Download or read book A Single Mom s Diary written by IviaNat and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful journey of a single Mom

Download or read book Someone to Run With written by David Grossman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning Israeli author’s novel “is a cross between Run Lola Run and Oliver Twist . . . [with] an urgency that becomes almost unbearable” (New Yorker). David Grossman’s Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling. When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict. A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the Christian Science Monitor: “It’s time for Americans to fall in love with Someone to Run With.” “Part urban survival adventure, part YA romance, and part mystery.” —Booklist “Grossman’s most entertaining book yet.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Download or read book Hands Free Mama written by Rachel Macy Stafford and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the power, joy, and love of living a present, authentic, and intentional life despite a world full of distractions. If technology is the new addiction, then multitasking is the new marching order. We check our email while cooking dinner, send a text while bathing the kids, and spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. With our never-ending to-do lists and jam-packed schedules, it's no wonder we're distracted. But this isn't the way it has to be. Special education teacher, New York Times bestselling author, and mother Rachel Macy Stafford says enough is enough. Tired of losing track of what matters most in life, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to momentarily let go of largely meaningless distractions and engage in meaningful soul-to-soul connections. Finding balance doesn't mean giving up all technology forever. And it doesn't mean forgoing our jobs and responsibilities. What it does mean is seizing the little moments that life offers us to engage in real and meaningful interaction. In these pages, Rachel guides you through how to: Acknowledge the cost of your distraction Make purposeful connection with your family Give your kids the gift of your undivided attention Silence your inner critic Let go of the guilt from past mistakes And move forward with compassion and gratefulness So join Rachel and go hands-free. Discover what happens when you choose to open your heart--and your hands--to the possibilities of each God-given moment.

Download or read book The Last Ticket written by Christopher Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve and his family move more than two thousand miles across the country to find a new beginning and remake their life together. Unfortunately, things didn't turn out exactly as they planned. After the money ran short and he still couldn't find work he went to a day labor office as a last resort. On his first day there, he meets an unusual man that takes a special interest in him. As the man tries to dissuade him from working for the company, Steve tries to figure out why, that's when things get weird.

Download or read book A Locket for Maggie written by Carole Gift Page and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Herrick had always looked up to Jordan Barrett. Even when they were kids and he rescued her from the teasing of Chad, his younger brother, he was her knight in shining armor. Leaving for Vietnam, Jordan looked even more like a hero. But even though they are engaged, Maggie is still too unsure of herself to express her heart's fears. What if Jordan never returns from the war? And perhaps worse-what if he does?

Download or read book Cherished Secret Book 2 The Diary written by Mariela Saravia and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeleine Robards discovers all her past, as she reads her mother Francis' diary, together with the letters between her mother and Arthur. Is it possible that there was a romance between these two? Madeleine finds it hard to believe everything that lies hidden in these pages, and she finally discovers she is the legitimate daughter of that youth who loved her mother so much, while her own husband Roger turns out to be her cousin. She doesn't know whether to feel melancholy or joyful at this upheaval of her life history, or whether to feel ashamed of the fact that her father was twenty years younger than her mother. Is it true that love has no age? Could this precious secret, which Francis kept hidden for over forty years, be revealed at last? “For true love, there is no age...for the pleasures of life there is no time. And to be a mother it is enough to have a heart capable of carrying a child for the rest of its life.”

Download or read book DAY AND NIGHT ON A MILESTONE written by ANAND KRISHNA PANICKER and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anand was nonchalant; a happy go lucky teenager, facing the world at his own pace and not in a hurry to grow up. The numerous naughty escapades with his friends were the only adventures he could lay claim to… Until… Melissa makes an entrance. Will she be his fortunate stroke of serendipity? Was she worth risking his heart? Come fall under the spell of his saga of friendship, love and journey to self-discovery.

Download or read book The Key to My Diary written by Jacquelyn J. McClintock and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacquelyn j mcclintock was born and raised in Houston tx she is the youngest of 4 children. She began writing poetry at the age of 12 as a coping skill when she gets depressed. She currently suffers from bipolar and schizophrenia and writing helps deal with her illness. She writes poetry hoping to inspire or motivate anyone who may be going through what she is. Jackie hopes to write her life story in the future.

Download or read book Osama Bin Laden s Personal Diary written by David Craig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skulking in the caves along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the world's most wanted terrorist passes his days playing Monopoly, watching The Simpsons and Sex in the City, safeguarding his tub of yoghurt from a thieving comrade, phoning Mummy in Saudi Arabia, planning his Memorial Library, and fantasizing about having a passionate affair with either Laura Bush (with whom he is totally besotted), Cherie Blair or, should all else fail, the wife of his best friend. Bin Laden also has to cope with the stress of being hunted by US Special Forces, preventing his deputy from taking over as leader of al-Qaeda, fearing that he looks Jewish, and filming new video releases for his enemies. When he's not popping Valium, he spends time wondering if his arch enemy in the White House is as stupid as he seems-and deciding that he is. This book-a fascinating mix of fact and fiction-shows bin Laden obsessing about internet pornography (using such sites to send encrypted messages), watching the Athens Olympics (which he doesn't bomb because he's desperate to see Ian Thorpe and the synchronized swimming), and even dreaming of one day eating at the Carnegie Deli and shopping at Neiman-Marcus.

Download or read book Delia written by Mary Lynn and published by Mary Lynn. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delia Reddick has become quite skilled at keeping people at arm’s length. She learned it from her parents, Savannah, Georgia’s most ruthless attorney, Greyson James Reddick IV and his rebellious wife, Charlotte Ann. A successful editor for one of New York’s most prestigious publishing firms, Delia has managed to put her past behind her. That is, until Oliver calls. “Your mother has passed, Delia. Your father needs you now.” Returning to Savannah, Delia focuses on the task of burying her mother, discovering in the process that neither Charlotte nor Greyson are the parents she thought she knew. Confronted with the truth of her family’s past, it is up to Delia to reveal a secret Charlotte kept hidden to the one person who scares her, and in doing so, learning a bit of truth about herself and what it means to forgive.

Download or read book Female Adolescence written by Katherine Dalsimer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive, gracefully written exploration of the distinctiveness of the female adolescent experience. The author combines insights drawn from her clinical practice with informed analyses of familiar works of literature. Her premise is that literature does not merely exemplify but deepens our understanding of psychological processes. "A brilliant and evocative analysis of the transition from girlhood to womanhood, with its longings, its pain, and the pride of growing up. The depiction is rich with the particularities of the experiences of adolescent girls, and provides a welcome contrast to the usual rendering of this period as a variation on male development."--Lila Braine, Chair, Department of Psychology, Barnard College "Masterful analyses of five literary works. . . . Dalsimer's interpretations are remarkable for the intelligent and informed acuity of her psychoanalytic observations as well as for their preservation of the texture of lived experience. A uniquely felicitous conjunction of psychoanalysis and literature."--Choice "Dalsimer's commentaries prove consistently empathetic, discerning, and convincing. . . . This beautifully writen book renders important service both to psychoanalysis and to literary studies."--Paul Schwaber, Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University "This book will be treasured by anyone who has taught or treated an adolescent girl, or read a book about one, or, like Freud and the rest of us, simply wondered at the miracle of transformation of a girl into a woman."--Robert Michels, M.D., Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College

Download or read book Diary of an Extinction Consciousness written by Black Queen and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They didn’t see it coming. Nothing could stop it. Not dogmas, nor beliefs, nor the infinite sense of superiority held by most of the human race; not political elites, nor religions with millions of faithful united in a useless universal prayer, nor the economic power of the few at the top that gave them the authority to seize for themselves any thing or person they wanted; there was absolutely nothing that could stop the invasion, the annihilation of millions of human beings of every race, color and religion – the mass extinction of our collective human ego. Thousands of years of evolution. So much blood spilled. They, the humans, who had learned to shape themselves to enslave and dominate each other... Dictatorships, laws, fear, oppression, utopic liberty, democracy, dreams; all mere words that were only different sheep’s clothing on the same ravenous wolf. So much pain, so much effort to pacify the despicable self-destructive tendency programed into our genes. And in the end... They didn’t see it coming. “Diary of an Extinction: Consciousness” brings this series to a dramatic, shocking conclusion, as Abril is forced to examine her fears, muster her strengths, and lay aside her ego to discover the truth about her motivations and her mother’s love.

Download or read book Greta written by J. S. Lemon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish in a Tree meets Fighting Words in J. S. Lemon’s middle grade debut, a fiercely original story about friendship, healing, and the beauty of transformation. “What new classics should look like. A strange and beautiful tale . . . This story will spark important discussions.” —Newbery Medalist Donna Barba Higuera Greta Goodwin’s life is changing. On top of moving to a new neighborhood far away from her best friend, Lotti, she’s also starting middle school. Greta isn’t totally ready for boys, bras, and the chaotic cafeteria. She still feels like a little kid compared to those female classmates who have suddenly matured over the summer. Girls who are now the talk of the school—unlike Greta, who would rather fly under the radar, especially after a bad haircut that makes her look less “effortlessly beautiful” and more “triangle with legs.” But at her first-ever middle-school party, a boy does pay attention to Greta. Initially it feels good. And then it feels awful. In the aftermath, Greta can’t make sense of what’s happened, let alone talk about it, even to Lotti. Impossibly, Greta’s body starts to change in a vastly different way from everyone else’s. What follows leads Greta to believe the world might finally see her as she truly is: ethereal, powerful, and free. Sensitively told, stunningly written, and surprisingly funny, Greta will transform readers just as Greta herself is transformed.

Download or read book Cartoons written by Kit Schluter and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring ! Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales. “The true surrealist is unblinking, convulsive, and cheerfully open to the mysterious flow, into their texts, of mythic and archetypal elements operating beyond their conscious control. In Cartoons, Kit Schluter vaults into the zone of Julio Cortázar, Richard Brautigan, and late Giorgio di Chirico, where the reader breaths the air of pure freedom attained rattling inside the chains of self.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn More than simply a book, Cartoons proposes itself as a genre of imaginary writing in opposition to the realism of most contemporary U.S. fiction, aligning itself with the French symbolism and Latin American fabulism its author is known to translate. A giant cricket with a tiny Kit Schluter in a jar, The Girl Who Is a Piece of Paper, an umbrella who confuses the words porpoise and purpose in its quest for self-fulfillment, these are just a few denizens of its pages, suffused with a fairy tale-like animism. A pair of slugs go on a bender. A microwave oven decries microaggressions. A beer bottle is filled with regret. An escalator mechanic’s shoe conceals a terrible secret. As befits its title, Cartoons defies the laws of physics and fiction alike, eschewing tonal consistency in favor of a simultaneity of joy and horror, ecstasy and disgust, wrapped in an extravagant layer of black humor. The stories blur the boundary between microfiction and poet’s prose, featuring impossible transformations and surrealistic events, even as they wrestle with urgent psychic and moral dilemmas. Heightening the atmosphere of pervasive unreality are a number of drawings by the author, which don’t so much illustrate as parallel the tales with their own fantastic scenarios.

Download or read book Terror Has No Diary Annals of a Gay Jew and His Comrads Behind a Holy Wall in Nazi Europe written by Michael Melnick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 7000 Jews living in the Baltic seaport of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia when the Germans invaded on June 21, 1941, only 200 remained alive when the city was liberated May 9,1945. Of these, maybe two dozen were hiding within Libau itself. This story is about 12 of them. Eleven adults were in the care of Robert and Johanna Sedols who hid them in a cellar behind a false wall constructed with the "holy bricks" of the demolished Choral Synagogue; the lone child was cared for by a widow, Otilija Schimelpfenig, in the secure comfort of her home. For their courage and moral stature, the Sedols and Mrs. Schimelpfenig are memorialized as "Righteous Among the Nations" at Yad Vashem. How these 12 Jews arrived at their hiding places, and how they endured until liberation, is a remarkable story, one of miracles. Inscrutable miracles, cast naked upon the ruins by men and women of courage and cunning, not saints.

Download or read book The Touchstone Diary written by Connie Bickman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery, intrigue, treasure seeking, and shocking family revelations come to light as Michael Wilder prepares to fulfill a mysterious promise he made on his deathbed. In The Touchstone Diary: Ithe Red Thread, Miyah Sinclair shares secrets hidden in the pages of an ancient diary, protected throughout the ages by a generation of healers, the family of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (Joshua and Maryum). Written by women of Miyahs own bloodline, the diary shares emotional and personal stories as these women lived through some of the most important events in ancient history, offering an alternative point of view from the feminine perspective. In The Touchstone Diary: IIBloodlines and Promises, Miyah shares these revealing stories with her daughter, Morgan. As Morgan is being prepared to be the next touchstone carrier, she travels back in time to meet ancestral women of her bloodline and learns healing remedies from the source. Their adventures continue as the Wilder family travels to Scotland and the Isle of Iona, searching for a cherished family treasure, a cedar box carved two thousand years ago by a generation of the bloodline. Along the way they discover more family secrets that profoundly affect the outcome of their own lives. Rich in history and adventure, The Touchstone Diary saga will leave you yearning for more. Watch for book III of The Touchstone Diary series.

Download or read book Beyond the Camera written by Joanne Jacquard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elise is a professional photographer with an apparently perfect family life. Things are never quite what they seem. "Some people have all the luck. One influential lover, another stunningly handsome one and an open travel account" is a quote from one of her less steadfast friends. She has a creative way of achieving some of her more successful photographs that lands her into trouble, scandal and eventually personal trauma. She discovers that close family are not necessarily as dependable as loyal friends nor even newly formed acquaintance.