Download or read book Letters to Kirabelle written by Becky Clifford and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to Kirabelle: My journey through cancer to motherhood & beyond By: Becky Clifford “Becky Clifford is authentic, raw and real. Just what this world needs more of. Her personal story of cancer, motherhood and more will keep you crying, laughing and relating to her every step of the way. It is more than a detailed summary of her life, it is a journey deep inside the mind of someone who is living every day to be all that she can and sharing her stumbles and struggles along the way. This is a must read, written in a voice that feels like a conversation with an old friend.” – Joy Gale Diagnosed with cancer at age thirty-one, Becky Clifford feared she might not be able to start the family she had always dreamed of. Becky wanted a daughter, and while nothing in her future was certain, she knew she was meant to be a mom. This is the story of her journey through cancer into motherhood and all the adventures that followed: moments of living authentically, loving openly, and letting go of fear. Through her personal journey of healing, Becky speaks to those who have struggled to feel connected to the power of love and to their own inner voice, encouraging her readers to live each day fully.
Download or read book Skylar s Outlaw written by Linda Warren and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skylar, the youngest Belle daughter, is known as the rebellious sister. But her days of sowing wild oats are over—now her life's about running the family ranch and keeping her four-year-old daughter safe. And Skylar doesn't feel very safe around Cooper Yates, High Five's foreman…and a former criminal. Cooper can't shake his reputation as an outlaw. Being framed for a crime he didn't commit is one thing. A stubborn boss lady making him feel he doesn't belong on the ranch—the only home he's known in years—is another. But when danger threatens her child, Cooper has a chance to show Skylar what really separates the good guys from the bad.
Download or read book Encouraging the Heart written by James M. Kouzes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlookedand under utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutualrespect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heartshows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they workwith by helping them find their voice and making them feel likeheroes. Recognized experts in the field of leadership, authorsJames Kouzes and Barry Posner show us that, through love, leaderscan encourage, and indeed allow those around them to be their verybest. Both practical and inspirational, Encouraging the Heart givesreaders a thoughtful approach to motivating individuals within anorganizational structure. Read Chapter 3 or Chapter 12, or see The Encouragement Index.
Download or read book The Day Anthony Counted to a Googol written by Mark North and published by Mark North Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Day Anthony Counted to a Googol is the timeless story of a precocious boy who loves to count. With the help of his Uncle Stephen, Anthony sets his goal higher and keeps on counting until he exceeds everyone's expectation by counting to a number so large that it stretches beyond concrete reality to pure imagination. This picture book exposes the reader to the fun side of mathematic principles and inspires curiosity by exploring how the same principles allow the reader to imagine and calculate numbers beyond anything on Earth. Ideal for children in grades K through 4.
Download or read book A Field Guide to Happiness written by Linda Leaming and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, we have everything we could possibly need or want—except for peace of mind. So writes Linda Leaming, a harried American who traveled from Nashville, Tennessee, to the rugged Himalayan nation of Bhutan—sometimes called the happiest place on Earth—to teach English and unlearn her politicized and polarized, energetic and impatient way of life. In Bhutan, if I have three things to do in a week, it’s considered busy. In the U.S., I have at least three things to do between breakfast and lunch. After losing her luggage immediately upon arrival, Leaming realized that she also had emotional baggage—a tendency toward inaction, a touch of self-absorption, and a hundred other trite, stupid, embarrassing, and inconsequential things—that needed to get lost as well. Pack up ideas and feelings that tie you down and send you lead-footed down the wrong path. Put them in a metaphorical suitcase and sling it over a metaphorical bridge in your mind. Let the river take them away. Forced by circumstance and her rustic surroundings to embrace a simplified life, Leaming made room for more useful beliefs. The thin air and hard climbs of her mountainous commute put her deeply in touch with her breath, helping her find focus and appreciation. The archaic, glacially paced bureaucracy of a Bhutanese bank taught her to go with the flow—and take up knitting. The ancient ritual of drinking tea brought tranquility, friendship, and, eventually, a husband. Each day, and each adventure, in her adopted home brought new insights and understandings to take back to frantic America, where she now practices the art of "simulating Bhutan." This collection of stories, impressions, and suggestions is a little nudge, a push, a leg up into the rarefied air of paradise—of bright sunlight and beautiful views.
Download or read book Nashville Streets and Their Stories written by Ridley Wills Ii and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2012 publication Ridley Wills tells the tales of the individuals and events that shaped Nashville and its surrounding communities such as Oak Hill and Belle Meade. In Nashville Streets and Their Stories, he divulges interesting facts about how presidents, politicians, businessmen, real estate developers, financiers, Civil War battles and Southern plantations combined to shape Nashville's unique history. Wills recounts local events ranging from the 1792 signing of a treaty between settlers and the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes at Treaty Oak to the more recent 2010 renaming of McLemore Street to YMCA Way. He identifies some areas such as "little Hollywood," "Hell's Half Acre, "The Nations," and others that are linked by the streets of Nashville. Listing more than five hundred of Nashville's most prominent place names, organized alphabetically, and illustrated with rarely seen photographs and illustrations, Nashville Streets and Their Stories captures the spirit of Nashville's forward thinkers and progressive builders. --Excerpt from the cover of Nashville Streets and Their Stories
Download or read book Wildflower written by Alecia Whitaker and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best songs come from broken hearts. Bird Barrett has grown up on the road, singing backup in her family's bluegrass band and playing everywhere from Nashville, Tennessee, to Nowhere, Oklahoma. But one fateful night, when Bird fills in for her dad by singing lead, a scout in the audience offers her a spotlight all her own. Soon Bird is caught up in a whirlwind of songwriting meetings, recording sessions, and music-video shoots. Her first single hits the top twenty, and suddenly fans and paparazzi are around every corner. She's even caught the eye of her longtime crush, fellow roving musician Adam Dean. With Bird's star on the rise, though, the rest of her life falls into chaos as tradition and ambition collide. Can Bird break out while staying true to her roots? In a world of glamour and gold records, a young country music star finds her voice.
Download or read book Push written by Adam Freeman and published by Wildstorm. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman Art by Bruno Redondo and Aaron Minier Cover by Jock Collecting the 6-issue miniseries prequel to the hit movie Push! A secret war is about to begin, fought on battlefields obscured in shadow...and the weapons in this new conflict will be the human mind! Enter agent Ezra Lowe, an operative in Division, trained from an early age in psychic warfare, until one mission goes horribly wrong. Advance-solicited; on sale September 9 - 144 pg, FC, $19.99 US
Download or read book Murphy s Laws of Songwriting written by Ralph Murphy and published by Murphy's Laws of Songwriting. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised 2013 About the Book Achieving "hit writer" status has always been a formidable goal for any songwriter. Never more so however than in the 21st century. Catching the ear of the monumentally distracted, fragmented listener has never been more difficult. Getting their attention, inviting them in to your song and keeping them there for long enough for your song to become "their song" requires more than being just a "good" songwriter. Murphy's Laws of Songwriting "The Book" arms the songwriter for success by demystifying the process and opening the door to serious professional songwriting. Hall of fame songwriter Paul Williams said in his review of the book "If there was a hit songwriters secret handshake Da Murphy would probably have included it." About the Author Ralph Murphy, songwriter, has been successful for five decades. Consistently charting songs in an ever-changing musical environment makes him a member of that very small group of professionals who make a living ding what they love to do. Add to that the platinum records as a producer, the widely acclaimed Murphy's Laws of Songwriting articles used as part of curriculum at colleges, universities, and by songwriter organizations, his success as the publisher and co-owner of the extremely successful Picalic Group of Companies and you see a pattern of achievement based on more than luck.
Download or read book Letters from Apartheid Street written by Michael T. McRay and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, Ron Sider challenged that until Christians are ready to risk everything in pursuit of peace, ""we dare never whisper another word about pacifism . . . Unless we are ready to die developing new nonviolent attempts to reduce conflict, we should confess that we never really meant that the cross was an alternative to the sword."" From this challenge, Christian Peacemaker Teams was born. Nearly thirty years later, Michael McRay too explored Sider's challenge, interning with CPT in the West Bank city of Hebron. Alongside local and international peacemakers, McRay learned how to resist the violence of occupation, sharing in the stories of a suffering people as he struggled to embody the peaceable spirit of the rabbi from Nazareth. This book tells those stories. Drawing on his personal experience with the land and its history, McRay's raw letters home tackle critical issues relevant to peacemakers everywhere: What is really happening in Palestine that mainstream media fails to report? How are Palestinians' lives being affected? How can one be peaceable amidst such violence and oppression? How should Christian discipleship influence one's pursuits of peacemaking and reconciliation? McRay's letters illustrate both the challenge and promise of the cross in today's world. ""Our field needs passionate, on-the-ground, firsthand descriptions of the challenges of constructively engaging settings of deep and painful conflict. McRay's book provides just such a window."" --John Paul Lederach, author of The Moral Imagination ""Surprisingly invitational. This is a book worth reading and rereading. As a guide for activism, I hope these reflections will have a profound rippling effect."" --Kathy Kelly, Nobel Peace Prize nominee ""A valuable resource for all who are called to be peacemakers--which should mean all of us."" --Brian D. McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity ""What is hopeful about these letters is the humanity the author shows through his interaction with Jews and Palestinians. In a down-to-earth yet profound way, this book shows Jews a way out of the injustice of occupying another people. What more important lesson do we Jews have to learn before it is too late?"" --Marc H. Ellis, author of Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation ""Here is a book as unflinchingly faithful to the Christian gospel as a book can possibly be."" --Richard T. Hughes, author of Myths America Lives By Michael T. McRay received his BA in History from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, earning regional and national awards for his senior thesis comparing European colonialism and the Israeli occupation. In addition to his internship with Christian Peacemaker Teams, Michael has worked and traveled extensively in the West Bank in various capacities. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in conflict transformation and reconciliation with the Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin) in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Download or read book Hydrogen future Fuel written by N. A. Olien and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trophy written by Michael Griffith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vada Prickett is a 29-year-old Hose Associate at a car wash in South Carolina, and Darla, the woman he loves, is about to marry his friend, rival, and life-long neighbor, Wyatt Yancey. Vada has “spent his life waiting for the thing to get a proper start.” But it will never get that start, for Vada, as this wildly original novel opens, is being crushed to death by Wyatt’s latest animal trophy, a stuffed grizzly bear Vada has been helping him to smuggle—against Darla’s wishes—into Wyatt’s house. It turns out that the cliché is true—at the moment of death, your life does flash before your eyes. Trophy, the account of a man’s final, fleeting instant on earth, joins Vada as he attempts to make that flash last as long as possible. As he lies dying, too soon and too absurdly, Vada tries to unravel the mysteries of his life. He first bargains with God, then rages against the dying of the light. Exhausted, Vada proceeds to prolong, in every way available to a man in his dire circumstances, the time he has remaining. Just beneath Griffith’s dark humor and witty take on our present-day culture lies a meditation on memory and identity and the power of language over both.
Download or read book And the Soft Wind Blows written by Lance Umenhofer and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timmy Enosh is a peculiar, small man: fivethree, onehundredandfifteen pounds, and is a pharmacist in Ashton City, Tennessee. He finds himself at fortythreeyearsold as his life starts to fall apart: his threehundred pound wife disappears, his romantic interest has lost interest and has gained hatred toward him, his coworkers harass him, customers verbally assault him, and he has the strange urge to adopt his foulmouthed, eighteenyearold coworker, Alex. When things start to pile up, Timmy must find a way to deal: he turns to Alex to supply him with marijuana, starts sewing an elaborate Mr. Mistoffelees costume, finds solace in the wild, etc., etc., etc. And the soft, constant wind of change blows him on, on, and on.
Download or read book The Highwaymen written by Marc Bernardin and published by Wildstorm. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman Art by Lee Garbett Cover by Brian Stelfreeze Collecting the high-octane 5-issue miniseries! In their prime, Able "Speed" Monroe and Ichabod McQueen were couriers capable of ferrying anything, anywhere, anytime. Now almost obsolete, they're called out of retirement to deliver some very dangerous cargo for a dead President. If only they knew what is was - and why everyone else wants to kill them for it. Advance-solicited; on sale March 5
Download or read book The Lost Summer written by Kathryn Williams and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I died one summer, or I almost did. Part of me did. I don't say that to be dramatic, only because it's true." For the past nine years, Helena Waite has been returning to summer camp at Southpoint. Every year the camp and its familiar routines, landmarks, and people have welcomed her back like a long-lost family member. But this year she is returning not as a camper, but as a counselor, while her best friend, Katie Bell remains behind. All too quickly, Helena discovers that the innocent world of campfires, singalongs, and field days have been pushed aside for late night pranks on the boys' camp, skinny dipping in the lake, and stolen kisses in the hayloft. As she struggles to define herself in this new world, Helena begins to lose sight of what made camp special and the friendships that have sustained her for so many years. And when Ransome, her longtime crush, becomes a romantic reality, life gets even more confusing. Told with honesty and heart, Kathryn Williams' second novel tackles the timeless theme of growing up, set at a camp where innocence is created and lost.
Download or read book Pizza Love and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous written by Kathryn Williams and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Sophie Nicolaides was practically raised in the kitchen of her family's Italian-Greek restaurant, Taverna Ristorante. When her best friend, Alex, tries to persuade her to audition for a new reality show, Teen Test Kitchen, Sophie is reluctant. But the prize includes a full scholarship to one of America's finest culinary schools and a summer in Napa, California, not to mention fame. Once on set, Sophie immediately finds herself in the thick of the drama—including a secret burn book, cutthroat celebrity judges, and a very cute French chef. Sophie must figure out a way to survive all the heat and still stay true to herself. A terrific YA offering—fresh, fun, and sprinkled with romance.
Download or read book The Queen of Kentucky written by Alecia Whitaker and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and and fit in with the popular crowd at her small-town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated" clothes, and strikes up an unlikely flirtation with the freshman class's resident bad boy. She's on top of the world, even though her best friend and neighbor, Luke, say she misses "plain old Ricki Jo." Caught between being a country girl and a wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo begins to forget who she truly is: someone who doesn't care what people think and who wouldn't let a good-looking guy walk all over her. After a serious incident on Luke's farm, Ricki Jo realizes that being a true friend is more important than being popular... and the one boy who matters most has been next door all along.
