Download or read book On the Bright Side written by Melanie Shankle and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Mama blog founder and New York Times bestselling author Melanie Shankle helps us sort through our questions about being true to ourselves in a world gone crazy and what matters the most in the end. These days, so many voices tell us what to do, what to think, and what kind of parent or friend or spouse to be that it's easy to feel overwhelmed and defeated. Somewhere in the midst of online arguments and crazy politics and the ups and downs of life, we've lost sight of the gifts that are all around us: kindness, love, mercy, and joy. In On the Bright Side, Melanie Shankle reminds us of the unchanging principles we can count on in a changing world. These are lessons that Melanie has learned along the way about how to find all the joy that life has to offer--and why encouragement is never something to keep to ourselves. Melanie invites us to lead with love in all areas of our lives, exploring topics such as: Finding your people Giving up on comparing and competing Aging (kind of) gracefully Believing in ever after Staying mostly sane while raising kids Thinking before speaking Making decisions And more! This delightful memoir highlights the joys of life told in Melanie's down to earth, relatable, and totally enjoyable style. On the Bright Side is a how-to guide to knowing--and living--what matters most.

Download or read book I Love You Daddy written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook takes a lovely look at the love shared between fathers and babies everywhere. Children will adore meeting the cutest father and baby animal pairs, from monkeys in the rainforest to chickens on the farm. Bright photographs are accompanied by fun rhyming text perfect for reading aloud to your little one. Children will love to list all the different things their dads do for them, and why they love them so much. And daddies will, too! This adorable ebook makes the ideal gift for amazing dads.

Download or read book I Am Light I Am Bright written by Melanie Lococo and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's coloring book for all ages, to inspire each one to believe in themselves, find their purpose and share it with others. "I am Light, I am Bright is a delightful and message filled story for young children. It's a rich and generous story of learning to love themselves and accept help from others. The repeating affirmation is excellent and something children can use long after the story is read. It's a life lesson! Beautiful!"Barbara Goodwin, MS, Director, Special Education (Ret)

Download or read book Roping Melanie written by Melissa Ellen and published by Honey Bee Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I didn’t have a lot, but what I had I was proud of. I was raised to keep my head down and work hard. I followed the rules, rarely straying off the straight and narrow path. That’s why when the opportunity to get wild and have a little fun presented itself, I jumped on it—or more like on him. The handsome cowboy from the bar. It was one night in Vegas. Afterward, all I had was the memory of his body pressed to mine and the hotel room key I swiped as I snuck out. I never expected to see him again. I definitely never imagined he’d show up in my small hometown seven years later, only to discover the daughter he never knew about.

Download or read book It s Not Fair written by Melanie Dale and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey, you. Are you debating whether to destroy something with your bare hands or curl up on the couch for a decade or two? This book will solve all of your problems. (Sheesh, that's aiming a bit high.) This book is a cup of hot coffee, a ginormous bar of chocolate, or the magical fairy that comes over and does your dishes while you lie in the fetal position clutching a fluffy pillow. Sometimes when life falls apart the only acceptable response is hysterical laughter. When things get so far gone, so spectacularly a world away from any plans you made or dreams you dreamed, you feel it bubbling up inside of you and you scream, "It's not fair!" And it isn't. Fair is an illusion, and life is weird. This book will help you laugh at life's absurd backhands. This book is an empathetic groan of our collective unfairnesses. You might want to throw it across the room, and you might want to hug it like your new best friend. This book is about us sitting down together in our shared mess, taking a deep breath, gripping hands, looking the hard stuff in its beady little eyeballs, and bahahahaaing at it. Life's not fair, but we can learn to love this life we didn't choose.

Download or read book The Likely World written by Melanie Conroy-Goldman and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[T]hemes of motherhood, love, and addiction collide in heartbreaking and dangerous ways” in this provocative and fascinating debut novel (Publishers Weekly). After twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user’s short-term memory, Mellie’s mind is a messy collection of fragments. Now a single mother, she has decided to get clean with the help of a tough-minded sponsor. She desperately clings to her fragile sobriety, but on the evening of her twenty-ninth day sober, a stranger pulls into Mellie’s driveway—and her heart surges. To protect her new life and her two-year-old daughter, Mellie must now piece together the shards of her traumatic past. Shifting between 1988 and 2010, Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s debut novel is “bizarre and beautiful, equal parts brainy lit and gut-bucket pulp” (Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior).

Download or read book Lured into Love written by Melanie Martins and published by Melanie Martins LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s a nasty kind of love. The kind you can’t escape from even if you want to.” Petra should’ve known better. But her heart has always beaten for the one man that she can’t have: her beloved godfather, Alexander Van Dieren. And despite the firm disapproval from her mother, the rising politician and activist, Tess Hagen, Petra is determined to take her life into her own hands and fight for him, no matter the price. But she can only do so if Alexander will go just as far for her. So after waking up from her coma, she asked him one question. He gave her one answer. And from there, nothing will ever be the same... This book is for mature audiences.

Download or read book Church of the Small Things written by Melanie Shankle and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner? It’s been said, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.” The pressure of that can be staggering as we spend our days looking for that big thing that promises to take our breath away. Meanwhile, we lose sight of the small significance of fully living with every breath we take. Melanie Shankle, New York Times bestselling author and writer at The Big Mama Blog tackles these questions head on in her fourth book, Church of the Small Things. Easygoing and relatable, she speaks directly to the heart of women of all ages who are longing to find significance and meaning in the normal, sometimes mundane world of driving carpool to soccer practice, attending class on their college campus, cooking meals for their family, or taking care of a sick loved one. The million little pieces that make a life aren’t necessarily glamorous or far-reaching. But God uses some of the smallest, most ordinary acts of faithfulness—and sometimes they look a whole lot like packing lunch. Through humorous stories told in her signature style, full of Frito pie, best friends, the love of her Me-Ma and Pa-Pa, the unexpected grace that comes when we quit trying to measure up, and a little of the best TV has to offer, Melanie helps women embrace what it means to live a simple, yet incredibly meaningful life and how to find all the beauty and laughter that lies right beneath the surface of every moment.

Download or read book Making a Life written by Melanie Falick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world, author and maker Melanie Falick went on a transformative, inspiring journey. Traveling across continents, she met quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, and uncovered truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today: We make in order to slow down. To connect with others. To express ideas and emotions, feel competent, create something tangible and long-lasting. And to feed the soul. In revealing stories and gorgeous original photographs, Making a Life captures all the joy of making and the power it has to give our lives authenticity and meaning.

Download or read book Kicking and Screaming written by Melanie D Gibson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically. In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial art of taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered her West Texas childhood taekwondo instructors’ Grandmaster operated a taekwondo school a few miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas—and she decided to start her training over as a white belt. In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start in more ways than one. She found an inner peace she’d never known before, a sense of community, a newfound confidence, and a positive outlook on life. The kicking and screaming she was doing in class quieted the long-term kicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is the story of Melanie’s life-changing journey from troubled, lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.

Download or read book Meet Me at Lennon s written by Melanie Myers and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As university student Olivia Wells sets out on her quest to find an unpublished manuscript by Gloria Graham &– a now obscure mid-twentieth century feminist and writer &– she unwittingly uncovers details about a young woman found murdered. Strangled with a nylon stocking in the mangroves on the banks of the river in wartime Brisbane, the case soon became known as the river girl murder. Olivia's detective work exposes the sinister side of that city in 1943, flush with greenbacks and nylons, jealousy and violence brewing between the Australian and US soldiers, which eventually boiled over into the infamous Battle of Brisbane. Olivia soon discovers that the diggers didn't just reserve their anger for the US forces &– they also took it out on the women they perceived as traitors, the ones who dared to consort with US soldiers.Can Olivia rewrite history to bring justice to the river girl whose life was so brutally taken? Even if the past can't be changed, is it possible to undo history's erasure?

Download or read book Love Struck written by Melanie La'Brooy and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Isabelle's boyfriend moves to Adelaide, she is confident the two of them, with infinite maturity, will be able to sustain a long-term, long-distance relationship. That is until she broadcasts the details of a disastrous one-night stand and he seeks solace in the arms of a nice Adelaide girl. Isabelle is left to contend with the vagaries of single life in Sydney, capital of the dodgy date. But she has some things to be thankful for: a glam job in an art-auction house and a set of friends whose own eccentricities disqualify them from being in any position to judge Isabelle and her romantic misadventures too harshly. Finally the dust settles: Isabelle 'discovers' an important work of art, which boosts her career prospects, and a fellow named Dr Jack arrives to treat her broken heart.

Download or read book Odd Woman Out written by Melanie Chartoff and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Irresistible Cloverleigh Farms written by Melanie Harlow and published by Cloverleigh Farms. This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm a full-time single dad to three daughters and CFO at Cloverleigh Farms. I don't have time to fall in love-I'm too busy trying to run a business, keep the red socks out of the white laundry, and get the damn pillowcases on without owing a dollar to the swear jar.Sure, Frannie Sawyer is beautiful and sweet, but she's twenty-seven, the boss's daughter, and my new part-time nanny-which means she's completely off-limits. It's bad enough I can't stop fantasizing about her, what kind of jerk would I be if I acted on the impulse to kiss her?(Exactly the kind of jerk you're thinking.)Actually, I'm worse than that-because I didn't stop with a kiss, and now I can't stay away. She makes me feel like myself again. She reminds me what it's like to want something just for me. She's everything I ever needed, but nothing I ever imagined.I'm a former Marine. I should have had the strength to resist her from the start.But I didn't. And now I have to choose between the life I want and the life she deserves.Even if it means giving her up.

Download or read book A Love Remembered written by Lizzie Thomas and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The King s Daughter written by Jarrett Ramey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six year old Nicky Stowe, life was a mixed bag of good times in the world around her and a nightmare at home. But, she found hope in form of her little sister Sammi and a beautiful mommy for hire named Melanie Swan. Nicky found how to get back what she needed the most, her family, and a way to become royalty with a simple request. She found the way to be a princess just by asking and got a sweet visit from the King of the Universe. Is this as real as Melanie believed and could Nicky really become a princess? Is this something for anyone who wants it? And what is it like to be the King daughter? Is it a fairy tale or real life? Nicky found that it’s both. Read how simple little girl Became the King’s daughter. Maybe you can too if you just ask. Like Bill said to Nicky, it never hurts to ask.

Download or read book Melanie s Choice A Novel written by Elizabeth Anne Rogers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-07-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MELANIE’S CHOICE Surviving her rape and near murder, Melanie Morrison stumbles into a world torn apart by a tornado that kills her rapist and devastates her hometown of Sainte Lillian’s Missouri. Ultimately, Melanie is forced to make decisions that will affect not only her life, but also the lives her family and friends as well. MELANIE’S CHOICE is a story that pits hate against love and proves forever which is the strongest. Walk with Melanie. Share her pain, her sorrow, her laughter and her joy. KIDS IN A CARDBOARD BOX On a cold October evening, four emaciated children are found huddled together in a large cardboard box. Their past and their future unfolds in a true to life story that pinpoints horrors faced by neglected children.