Download or read book Off My Chest written by Melinda Malone and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breast cancer memoir unlike any other; a story of healing so incredible no Hollywood writer would dare dream it. Off My Chest is a book that will urge you to ponder the miracle of life and blow the doors wide open to your soul! At the age of forty-one, after breast implant surgery, Melinda Malone was diagnosed with stage-3 breast cancer. One day she was a Chicago mother of three young girls--the next she was a cancer patient, battling moment by moment to survive. The future she and her husband imagined for themselves and their family crumbled, buried beneath chemo treatments, untold family secrets, physical depletion and grief.Melinda could have written a memoir about the painful journey of facing death. Instead, she courageously chronicled her journey to healing, in a book exploding with the lyricism of life.This profoundly uplifting book, told with brutal candor, will make you ponder the miracle of life. Let the power and clarity of Melinda's story open your soul, as she wrestles to overcome the odds, struggles to pull off a miracle, and dares to share her courageous journey, and to get it off her chest.This superbly person memoir begins in a women's hospital in downtown Chicago, where a phone call reveals to young mother Melinda Malone that she's been diagnosed with the dreaded C-word: Cancer. It ends on the sun-swept shores of Lake Michigan, with a story of healing so incredible no Hollywood writer would dare dream it.Gritty with pain and heartbreak yet filled with life, Melinda Malone's illuminating memoir, Off My Chest, unflinchingly details her struggle to survive stage-3 breast cancer, to persist in the face of dying, and to create a meaningful new life as her old life fades away.Prepare to be inspired by this emotionally-gripping chronicle of tragedy and triumph, pain and perseverance, loss and love. Uplifting and brave, Off My Chest will move you to seek and find the divine path for your own life, just as it moves you to tears, Off My Chest is perfect for the reader looking for an inspirational breast cancer memoir, book, or autobiography. Join Melinda on this personal journey of healing. Get your copy of Off My Chest now.

Download or read book Off My Chest written by Mike Fredman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t like poetry? The truth is we all read or hear poetry everyday. The lyrics of a song are a form of poetry, passages of prose in a novel or a magazine can be poetry. Poetry is today’s novel. It’s ideal for the busy, internet age and for users of twitter and Facebook with their shortened forms of communication. Off My Chest offers you poems with drama, love, quirky humour, death, and often with a twist at the end. This collection is Mike Fredman’s slant on modern life... from new neighbours, the supermarket checkout, cooking and the Hairy Bikers, love, the state of our bus stops, the internet. Mike writes on themes his readers can identify with. Maybe it will encourage you to write your own poems, it’s no different than penning a tweet or a Facebook entry! Poetry can change your life. Get into it. Starting with Off My Chest – the book for people who think they don’t do poetry!

Download or read book Let Me Get This Off My Chest written by Tara Hopko and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My story is about how I went from a fun, energetic, athletic women to falling into society's trap of believing I was not enough just as I am. This story will give you a glimpse into why I decided to alter my body with plastic surgery, and the devastating effects I suffered from that decision. No doctor was able to give me answers. Those answers had to be discovered through my own research and determination. In my journey to discovering what was wrong with me, I also found my faith. With my strong faith in God and my inner strength, I took my first steps in taking my life back. In my journey to healing, I also had to heal the insecurities that led me to this situation. I learned for the first time in my life to love myself. This story is a must read for anyone who has suffered or is suffering with Breast Implant Illness. This book will also speak to anyone who has ever been broken, doubted themselves, or felt insecure. You'll be inspired to truly love yourself for maybe the first time in forever. We all have scars, seen and unseen, and we must embrace the fact we are all beautifully broken.

Download or read book Let Me Get This Off My Chest written by Margaret Lesh and published by Storyrhyme.com Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-time breast cancer survivor shares her funny and not-so-funny anecdotes about her experiences and life lessons with a stubborn disease.

Download or read book Off My Chest written by Richard S Levik and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you will see inside this book, most letters were in response to articles, stories, or other issues affecting Jews. Richards criticism also touches on Christianity. Religion is very much a hands-on topic for Mr. Levik. Originally, letter writing was intended as a safe outlet for release of frustration and anger, never expecting such angry and sometimes vicious letters to be published. Astonishingly, provocative letters were published. Inside OFF MY CHEST you will see the published version, the unedited version, along with letters and a few articles which were never published. Whether these letters changed hearts or minds, you be the judge. Read OFF MY CHEST, see if your heart and mind are not moved, challenged, or even changed.

Download or read book This Angel on My Chest written by Leslie Pietrzyk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Ranging from traditional stories to lists, a quiz, a YouTube link, and even a lecture about creative writing, the stories grasp to put into words the ways in which we all cope with unspeakable loss. Based on the author's own experience of losing her husband at age thirty-seven, this book explores the resulting grief, fury, and bewilderment, mirroring the obsessive nature of grieving. The stories examine the universal issues we face at a time of loss, as well as the specific concerns of a young widow: support groups, in-laws, insurance money, dating, and remarriage. This Angel on My Chest ultimately asks, how is it possible to move forward with life while "till death do you part" rings in your ears—and, how is it possible not to?

Download or read book Getting it off my Chest written by Sandra Fikus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST written by Cathy Hollingworth and published by Cathy Hollingworth. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection documents Cathy’s journey from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. Getting It Off My Chest is not just a collection of poems; it is a sequential narrative that takes the reader through the highs and lows of living with breast cancer. The book is being launched in October to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month and profits will be split between Breast Cancer Now, Maggie’s, and Cancer Research UK. The poems express vulnerability and resilience, sparked with the occasional flash of dark humour. Cathy's spoken recordings of the poems bring extra colour, allowing listeners to connect with her experience on a more intimate level. The collection is raw and heartfelt and will resonate with those who have received a cancer diagnosis or supported someone through the journey. Getting It Off My Chest is also visually striking, with a vibrant pink cover featuring a grid of images representing different stages of Cathy’s experience. Each powerful visual serves as a reminder of the personal and emotional impact of breast cancer.

Download or read book I ve Got to Get This off My Chest written by Ilene Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an absolute must read for not only all cancer survivors, but for their friends and family. With lots of heart and even a little humor, its a life-changing journey of twists and turns that will open your eyesMike Valentino, Editor.

Download or read book I Have to Get It Off My Chest I Have to Tell My Truth written by Inguna Brazil and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Soviet Latvia in the 1990s was a place of political upheaval and societal turmoil. Such is the setting for I Have to Get It Off My Chest - I Have to Tell My Truth; the story of Lolita, a young woman who faces her own personal challenges stemming from a husband with addiction problems and the economic hardships that were widespread across Eastern Europe at the time. Lolita eventually chooses to move abroad and start a new life. But in a foreign country, away from her home and everything familiar to her, she faces new and different obstacles. She must also deal with the additional challenges of bringing up a child with special needs. Eventually Lolita does succeed in creating a good life for herself and comes to enjoy the happiness she has always sought for herself and her children. I Have to Get It Off My Chest - I Have to Tell My Truth is a compelling work that's based on author Inguna Brazil's own experiences as a Latvian woman. While the book depicts events from her personal history, it's a story that would undoubtedly be familiar to many Latvian women who faced similar adversities following the demise of Soviet controlled Eastern Europe. Author Inguna Brazil was born in Latvia during the Soviet era and currently resides in Ireland. The mother of two, Inguna is also a grandmother. With much of her time on a day-to-day basis devoted to caring for her youngest daughter, writing is something she has typically done in her spare time. This is her first book. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/IngunaBrazil

Download or read book Getting it Off My Chest written by Janice Day and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Health.

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 Love Life written by Rob Lowe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of his New York Times bestselling Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe is back with an entertaining collection that “invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness” (Kirkus Reviews). After the incredible response to his acclaimed bestseller, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe was convinced to mine his experiences for even more stories. The result is Love Life, a memoir about men and women, actors and producers, art and commerce, fathers and sons, movies and TV, addiction and recovery, sex and love. Among the adventures he describes in these pages are: · His visit, as a young man, to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion, where the naïve actor made a surprising discovery in the hot tub. · The time, as a boy growing up in Malibu, he discovered a vibrator belonging to his best friend’s mother. · What it’s like to be the star and producer of a flop TV show. · How an actor prepares, for Californification, Parks and Recreation, and numerous other roles. · His hilarious account of coaching a kid’s basketball team dominated by helicopter parents. · How his great, great, great, great, great grandfather may have inspired everything from his love of The West Wing to his taste in classic American architecture. · His first visit to college, with his son, who is going to receive the education his father never got. · The time a major movie star stole his girlfriend. Linked by common themes and his philosophical perspective on love—and life—Lowe’s writing “is loaded with showbiz anecdotes, self-deprecating tales, and has a general sweetness” (New York Post).

Download or read book The Demon on My Chest written by Dan Farris and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man tormented by sleep paralysis and night terrors, a dead prostitute, and an archangel with a grudge against God. Sean is a 21-year-old law school dropout, who deeply loves God, but he has suffered from sleep paralysis and night terrors since he was a child. Recently, he has returned to his small hometown in Louisiana to find a way to make the sleep paralysis and night terrors go away. In his attempt to find answers, Sean will go down a dark path that will awaken a hidden power inside of him that he never knew existed. Sean will be forced to question everything he believed in, including what it means to be good. Rebecca is a 17-year-old foul-mouthed prostitute who wakes up in a place with no memory of how she got there. She will soon discover that she has died and her soul went to Hell. Is she doomed to suffer eternal pain like the countless souls in Hell or will she find the love and power that she never had when she was alive? Samael is an eons-old archangel with unspeakable power. He is second only to God, in terms of pure might. He abandoned Heaven after Lucifer was cast out because he felt that God betrayed him and after a last act of betrayal, Samael finally declares war on Heaven.

Download or read book A Year Without a Name written by Cyrus Dunham and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "stunning" (Hanif Abdurraqib), "unputdownable" (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire. How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do you know whether to believe yourself? Cyrus Dunham’s life always felt like a series of imitations—lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman. But in a culture of relentless self-branding, and in a family subject to the intrusions and objectifications that attend fame, dissociation can come to feel normal. A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Dunham’s fearless, searching debut brings us inside the chrysalis of a transition inflected as much by whiteness and proximity to wealth as by gender, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about identity. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely his, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved meditation on queerness, family, and selfhood. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the season by: Time NYLON Vogue ELLE Buzzfeed Bustle O Magazine Harper's Bazaar

Download or read book Out There written by Kate Folk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.”—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.

Download or read book The Faraway Nearby written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.