Download or read book The Jade Notebook written by Laura Resau and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have spent years traveling the globe and soaking up everything each new culture has to offer. Now they've settled in the beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles. At first glance, Zeeta feels sure that Mazunte is paradise—she envisions dips in jade waters, sunsets over sea cliffs, moonlit walks in the surf. And she is determined to make Mazunte her home . . . for good. But as she and Wendell dig deeper to unearth her elusive father's past, Zeeta finds that paradise has its dark side.

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Download or read book The Anti Anxiety Notebook written by Therapy Notebooks and published by Therapy Notebooks. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduce your anxiety, manage stress, and become more aware of your thought patterns through this easy-to-use, guided notebook. This notebook utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a rigorously-tested & widely-used treatment modality for anxiety, to help you develop the skills to identify, challenge, and change unhelpful thought patterns for the better.

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Download or read book Cracking the Pot written by Christine R. Berghoef and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing memoir, Christine Berghoef takes us on a journey exploring the simplicity and complexity of faith. Growing up certain she knew what life with God entailed, Berghoef soon found out otherwise. This vivid account, beginning in a conservative religious subculture that valued knowing the "right" answers over asking questions, will take readers on a voyage beyond dogmatism. No topic is off-limits, no stone is left unturned in this quest to discover what one really can know about God and faith, life and politics. In her winsome and witty style, the author candidly reveals to us her own doubts and struggles, which will leave you at times laughing, at other times in tears. Cracking the Pot is sure to provoke deep thinking and needed conversation about the substance of faith!

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Download or read book The Little Girl on the Ice Floe written by Adélaïde Bon and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman grapples with the traumatic memory of a childhood sexual assault in this international bestseller: “An unsettling autobiographical tale” (Livres Hebdo, France). When Adélaïde’s parents find her mute and unable to stop crying, they bring her to the police station and file a complaint against “X” for sexual assault. In so many ways, her childhood ended then—at just nine years old. Yet Adélaïde grows up without showing any outward signs of damage. As a teen and then as a seemingly cheerful young woman, she suffers in silence. Twenty-three years after the attack, Adélaïde receives a call from the Paris juvenile squad. DNA analysis suggests that a serial burglar known by police as “The Electrician” has assaulted at least seventy-two minors between 1983 and 2003. It is suspected that he has hurt hundreds of others who never filed complaints. In the spring of 2016, at the Paris city court, along with eighteen other women, Adélaïde confronts the rapist who destroyed her life. In precise and delicate prose, with poise and passion, Adélaïde Bon tells a story that is both terrifying and all too common. “Vividly conveys the survivor’s emotions of shame, rage, and fear but also offers—slowly, tentatively—hope for healing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Download or read book The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published here for the first time are seven of Emerson's topical notebooks, which served as a source for his lectures, essays, and books of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. Concerned primarily with nature, art, philosophy, American culture, and his comtemporaries, the notebooks presented in this first of a three-volume editions afford fascinating insight into Emerson's creative practices. They will offer new perspectives for future readings of his completed works. The editors provide faithful transcriptions of the notebooks using the highest standards of textual practice. Their detailed annotations describe and comment on erased or revised passages, translate Greek and Latin quotations, and identify books and articles referred to in the texts of the notebooks. References to similar passages in Emerson's journals, lectures, and published works are also provided in the annotations. Publication of these notebooks will inable scholars to trace ideas that have gone unnoticed previously. The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1, offers valuable insight into the art and philosophy of one of America's foremost thinkers. These volumes will be an important addition to any personal or institutional library of nine-teenth-century American literature.

Download or read book A Life Apart written by Mariapia Veladiano and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca's parents were born to very different families. One wealthy, one all but destitute, they were united only by their striking mutual beauty. But the sole child to bless their great romantic fairy tale is a daughter of startling ugliness. The shock of having given birth to such a monster leads the mother to withdraw both herself and her daughter from the world. Only by keeping her child indoors, away from strangers' eyes, can she protect her from their disgust. But against all odds, with a little help from some remarkable friends, Rebecca discovers a talent for music that proves that inner beauty can outshine any other. A Life Apart is an irresistible modern fable that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt that they don't belong.

Download or read book Guidebook for Living in Korea written by The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and published by 길잡이미디어. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guidebook for Living in Korea is a comprehensive guidebook for living in Korea, and was published to enable multicultural families and foreign residents to adapt quickly to life in Korea, by providing up-to-date information on Korean laws, Korean institutions and Korean life. Guidebook for Living in Korea: Table of Contents 1. Introduction to the Republic of Korea 2. Foreigner Support Services 3. Residence and Citizenship 4. Korean Culture and Life 5. Pregnancy and Childcare 6. Education of Children 7. Health and Healthcare 8. Social Security Systems 9. Employment and Labor References

Download or read book Page Fright written by Harry Bruce and published by Douglas Gibson Books. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All the great writers are here — Dickens, dashing off his work; Henry James dictating it; Flaubert shouting each word aloud in the garden; Hemingway at work in cafés with his pencil. But pencil or pen, trusty typewriter or computer, they all have their advocates. Not to mention the writers who can only keep the words flowing by writing naked, or while walking or listening to music — and generally obeying the most bizarre superstitions. On Shakespeare’s works: “Fantastic. And it was all done with a feather!” — Sam Goldwyn “I write nude, seated on a thick towel, and perhaps with a second towel around me.” — Paul West “I’ve never heard of anyone getting plumber’s block, or traffic cop’s block.” — Allan Gurganus “I’m a drinker with a writing problem.” — Brendan Behan

Download or read book The Pilferage of Joe Joe Blue written by Christopher M. Mahoney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personality disorder savant becomes the gateway for a Doctor's lost family and the open door for a tormented writer. The writings of a young patient become an obsession for a failed writer while The prestigious Doctor of the St Dismas Psychiatric Center tries to cure personality disorders by learning how to create them by bringing his deceased son and wife back through a patient.

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Download or read book Everyday Reading written by William Garrett Acree and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of literacy in revolution and daily life