Download or read book Rebel Moms written by Davina Rhine and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of women who combine effective motherhood with highly individual lives.

Download or read book Ink is Thicker Than Water written by Amy Spalding and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing, romantic, and wholly original, Amy Spalding's sophomore novel is the perfect blend of humor and heart. Find out why Trish Doller called it full of "compassion, humor, love, and pitch-perfect authenticity." For Kellie Brooks, family has always been a tough word to define. Combine her hippie mom and tattooist stepdad, her adopted overachieving sister, her younger half brother, and her tough-love dad, and average Kellie's the one stuck in the middle, overlooked and impermanent. When Kellie's sister finally meets her birth mother and her best friend starts hanging with a cooler crowd, the feeling only grows stronger. But then she reconnects with Oliver, the sweet college guy she had a near hookup with last year. Oliver is intense and attractive, and she's sure he's totally out of her league. It'll take a new role on the school newspaper and a new job at her mom's tattoo shop for Kellie to realize that defining herself both outside and within her family is what can finally allow her to feel permanent, just like a tattoo.

Download or read book Mary Jane TCG Edition written by Amy Herzog and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Armed with medicines, feeding tubes, and various medical equipment, Mary Jane is a single mother and indefatigable force when it comes to caring for her young, sick child. A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, Mary Jane demonstrates the prevailing strength of the human will when fueled by unconditional love.

Download or read book Why Does Mommy Have Tattoos written by Marilyn Rondon and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Does Mommy Have Tattoos? is a work of imagination and creativity by Marilyn RondOn. This illustrated children's book answers the questions often posed to tattooed parents by their children and their children's friends. Each page is bright and interactive, and the book engages children with themes of self-acceptance, wrapped in fun dialogue with richly colored illustrations by RondOn. Why Does Mommy Have Tattoos? Is an enthusiastic and unforgettable children's book for both conversation and learning.

Download or read book American Son A Novel written by Brian Ascalon Roley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to Hollywood celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of Manila and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, American Son is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience. A Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, and a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist

Download or read book Overwhelmed written by Kathi Lipp and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Don't Even Know Where to Start!" Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering if it's possible to move from "out of my mind" to "in control" when you've got too many projects on your plate and too much mess in your relationships? Kathi and Cheri want to show you five surprising reasons why you become stressed, why social media solutions don't often work, and how you can finally create a plan that works for you. As you identify your underlying hurts, uncover hope, and embrace practical healing, you'll become equipped to... trade the to-do list that controls you for a calendar that allows space in your life decide whose feedback to forget and whose input to invite replace fear of the future with peace in the present You can simplify and savor your life—guilt free! Clutter, tasks, and relationships may overwhelm you now, but God can help you overcome with grace. Foreword by Renee Swope, bestselling author of A Confident Heart.

Download or read book The Cure for the perfect Life written by Kathi Lipp and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like you fall short of being the wife, mother, daughter, and friend you long to be? This self-help guide offers girlfriend-to-girlfriend empathy and experience that will help you tell the difference between reasonable rules and bad ones and discover biblical wisdom to overcome the bad rules in your life.

Download or read book The Catholic Gentleman written by Sam Guzman and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it means to be a man or a woman is questioned today like never before. While traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades, now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon. How does one act like a gentleman in such confusing times? The Catholic Gentleman is a solid and practical guide to virtuous manhood. It turns to the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church to answer the important questions men are currently asking. In short, easy- to-read chapters, the author offers pithy insights on a variety of topics, including • How to know you are an authentic man • Why our bodies matter • The value of tradition • The purpose of courtesy • What real holiness is and how to achieve it • How to deal with failure in the spiritual life

Download or read book The Five Secrets from Oz written by Steve Garrison and published by Steve Garrison. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest books ever written about life transformation and finding your inner light. This book is pure empowerment, packaged in a way that has never been done before.

Download or read book An Eggnog to Die For written by Amy Pershing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is coming to Cape Cod, but when Sam Barnes finds a very dead Santa in a very hip restaurant, it’s up to her to sift out suspects who have been naughty vs. nice…. Professional foodie Samantha Barnes has a simple Christmas list: a quiet holiday at home with her dog and a certain handsome harbor master; no embarrassing viral videos; and no finding dead bodies. Unfortunately she’s got family visiting, she’s spending a lot of time in front of the camera, and she’s just stumbled over the lifeless body of the town’s Santa Claus. Plus, Sam’s plans for Christmas Eve are getting complicated. There’s the great eggnog debate among her very opinionated guests. There’s the “all edible” Christmas tree to decorate. And there’s her Feast of the Five Fishes prepare. Nonetheless, Sam finds herself once again in the role of sleuth. She needs to find out who slayed this Santa—but can she pull off a perfect feast and nab a killer?

Download or read book The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions written by Jessica K Heriot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use these fascinating first-person accounts to bring real-world problems into the classroom!The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook is a collection of personal narratives, short stories, and poetry about mental illness and other life-affecting problems, mostly in the context of family life. Each selection is accompanied by questions for discussion; selected reading lists are provided with each chapter. Beginning with problems related to childhood, the stories range through adolescence, adulthood, and old age. This unique book provides students and educators in psychology, social work, and counseling with an in-depth understanding of various mental illnesses and psychosocial problems through the life cycle. Its stories and narratives give students the unique opportunity to experience “from the inside” what it is like to live with an eating disorder or struggle with a compulsion phobia. The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions is more than a teaching tool. These stories are more than thought provoking, more than simply insightful. They are truly fascinating--each a candid, no-holds-barred glimpse into the personal reality of its narrator--and will inspire the kind of discussions that the best courses and instructors are remembered for. Your students will most likely have finished the book before the class has finished discussing the first chapter! With The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions, your students will explore: family relationships under various types of stress how families cope with physical illness what happens to the family when a loved one struggles with mental illness the impact of racial issues the effects of sexual abuse and domestic violence the process of healing from childhood trauma . . . and much more! The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions provides first-hand knowledge of what the loss of a parent to death, mental illness, or alcoholism feels like to the child; of how ”coming out” as a lesbian affects one's life; of the love and frustration of having a mentally handicapped sibling; of what it's like to lose one's memory in old age. No academic description can convey the feelings, meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based on direct experience--exactly what you'll find in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions--can offer this perspective.

Download or read book Between Mother Daughter written by Judy Ford and published by Mango Media. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family therapist and her daughter share tips and advice on creating and maintaining a healthy relationship during the teenage years. The special and loving bond between mothers and daughters doesn’t have to vanish with the onset of the teenage years. Listen to Judy Ford and her teenage daughter, Amanda, as they discuss issues that often lead to conflict. Learn how you can solve problems and grow closer to each other as a result. Praise for Between Mother and Daughter “Written with honesty, insight, and love. Judy and Amanda Ford take turns giving inspiring advice and practical tips on how other mothers and daughters can quit fighting and start cherishing each other.” —Carol Weston, author of Girltalk and For Girls Only “This sweet-hearted book creates a wonderful healing bridge between mothers and their teenage daughters.” —Daphne Rose Kingma, author of True Love and Finding Ture Love “This uniquely written book is an excellent resource for those seeking to enhance the lines of communication and understanding between mothers and daughters.” —Sean Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens “The book is jointly written, and the authors explore such issues as trust and freedom, talking about difficult subjects, and avoiding guilt trips, with a major emphasis on finding ways to stay connected even when disagreements arise . . . . Good reading for both mothers and daughters.” —Library Journal “There are also exercises for mothers and daughters to do together and suggestions on how to start difficult discussions. A valuable tool, it should be on the bookshelf of every girl and every mother as they navigate the complex and touchy teen years.” —Booklist

Download or read book Dreamstate written by Jed McKenna and published by Wisefool Press. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist. This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica. There’s also a related phenomenon where you fall asleep watching the documentary and wake up in the frozen wasteland. That’s gotta be weird, but the truth is that you’re asleep in a barren wasteland dreaming that you’re not, so that’s where waking up gets you.

Download or read book The Gathering Enhanced Ebook written by Kelley Armstrong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes an enhanced ebook edition of The Gathering with content only available here. Along with the complete ebook of The Gathering, this enhanced edition contains two exclusive new stories from Kelley. Plus fans can see Kelley's own photos of the Vancouver Island locations that inspire her. There are also three exclusive "blooper strips," a brand-new audio clip from Maya, a "What's Your Animal Instinct" quiz, and more!

Download or read book Smoke Rings Rising written by Jennifer L. Hunt and published by Smoke Rings Media, LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JENNY, 16, WISHED SHE HADN’T FOUND IT. Bobbi’s monthly list of bills, scrawled on an Aid to Families with Dependent Children stipend envelope, was tucked beneath an ashtray holding a half-smoked joint and smashed cigarette butts. “Mary Jane…rent…PG&E…groceries.” As always, Jenny’s mom’s weed connection topped the list while food sat at the bottom. Residing in rural Concow, California, in the 1980s, Jenny is accustomed to pot being the priority within her household and the necessities that most people take for granted not; however, the newfound methamphetamine is unsettling. A spoon on her dresser, a syringe in the bathroom medicine cabinet, tweakers in the attic! Jenny isn’t sure she can endure two long years ‘til she’ll graduate from Oroville High and be out on her own. When Bobbi, jonesing, delivers her very own death blow, Jenny can’t wait. Halfway through her sophomore year, she leaves home for good, oblivious that what lies ahead—teenage motherhood with no one to count on—will be so harrowing. How can she build a life for herself and son, and will it ever be normal? When Bobbi dies of an overdose in 2007, her urgent last request begins chasing Jenny, now in her mid-thirties. Facing heart-rending struggles, in Smoke Rings Rising the once drug-endangered daughter lays out with grit and grace how she turns haunting truths into inspiring triumph. In doing so, Jenny finds the true meaning of love, living, forgiving, and letting go.

Download or read book Four and a Half Shades of Fantasy written by W.J. May and published by W.J. May. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author W.J. May, comes a boxset of first books in her international bestselling series! RAE OF HOPE – THE CHRONICLES OF KERRIGAN How hard do you have to shake the family tree to find the truth about the past? Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family's history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed. Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter? As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her sixteenth birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It's up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family's past and have a ray of hope for her future. SEVENTH MARK Part 1&2 – THE HIDDEN SECRETS SAGA Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible incident occurs at an outdoor party. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer. An ancient journal, a Sioghra necklace and a special mark force life-altering decisions for a girl who grew up unprepared to fight for her life or others. Eternal - the Queen's Alpha Series When the king is murdered, his only daughter, Katerina, must flee for her life. She finds herself on a strange and dangerous path. Alone for the first time she's forced to rely on her wits and the kindness of strangers, while protecting her secret at the same time. Because she alone knows the truth. It was her brother who killed the king. And he's coming for her next. With her brother's hired assassins closing in at every turn, Katerina must unlock a secret that's hidden deep inside her. It's the only thing strong enough to keep the darkness at bay. Can she find the answers she needs? Will she ever take her rightful place on the throne? Only one thing is certain…she's running out of time. RADIUM HALOS – THE SENSELESS CHRONICLES Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life. The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again. Caught in a sudden thunderstorm, Zoe, a high school senior from Elliot Lake, and five of her friends take shelter in an abandoned uranium mine. Over the next few days, Zoe's hearing sharpens drastically, beyond what any normal human being can detect. All four develop similar traits. Their senses develop into stronger, supernatural powers. Fashioning themselves into superheroes, the group tries to stop the strange occurrences happening in their little town. Muggings, break-ins, disappearances, and murder begin to hit too close to home. It leads the team to think someone knows about their secret – someone who wants them all dead. An incredulous group of heroes. A traitor in their midst. Some dreams are written in blood. COURAGE RUNS RED – The BLOOD RED SERIES What if courage was your only option? When a raging blood feud between vampire & shifter spills into her home, Kallie is caught in the middle. Torn between love and family loyalty she must find the courage to fight, even if it means risking her own life in the process.

Download or read book The Kids written by Gabriela Herman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A stunning new photobook featuring more than fifty portraits of children brought up by gay parents in America, sixth in a groundbreaking series that looks at LGBTQ communities around the world Judges, academics, and activists keep wondering how children are impacted by having gay parents. Maybe it’s time to ask the kids. For the past four years, award-winning photographer Gabriela Herman, whose mother came out when Herman was in high school and was married in one of Massachusetts’ first legal same-sex unions, has been photographing and interviewing children and young adults with one or more parent who identify as lesbian, gay, trans, or queer. Building on images featured in a major article for the New York Times Sunday Review and The Guardian and working with the Colage organization, the only national organization focusing on children with LGBTQ parents, The Kids brings a vibrant energy and sensitivity to a wide range of experiences. Some of the children Herman photographed were adopted, some conceived by artificial insemination. Many are children of divorce. Some were raised in urban areas, other in the rural Midwest and all over the map. These parents and children juggled silence and solitude with a need to defend their families on the playground, at church, and at holiday gatherings. This is their story. The Kids was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).