. Ranging from the neighborhoods of Brooklyn to Manhattan's Bleecker Street with stopovers at Kennebunkport, Maine, Dr. Waldman composes a dark and at times tender and moving fantasy of a modern day Odysseus's quest for mental stability and love. Who Killed the Heartbreak Kid? is that rare mystery novel less concerned with whodunit than with the riddles of the human psyche. Sidney Offit, novelist, teacher and curator of the George Polk Journalism awards. Brooklyn noir and a thrilling ride through the labyrinth of the human psyche, revealing our darkest thoughts and emotions. A must-read! Richard Freeman, Publisher of PBW. Like a wild ride on the Coney Island Cyclone, it's a breathtaking journey and murder mystery, with an intriguing exploration of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and multiple personality through the eyes of a trauma survivor. Non-stop excitement! Richard E. Frenkel, M.D., author, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, lecturer, and speaker at the United Nations.

Download or read book Rebuild the Dream written by Van Jones and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Obama's former Green Jobs czar sets forth a bold new manifesto that reclaims the American Dream on behalf of all working Americans.

Download or read book Heartbreak Hotel written by Robert Matthew-Walker and published by NAL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978 Robert Matthew-Walker wrote Elvis Presley - A Study in Music , this is a substantially revised and updated version of that book. The first part of the book is a concise biography of the singer. The second is a detailed discussion of Presley's commercially recorded performances. Part three, The Musician , deals with the legacy of Presley as an artist, while part four contains a comprehensive critique of his film appearances and an up-to-date discography of currently available CDs and original LPs. The book finishes with a detailed Elvis Presley chronology.

Download or read book Heartbreak Hotel written by Jonathan Kellerman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex’s most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman. At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients that child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history. What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions—about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex asks the reason for her morbid fascination, Thalia promises to tell all during their next session. But when he shows up the following morning, he is met with silence: Thalia is dead in her room. When questions arise about how Thalia perished, Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must peel back the layers of a fascinating but elusive woman’s life and embark on one of the most baffling investigations either of them has ever experienced. For Thalia Mars is a victim like no other, an enigma who harbored nearly a century of secrets and whose life and death draw those around her into a vortex of violence. Heartbreak Hotel is classic Delaware and classic Kellerman. Praise for Heartbreak Hotel “Easy to dive into for mystery fans unfamiliar with the series, and a welcome treat for readers who have been with Officer Sturgis and Dr. Delaware since the beginning.”—Booklist Praise for Jonathan Kellerman “Jonathan Kellerman’s psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.”—Los Angeles Times “Kellerman doesn’t just write psychological thrillers—he owns the genre.”—Detroit Free Press “A master of the psychological thriller.”—People

Download or read book When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double written by Diane DeCillis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about being a survivor and the choices we make to protect ourselves, our homes, and our hearts. Who wouldn't want a metaphorical stunt double to take the perilous fall that comes with the pain of loss or profound disappointment? The poems in When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double by Diane DeCillis consider resourceful ways in which we become our own stunt double and explore through a poet's eyes the anatomy of the mind, body, and soul. Although many of these poems investigate loss and heartbreak, this book is not about being a victim. It's about how we not only survive our most challenging moments but how we thrive in spite of them. These are poems about all of the ways our hearts both help us and betray us during major life events: dealing with divorce, the death of a loved one, separation from those closest to you, or with the agonizing experience of memory loss. The speaker appreciatively observes "how hard the muscle has worked / lifting and lowering the weight of love and sorrow." DeCillis writes that loss can feel like your heart is limping "like a wounded animal / before you sink into the shelter of your own shadow." But with every loss in these poems comes rebirth—a beautiful, sensory-rich wildflower garden of new breaths and experiences. The character of the heart is depicted as a piece of human anatomy at the same time it's portrayed as its own world; an entire planet. DeCillis personifies the mitral, aortic, and pulmonary valves, describing our bodies as blooming with vegetation, a recursive image of living things thriving inside living things. When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double takes us on a journey of what it means to be fully human. It touches upon the gifts we find in humor, nature, art, food, and how we celebrate the beauty of our scars. These are love poems: to others, to the self, to the body. DeCillis makes it clear that wounds need attention and care, but that loss always strengthens us. This collection will be admired by poetry lovers of all kinds, and those who enjoy modern and corporeal love poems.

Download or read book A Diary to My Babies written by Carmen Grover and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-year journey: six losses and three beautiful angels. After losing her son Jude in August 2020, a spark was ignited in Carmen Grover as she read through every diary that she kept for each of her babies. Rather than have them remain stacked under her bed, Carmen decided that her journals would make a difference. The result has been an honest and poignant compilation of the ups and downs of Carmen' s experience with pregnancy loss, from rolling in the grass and convulsing on the kitchen floor in her cycle of grief, to seeing the strength she could gain in the signs and special moments all around her. A Diary to My Babies: Journeying Through Pregnancy Loss shines a light on the darkness of pregnancy loss, while also showing there is no right way to grieve. And through her incredible journey, Carmen hopes the story of her family and her babies just might help others to heal.

Download or read book Cradle of Death written by John Glatt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Babies. Eight Murders. One Woman to Blame: Their Mother In March of 1949, a healthy baby boy named Richard Noe entered this world. Thirty-one days later, he left it -- found dead in his parents' bedroom in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Over the next nineteen years, all nine of Marie and Arthur Noe's other children would die -- one stillborn, one in the hospital, and the other seven of unexplained causes--none lived longer than fifteen months. Gaining national sympathy for their unbelievabloe bad luck, the Noes were deemed victims of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). But as the years went on, may people found their SIDS defence a hard pill to swallow -- after all, SIDS is not a hereditary condition. As investigators proved, they found that in each case, the child had died while home alone with Marie Noe. Finally, in 1999 -- fifty years after her first child died -- septuagenarian Maried Noe pled guilty to killing eight of her ten dead children. Today, she remains at home on probation helping psychiatric experts understand what is perhaps one of the most disturbing and baffling mysteries of all: how and why a mother could kill her own children. In this riveting true crime account, author John Glatt goes behind the headlines and into the heart of this fascinating case to reveal the shocking answers.

Download or read book Twist My Heart written by Brooke Taylor and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR BROOKE TAYLOR Book one in the Wicked Games series After a tornado drops a feisty fugitive into the arms of a steel-hearted warrior, she must convince him to help her and her not-so-little dog evade a wicked enemy. When a tornado drops Thea Gale and her not-so-little dog Titan into the arms of a steel-hearted warrior, she has no idea the trouble she is in. Lucky for her, the battle-scarred Navy SEAL who comes to her rescue knows a few things about evading wicked enemies. Nickolas Steele is certain the right thing to do is to turn the filterless fugitive and her overprotective canine in to the authorities. But is the captivating amnesiac really a threat or is she the one whose life is in grave danger? Nik can't shake the feeling Thea's past has come back to claim her, and discovering who she really is might be more deadly than either of them is prepared for. In order to enlist Nik's help, Thea must not only confront the trauma of her former life but also penetrate the carefully forged armor protecting what's left of Nik's heart.

Download or read book The Mysteries Surrounding the Death of Elvis Presley written by J. D. Rockefeller and published by J.D. Rockefeller. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley died of a heart attack on August 16, 1977 in the bathroom of his Graceland Mansion. But to many people, Elvis never died. On the other hand, for some people, he did not die of natural causes, that is, of a heart attack. Many people have sighted Elvis since after his death and are convinced that Elvis isn’t dead or at least that he did not die in 1977 as the world knows it. There are numerous theories about why and how Elvis disappeared. Why he faked his death. Similarly, the cause of his death also seems to be a mystery. The autopsy report indicates a heart attack but there were drugs found in his system. In short, the death of Elvis still remains a mystery today and numerous theories are put forward even after so many years. This book is an attempt to look at Elvis’ death and the theories that surround it. So, let’s get started.

Download or read book The Soul of Fenway written by S. j. Wilson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S.J. Wilson lives in Massachusetts and has worked as a farmhand, pie maker, radio dispatcher, telemarketer (briefly and with apologies), receptionist, kindergarten teacher, and at long last and most sweetly, a writer. From The Soul of Fenway: On the horizon, the sun was an orange ball of hell. The heat of another summer day waited for her, ready to wrench her back through summers gone by, finally screeching to a halt in 1967. Even if she could stop dreaming about Nate, the summer would still come around to haunt her. It wasn't until after he was dead that she realized how much he looked like summer. The August sky matched the blue of his eyes and his hair was the color of native corn. She'd only known him with a tan and she remembered his skin, always golden-brown and smelling of Coppertone(r). And he lived for this season, when long hot days reached into the night, when everything was baseball and youthful optimism. He was summer. And God, she hated it.

Download or read book In the Blink of an Eye written by Joyce Lovely and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acta Medicinae Legalis et Socialis written by Duarte Nuno Vieira and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A obra reúne um conjunto de artigos apresentados no 21º Congresso da Academia Internacional de Medicina Legal que teve lugar em Lisboa em Maio de 2009 e que envolveu a participação de 1278 profissionais e académicos de 78 países dos cinco continentes. Para além das intervenções dos mais respeitáveis especialistas forenses na cena internacional, foram apresentados mais de 600 trabalhos científicos na forma de artigos de conferência e posters. Muitos destes artigos são agora editados nesta publicação.