Download or read book Leyla Stop Dreaming and Start Doing written by James Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple and beautiful Notebook for a girls and woman named Leyla, Just keep it as as a personal diary journal, or dream journal, travel journal, food journal, gratitude journal... The super perfect gift to any girl or woman you cherish Better Suited Notebook & Journal for Leyla Perfect size (6 x 9 ) 120 Blank Lined White Pages Soft cover book binding Flexible Paper-back Cover : Matte

Download or read book Give Work written by Leila Janah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to end poverty for good? Entrepreneur and Samasource founder Leila Janah has the solution—give work, not aid. “An audacious, inspiring, and practical book. Leila shows how it’s possible to build a successful business that lifts people out of poverty—not by giving them money but by giving them work. It’s required reading for anyone who’s passionate about solving real problems.” —Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and Originals Despite trillions of dollars in Western aid, 2.8 billion people worldwide still struggle in abject poverty. Yet the world’s richest countries continue to send money—mostly to governments—targeting the symptoms, rather than the root causes of poverty. We need a better solution. In Give Work, Leila Janah offers a much-needed solution to solving poverty: incentivize everyone from entrepreneurs to big companies to give dignified, steady, fair-wage work to low-income people. Her social business, Samasource, connects people living below the poverty line—on roughly $2 a day—to digital work for major tech companies. To date, the organization has provided over $10 million in direct income to tens of thousands of people the world had written off, dramatically altering the trajectory of entire communities for the better. Janah and her team go into the world’s poorest regions—from refugee camps in Kenya to the Mississippi Delta in Arkansas—and train people to do digital work for companies like Google, Walmart, and Microsoft. Janah has tested various Give Work business models in all corners of the world. She shares poignant stories of people who have benefited from Samasource’s work, where and why it hasn’t worked, and offers a blueprint to fight poverty with an evidence-based, economically sustainable model. We can end extreme poverty in our lifetimes. Give work, and you give the poorest people on the planet a chance at happiness. Give work, and you give people the freedom to choose how to develop their own communities. Give work, and you create infinite possibilities.

Download or read book The Awakened Woman written by Tererai Trent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence). Through one incredible woman’s journey from a small Zimbabwe village to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this book “can help any woman achieve her full potential” (Kirkus Reviews). Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah’s stage as her “favorite guest of all time,” she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by eighteen, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream. Tererai planted her dreams deep in the earth and prayed they would grow. They did, and now not only has she earned her PhD but she has also built schools for girls in Zimbabwe, with funding from Oprah. The Awakened Woman: A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams is her accessible, intimate, and evocative guide that teaches nine essential lessons to encourage all women to reexamine their dreams and uncover the power hidden within them—power that can recreate our world for the better. Tererai points out that there is a massive, untapped, global resource in women who have, for one reason or another, set aside their wisdom, their skills, and their dreams in order to take care of the personal business of their lives. Not only is this a type of invisible suffering experienced by countless women, this rich resource is a secret weapon for improving our world. Women have the capacity to inspire, to create, to transform—and Tererai’s call to action “shines as a beacon of hope to women everywhere” (Danica McKellar, actress and New York Times bestselling author).

Download or read book The Forgiving Dream written by John Harrison Taylor and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years ago, I saw a thirteen-year-old boy with the disease of Progeria, in which the aging process is accelerated in children, being interviewed on television. He looked like a little old man despite his tender years, yet he seemed to transcend his affliction. His voice had a musical, flute-like quality, and I had never seen anyone so full of joy and focused in the moment. I was later to learn that what emanated from that boy is typical of children with Progeria. I wondered what it must have been like in ancient times for such a child. Would he have been feared? Revered? Abandoned? Or put to death as evila devil child? Then, in an instant, I believe the Divine gave me the concept of a story that takes place in such ancient times with such a boy who becomes known as a great and wise healer at its center. The people think hes a little old man, but then its discovered hes really a twelve-year-old boy. The Forgiving Dream is the first book in The Forgiving Dream Trilogy.

Download or read book The Applicant written by Nazlı Koca and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singular debut from “an important and radical new literary voice” (Elif Batuman), The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writer It’s 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her failure. Increasingly distant from what used to be at arm’s reach—writerly ambitions, tight knit friendships, a place to call home—Leyla attempts to find solace in the techno beats of Berlin’s nightlife, with little success. Right as the clock winds down on the hold on her visa, Leyla meets a conservative Swedish tourist and—against her political convictions and better judgment—begins to fall in love, or something like it. Will she accept an IKEA life with the Volvo salesman and relinquish her creative dreams, or return to Turkey to her mother and sister, codependent and enmeshed, her father’s ghost still haunting their lives? While she waits for the German court’s verdict on her future, in the pages of her diary, Leyla begins to parse her unresolved past and untenable present. An indelible character at once precocious and imperiled, Leyla gives voice to the working-class and immigrant struggle to find safety, self-expression, and happiness. The Applicant is an extraordinary dissection of a liminal life between borders and identities, an original and darkly funny debut.

Download or read book Layla written by Rachel Schurig and published by Rachel Schurig. This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Layla—Intrigue’s carefree drummer and resident party-girl—becomes the object of obsession for a dangerous fan, she's forced to work with an overbearing bodyguard who seems determined to keep her from having any fun. Layla and John are supposed to be on the same team—so why does it seem like all they can do is fight? When the sparks between them take a romantic turn, all bets are off. This is the second book in the Intrigue series, a Ransom series spin-off

Download or read book Deluge written by Leila Chatti and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma." —Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding. In the Qur’an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment. The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection’s themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction. Deluge investigates the childhood roots of faith and desire alongside their present day enactments. Chatti’s remarkably direct voice makes use of innovative poetic form to gaze unflinchingly at what she was taught to keep hidden. This powerful piece of life-writing depicts Chatti’s journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both. Chatti blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and medical terminology in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.

Download or read book Nightcrawling written by Leila Mottley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 - THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEETHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore' THE TIMES'A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope' OPRAH WINFREY_______________We'll laugh because we can, until the sun disintegrates and nighttime threatens to set us free just to capture us again, back into the things we can't escape.Kiara does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a halfway house, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother disappears for days at a time. But as the pressures of rent to pay and mouths to feed increase, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her.Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world, told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising._______________'UNFORGETTABLE' GUARDIAN'A MAGNIFICENT DEBUT' RUTH OZEKI, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022_______________READERS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF NIGHTCRAWLING'Nightcrawling is a lyrical masterpiece' *****'This book ripped my heart out' *****'Unputdownable . . . From the first page I was hooked' *****'This is a heart-achingly necessary book which will carve a hole in your soul and stay with you forever' ***** 'It is rare to read a first novel so perfectly crafted' *****'This is an absolute must-read. Five stars out of five' *****'Completely gripping . . . This is going to be a huge bestseller' *****

Download or read book Life s a Dream written by Tricia Harper and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet is living life to the fullest even with a rare form of epilepsy. Although hard to control completely two grand mal seizures a month as apposed to either at least one, grand mal, petite mal, dizzy spell, or blackout every day, is beyond a dream come true for her! She's coming so far in her college writing class. One of her biggest dreams is to become an author! Out of nowhere, sometimes now, she just starts writing things/ideas down, for her book. She's also waiting for the painting she has just finished to dry completely. It's her favorite band's symbol. It's Bon Jovi's! She's planning on mailing it to them.What she hasn't planned on is having to be put in a coma. Every day she's living life, loving it and is so thankful for John and the kids, all her family, her best friend Trina, all her friend's, her dreams, how far she's come, everything she has now and still to go for. Maybe not everything is as it should or could be, but that doesn't hold her back or stop her. The way Violet see's it is; what's more important? Complaining about life's hardships and/or some pains she's having then letting them get the best of her, or standing strong, reaching for the stars, and never giving up on life, regardless?Then the coma. Well, nothing stops Violet from dreaming, and that's a fact!

Download or read book A Daddy for Dillon written by Stella Bagwell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love change this lonely cowboy? Having struggled for years, Leyla Chee wasn't about to mess up her temporary job as cook on the Chaparral Ranch. That meant focusing on her work, her young son and her dreams of going back to school. And certainly not being tempted by the sexy foreman who devoured her cooking, put a smile on Dillon's face and made her own heart race! But Laramie Jones's strong shoulders seemed ready to share Leyla's burdens. His rough hands smoothed away her cares. And his mouth…well, what he did with that mouth made her blush! Yet Laramie was a man without a real past—could she trust that what he really wanted was a future with her?

Download or read book Was it Love written by Neha Sultania, and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leila Rajput is a young girl, struggling with life and relationships, dealing with the trauma of a past life-event. Unaware of her true potential, she has almost given up on life, till she meets this dynamic, near-perfect Vikrant Rao via internet. He indentifies her potential and offers her a strange arrangement to be her mentor. He teaches her the basics of life, makes her realize her dreams and helps her in achieving them step by step. Under his guidance, she evolves into a confident and independent woman. They eventually fall in love and Vikrant relocates to her city, where he meets her friend Maya. While he solves Maya's life conflicts and helps her elope with Shahan, he charges a fee none could ever imagine. Is Vikrant a villain or a victim of greed? Did he truly love Leila or was she just a puppet to reach his next victim? Was it Love? is a story of Leila's journey through emotions, trials, betrayal and the devil called love.

Download or read book Layla Bali written by Lisa Zarkin McHugh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla Bali is an eleven year-old girl who sees things that others dont. She knows that there are unexplained dangers in this world. When Laylas dog, Molly, goes missing, Laylas search for her leads her into strange new lands. Layla awakens to a noise in the middle of the night and meets Jasmine, a black cat from the land of Baismal. Layla can speak to Jasmine, and the two are transported to Baismal through a staircase of fire. Malkolm, the evil ruler of Baismal, kidnapped Molly. He wants revenge for the death of his family, but he does not know his familys true fate. Layla and Jasmine must save Molly and end Malkolms reign of terror. When Layla accidentally transforms Jasmine from a housecat into a great black panther, she discovers that her words have magical power. Jasmine and Layla meet friends and enemies in their search for Molly, but many of the people Layla meets look like people she knew at home in the Middle Land. Even Kaleb, an attractive boy her age, looks very much like the boy she likes back home. Kaleb accompanies Layla and Jasmine as they continue their journey. In the dungeon of Malkolms castle, Layla, Jasmine, and Kaleb confront Malkolm and rescue many kidnapped animalsincluding Molly. They escape into the land of Atticalli, ruled by the good and powerful Lord Gani. Layla learns that the three lands are connected, and there may be a link between the people she met in Baismal and her friends back home. She herself is the reincarnation of Princess LelanieLord Ganis best friend. Malkolm tracks Layla to Atticalli where he attacks her and her friends. Lord Gani saves them, and Malkolm is defeated, but Malkolm still has a doppelgnger somewhere in the Middle Land. Until his doppelgnger is found, Malkolm may return to power. Lord Gani returns Layla and Molly to the Middle Land to search for Malkolms doppelgnger. Layla awakens in her bed with Molly safely home. Visiting her friends, she realizes that something isnt right, and she needs to figure out the truth about the people around her and the dream she has just had.

Download or read book Sam Layla Box Set written by S.B. Alexander and published by S.B. Alexander. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a captivating world where the clash between vampire and vampire hunter ignites an electrifying enemies-to-lovers romance. Join Sam and Layla on a pulse-pounding journey, defying insurmountable odds at every turn, and lose yourself in a tale of forbidden love that will leave you breathless, eagerly flipping through each page, craving more with every twist and turn from beginning to end. The Hunted As a vampire hunter, capturing targets should be easy. But when I draw my enemy out in the open, I’m blindsided by his mesmerizing green eyes and snarky wit. Sam Mason is the type of vampire my mom warned me about. The kind who will seduce you with his easy smile and arrogant charm. A million red flags are telling me to run. But my sisters’ lives are in jeopardy, and the only way to save them is to grovel for Sam’s help. The Predator I bit a vampire and liked it. Now, I’m craving blood as if I’m a creature of the night. I’m far from it. My family has been hunting bloodsuckers for centuries. So it comes as a horrifying shock when my aunt catches me licking blood off a knife like its cake batter. Panicking, she calls Sam Mason. Little does she know that dangling me like a carrot to the cocky Vampire Navy SEAL has consequences. If my uncle finds him on his property, he’ll burn Sam alive. Now instead of killing vampires, I’m rushing to save one. I pray I can’t get there in time. Otherwise, my family will suffer a fate worse than death. The Union Since I slept with a vampire, my family thinks I’ve committed a sacrilege, and they want to lock me away. It’s not me the Aberdeens should worry about but the powerful Vampire Navy SEAL Sam Mason. Beneath Sam’s boyish charm lies a predator, a ticking time bomb ready to destroy anyone who dares to mess with him or those he cares about, especially me. Yet he hasn’t met my human grandmother. She’s sweet with a dash of salt and a sprinkle of acid to complement her personality. It’s a lethal combination that will burn the toughest of adversaries right down to the bone. Nothing will stop her hunger for control and power and to lead a genetically altered army of supernatural killers with me as her lieutenant. A family war is brewing between the Aberdeens and Masons, and now I must choose sides. Sam and Layla Box Set includes the first three full-length novels of a seven book series. This collection has eight hundred pages in this enemies-to-lovers paranormal romance. It’s packed with a roller coaster of intrigue, suspense, and a slow-burn romance between a feisty heroine and a snarky, arrogant vampire.

Download or read book A Different Life written by Kristal Bain and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla spends half her life behind closed doors. Now as Midnight follow her jounery into the front lines of the wrestling world, where heart break and injury seemed a common thing in this place. As she reveals some hidden wrestling truths to you in her journey from unknown to a wrestling star.

Download or read book Wild Horses Wild Hearts 2 written by Montana West and published by Global Grafx Press. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will her dreams lead to love or betrayal? Enjoy a historical western romance from a delightful author who keeps you wondering what next for the characters! Aspiring show jumper, Leyla McNeal dreams becoming a champion like her older sister Maggie. And with Leyla's new companion Whirlwind, she sees a path forward to her goals. But when she meets her idol, traveling show jumper Chase McAllister, and sparks begin to fly, will their blossoming romance survive Chase's secret? Or will his betrayal trample her dream and heart? Find out in Wild Hearts, Wild Horses 2 by Montana West. Each book of the Wild Hearts series is a sweet, standalone romance that will leave you with a smile in your heart. If you love sweet Western romance, start reading Wild Horses, Wild Hearts 2 now!

Download or read book It s a Girl s Game written by Victoria Shelley and published by FilamentPublishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three twenty-something females are going about their day-to-day lives when one of them enters a competition in a men's magazine, which changes not only her own life but the lives of her two best friends. It's a Girl's Game is a must read for all those interested in pulling footballers!

Download or read book The Cat the Belly Dancer the Cello written by Georgia March and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the reader experiences Georgia March's magical The Cat, the Belly Dancer, & the Cello set at the beginning of twentieth-century Turkey, they will discover not everything is as it seems. Each chapter is a frozen snapshot covering another, waiting to be torn away. Unexpected danger ensnares two belly dancers from Istanbul who tackle it with lighthearted ease until their efforts are met with sinister results. Forced under someone else's microscope, the women come up against aspects of their own characters that bear examination. At the same time, a Canadian woman and her British boyfriend living in Spain venture through the centre of Turkey experiencing calamity and chaos in a country where both the language and customs bring new insight to the word foreign. Their personal backgrounds are also contrary to each other, meaning nothing is straight forward. This winding road leads them to Kas, a spellbinding place that captures their hearts and pocket books. Their lives become intricately intertwined with local Turks and they have the choice of learning to laugh at themselves or others will do it for them. At the same time, enjoy the anecdote of two cats with their own history, ideas on justice, and view of the world.