Download or read book How Weeping Spends the Night written by Larry Stenzel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Weeping Spends the Night. This story starts out with Al Hartung, a housing developer, getting amnesia either from a traffic accident or because of the financial mess his business is in. Three friends whom he’s known for twenty years – since college – try to help him get his memory back. These friends are Bernie Gross, a lawyer; Tim Slaton, a painter/artist; and Kyle Paulson, a Protestant Minister. Just as Al is becoming functional again, he and Kyle get caught in a drive-by shooting. Al goes back into shock and Kyle, hit by a stray bullet, becomes paralyzed from the waist down. Al’s other two friends show less obvious disabilities. Bernie has a barely paternalistic weakness for pretty women and Tim has a past with women of the night that he wants to keep from his live-in girlfriend. As each of the four men fall short of what is expected of them, their mates come more onto center stage. Al’s wife Linda, who manages a small chain of fitness centers, decides to divorce Al because, while she can stand to nurse him, she can’t put up with his bullying. Tim’s girlfriend britt, a model much younger than him, becomes frustrated with Tim’s secretiveness about his past and tries to start an affair with Bernie. Bernie’s wife Megan, who works as a lawyer in his law firm, decides that she has to take over their marriage to keep it intact. Terry, Kyle’s wife who once was a chemist but is now a long time home person, finds herself being pushed into the background as defeating his disability becomes more of a challenge to Kyle than keeping the spark of romance alive in their marriage. To get them through their difficulties, both Terry and Kyle have to come even more face to face with their Christian reality, probably not too unusual for a minister and his wife. All of the couples, except Tim and Britt, have kids in one configuration or another and these children for the time being seem to do a better job of growing up than their parents do of growing old. How Weeping Spends the Night is both a parody and a parable. It is a parody on how we change and rearrange partners. Its parable is that the hurt that comes from not giving is greater than the hurt that comes from not receiving. Beyond Divining. This story is about a man named Todd Farrell who loses his wife Daphne to her job at an advertising agency. Todd is irritated and bewildered because his competition is not another man, but rather Daphne’s lifestyle, a lifestyle that Daphne doesn’t necessarily want but thinks she should have. Drawn into the couple’s fighting are Paul Mournier, Daphne’s boss, who lives in terror as Daphne’s difficulties one after another spill over into her work place, and Becky Newton, their marriage counselor, who in the end has to resort to doing handstands to get Todd and Daphne’s attention. Daphne also has a teenage son, Eric; the two can never seem to get on the same wavelength. The person who is the straw who stirs the drink in the story is an old timer named McGillivary. McGillivary has a reputation for being able to fix things. He can fix anything from mechanical contraptions to city politicians. In the story he is asked to fix Todd and Daphne’s marriage. McGillivary has no patience for backsliding and reticence that people try to pass off as politeness. He tries to believe that in relationships there are some codes that are black and white and you should follow them. Although he is a Bible-thumper, he lives his life in such a way that he shows that it takes more courage sometimes to make exceptions than it does to make rules. The Portable Courmeer. Walter Courmeer is a passably well known novelist who wrote between the two World Wars. He is a person who has followed the crowd: an Ivy League education, Paris in the Twenties, social outrage during the Depression, out to the West Coast i

Download or read book How Weeping Spends the Night written by Larry Stenzel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Weeping Spends the Night. This story starts out with Al Hartung, a housing developer, getting amnesia either from a traffic accident or because of the financial mess his business is in. Three friends whom he’s known for twenty years – since college – try to help him get his memory back. These friends are Bernie Gross, a lawyer; Tim Slaton, a painter/artist; and Kyle Paulson, a Protestant Minister. Just as Al is becoming functional again, he and Kyle get caught in a drive-by shooting. Al goes back into shock and Kyle, hit by a stray bullet, becomes paralyzed from the waist down. Al’s other two friends show less obvious disabilities. Bernie has a barely paternalistic weakness for pretty women and Tim has a past with women of the night that he wants to keep from his live-in girlfriend. As each of the four men fall short of what is expected of them, their mates come more onto center stage. Al’s wife Linda, who manages a small chain of fitness centers, decides to divorce Al because, while she can stand to nurse him, she can’t put up with his bullying. Tim’s girlfriend britt, a model much younger than him, becomes frustrated with Tim’s secretiveness about his past and tries to start an affair with Bernie. Bernie’s wife Megan, who works as a lawyer in his law firm, decides that she has to take over their marriage to keep it intact. Terry, Kyle’s wife who once was a chemist but is now a long time home person, finds herself being pushed into the background as defeating his disability becomes more of a challenge to Kyle than keeping the spark of romance alive in their marriage. To get them through their difficulties, both Terry and Kyle have to come even more face to face with their Christian reality, probably not too unusual for a minister and his wife. All of the couples, except Tim and Britt, have kids in one configuration or another and these children for the time being seem to do a better job of growing up than their parents do of growing old. How Weeping Spends the Night is both a parody and a parable. It is a parody on how we change and rearrange partners. Its parable is that the hurt that comes from not giving is greater than the hurt that comes from not receiving. Beyond Divining. This story is about a man named Todd Farrell who loses his wife Daphne to her job at an advertising agency. Todd is irritated and bewildered because his competition is not another man, but rather Daphne’s lifestyle, a lifestyle that Daphne doesn’t necessarily want but thinks she should have. Drawn into the couple’s fighting are Paul Mournier, Daphne’s boss, who lives in terror as Daphne’s difficulties one after another spill over into her work place, and Becky Newton, their marriage counselor, who in the end has to resort to doing handstands to get Todd and Daphne’s attention. Daphne also has a teenage son, Eric; the two can never seem to get on the same wavelength. The person who is the straw who stirs the drink in the story is an old timer named McGillivary. McGillivary has a reputation for being able to fix things. He can fix anything from mechanical contraptions to city politicians. In the story he is asked to fix Todd and Daphne’s marriage. McGillivary has no patience for backsliding and reticence that people try to pass off as politeness. He tries to believe that in relationships there are some codes that are black and white and you should follow them. Although he is a Bible-thumper, he lives his life in such a way that he shows that it takes more courage sometimes to make exceptions than it does to make rules. The Portable Courmeer. Walter Courmeer is a passably well known novelist who wrote between the two World Wars. He is a person who has followed the crowd: an Ivy League education, Paris in the Twenties, social outrage during the Depression, out to the West Coast i

Download or read book Making Room for Her written by Barbara Reaoch and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe you’re a bride-to-be who is about to gain a mother-in-law. Or perhaps you’re a mother-of-the-groom who is about to gain a daughter-in-law. Or maybe you’ve been in an in-law relationship for decades, one that’s been struggling in painful tension for years. No matter your age or stage, every daughter-in-law and mother-in-law needs help navigating their relationship sometimes. Whether the struggle is one of feeling unseen, unheard, or unvalued, authors and in-laws Barbara and Stacy Reaoch have been there, and as they’ve put the Bible’s wisdom to practice over the years, they’ve found that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law really can thrive in the midst of difficulty. In this biblical, practical, and heartfelt book, Barbara and Stacy Reaoch share from their own 20 years of forming a mother-in-law/daughter-in-law bond. As you walk alongside them in their own journey and lessons learned, prepare to be encouraged and equipped in these areas: Expectations Conflict Suffering Communication Parenting And more With the Bible as your foundation and this book as a helpful companion in the journey, take heart: a healthier relationship with your mother-in-law or daughter-in-law is closer than you think!

Download or read book Night Cry written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often left alone on their five-acre Mississippi farm by her traveling-salesman father, Ellen learns, through a terrifying experience, to distinguish between real and false fears.

Download or read book Laughing Through the Tears of Breast Cancer written by Carla Chesser Rn and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing through the Tears of Breast Cancer is a source of inspiration for women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, and for their caregivers. The easy-to-read style of writing takes you through a year-long journey of dealing with the emotional experiences of the breast cancer diagnosis and the physical treatments that lead to eventual healing. Although it is a personal journey, this story offers enough similarities that help those who are part of the breast cancer "sisterhood" recognize that, even as they are experiencing their own pain related to this diagnosis, many blessings will result. By sharing her story through journal writings, emails and inspirational messages, Carla creates enjoyable reading, in a girl-talk format, with an abundant amount of practical information about breast cancer. You will laugh while the tears flow from your eyes as you read her story and share her experiences.

Download or read book Battle cry Compendium Vol 3 written by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle Cry Compendium Volume 3 Battle Cry Compendium is a compilation of spiritual warfare bulletins of messages by Dr. D. K. Olukoya, the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, for prayer warriors and intercessors. It is an outstanding collection for those who seek spiritual power from the Almighty.

Download or read book Out of Tears written by Carol Neumann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of the series “Hippie Trilogy”, experience the Summer of Love. Feel the hot pavement beneath your feet as Meredith and Tony march in Mississippi for Civil Rights. Hear the riveting guitar riffs at Monterrey, relive the turbulent 60’s. Meet the characters whose lives were changed forever by the events of the summers of the 60’s.

Download or read book Don t You Cry written by Mary Kubica and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying tale of deceit and obsession from New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl Mary Kubica In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile, in a small town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old Alex Gallo works as a dishwasher. He is immediately drawn to her, but what starts as an innocent crush quickly spirals into something far more sinister. As Quinn searches for answers about Esther, and Alex is drawn further under the stranger’s spell, master of suspense Mary Kubica takes readers on a taut and twisted thrill ride that builds to a stunning conclusion and shows that no matter how fast and far we run, the past always catches up with us. Don't miss Mary Kubica's chilling upcoming novel, She's Not Sorry, where an ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past... And look for the new editions of The Good Girl, Every Last Lie, Pretty Baby and The Other Mrs. featuring brand new covers! More edge-of-your-seat thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica: Th Good Girl Pretty Baby Every Last Lie When the Lights Go Out Local Woman Missing Just The Nicest Couple The Other Mrs. She’s not Sorry

Download or read book Frozen Tears written by Advyth and published by Author's Ink Publications. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly intelligent serial killer is loose in the metro city in India. His targets are unconnected people from different age groups, the only common element being that he gives his victims a painless death. Dev, a senior police officer who is assigned the case, is struck by the empathetic way in which the killer masterminds his horrific acts. His conventional ways of investigating the case lead nowhere. He is then joined by his daughter, Rudra, who is a psychiatrist and criminologist working for the London Police Department. Rudra brings in her novel ways of investigation of getting into the killer’s mind and has her first breakthrough. As the case proceeds, Rudra is shocked to discover how crimes all over the world are driven by universal passions, and how, with the slight provocation, even seemingly innocent people can be driven to horrendous crimes. But what Rudra does not know is that the killer, who is always one step ahead of her, is much closer to home than she thinks. It takes a terrible tragedy to prove that to her. Join author Advyth as he narrates this unique crime investigation thriller that is full of eye-opening insights on the human mind that will shock one and all.

Download or read book Tears Beyond A Broken Heart Volume 1 written by Reem Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story of an innocent fifteen-year-old girl who got married to a man that had a gambling addiction. At the time, she had no idea what addicts or the meaning of addiction was. She made her marriage last for twenty-five years, and the only time she realized and understood what it meant was when she had to face her son's drug addiction after the divorce and when she realized she had enabled his father all these years without knowing it. a heartbreaking story.

Download or read book The Stones Cry Out written by Molyda Szymusiak and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Stones Cry Out is startlingly good as literature. It is also an important addition to a thin historical record.... Her account of the revolutionary rhetoric, set against the reality of what the revolutionaries were actually doing, is as macabre as any of the descriptions of bodies." --The Wall Street Journal "This is a powerful and compelling story of terror, struggle and death sprinkled with moments of tenderness, written by a woman who writes not of politics but only of what she experienced."--New York Times Book Review In 1975, Molyda Szymusiak (her adoptive name), the daughter of a high Cambodian official, was twelve years old and leading a relatively peaceful life in Phnom Penh. Suddenly, on April 17, Khmer Rouge radicals seized the capital and drove all its inhabitants into the countryside. The chaos that followed has been widely publicized, most notably in the movie The Killing Fields. Murderous brutality coupled with raging famine caused the death of more than two million people, nearly a third of the population. This powerful memoir documents the horror Cambodians experienced in daily life.

Download or read book Dionysos in Tears written by Charles Fontenay and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Lion Deveron meets April McCreagh, a young, beautiful secretary at his newspaper office, a strange fantasy should have warned him that his staid, comfortable (but childless) marriage is endangered. A pleasant summer of luncheons together evolves into only a pattern of family visits, clouded by the disapproval of Lion's wife, Cynthia. But April's determination, if unconscious, is not to be deterred by his marriage--or her own subsequent one. The social and distance barriers to their union seem insurmountable. However, whether or not, as friend Brightwood suggests, some Destiny is involved, their mutual attraction is inexorable--and Mother wants a grandson. Dissolving the barriers to their consummation involves Lion's conversion, by virtue of April's poetic fancy, from a rather conservative newsman into a springtime forest god. The conversion successful-at heavy cost-Lion finds that, alas, to trust a woman is to write one's memoirs in the snow. When their tug of war concludes, he is confronted with the ultimate question: has he won or lost?

Download or read book Life s Too Short to Cry written by Tim Vigors and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly discovered “exhilarating and moving memoir” of an RAF fighter pilot in World War II (Daily Mail). It is not often that a long-hidden gem of a manuscript is published, bringing a moment in WWII history to vivid life for today’s readers. Geoffrey Wellum’s First Light was one example. The memoir of Timothy Vigors is another. Born in Hatfield but raised in Ireland and educated at Eton and Cranwell, Vigors found himself in France in 1940 flying Fairey Battle bombers. After the Fall he joined the fighters of 222 Squadron, with whom he saw frantic and distinguished service over Dunkirk and persevered through the dangerous days of the Battle of Britain, when he became an ace. Vigors transferred to the Far East in January 1941 as a flight commander with 243, then to 453 Squadron RAAF, and on December 10 of that year he led a flight of Buffaloes to cover the sinking Prince of Wales and Repulse. Dramatically shot down, burnt and attacked on his parachute, he was evacuated to Java, and from there, to India. As he describes these experiences in his handwritten account, the author provides a fascinating and valuable record, a newly discovered personal narrative of air combat destined to be seen as a classic.

Download or read book The Power of Yesterday s Tears written by Gloria F. Martin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwen leaves her no-good, cheating husband and moves back to her hometown. Shortly thereafter, she discovers that her old boyfriend is in jail awaiting a prison term. After attending his sentencing, she realizes that she still has feelings for him. Through open letters and contact visits, Gwen and Willie begin to develop a closeness that they never shared before. Willie learns the gift of giving himself as he stumbles his way back into Gwens heart. Gwen finds solace in a man who, unlike her husband, knows the right words to say to make her feel complete. Together they face obstacles while learning the true meaning of faith, trust, and commitment. Such obstacles have also changed the fate of one confused boy, one letter at a time. Based on actual experiences, this story of trials and tribulations focuses on African American relationships today, but women of all nationalities who have experienced deceit or disrespect from the men in their lives will find it relevant.

Download or read book Crying for Freedom written by Yaw Sachi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRYING FOR FREEDOM tells the story of Oheneba, a young man from Africa whose desire to escape his native country's defective social, political, and economic systems propels him to Europe and eventually to the United States. He discovers that neither place is the "land of milk and honey" he had dreamt of. His experiences and observations during his travels dampen his hope for the black race, which he views as not only failing to trust itself, but also reposing blind trust in the white race and in the Christian religion of meekness and forgiveness: misplaced trust that has enabled the aggressive and the "strong" to perpetually dominate the black race. Oheneba comes to the scathing determination that the white race is a ruthless, bloodthirsty race, quick to give charity but not justice, a race that is never satisfied, that relentlessly pursues positions of command, glory and wealth of every kind, even if it means colonizing and enslaving other races and declaring them personal property. Yet, Oheneba concedes that he has reached his current station in life partly due to the benevolence of the white race. As much as he tries to hate white people for their greedy and wanton destruction of his race, hate is a feeling very difficult for him to adopt. Oheneba cannot bring himself to apply the word "racist" to whites, partly because he has had worse experiences at the hands of his fellow blacks. In the end, Oheneba concludes that despite the many sins in white America's past and the flaws in its present, they share with him a common humanity that is evident just below the surface. Oheneba wonders, rather boldly, whether his own life story provides evidence that white America, for all its atrocious and evil deeds, may possess a paradoxical goodness. In order for black people to find their places in mainstream America, much depends upon the generosity of white Americans. And to the extent that many white Americans of past and present are decent, fighting for black people's equal rights and access to mainstream America, sometimes even helping black folks to get ahead of their fellow whites, this paradoxical goodness is evident. Ironically, it is the very attributes of the social systems that Oheneba was running away from that ultimately became his grace: e collective culture or the "it-takes-the-village-to-raise-a-child" approach to life. Oheneba loathed this culture because he felt it created comfort and security for the African and resulted in the suppression of individual responsibility and accountability.

Download or read book Tears of an Orphan Girl written by Sayed H. Rohani and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears of an Orphan Girl is a young woman’s story of survival. Her mother is heinously murdered, her father jailed and disappeared, and she is left alone with her little brother in a war-torn village. Her lover is an artist whose art proves to be a token of threat, liberation, and love. Adversity follows them like a shadow, and the way they handle their problems remains to be a riddle this novel will unravel. The story is a blend of miracle, love, anguish, and death. Wonders will never cease. Out of destruction and anguish, a tree of love burgeons and works wonders.

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