Download or read book Her Path Forward written by Chris Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether by chance or by choice or by sheer necessity, women go through the process of transformation many times throughout their personal and professional lives. Sometimes the transformation journey is tumultuous and painful. A woman may be cracked wide open and stretched in ways she never imagined. Other times, change happens slowly over time. One day she seems to emerge anew without fully grasping-at least in the moment-what it took to get there. "Her Path Forward" is an anthology that shares the various perspectives of 21 women navigating change and the path forward.
Download or read book Finding My Voice written by Valerie Jarrett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work" "Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."--Michelle Obama "The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history. When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama's trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was known as the one who "got" him and helped him engage his public life. Jarrett joined the White House team on January 20, 2009 and departed with the First Family on January 20, 2017, and she was in the room--in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and everywhere else--when it all happened. No one has as intimate a view of the Obama Years, nor one that reaches back as many decades, as Jarrett shares in Finding My Voice. Born in Iran (where her father, a doctor, sought a better job than he could find in segregated America), Jarrett grew up in Chicago in the 60s as racial and gender barriers were being challenged. A single mother stagnating in corporate law, she found her voice in Harold Washington's historic administration, where she began a remarkable journey, ultimately becoming one of the most visible and influential African-American women of the twenty-first century. From her work ensuring equality for women and girls, advancing civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system, and improving the lives of working families, to the real stories behind some of the most stirring moments of the Obama presidency, Jarrett shares her forthright, optimistic perspective on the importance of leadership and the responsibilities of citizenship in the twenty-first century, inspiring readers to lift their own voices.
Download or read book All Our Relations US Edition written by Tanya Talaga and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Finalist, 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide. “Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis... The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — Publishers Weekly *Starred Review* “Talaga has crafted an urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario... Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — Booklist *Starred Review* In this urgent and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonized nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life — all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health — income, employment, education, a safe environment, health services — leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism. Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series, All Our Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better, more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.
Download or read book Surviving A Narcissist The Path Forward written by Lisa Scott and published by Network Media LLC. This book was released on 2011-05-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Personality disorders are on the rise. As a result, more and more people are finding themselves in relationships with Narcissists. Lisa E. Scott, author of the groundbreaking book, It's All About Him, has helped women everywhere recognize a Narcissist before getting involved. In her second book, she provides The Path Forward to those trying to recover from the emotional abuse that occurs in a relationship with a Narcissist."--
Download or read book Her Path Forward written by Chris Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether by chance or by choice or by sheer necessity, women go through the process of transformation many times throughout their personal and professional lives. Sometimes the transformation journey is tumultuous and painful. A woman may be cracked wide open and stretched in ways she never imagined. Other times, change happens slowly over time. One day she seems to emerge anew without fully grasping-at least in the moment-what it took to get there. "Her Path Forward" is an anthology that shares the various perspectives of 21 women navigating change and the path forward.
Download or read book Simply by Love written by Jimmy Hugoson and published by Jimmy Hugoson. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisabeth’s life is anything but simple. Coming from humble beginnings and falling in love with Andrew, life does not unfold for her as she imagined it would. Leaving Andrew back home to pursue a new job in the sprawling Goldsmith mansion, she never imagined that another man would capture her attention, or that she would be caught in between the love of two men. When Andrew is declared dead by the army, she follows her heart and falls in love with Erickson, who’s also had to give up a prestigious marriage proposal to Scarlett, heiress to one of the most influential families in their circle. But would love be enough? And what happens if Andrew is not quite as dead as the army thought? In this novel, Simply By Love: Swimming Between Two Waters, Jimmy Hugoson beautifully chronicles the choices the human heart must make and the agony that often follows with those choices when it comes to love.
Download or read book ART OF BELIEVING A JOURNEY TO A PEACEFUL LIFE written by Dr. Sunita Raaj and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Believing - A Journey to a Peaceful Life" by Dr. Sunita Raaj offers a transformative guide to harnessing inner strength and resilience. As a health professional and empowerment coach, she emphasizes holistic healing and personal transformation. Drawing from scientific and spiritual insights, she highlights the power of positive thinking and belief in achieving success. Readers will find practical guidance to integrate these principles into their lives, fostering grace and resilience amidst life's challenges. Through this enlightening book, Dr. Sunita Raaj inspires and empowers readers to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and growth.
Download or read book Unknown No More written by Joanne Dearcopp and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publisher not thought the market too small for two Dust Bowl novels, hers and Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Into the twenty-first century, Babb wrote and published lyrical prose and poetry that revealed her prescient ideas about gender, race, and the environment. The essays collected in Unknown No More recover and analyze her previously unrecognized contributions to American letters. Editors Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith have assembled a group of distinguished scholars who, for the first time in book-length form, explore the life and work of Sanora Babb. This collection of pathbreaking essays addresses Babb’s position within the literature of the Great Plains and American West, her leftist political odyssey as a card-carrying Communist who ultimately broke with the Party, and her ecofeminist leanings as reflected in the environmental themes she explored in her fiction and nonfiction. With literary sensibilities reminiscent of Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, and Meridel LeSueur, Babb’s work revealed gender-based, environmental, and working-class injustices from the Depression era to the late twentieth century. No longer unknown, Sanora Babb’s life and work form a prism through which the peril and promise of twentieth-century America may be seen.
Download or read book Savage Road written by Chris Hauty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hayley Chill descends even deeper into the dangerous political web of Washington, DC, in this “twisty, electrifying thriller” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) and sequel to the national bestseller Deep State. When a series of devastating cyber attacks rock the United States, Hayley Chill is tasked by the “deeper state” to track down their source. NSA analysts insist that Moscow is the culprit, but that accusation brings plenty of complications with Hayley directing the president as a double agent against the Russians. With increasing pressure on the president to steer him towards a devastating war, it’s up to Hayley to stop the mysterious computer hacker and prevent World War III—while also uncovering some shocking truths about her own life. Magnificently crafted and perfectly timed, Savage Road “is a brilliantly plotted thriller with plenty of edge-of-the-seat moments, twists, and turns to satisfy the most ardent of fans” (Mystery & Suspense Magazine).
Download or read book The Nature of Creative Development written by Jonathan Feinstein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the basic structure and processes through which creative endeavors are initially developed and then transformed into creative contributions.
Download or read book Single Best Clue written by Gary B. Boyd and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police Chief Sarah James has questions. Questions about a murdered John Doe. Questions about an uptick in drug usage among Devaney's teens. Questions about a major copper theft. Questions about a multi-fatality traffic accident. Questions about the new Sheriff's agenda. Questions about her future. She engages her entire department in finding the single best clue that will solve each mystery – except the last one. She has to solve that one herself.
Download or read book Black Denim Lit 5 No Sleep Till Deadtown written by Michael Haynes and published by Black Denim Lit. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The June, 2014 issue edited by Christopher T Garry features never before seen short stories from eight new authors. They create narratives that are variously dark, cynical, inspiring, disturbing, longing and irreverent. Black Denim Lit is a monthly journal of fiction available on the web and on all eReaders. **"No Sleep Til Deadtown" by Michael Haynes: an unusual taxi driver risks a dangerous game **"Jinn" by Daniel Moore: a woman plays 'Marid' for her clients, guiding them through subconscious memory and desire **"Deficit" by Sarah Vernetti: mother and child are pursued through a world in crisis **"The Line of Fate" by Suzanne Burns: a young wife struggles with mania and identity **"Gladys Collins" by John Pace: a quiet life implodes under the shadow of a smothering stranger **"The Cloud" by Elaine Olund: a uniquely simple solution for anxiety and fear PLUS **"Pigs Fry; Pigs Fly" by Janet Slike; **"Ripples From The Weather Aggregator" by Sean Monaghan How do you wield power in a world bent on a balance of terror? What if extricating all your anxieties left nothing earthly behind? What comes from wishes made of snow? Can you fabricate a memory into something spontaneous?
Download or read book Reclaiming Conversation written by Sherry Turkle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.” —Aziz Ansari, author of Modern Romance Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves. We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with – a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square. The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity. But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures. Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do. The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other. Turkle's latest book, The Empathy Diaries (3/2/21) is available now.
Download or read book Growing Each Other Up written by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From growing their children, parents grow themselves, learning the lessons their children teach. “Growing up”, then, is as much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of childhood. While countless books have been written about the challenges of parenting, nearly all of them position the parent as instructor and support-giver, the child as learner and in need of direction. But the parent-child relationship is more complicated and reciprocal; over time it transforms in remarkable, surprising ways. As our children grow up, and we grow older, what used to be a one-way flow of instruction and support, from parent to child, becomes instead an exchange. We begin to learn from them. The lessons parents learn from their offspring—voluntarily and involuntarily, with intention and serendipity, often through resistance and struggle—are embedded in their evolving relationships and shaped by the rapidly transforming world around them. With Growing Each Other Up, Macarthur Prize–winning sociologist and educator Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers an intimately detailed, emotionally powerful account of that experience. Building her book on a series of in-depth interviews with parents around the country, she offers a counterpoint to the usual parental development literature that mostly concerns the adjustment of parents to their babies’ rhythms and the ways parents weather the storms of their teenage progeny. The focus here is on the lessons emerging adult children, ages 15 to 35, teach their parents. How are our perspectives as parents shaped by our children? What lessons do we take from them and incorporate into our worldviews? Just how much do we learn—often despite our own emotionally fraught resistance—from what they have seen of life that we, perhaps, never experienced? From these parent portraits emerges the shape of an education composed by young adult children—an education built on witness, growing, intimacy, and acceptance. Growing Each Other Up is rich in the voices of actual parents telling their own stories of raising children and their children raising them; watching that fundamental connection shift over time. Parents and children of all ages will recognize themselves in these evocative and moving accounts and look at their own growing up in a revelatory new light.
Download or read book Perfectly Flawed written by Lexy Timms and published by . This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We could all use a loyal friend… or a cat… Aimee Price, designer and fledgling entrepreneur, thought she had everything in hand when it came to her career... until she didn't. She moved back to her hometown to collect her thoughts and find her path forward. When her brother's best friend and Aimee's one-time crush, Morgan Clarke, ends up living in the same house with her, she thinks she made the wrong choice. Then she gets to know Morgan as the man he's become, and she realized she's been wrong. As her appreciation for Morgan grows and takes on a life of its own, however, her career is hanging on by a thread. She's discovered that someone is stealing her work and selling it as their own. She's not getting credit, she's not getting paid, and it's damaging her reputation. Morgan thinks he can help her solve the problem... but will his own mental baggage get in the way of him becoming her hero? Morgan and Aimee must figure out how to move forward together if they're going to take the next step as a couple. But first, they have to save Aimee's career and decide whether Morgan is the man he wants to be, or if he's still too broken to handle a woman like Aimee. Like Cats & Dogs Series Barking Mad Perfectly Flawed Tails of Love
Download or read book Veils of Deception written by Elizabeth Parker and published by Rosant House Publishing. This book was released on with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Lancashire, where the hum of the cotton mill resonates with tales of love and industry, a story unfolds—one that is as ancient as time, yet as fresh as the morning dew. Drawing inspiration from the biblical saga of Genesis 25-39, this tale weaves the passions and betrayals of a love triangle set against the backdrop of a town on the cusp of change. Jacob, a young man seeking redemption and a fresh start, is ensnared in the affections of two sisters: Rachel, the radiant beauty he desires, and Leah, the shadowed soul he unwittingly weds. As the Industrial Age dawns, bringing with it the promise of railways and new horizons, the ties that bind these three souls are tested in ways they could never have imagined. From the bustling marketplace to the serene canals, from whispered secrets in the dead of night to public declarations under the midday sun, "The Love We Share" is a journey of the heart. It speaks of love's trials and triumphs, deception and redemption, and the threads that, once united, can weave a tapestry of joy or unravel the very fabric of lives. Dive into this historical romance, where every page holds a promise, every chapter a revelation, and every turn a lesson in the timeless dance of love and destiny. 🔥 A smoldering love triangle set against the backdrop of Lancashire's bustling canals and thriving mills! 🔥 When Jacob's heart is ensnared by the radiant Rachel, little does he know that the shadows hold another who pines for him - the enigmatic Leah. As passions flare and secrets unfold, a grand deception threatens to tear them apart. 💔 Two sisters. One man. A deception that could change everything. 💔 Dive deep into a world where love is a double-edged sword, and trust is a luxury few can afford. Will love conquer deception? Or will the heart's true desires remain forever hidden? Unravel the mystery, feel the passion, and get lost in a tale of love, betrayal, and destiny. Grab your copy today!
Download or read book The Neglected Daughter Sophina written by Zanan Ahmad and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel that delves into the complex relationship between a father, struggling with his weight, and his daughter, Sophina. Set against the backdrop of a society obsessed with appearance, the story explores the consequences of neglect and the impact it has on the emotional well-being of a child.
