Download or read book Love Coach written by Alan Dickson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Coach is an inspirational memoir of a lifetime dedicated to teaching, coaching, and spreading God’s love on and off the court.

Download or read book If You Lived Here You d Be Famous by Now written by Via Bleidner and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now is an insider’s collection of funny and warmhearted stories about coming of age in the Los Angeles suburb famed for birthing the Kardashian-Jenners and the Bling Ring For Via Bleidner, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she’s attended since second grade is a culture shock, not to mention absolutely lonely. Suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world of celebrities, affluenza, and McMansions, Via takes a page from Cameron Crowe and pretends she’s on a journalism assignment, taking notes on her classmates and jotting down bits of overheard gossip. Getting through high school in Calabasas is something else—from Kim Kardashian endorsing the students’ favorite hidden lunch spot, to the theater program hiring a famous dog to play Elle Woods' Chihuahua in its production of Legally Blonde, and Kanye trying to take control of your school to make it the very first YEEZY institution. But instead of floating through high school detached from her peers, Via finds that putting herself out there—for her writing, of course—just might have been exactly what she needed. She unexpectedly finds an eclectic group of friends to call her own, including a multi-multi-millionaire, a wild-card throwback intent on going viral, a former Disney actor, and a doughnut-dealing madman. With wit, candor, and sharp observations, twenty-one-year-old Via grounds the surreal glamour of Calabasas with reflections on her own coming-of-age, sharing her teenage misadventures as she struggles to fit in, faces crushing social pressure, and eventually makes her own way.

Download or read book Switch Hitter written by Barnaby Starr and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switch-Hitter is the story of an ambidextrous female tennis player who plays the game with two forehands but quits after the untimely death of her father, a baseball switch-hitter who was her only coach. Enticed back into the game, she joins forces with an older Bahamian tennis coach who ends up moving in with her family. It is a feel-good American story about the obstacles encountered on the way to the top of the sport. In spite of issues including teenage pregnancy, racism, and geopolitical turmoil, will Sheila, our switch-hitter, fulfil her dream of being the first ambidextrous tennis player to win a major championship?

Download or read book The Ugliest Man I Know and What He Did to Me and My Family written by Emily Olson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about someone who managed to somehow find the courage to come forward and tell her story about being sexually molested as a child of only six years old by a close family member and being constantly and severely physically beaten by her father all her life. The molestation was done by the child’s grandfather, but he got away without any punishment because the child’s father received a large amount of money to keep the incident quiet. The incident was never reported to the police, and as a result, the grandfather continued molesting other children in the family. This book is the result of an effort to try to heal my pain as recommended by my therapist. The original manuscript is stained with my tears because it was a very painful process in reliving some of the horrid events that happened to me in my younger years. Love your children.

Download or read book High School Freak written by Aaron Grunn and published by Eiso Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John lives alone with his mother, who is much too protective for his tastes. He gets made fun of at school, and hates every minute he spends there. He's resigned himself to surviving high school by not being seen. One day the school bullies push him too far, and he strikes back. But the consequences are too much for him to handle. He knows he's special, his mother always says so, but these new powers might be too special for his own good. Before he knows it, John is thrown into a world, where people try to hunt him down. With his life on the line, he cannot fathom what will happen to him next. How will he survive now?

Download or read book Mad Craze Middle School the Case of the Crumpled Balls written by V. L. Nabors and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three days remain before 12 yr. old Cuban Linn's 2-week holiday break and he couldn't be more excited. First, he'll hang out at the mall with the most popular girl at his school and other friends. Then, he'll play in his school's division championship basketball game. Finally Cuban and his cousin/best friend Jaria will celebrate their 13th birthday with a huge party. Unfortunately, Cuban has unknowingly stumbled into the middle of a crime at his school. He is now the prime suspect and could lose everything, including his freedom. Join Cuban and Jaria as they set out to clear his name. Will they find the perpetrator in time? It's middle school fun, craziness, and suspense for readers 9 through 15 years of age.

Download or read book Found in Transition written by Paria Hassouri and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Thanksgiving morning, Paria Hassouri finds herself furiously praying and negotiating with the universe as she irons a dress her fourteen-year-old, designated male at birth, has secretly purchased and wants to wear to dinner with the extended family. In this wonderfully frank, loving, and practical account of parenting a transgender teen, Paria chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Despite her experience advising other parents in her work as a pediatrician, she was blindsided by her child’s gender identity. Paria is also forced to examine how she still carries insecurities from her past of growing up as an Iranian-American immigrant in a predominantly white neighborhood, and how her life experience is causing her to parent with fear instead of love. Paria discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love. This page-turning memoir relates a tender story of loving and parenting a teenager coming out as transgender and transitioning. It explores identity, self-discovery in adolescence and midlife, and difference in a world that values conformity. At its heart, Found in Transition is a universally inspiring portrait of what it means to be a family.

Download or read book A Letter to My Grandchildren written by Maria Sharp and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Sharp was born Maria Zdenka Besan in Croatia in 1941, just after the Nazis had invaded her country, and as a young child she witnessed 'events that imprinted themselves upon her soul forever'. Many years later, having married an American and settled in the USA, she has written this book for her two grandchildren to explain her origins and tell her family's story. It paints a warm and moving picture of life in Croatia in the first half of the 20th century and describes the terrible effects on Maria's people of the German occupation, the subsequent period of communist control and the resulting second wave of destruction of Croatian homes, jobs and lives.ÿ

Download or read book The Reindeer Keeper written by Barbara Briggs Ward and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbey senses something special about the little man tending to the reindeer who, along with a century-old farmhouse, a barn full of animals, and fields abounding in woods and pasture, was a gift to Abbey from a stranger. Turns out this Christmas proves to be more magical than anticipated as Abbey realizes an understanding never thought possible through the rekindling of a belief rooted in childhood. Of course it's who delivers this gift on Christmas Eve that gives Abbey and Steve the strength to face their greatest challenge.

Download or read book Diamond in the Rough written by Weaver Jackson Brown and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond in the Rough is a story of a young man's journey through a traumatic childhood, having to take on the responsibility of caring for his family by whatever means necessary. As a young child at the age of four, characterize life story by the age of fourteen placed in juvenile hold over detention for three years until he reached the adult age of seventeen, where he was officially an adult who served thirteen years out of a twenty-five-year prison sentence. It is raw gritty but truthful from an individual point of view. There are moments you will laugh and cry.

Download or read book Theda Surviving the Past and the Present written by Theda Brothers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: none

Download or read book The Thing Around Your Neck written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.

Download or read book The Shadow I Remember written by C. Ruthe and published by C. Ruthe. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you found out there was a horrible, shameful secret within your own family? Cyndi thought she had it tough by trying to get her emotionally distant father to pay any attention to her, while at the same time attempting to fend off an overanxious and domineering mother—a rather frustrating and difficult struggle, indeed. But what Cyndi learned about her father years after his death completely shook her to the core. It’s been said that chaos brings people closer together. The Shadow I Remember presents a brutal tale of emotional distance, sexual and psychological abuse, and mental instability within a family that merely wanted to live a simple life, but unexpectedly ended up imploding.

Download or read book Inside Out written by MoDena Stinnette and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a work of realistic fiction, based on the factual life conditions of countless individuals to provide reading enlightenment. It is my hope and prayer that after reading this book society will commit to rethinking its look at ex-offenders and what positive impact they can bring to society--- if they are given a fair chance. Danielle grew up confused and feeling abandoned. She moved from place to place; first with her mother, then a group home, then her grandmother, then her father. She grew up feeling that she was unwanted by everyone. Her father and step mother struggled with addiction; her biological mother may have struggled with the same types of issues. She had to live with the guilt of fatal choices she made in her young life which carried through to her adulthood. Danielle struggled with addiction and criminal activity throughout her own life. She spent a large portion of her life in battling the judicial system. She endured physical abuse as a child and as an adult. Death seemed to frequent her life and all those she thought loved and care about her seem to pass away. Her life events seem to finally open her eyes to making a change in her life. When Danielle lost her father she wanted to get high for the first time since her release from prison. She didn't know what to do with her emotions. She sat in the cold hospital emergency room and thought about her life and what using drugs again would mean for her. She had come so far and she didn't want to lose everything she had worked so hard for. Since her release from prison she had gained her family's trust and learned to trust herself. Rather than jump up and give in to her moment of weakness.. she waited. Danielle discovered that taking away the drugs was only half of her battle. She realized that living life without drugs and criminal activity was the small step to changing her thoughts feelings and actions. She just had to figure out how to make those changes successfully.

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Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Download or read book My Name Is Venus Black written by Heather Lloyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting, heartfelt debut, a young woman assumes a new name to escape her dark past and find the redemption she desperately seeks. “It’s impossible not to root for this strong, willful girl as she finds her place in the world and for her brother as he tries to make sense of it.”—Kirkus Reviews “Charming, touching, and a host of other adjectives not often associated with a murderous thirteen-year-old.”—Booklist Venus Black is a straitlaced A student fascinated by the study of astronomy—until the night she commits a shocking crime that tears her family apart and ignites a media firestorm. Venus refuses to talk about what happened or why, except to blame her mother. Adding to the mystery, Venus’s developmentally challenged younger brother, Leo, goes missing. More than five years later, Venus is released from prison with a suitcase of used clothes, a fake identity, and a determination to escape her painful past. Estranged from her mother, and with her beloved brother still missing, she sets out to make a fresh start in Seattle, skittish and alone. But as new people enter her orbit—including a romantic interest and a young girl who seems like a mirror image of her former lost self—old wounds resurface, and Venus realizes that she can’t find a future while she’s running from her past. In this gripping story, debut novelist Heather Lloyd brilliantly captures ordinary lives thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Told through a constellation of captivating voices, My Name Is Venus Black explores the fluidity of right and wrong, the pain of betrayal, and the meaning of love and family. Praise for My Name Is Venus Black “Fans of realistic coming-of-age fiction will enjoy Lloyd’s fast-paced first novel for the freshly drawn original characters, compelling story line, and beautiful tribute to the healing power of love. It’s bound to have crossover appeal to older YA readers.”—Library Journal “A dark but ultimately uplifting story about family, love, and forgiveness, and how to find your place in the world, My Name Is Venus Black is a powerful debut novel from a fresh voice in fiction.”—New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio