Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book If God Is Love Don t Be a Jerk written by John Pavlovitz and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people of faith, morality, and conscience actually aspired to this mantra. What if we were fully burdened to create a world that was more loving and equitable than when we arrived? What if we invited one another to share in wide-open, fearless, spiritual communities truly marked by compassion and interdependence? What if we daily challenged ourselves to live a faith that simply made us better humans? John Pavlovitz explores how we can embody this kinder kind of spirituality where we humbly examine our belief system to understand how it might compel us to act in less-than-loving ways toward others. This simple phrase, "Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible," could help us practice what we preach by creating a world where: spiritual community provides a sense of belonging where all people are received as we are; the most important question we ask of a religious belief is not Is it true? but rather, is it helpful? it is morally impossible to pledge complete allegiance to both Jesus and America simultaneously; the way we treat others is the most tangible and meaningful expression of our belief system. In If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk, John Pavlovitz examines the bedrock ideas of our religion: the existence of hell, the utility of prayer, the way we treat LGBTQ people, the value of anger, and other doctrines to help all of us take a good, honest look at how the beliefs we hold can shape our relationships with God and our fellow humans—and to make sure that love has the last, loudest word.

Download or read book Start with Why written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Gemin written by Chuck Bisbee and published by Chuck Bisbee. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gijar, a distant planet similar to Earth, has a virus and only one person can cure it. He's an 18 year old vegetable lying in a hospital bed here on Earth. While in a coma, Dice learns that his dreams become reality and the Gemin on Gamgijar desperately need his help to battle the virus that we know as Vampyr. Will he make it in time to save Gijar or will the virus challenge him on his death bed? The prophecy has been laid out, the battle lines have been drawn. Are you in?

Download or read book Loose Ends written by Electa Rome Parks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of Almost Doesn’t Count and Ladies’ Night Out. It’s been five years. Five years since they trusted one another—and betrayed one another—only as friends and lovers could. Beautiful Mia, getting a second chance at love . . . if she can forget the man from her past. Christian, every woman’s dream who gave up his player card for the one woman he’d lay down and die for, if only he could trust her. Then there’s Brice, bad to the bone and as irresistible as ever. One woman can tame him—if he’d give her the chance. Kree, innocent, stunning, and underestimated, and looking for the kind of die-hard passion that can change a life. When she finds it, it’s going to come with a price. Sometimes, it doesn’t take a lot to tear apart friends like these. All it takes is love.

Download or read book Real Love written by Rachel Lindsay and published by Dell. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality-TV love may look tempting, but real love could change everything in the debut novel from the Bachelorette star and author of Miss Me with That. Maya Johnson lives her life according to The Plan: to become the youngest-ever female director of her company, marry her college sweetheart, and build a fabulous life in Miami. Seeing as she’s almost near checking every last one of those items off her list, she doesn’t feel the need to go on the nationally beloved reality dating show Real Love. So when she’s offered the chance, she turns it down and tells the producers that her best friend, Delilah, should take part instead. But as she watches Delilah become the lead, fall in love, and change her life, Maya begins to wonder if she’s as happy as she thought—she doesn't have much in the way of a work-life balance, her relationship isn’t quite where she thinks it should be, and very little in her life is sparking joy. When Maya's free-spirited whirlwind of a little sister, Ella, blows into town for a surprise visit, Maya finds herself newly intrigued by Ella’s unrooted existence—and she’s equally intrigued by Ella’s gorgeous friend and fellow world traveler, Kai. At a crossroads with both her professional and personal happiness, Maya will have to decide which path to choose: The Plan she’s worked so hard for, or something new entirely.

Download or read book Happily Ever Never A Montgomery Ink Legacy Novella written by Carrie Ann Ryan and published by 1001 Dark Nights Press. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan returns to the Montgomery Ink world with a blind date romance between two unlikely strangers. I love falling in love. Only I’m the worst at it. My friends call me a serial first dater and I can’t blame them. All I want is a happy ever after, yet all I find are happy ever nevers. This is my last chance. After this set up with my friend’s tattoo artist, I’m done. No more dating. No more chances. If I don’t fall in love with Leo Johnson, I’ll give up on dating. Even if it shatters my dreams in the process. **Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.** Reviews for Happily Ever Never: “May is the heart of the Montgomery Ink Legacy series, she has been an awesome supporting character in all of the other books, so finally seeing her get her happily ever after was so amazing.” ~ The Reading Cafe “There was a depth of emotions in these characters that just struck a chord with my heart!” ~ Dar Gee Reads “This is such a cute story full of family and romance!” ~ Bookshelfofmydreams “Such a pleasant and warm read.” ~ bookreviewsbyJames “A quick sexy read that will grab you from the get go.” ~ HokuGirlReads

Download or read book Love Where You Work written by Anna Pulley and published by Anna Pulley. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: No mimes were injured in the making of this queer, workplace rom-com For Clare Kolikov, her work is her life. A successful HR manager with a heart of gold, the reserved Clare has no time for relationships or anything else that might distract her from climbing the career ladder at a San Francisco Bay Area matchmaking startup, W;nkdIn. When she’s force-volunteered as an LGBTQ beta date tester at W;nkdIn, the buttoned-up Clare teeters on the edge of despair, especially when the “experiences” involve pole dancing meet-n-greets, plant healing workshops, and miming. But Clare has her real work cut out for her when she meets Julia Dawes, the hot coworker who’s organizing her dates. Julia is a free-spirited, multiracial fashionista with “roller-blade confidence” and a Kristen Stewart haiku fan blog, whose attraction to Clare is as immediate and crippling as the debt she’s drowning in, thanks to the failed essential oils business her ex left her saddled with. Workplace rules aim to keep Clare and Julia apart––especially after Clare becomes Julia’s boss––but their attraction only grows like an out-of-control Excel spreadsheet. When an office rival threatens to expose their budding, secret relationship, Clare is left with an impossible choice: Give up her dream job or lose out on the girl of her dreams. Mixing business with pleasure has never been more bold, steamy, or hilarious… Fans of Casey McQuiston and Karelia Stetz-Waters will love this hilarious, heart-warming, lesbian romance

Download or read book Primal Heat written by Piper Davenport and published by Trixie Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoney I am what I am. A man who likes to f*ck, and a biker who is loyal solely to my club and my brothers. But someone has stolen what’s rightfully mine and I plan to bring the world down upon their head until I get it back. Only, things aren’t quite what they seem, and my world is about to implode when everything I’m familiar with is threatened. Sabrina I have sworn to protect and love my sister’s only child, and as far as I’m concerned, he’s mine. The problem is, before my sister died, she failed to fill me in on some very important details about her life. Now I’m facing an enemy I’m not prepared for, but to rescue my nephew, I’m willing to go all the way to hell… I’m just not sure I’ll make it back.

Download or read book Harm written by Piper Davenport and published by Trixie Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18+ Novella for language and sexual situations... Harm My past is one of tragedy and sadness, but I’ve worked too hard to make a new life for myself with my club brothers at my back. Just when I thought everything was as it should be, a sexy older woman walks into my life, her own demons nipping at her heels. Brynley I’m used to putting the needs of others before my own, which serves me well as a nurse, but it’s also left me shattered and broke after a nasty divorce. And now to make things worse, my psycho ex-husband wants me back and he’s willing to do anything to get me.

Download or read book Diamond Infatuated written by Remona G. Tanner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolms life had become nothing more than mundane repetition, a series of routine tasks from sunrise to sunset. Existence no longer required thought or effort. Life and death were inevitable birthrights, but love was a matter of luck. Hope had suffered extinction in his heart Somewhere in the desolate remains of a seemingly harmless man erupted a strong breezeperhaps blown in by fateand it smelled of her. It brought with it an obsession that would prove to be deadly. She was nothing more than an absent memory, an unattainable dream Malcolm had convinced himself he could never acquire, to protect himself from believing he deserved happiness. They had crossed paths before, back when Malcolm was far too young to comprehend what he believed to be love at first sight. He had loved her before beauty graced the eye, before he ever spoke a name so sweet. On the night the Diamond perished, there were two others present. One of them was consumed with an infatuation that stole her life. She was deemed the Diamond, a title not self-proclaimed but very much deserved. Her name was LaSydia the Diamond LaVan, a woman whose worth had been measured by manythe equivalent of a rare, precious stone.

Download or read book One Night Rancher Need Me Cowboy written by Maisey Yates and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with one simple favor. Now one night together has the promise of more… No one knows tough as nails bar owner Cara Thompson better than her best friend, rancher Jace Carson. And when Cara needs someone to stay with her at Lone Rock’s most historic, and possibly haunted, hotel to purchase it, Jace is the man for the job—even when the only furnished room has just one bed. One night shouldn’t be enough to change years of friendship, but a single kiss melts away years of restraint. As the sun rises, Cara might have secured her hotel, but has she ruined her friendship with Jace forever? FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Need Me, Cowboy by Maisey Yates When best friends spend the night together, will a forbidden kiss change everything? Find out in the next Carsons of Lone Rock novel by New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates.

Download or read book Empire of Dark written by K.J. Jackson and published by K.J. Jackson. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm desperate to wipe his family from the earth. He's desperate to put a baby in my womb. He is the king of the heathens. A king that wants my womb. But it's forbidden, our species breeding. Yet, a deal has been hatched for that very thing. One year—I’m to give Damen one year in his castle to impregnate me. I'm not exactly sure why a deal has been struck, but I do know that Damen is desperate to create half-breeds. Desperation I'll use to my advantage, for he's also the key to the vengeance that will set me free. His family destroyed everything I held dear a century ago, shattering me. Turning me into a shell. Now it’s time I rid the earth of their presence, but the only way to find them is through Damen. When I enter his lair, Damen believes I'm there to have his next child. He couldn’t be more wrong. I won't let him touch me. And I know I won't break, even if he is a master of seduction. But in the games between good and evil, uncrossable lines aren't always where they should be. Sometimes the lines scatter, disappearing to dust. Sometimes, even, the lines are crossed over with full intention. Empire of Dark is a dark fantasy romance with forbidden love, steam to make your toes curl, multiple POV, mythological tales and legends, fated mates, amazing powers, morally-grey choices, twists, cliffhangers, a kick-butt heroine, and an I-will-burn-the-earth-to-ash-for-her hero. It contains mature language, graphic violence, and explicit content. This is the first book in the Creatures of Sin and Seduction duet. Please read at your own discretion.

Download or read book Love Idiot written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Delicate written by K. L. Cottrell and published by K. L. Cottrell. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much can happen in the space of a single moment. One moment is all it takes for something extraordinary to begin—or to be torn away. Close friends Beckett and Noelle are well aware of that. Nearly two years have passed since they suffered the devastating loss of a brilliant part of their lives. Though a new normal seemed unthinkable, giving in to grief wasn’t an option; for Noelle’s young daughter and for themselves, they’ve been relearning how to live by relying on his genuine spirit, her caring warmth, and the forward march of time. However, life isn’t done with them just yet. Its next impactful moment forces this truth into view as they find their friendship shaken by the gentle whispers of another unexpected change. Their heads say they can’t embrace it. But what if there’s nothing their hearts need more? In this stirring romance about powerful bonds, broken plans, and life’s most beautiful and most undreamt-of paths, Beckett and Noelle must figure out where they stand in the delicate balance between their love for each other and their loyalty to the past. **This story contains mature content.**

Download or read book In the Silence written by Jaimie Leigh McGovern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resulting from a near drowning incident as a child, Bellamy Lawrence lives with the effects of a traumatic brain injury, including profound hearing loss. Ostracized by her family, Bellamy expects to spend her adult life alone, illustrating children's books in the solace of her Rittenhouse Square apartment with her service dog Otis. But a spilled cup of coffee, and a chance meeting with local radio host Sofia Reyes turns every expectation Bellamy had for her life upside down, as she finds herself thrust into a whirlwind romance she never believed possible.

Download or read book Misplaced Love Never Turn Back written by Tang CuHuLu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You said I killed the person you loved the most, so what did I count for? If she said that beating was a form of love, then what was shaming for five years? It said that when one reaches the depths of love, they will naturally see flowers bloom. Then, when would it be? Mu Xiaoyan, Love Ling An Jun, was not afraid of being buried! Not fearing inhuman abuse, He was not afraid of hopelessness either. Because, I only believe that one day, I will love you and you will be touched