Download or read book Poisoned Love written by Tamikio L Dooley and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st Warang Poetry Anthology invites readers on a captivating poetic journey through the vast spectrum of human emotions and experiences. This compilation artfully weaves together diverse poems, each a shimmering gem in its own right, crafted by master wordsmiths of our time: W. J. Manares Marvin Wrighttee KwiinMartha Kristi June Cherselle Rhemaveal S. Bonifacio Haya Jhie ROSEANDTULIPS31 ziniriya DManunulat Christian Dave Amada From the tender innocence of first love to the searing pain of heartbreak, these verses explore the raw depths of human connections. Joyous celebrations of nature's beauty entwine with contemplative reflections on life's impermanence, reminding us to cherish every moment. Amidst the verses, dark shadows cast by grief, war, and loss are bravely confronted, fostering empathy and understanding. Editors: Marvin Wrighttee & W. J. Manares Compiler: W. J. Manares Unveiling vivid portraits of the human spirit, the anthology delves into themes of resilience, hope, and the quest for meaning. Diverse poetic forms paint a vivid tapestry that embraces readers from all walks of life. Offers solace, inspiration, and an everlasting appreciation for the enduring power of poetry. Book Cover Art: Kristi June

Download or read book Airball written by L.D. Harkrader and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirby Nickel loves basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But when an opportunity to meet NBA star Brett McGrew comes up, Kirby knows he has to take a chance and try out for the basketball team. Getting on the team turns out to be easy—the rest of the boys are as supremely untalented as Kirby—but winning in order to be eligible to meet McGrew is a whole different problem. Different and embarrassing. The coach's radical new plan for success involves the boys playing in their underwear. But if this crazy idea works, Kirby will get to meet his hero—who he secretly also hopes is his long-lost father.

Download or read book Raising Real Men written by Hal Young and published by Great Waters Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families with boys often find the world reacts to them in mock horror. Even though parents love their sons, privately they admit that boys can be a handful to raise--they are boisterous, competitive, reckless, distractable. The challenge of wills between parent and son starts early, and the quest to civilize young bulls may seem hopeless some days. Yet believers know that God has given them children as a gift of heaven, specially chosen for their particular families and marked as a blessing. If that's so, why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when it's all we can do to make it through another day? Isn't there a better way? Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys shows the answer is emphatically yes. Written by the parents of six boys, Raising Real Men provides hope and encouragement to families with sons. Starting from the premise that God made boys to become men, Hal and Melanie Young offer Biblical principles and tested, practical ideas for training the manly virtues that can drive parents and teachers up the wall. This is a practical guide to equipping the hearts and minds of boys without breaking or losing your own. "...earthy, realistic, humorous, and scriptural ..." -- Douglas Wilson, author, Future Men "This is just what the doctor ordered for parents who want to raise capable Christian men of character." -- John Rosemond, author, Parenting By The Book

Download or read book Melanie in Manhattan written by Carol Weston and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For once, Mel is spending her vacation on her home turf—Manhattan! But she’s not alone. Miguel, the cute boy she met in Spain, is visiting New York, and this time Mel gets to be his tour guide. From the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty, from the Central Park Zoo to the Brooklyn Bridge, Mel and Miguel are off on their own adventures. But—uh-oh!— Mel also meets a boy in math class. And while she is learning lots about the Big Apple, she is also learning it’s harder than you think to like two guys at one time.

Download or read book My Dearest Sister written by Melanie J. Pellowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satisfy the expectations of sorority newbies and legacies alike by showcasing what makes each chapter special. My Dearest Sister is a sweet and funny interactive journal and a genuine reflection of what real sorority life is all about. Fit for any present, past, or future sorority girl, this cute keepsake honors the spirit, community, and chapter secrets of sororities while leaving room for girls to capture all of their own special memories and traditions in one book for years to come. Inside this heartfelt guide, you’ll discover: The colorful history and tradition surrounding Greek life Sorority houses, songs, handshakes, and secrets A personalized guide to crafting and party planning Alumni chapters Stickers and journal pages to customize your own sorority experience And more! Any sorority girl who's ever craved a time capsule to keep her friendships everlasting and fresh should look no further; My Dearest Sister is the token gift that celebrates womanhood and seals the bonds of sisterhood for life.

Download or read book Tortillas and Butter written by David J. Gurule and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Tommy Chávez, growing up in Northern New Mexico had been great. The love he shared for his family was strong and exquisite. His life had been simple and he enjoyed it that way. But one horrific accident changed his life forever. With the help of his girlfriend Melanie and best friend Weasel, Tommy pushes forward as best as he can. Follow Tommy through his senior year of high school as he attempts to regain some kind of meaning to this life of his. One thing is certain though: the love of familia is like nothing else in this world.

Download or read book Defining Moments written by Melanie Warner and published by Heritage Builders. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grief knows no age. Death of a child is devastating, whether it's a young mother with a stillborn baby or an elderly father mourning the loss of his middle-aged son from cancer. For parents who have suffered the loss of a child, the path to recovery is often scattered with deep emotional struggle with few known comforts or resources. Stories of Hope and Healing from Other Parents After the loss of a child, rising above the depths of despair and embracing the fullness of life can feel like an impossible feat. The collection of stories shared here are from parents who endured the strength to cope with the loss of their children. Imagine having another parent take your hand during the darkest stage of your grief and show you that there can be light and even hope for your future."--Page 4 of cover

Download or read book Judah written by Marisa T. Johnson MD and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica was content with her life. She had the love of family and friends and a promising career. Because of past tragedy, she was not looking for romance. So, when Judah appeared in her life, she made sure he knew that anything other than friendship was off limits. Judah was considered one of the most eligible bachelors in the country and one of the shrewdest businessmen in the industry. He did not have time for any romantic entanglements. So, how do two people who want to avoid love at all costs end up being perfect for each other?

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 Strings Attached written by Joanne Lipman and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE. If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend. For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K--a Ukrainian-born taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them before. Through sheer force of will, he made them better than they had any right to be. Strings Attached tells the inspiring, poignant, and powerful story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for his students. Lyrically recounted by two former students -- acclaimed journalist Joanne Lipman and Mr. K's daughter, Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Melanie Kupchynsky -- Strings Attached takes you on a journey that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie's sister. This is an unforgettable tale -- a captivating narrative that is as absorbing as fiction -- about the power of a great teacher, but also about the legacy that remains long after the last note has faded into silence: lessons in resilience, excellence, and tough love. Strings Attached is for anyone indebted to a mentor and for those devoted to igniting excellence in others.

Download or read book After the Oracle written by Shane Anderson and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016, Shane Anderson made a vow to live according to the four core values of the Golden State Warriors to escape a decade of defeats—including divorce, debilitating spinal surgery and a suicide attempt. The basketball team’s values of joy, mindfulness, compassion, and competition became Anderson’s guiding principles, providing him a lens to investigate a myriad of social, personal, philosophical, and political issues, such as homelessness, the promises and failures of rave culture, and the limits of self-help. Part memoir, part essay, and part chronicle of the greatest five-year stretch of a team in NBA history, After the Oracle depicts the makes and misses of one expat trying to make a life worth living.

Download or read book The Race to Save the Lord God Bird written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.

Download or read book Finding Jack written by Melanie Bennett Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can their online flirtation become something real? "Melanie Jacobson nails everything: the chemistry, the will-they-won't-they, the humor. It's sweet romance at its best." -Ranée Clark, author of Playing for Keeps When smart, practical Emily finds herself in the crosshairs of an Internet prankster, her orderly world goes topsy-turvy. Instead of getting mad at the handsome stranger behind the joke, she finds herself drawn to him. But Jack Dobson, though hilarious and thoughtful, has a lot of secrets. Despite her growing feelings for her new and unexpected long-distance friend, his biggest secret of all might be the one that breaks the spell they've been weaving around each other.

Download or read book Wizard s Fate written by Paul B. Thompson and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing team Thompson & Cook once again explore the history of the ancient Dragonlance world in The Wizard's Fate, the next title in The Ergoth trilogy. Considered the historical specialists of the Dragonlance world, the authors take the story to a colorful and violent era of its history that has not been previously chronicled in any novel.

Download or read book Double Love written by Joni Rovio and published by Joni Rovio. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Double Love" is a captivating romance novel set in the picturesque town of Serendipity, where love's unexpected twists take center stage. Follow the intertwined lives of four individuals - Stephanie, Malloy, Melanie, and Tom - as they navigate the complexities of forbidden desires and hidden secrets. Amidst the backdrop of charming landscapes and intimate moments, these characters embark on a journey of self-discovery, confronting their deepest truths and the undeniable pull of destiny. With each turn of the page, readers will be swept away by the passion, intrigue, and enchantment of Serendipity, where every twist of fate leads to a newfound understanding of the power of love.

Download or read book Living at the Movies written by Jim Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1981-09-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author of The Basketball Diaries Originally released in 1973, Living at the Movies was the first aboveground publication of the work of Jim Carroll, a singer-songwriter Newsweek called “contender for the title of rock’s new poet laureate.” In these poems, all written before the age of twenty-two, Carroll shows an uncanny virtuosity. His power and poisoned purity of vision are reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud, and, like the strongest poets of the New York School, Carroll transforms the everyday details of city life into poetry. In language at once delicate, hallucinatory, and menacing, his major themes—love, friendship, the exquisite pains and pleasures of drugs, and above all, the ever-present city—emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. It is an astonishing debut by an important American writer and artist. “Jim Carroll has the sure confidence of a true artist. . . . He is steeped in his craft. He has worked as only a man of inspiration is capable of working. . . . His beginning is a triumph.”—Gerard Malanga, Poetry

Download or read book The Host written by Stephenie Meyer and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves -- Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love. Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies, The Host is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.