Download or read book Picking Wings off Butterflies written by Scott R. Stahlecker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Stahlecker was six years old when his life changed forever. He was walking home from school one afternoon when he was struck by a speeding car and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In Picking Wings Off Butterflies, David's father recalls that dreadful day and the years that followed, revealing a relationship that is as tumultuous as it is endearing. Both of them seek to move past the tragedy to live meaningful lives, but just as everything seems to be heading in the right direction, they're derailed by the American justice system. Humorous and brutally honest, this memoir celebrates the sacred relationship between a father and son. Ultimately, their search for meaning leads one of them to find God and the other to lose his faith. Be prepared to delve deep into the darkest motives of the human heartand paradoxicallyto be nourished by the tenacity of the human spirit with Picking Wings Off Butterflies.

Download or read book The Book of Questions written by Gregory Stock and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon returns! Originally published in 1987, The Book of Questions, a New York Times bestseller, has been completely revised and updated to incorporate the myriad cultural shifts and hot-button issues of the past twenty-five years, making it current and even more appealing. This is a book for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a lively conversation starter for the family dinner table, a fun way to pass the time in the car. It poses over 300 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves and how they really feel about the world. The revised edition includes more than 100 all-new questions that delve into such topics as the disappearing border between man and machine—How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer? The challenges of being a parent—Would you completely rewrite your child’s college-application essays if it would help him get into a better school? The never-endingly interesting topic of sex—Would you be willing to give up sex for a year if you knew it would give you a much deeper sense of peace than you now have? And of course the meaning of it all—If you were handed an envelope with the date of your death inside, and you knew you could do nothing to alter your fate, would you look? The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges—and even changes—the way you view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own.

Download or read book And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign written by Harold Gildston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gordon floated out of the commander's office. He sensed his fortunes had turned 180 degrees. On the pinnacle of a phenomenal high, incandescing like lights on Broadway, he now believed that the backbreaking labor he had performed for his father on the roofs of Brooklyn had a larger purpose. His feet carried him to where his prayer book lay open to the well-worn page containing the sentence" and the Lord shall raise an ensign " "And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign" is a World War II male Cinderella story of sorts-with seductive and serendipitous twists. Charles Gordon, a handsome, well-spoken Jew from a poor working-class Yankee family, enters a naval officer's program along with almost exclusively southern classmates. With some fairy-godmother luck and remarkable feats of derring-do, accomplished despite the erection of malicious and prejudicial obstacles, Gordon eventually becomes an oddball hero among awestruck peers and admiring superiors. After earning the rank of ensign, an unexpected sequence of events ends with the virgin officer serving brilliantly as the Navy's youngest lead fighter director on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific war zone. Unforeseen and unjust consequences of dangerous liaisons, however, threaten to destroy him completely.

Download or read book Fireworks written by Aimer Boyz and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the Broadway show tune, Daniel Fine prefers his relationships to be for "One Night Only"- hot, hard, and gone the next morning. Daniel is looking to never, ever be in a relationship again. He's been there, done that, and has the scars to prove it. And then he meets Steven ... Steven is looking for that forever relationship; someone who matters, someone to come home to. So, of course, they want each other. Daniel has baggage, eight years of baggage, to be exact. He has an ex-partner, rampant trust issues and a recently developed allergy to anything real, anything beyond the heat of writhing bodies. Steven is starting over; new city, new job. He has worked hard to recover from a hurt hidden in his past, but unlike Daniel, he still has faith in the possibility of forever. Can mutual lust become mutual trust? Can for now become forever? Fireworks explores what it takes to be truly happy.

Download or read book Starting with Alice written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After she, her older brother, and their father move from Chicago to Maryland, Alice has trouble fitting into her new third grade class, but with the help of some new friends and her own unique outlook, she survives.

Download or read book A Time to Love written by Billie Cantrell McNabb Maguire and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an age of innocence and sometimes ignorance. I want to memorialize what a wonderful era it was in which to be a child and to grow old. It began as a chronological biography, but that was not the way life is lived. Stuff happens and rehappens, appears and disappears, changes and remains the same. Thus my memories and emotions became a haphazard collection of short sketches and stories. Early on the decision was made to mainly include the good "stuff." We begin this saga with my grandmother Jenny's story. the matriarch of the clan. "Jenny Cantrell was born October 29, 1858, in a farmhouse near Red Sulphur Springs. She is one-half of a set of twin daughters born to James and Elizabeth Ratliff. Mrs. Cantrell grew up on a farm in Mercer County near Littlesburg. One year a young Charlestonian, James M. Cantrell came to Mercer County "to take an interest in the mines." They fell in love and at 16 years of age, Jenny Ratliff became his bride."

Download or read book Environmental Philosophy written by Christopher Belshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it. The subject is examined from a determinedly analytic philosophical perspective, focusing on questions of value, but taking in attendant issues in epistemology and metaphysics as well. The book begins by considering the nature, extent and origin of the environmental problems with which we need to be concerned. Chapters go on to consider familiar strategies for dealing with environmental problems, and then consider what sort of things are of direct moral concern, examining in turn at animals, non-sentient life-forms, natural but non-living things and deep ecology. The final part of the book investigates notions of value, natural beauty and the place of human beings in the scheme of things.

Download or read book Attracting Butterflies Hummingbirds to Your Backyard written by Sally Roth and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to attract butterflies and hummingbirds to the backyard garden by creating an ideal habitat and provides a field guide to the sixteen hummingbird species and seventy-five common butterfly species that make North America their home.

Download or read book Billionaires on the Beach written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox Books, LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Colours of Animals written by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women of Will written by Tina Packer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.

Download or read book The Forgotten Girl written by LJ Bourne and published by Waterside Dreams Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An FBI Special Agent's violent past collides with the present in LJ Bourne's new blood-chilling thriller of murder, rage and dark secrets. A dead girl in the woods. A well-known suspect. Twenty-year-old secrets coming to light. Special Agent Lynn Rivers is sent to investigate a nightmare of a case. The mutilated body of her closest friend’s daughter has been found at a campsite. Lynn has known the victim all her life. From the outset it’s clear this will be one of the hardest cases she’s ever worked on. But she is determined to see it through, no matter what she finds. That promise gets harder and harder to keep as suspects are thin on the ground and the main one is a man Lynn once knew well. A man who was the prime suspect in the death of another of Lynn’s friends twenty years ago—a cold case that still haunts her. The two murders are different, yet eerily similar. To find the killer, Lynn will have to face all the dark ghosts of her past. And this time, she might not survive it. The Forgotten Girl is the first book in a brand-new mystery series by LJ Bourne – Lynn Rivers Mysteries. If you enjoy psychological thrillers full of dark twists and turns this book is for you! A must read for fans of Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardener and Karin Slaughter.

Download or read book My Billionaire Grump written by Camilla Isley and published by Pink Bloom Press. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lucy planned a summer trip to Florence, she didn’t expect to have to go single. Or for the hotel manager to cheat her out of her river-view room. And especially not for a broody, handsome stranger to offer to swap rooms with her. Offer is a euphemism. The mysterious George Emerson sort of brutalizes her into accepting the exchange. His gesture is as kind as the tone in which he poses it is barbaric, leaving Lucy rightfully confused. What is it about this man that makes her heart race while simultaneously making her want to punch him in the face? Only an unforgettable vacation under the Tuscan sun will unravel Lucy’s true feelings. An enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine rom-com.

Download or read book Shrinkwrapped written by Michael Grossman and published by I Michael Grossman. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bible belt midwestern town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, Michael Grossman's teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7 -- the first in a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Sitting beside the author on a succession of "shrink's" couches the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally uncovers fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation. By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.

Download or read book Socialite Evenings written by Shobhaa De and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A divorce and a succession of sordid affairs have left prominent Bombay socialite Karuna feeling battered, empty and melancholic. She looks back upon her life and the friends and enemies who surround her—neurotic, man-hungry Anjali; gorgeous, vivacious Ritu; high-profile editor Varun, with a penchant for young boys; Krish, the pretentious adman, whose wife actively helps him in his extramarital affairs. Scandalous, astute and utterly riveting, Shobhaa Dé’s first novel, Socialite Evenings, laid bare the world of high-society India and changed the face of the Indian novel forever.

Download or read book Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings written by Ellen McVicker and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings is a listen-to or read-along book for children. It is a resource that can be give as a gift and used to educate and support any child who is facing the cancer of a loved one. The story line, as told through the eyes of a child, lends itself to a simple and clear understanding of cancer. Most important, however, is the lesson that teaches children to realize the power they have to be an active and integral part of a loved one's cancer journey.

Download or read book Sucking Up Yellow Jackets written by Jeanne Denault and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not being able to grasp what other people are thinking wreaks havoc on a kind child and people around him. ,