Download or read book My Nana s Voice written by Alicia McMahon and published by Bookpatch LLC. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protagonist and first person narrator, Alicia McMahon begins her memoir later in her life with a description of her vision to produce a tribute book for her ailing Nana Murphy. Her Nana still lived in the village she grew up in, Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland. This leads to a very poignant conversation Alicia has with her Nana a few months later. Alicia then explains how life was growing up in a little Parrish in Ireland and shares her stories from hardships to shenanigans. By the time Alicia is 18 years old, she finds herself leaving Ireland due to a recession and brings us on her journey to the United States. Once in the U.S. she shares terrifying situations that she experiences as a young mother of two and how her "Crone Voice" has guided her throughout tough situations in her life there. Alicia's story is unusual in that, at one point in time she went from being homeless in a battered women's shelter with her two young daughters to working directly on Bill Gates personal CEO Summit, all within a short period of time. Throughout her journey, she helps the reader understand how she developed her own understanding of intuition (she calls it her Crone Voice) and how that aided her through her story. At the end of each chapter, Alicia shares a pertinent quote that reflects her strength/thoughts of that time in her life. After Alicia raised her two Daughters (Seánalee and Brennalynn) into adulthood, she now finds herself in an emotional quandary.
Download or read book No Mirrors in My Nana s House written by Ysaye M. Barnwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl discovers the beauty in herself by looking into her Nana's eyes.
Download or read book A Life of My Own written by Donna Wilhelm and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative, immersive memoir that charts the personal evolution of an American philanthropic thought leader and arts advocate. A Life of My Own follows the author’s journey from girlhood to the woman she would become. Wilhelm reveals her unique upbringing, diverse work history, family challenges and journey of personal growth with unbridled honesty and narrative energy. When life on the outside seemed under control, her inner life was in turmoil. A search for self-realization explores lies and deception about her origins, and a quest for truth and understanding that ultimately shapes a woman with profound purpose and mission. Donna Wilhelm’s memoir will inspire future generations to take ownership of their own life choices and stories as they travel with her on a journey as universal as it is empowering.
Download or read book I See Myself written by Joseph S. Bonsall and published by Fidelis Publishing. LLC. This book was released on 2024-11-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In I See Myself, Joe Bonsall reflects on the contrasts and the crossroads of his life. From growing up in the inner city of Philadelphia to sitting on the front porch of his log home in rural Tennessee. From hanging with a street gang in his teens to surrendering to Christ at a youth camp. From working as a short order cook to headlining sold-out arenas. And now— from running across the stage each night to being sidelined by a neuromuscular disorder that has stolen his mobility. However, despite the changing circumstances of Joe' s life, two things have not changed. His unwavering faith in God. And his ability to inspire others.
Download or read book Handle It written by Joyce Harriet and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “HANDLE IT” is an Autobiography beginning with Joy’s early childhood into its present time. She is forced to “handle” whatever situation that comes her way. At 8 years old she’s already living in a “survival for the moment” mode. Her past continued to influence her future in a very harmful and regrettable way. Joy learned to dismiss people and situations in her life as a “coping mechanism” whenever she felt threatened, violated, and or mistreated in order to move towards her next plan. Yet through her struggles she still had the innate capacity to rise and find her way. At age 34 after strong encouragement from her then female lover, she was led to God. Years later, while praying during a fasting period, Joy received what she believed as instructions from God to read (The Holy Bible) from the beginning. Through her obedience to God she believed she was then inspired by God to write her life’s story. Little did Joy know that she would become “Gods’ hands extended” with the hopes of inspiring others who may have gone through similar situations. Writing “HANDLE IT” allowed Joy to deal with all the pain she had kept deep inside for so long of which influenced her behaviors. Thus, understanding this is part of her Sanctification process, trusting when her life is over, God will say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: “Mathew 25 v21
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.
Download or read book Widows written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a Greek village in 1942, and purportedly written from his imagination by a Danish man before he was picked up by the Gestapo and not seen again, here is Ariel Dorfman’s haunting and universal parable of individual courage in the face of political oppression. Widows forms a testament to the disappeared—those living under totalitarian regimes the world over, who are taken away for "questioning" and never return. One by one, the bodies of men wash up on the shore of the river, where they are claimed by the women of the local town as husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are unrecognizable. A tug-of-war ensues between the local police, who insist that the women couldn’t possibly recognize their loved ones, and the women demanding the right to bury their beloveds. As it evolves, the stand-off reveals itself to be a power struggle between love, dignity and honor, and the lesser god of brute force. A lesson in how power really works, and how it can be made to work differently.
Download or read book Wrathful Wings written by NV Bruno and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guardian Angels are humble and peaceful entities who look after us. Or are they ? What if they were capable of more than just watching and protecting ? Damien Newman's Guardian Guardian Angels are humble and peaceful entities who look after us. Or are they? What if they were capable of more than just watching and protecting? Damien Newman's Guardian Angel will show you to what extent it can go to protect him from the hands of death itself. Take a dive into this refreshing new crime-fantasy thriller, by debutant author NV Bruno, that will show you a completely different side of our divine protectors. Embark on a journey with Damien's father, Wesley Newman, as he tries to uncover the conspiracy behind a series of deaths in New York hospitals until he comes face to face with the biggest dilemma of his life. Will he make the hardest choice of his life and live with the consequences? Or will it take him somewhere he never imagined to be? Wrathful Wings will tell you everything!
Download or read book Lost Form written by Dilara AKSOY (Dila VARLI) and published by Dilara AKSOY. This book was released on 2024-06-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure that pushes the boundaries of reality and fiction awaits you! "Lost Form" offers an adventure that begins with an extraordinary transformation and turns into a story full of deep secrets. Levent's extraordinary experience invites readers to a journey beyond identity. Levent, whose life begins as a young girl and unexpectedly continues as a man, begins to question his own reality. While the crisis with Erdem's lover leads to revolutionary changes in Levent's inner world, it reveals the complexity of relationships and gender. This novel, written by the author with its fluent language and impressive fiction, takes readers on an absorbing journey. "Lost Form", full of unexpected surprises and where you will encounter a new mystery on every page, invites you to a tension-filled adventure. Are you ready to find yourself, solve mysteries and face the unknown?
Download or read book Wellesley Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sorrow s Profiles written by Richard J. Alapack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author leads a journey through the depths of authentic sorrow, longing, and despair. Daring us to face death unflinchingly, the author imparts courage to spin in the vortex of personal and collective grief.
Download or read book House of Hope Novels written by Neta Jackson and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-30 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three novels of the best-selling House of Hope series collected together for the first time. Sometimes you find hope in the last place you look. Gabrielle Fairbanks has lost touch with the carefree, spirited young woman she was when she married her husband sixteen years ago. But when they move to Chicago to accommodate PhilipÆs ambition, Gabby sees the chance to find real purpose in her own life. While walking on the shore one afternoon, a chance encounter with a homeless woman begins a life-changing journey that leads her to the doorstep of Manna House WomenÆs Shelter. They need a Program Directorùand she has the right credentials. GabbyÆs in her element, feeling GodÆs call on her life at last, even though Philip doesnÆt like the changes he sees in her. But she never anticipated his ultimatum: quit your job at the shelter or risk divorce and losing custody of our sons. Her world both falls apart and comes together as she finds shelter, the embrace of community, the renewal of her faith . . . and the indescribable gift of hope. For everyone who loves the best-selling Yada Yada Prayer Group novels . . . The Yada Yada House of Hope series features familiar faces and places, with a fresh new life all its own.
Download or read book The Sound of Laughter written by Peter Kay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett and Ronnie Barker. In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing and always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge and loyal following. In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian and the scope and enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives and answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread and cheesecake, your mum's HRT... His autobiography is full of this kind of humour and nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school and leading up until the time he passed his driving test and found fame.
Download or read book f l o a t i n g written by Nana S. Achampong and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ From the daily death of the sun to the cry of a sister for the life of a brother, from [John] Coltrane’s melodic place in history to the griot’s spoken path creating history, we view places seen and unseen. Paths traveled with timeworn shoes and an international vision. Pain and joy from a heart full from the sights of many missions.†Sandi Mallory, WEAA 88.9 FM, Lite FM.
Download or read book Love written by Renee' Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love" at first was named "To Find The Way" but once I came to the end of the story I realized that that was not a suitable name for the piece. Seeing that towards the end it was not himself that found the way but Christ had found him. The scripture says that "For I have chosen you"; for we have not chosen God, but God has chosen us. The story at first had not even been a story but had originated as a thought, and then in some way it turned into this tragedy that replayed over and over again in my mind. But as this story continued to flow through my mind over the course of months I saw this revival. I saw God work in this boy's life. The fact that I could feel him, feel his pain, his anger, and could truly sympathize with him. Several times during this story I cried and several times my chest filled with anger and then sickness. I can honestly say that I felt all of the pain that he felt though probably not to the extremity that he had--felt. "Love" contains much degrading speech to women, men, and whites and blacks due to the urban setting in which the story takes place. The book has been written this way to help paint a picture of how the main character and his friends situation is so serious, and also to add a contrast of the lifestyle which comes at the end of the story. Along with the realization of the degrading lifestyle in which the main characters were leading. This does not necessarily represent the views of I the author, especially the racist comments and slurs throughout the story. But it is only there to represent the mindset of the main character. Along with the sexual scenes, since this is a sexual abuse story, they are there only to describe and to shed some light on the outrageous-ness of the crime and the deadly, destructive consequences from it. And lastly the violence throughout the story was thought through thoroughly and was determined that it must be included to again paint a picture of how crazy, delusional, and numb to all care and feeling the main character was. Hopefully this forewarning will be greatly appreciated by the readers reading this book. I pray that this book to whoever may read it will not become hung up on the degrading speech, violence, and sex, but will be able to see it for what it is and receive the true meaning from the book. That of the love that Christ gives, free of charge, to anyone despite what you've done or who you are. I pray that God be glorified in this and that those reading the book will be touched, but then more than touched--be astounded by the glory of God in the book. And if not believers themselves that they too will become saved.
Download or read book The American Voice written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Zombie Glass written by Gena Showalter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies stalk the night. Forget blood and brains. These monsters hunger for human souls. Sadly, they've got mine… Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give. She was wrong. After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to her. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears. But the worst? A terrible darkness blooms inside her, urging her to do very wicked things. She's never needed her team of zombie slayers more, but ultra bad-boy Cole Holland, the leader and her boyfriend, suddenly withdraws from her…from everyone. Now, with her best friend Kat at her side, Ali must kill the zombies, uncover Cole's secret and learn to fight the darkness. But the clock is ticking…and if she fails at a single task, they're all doomed. THE WHITE RABBIT CHRONICLES I've lost so much. A dear friend. My new home. My purpose. My pride. And it's my fault. I can blame no one else. I and I alone let the darkness in.
