Download or read book My Mommy Wears Wheels written by Colette Lanzon and published by Penny Gig Arts. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is based on how transverse myelitis impacted the childhood of author Colette Lanzon and her mother Patricia Lanzon. This tale shows how Colette and her mother learn to navigate adventures following her mother contracting transverse myelitis. How will Colette and her mom learn how to have fun even though her mom now uses a wheelchair? Will they be able to cook together? Will they be able to travel far and wide? Woven into this inclusive story is the use of rhyming, reference to geographical regions, and the opportunity to count the number of hidden Gabby the Guinea Pigs. Through the beautiful illustrations and poignant tale of one little girl and her mother's life changes due to transverse myelitis, this story shows how being helpful, patient, and caring can be learned through disability. The beautiful and colorful illustration features cute animals, Gabby the Guinea Pig, vibrant scenery, and whimsical geographical regions.

Download or read book Tiny Beautiful Things written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Download or read book My Wheels In The World written by Alex Guffey and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Wheels in the World is nonfiction, but it is much more than that. It is a true account. This book entails my life experiences with my bicycle: where I've gone, what I've done, who I have ridden with, and all my adventures to this day I have enjoyed with my bike. It speaks of how it is truly my greatest passion and the one thing I spend most of my time doing and how much I love it. It describes how my bicycle is so much more than just a possession. It's a story about how my bike is a part of my life and has, perhaps, even defined my life and is an extension of who I am as a person. This book tells of feelings and emotions and combines the things I love most: riding my bicycle and writing about it.

Download or read book My Mama Was Right About Yo Azz written by Lady Lissa and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HONOR THY MOTHER!!Words to live by when it comes to children respecting their mother, the woman who bore and raised them. Shannon had the perfect family, two great sons and two beautiful daughters. Everyone was striving in life and she enjoyed being around her children. How quickly things change! When her younger son Dominic meets Markeeta, he is instantly smitten with the young woman. Dom hasn't been in a relationship in over two years, so when Markeeta locks her claws into him, he quickly falls for her. When Dominic starts changing towards his family, Shannon knows exactly who is behind it.Markeeta isn't looking for anything but the next dude to give her everything she wants. When she realizes that Dominic could be her ticket to easy street, she quickly sinks her teeth into the inexperienced young man. When Dom's family tries to warn him about the woman he has so quickly given his heart to, he doesn't want to hear it. With a huge rift now drawn between the family and Dom, Shannon wonders if things will ever be the same.Will a mother be able to save her son from the likes of a chick who is all wrong for her son? Or will it be too late for him to be saved? Find out in the first installment of My Mama Was Right About Yo Azz...

Download or read book Never Say Can T Memoir of a Successful Woman written by Wanda Novak and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I couldnt put this book down. I stayed up all night reading it. I laughed, cried, got excited, got mad, was surprised, had a good emotional ride, and learned some things along the way. Wonderful book! a great example of how strong and caring a woman can be. What a lady! ~Sandra Woodard, LMT I love this book absolutely an inspiration. I couldnt read fast enough! taught me to hold my head high no matter what happens in my life. face every situation with pride and dignity. ~Anita Warren, Personal Coach In several places it takes the reader to the heart In other places to the pinnacle of accomplishment. Heartwarming Instructional Goal oriented Hard to put down Altogether enlightening! ~Charlotte Radieu, M. A.

Download or read book The Tool the Butterflies written by Dmitry Lipskerov and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dmitry Lipskerov, an award-winning Russian writer compared throughout his career to Mikhail Bulgakov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, focuses his unbridled imagination on the story of wealthy, satisfied Mr. Iratov, whose virile world is flipped upside-down. Taking a page from Gogol’s satirical story “The Nose,” wherein the protagonist loses his aforementioned facial feature, Lipskerov's novel transposes such a loss onto a more delicate organ. The protagonist awakens one morning bereft of his tool; and the tool, which re-appears, sentient and in a small village far away, without his man. Thus begins a novel both funny and absurd, in which characters come together across disparate social strata and with differing goals to weave the fate of a universe familiar yet fantastical, a perfect satire of the madness of Russian society today. The Tool and the Butterflies, Lipskerov's eagerly anticipated English language debut, is not just a darkly comedic exploration of post-Soviet attitudes towards gender and sexuality, but also a historically and socially grounded narrative rich in naturalistic dialogue and everyday detail, and an engaging story of family and what matters most in life, in the grandest tradition of Russian literature.

Download or read book The Cry of the Shidepoke written by Rod Vanderhoof and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cruelest of All Mothers written by Mary Dunn and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, “God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him joyfully.” Claude organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for his mother’s return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she opened the first school for Native American girls, translated catechisms into indigenous languages, and served some eighteen years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World. She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve God. The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l’Incarnation’s decision to abandon Claude for religious life. Complicating Marie’s own explication of the abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and in submission to God’s will, the book situates the event against the background of early modern French family life, the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.

Download or read book When I Was White written by Sarah Valentine and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race–her race–is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A black woman who lived her formative years identifying as white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in reverse, though her "passing" was less intentional than conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of being black in America, and how one woman threw off the racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a new one.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul O Canada The Wonders of Winter written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian winters are notorious! But this collection will warm your heart, brighten your day, and lift your spirits with its 101 stories about embracing and making the most of those long winter months. Winters in Canada are tough, but so are the people! Any Canadian – from east to west coast; from city to rural – will love the 101 stories in this new collection about embracing those long winter days and making the most of them. Filled with amusing and encouraging stories about weathering the cold, creating warm memories with family and friends, and playing great winter sports.

Download or read book Journey Into the Dollhouse written by Aaliyah R. Wahebei and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selena White brings black girl magic to everything she does and everyone she knows; however, love is not always genuinely returned. Her battle with abuse, addiction, and depression has had her on a dark lonely road toward destruction. The will to chase her dreams won’t be easy, and her journey will become longer than she thought life intended. After childhood trauma and the unfulfilled love of a father being in her life, feelings of being used and abused will swarm her like a curse. Falling in love would not be so sweet. And her first true love, her soul mate, could be a big pill to swallow, but swallowing pills is a skill Selena has learned how to master. Hope may teach Selena that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Sometimes, things have to come to an end for something even greater to begin. A life of crime, betrayal, and death isn’t worth all the money in the world. Some things are priceless, you know.

Download or read book Two Week WAC written by Bea Ann Amark and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience what it was like to be one of the first female soldiers in the US Army. In 1978, the Women’s Army Corps had just been disbanded, and the army—having been a social experiment and the melting pot for every new political requirement—grudgingly accepted women into their ranks. Bea Ann Amark was among them. She set out to drive trucks for the army and joined the 232nd Transportation Company and soon found herself stationed in West Germany in the late 1970s. The Cold War was in fully swing, and the company’s group of truck drivers suddenly became family, both on and off the road. The time Amark spent there shaped the way she lived the rest of her life and gave her an adventure she would never forget. An in-depth and personal look at a woman’s life in the army, Two-Week WAC tells the story of one woman’s army service, an unexpected choice that changed the course of her life.

Download or read book On That Day written by V. M. Jenkins and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From public school to homeschool, here's Haven! Haven Jennings is the center of this lighthearted (sometimes laugh out loud) comedy. She is quick-witted, somewhat humorous, and a little bit worldly as she spent a good majority of her growing up years in the "dark side of education," as her homeschool friends would laughingly describe the public-school system. Haven attends an early morning Bible study with her mother and gifted brother Delbert. While Delbert is in the study to become biblically knowledgeable, Haven is in it for the social aspects. And what a social time she has as the Bible study is made up of supremely unique and awkward characters that are perfecting their craft in the art of socializing with other teens. One teen in particular, named Aaron, is new to the study. Haven happens to notice that not only is he nice looking, but he knows Haven's favorite TV family, the Duggars, of which Haven happens to be a fan of epic proportions. Because Haven wants so badly to know about these people, she believes that she can conjure up a friendship that is perfectly within appropriate boundaries with Aaron, as she finds out in the meantime that Aaron happens to be in a courtship with a girl back in his home town. Things become sticky when Haven, who has other guy friends within the Bible study, finds it difficult to have a friendship with Aaron. Something just isn't right about their relationship. In the end, Haven learns that blessing follows obedience, and obedience, while not always the easiest or plainest choice to make, definitely reaps its own rewards. Haven is hoping for the reward of meeting the famous family, and just maybe, she will, as the Lord only knows what is planned to happen On That Day.

Download or read book The Image written by Mike Kurtz and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Kurtz, a retired Christian police detective of thirty years, had embarked on a forty-year journey to understand why his mother, Kathy, murdered his father who was a St. Louis County police detective. Through the years, he began to understand how she also contributed to the death of his two little sisters, Lisa and Michelle. Through years of research and conversations with his mother, Kathy, the truth was slowly revealed. Lies and deceit from his mother only encouraged him to be more inquisitive. It took forty years of soul-shaking talks and nightmares before the truth would finally make itself known. On his mother's deathbed, she finally admitted what Mike had already known. This a true story about the betrayal and loss of a secure life that every child deserves. Times of happiness and adventure are described only to be overtaken by the well-planned murder of his father and the negligent death of his two sisters.

Download or read book The Scribe Midnight Bbq written by Guy Morgan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of a very bad decision I made on May 21, 2000. It tells of the difficulties I went through as well as a major brain surgery done while I was awake and how horrible and terrifying it was. It also tells of the many people I encountered such as surgeons, nurses, specialists, and some of the rehab I went through.

Download or read book Scaffolding Young Writers written by Linda J. Dorn and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of teaching writing is to create independent and self-motivated writers. When students write more often, they become better at writing. They acquire habits, skills, and strategies that enable them to learn more about the craft of writing. Yet they require the guidance and support of a more knowledgeable person who understands the writing process, the changes over time in writing development, and specific techniques and procedures for teaching writing. In Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers' Workshop Approach, Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos present a clear road map for implementing writers' workshop in the primary grades. Adopting an apprenticeship approach, the authors show how explicit teaching, good models, clear demonstrations, established routines, assisted teaching followed by independent practice, and self-regulated learning are all fundamental in establishing a successful writers' workshop. There is a detailed chapter on organizing for writers' workshop, including materials, components, routines, and procedures. Other chapters provide explicit guidelines for designing productive mini-lessons and student conferences. Scaffolding Young Writers also features: an overview of how children become writers;analyses of students' samples according to informal and formal writing assessments;writing checklists, benchmark behaviors, and rubrics based on national standards;examples of teaching interactions during mini-lessons and writing conferences;illustrations of completed forms and checklists with detailed descriptions, and blank reproducible forms in the appendix for classroom use. Instruction is linked with assessment throughout the book, so that all teaching interactions are grounded in what children already know and what they need to know as they develop into independent writers.

Download or read book Past This Point written by Nicole Mabry and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karis Hylen has been through the New York City dating wringer. After years of failed relationships, she abandons her social life and whittles her days down to work and spending time with her dog, Zeke. Her self-imposed exile ends up saving her life when an untreatable virus sweeps the east coast, killing millions. Alone in her apartment building, Karis survives with only Zeke, phone calls to her mom, and conversations with two young girls living across the courtyard. With the city in a state of martial law, violence and the smell of rotting corpses surround her every day. But her biggest enemy is her own mind. As cabin fever sets in, vivid hallucinations make her question her sanity. In addition to her dwindling food and water stash, Karis must now struggle to keep her mind in check. When a mysterious man enters the scene, she hopes she can convince him to help her make it to the quarantine border. With the world crumbling around her, Karis discovers her inner strength but may find that she needs people after all.