Download or read book Sister Girl and the Training Wheels written by Nicole Fenner and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even at an early age children quickly learn that life brings challenges. In Sister Girl and the Training Wheels, she learns about patience, support, and growing up. Her father is instrumental in not only helping her ride a bike, but also preparing her to understand how to handle other hurdles in life. Readers are left with a sense of pride in family, and also themselves. Sister Girl is easy to relate to and the message of not giving up can be received by anyone, at any age. The Sister Girl Collection is an empowerment tool to encourage young girls to be courageous, creative, and live productive lives. Each book teaches a new lesson, skill, or touches on exploring the world. Readers can grow with Sister Girl as they also experience new things in their own lives. Families can add this collection to their home library, sharing the stories and lessons for years to come.
Download or read book Barefoot Girl written by Hilda Silance Corey and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about growing up in Jacksonville, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s when people cared about their neighbors and children could play outside without fear. It's about visits to family, riding in the country, swimming in the branch behind their house and those wonderful school activities in the town that is home to Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base.
Download or read book The Sisters We Were written by Wendy Willis Baldwin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will be eager for more." —Booklist "An insightful and empathetic view into the daily struggles of living with obesity. A solid entry for titles with plus-sized heroines." —Library Journal Pearl and Ruby's choices drove them apart. Finding their way back to each other might be the only way forward. The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Ruby's a runner, living in Dallas and only reluctantly talking to their mother, Birdie, when she calls from prison. Pearl is still living in her mother's fixer-upper and finds herself facing a line in the sand: her weight is threatening to kill her. She's hundreds of pounds beyond the point where she can celebrate her curves or benefit from the body positivity movement, and unless she takes drastic action, the future looks dire. But when Ruby's buried rage explodes in a hilariously viral way, the mistake has life-altering consequences. Now the sisters are back living under the same roof and forced to put the pieces of their separate lives together again. Funny, cinematic, and bursting with heart, this is a story of hope and redemption that celebrates the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. "A moving story of sisters and their unbreakable bond that spans a lifetime. Both hilarious and heartfelt, Baldwin brings to life characters that not only amuse us but stay with us long after the story is told. With this delightful and meaningful debut, Wendy Willis Baldwin is definitely an author to watch." —Angela Pisel, author of With Love from the Inside
Download or read book Big Sister Little Sister and a Brother In Between written by Tanya Wells and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I look back on my life, I realize it’s not what I have in life but who I have in my life that matters. There will always be people that matter the most to me. And those people are my family. How lucky am I to have people that love and support me, people that are and have made amazing memories with me. It’s the people in my life who want me in theirs, the ones who accept me for who I am, the ones who do not judge, and the ones who loved me then, love me still, love me now, and always will. They are the ones who would do anything for me just to see me smile and who love me no matter what. Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing. God truly blessed me with a loving mother and father and eight siblings, which became my chosen family. We were founded by faith, joined by love, kept by God together forever. “Blessed is the family who hears the Word of the Lord and obeys it” (Luke 11:28). Family—where life begins and love never ends. Where prayer is powerful and secrets are shared. Where parents believe too much love never spoils a child. Where there are no friendships better than that of sisters and brothers. In this book, “Big Sister, Little Sister, and A brother In Between”, two sisters and one brother face an awesomely unique and difficult challenge of moving from the city to a country dairy farm. Not knowing what to expect and all the effects of the big move put the siblings at odds with one another. The standards and rules their parents created will make you believe in second chances, blessings, and love. It is how they learn to live as a family where truth never loses, where love is unconditional, and where two parents see imperfect people perfectly. “Family are the people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul” (unknown). “Wings are to show you what you can become. Roots are to remind you where you’re from” (unknown). “The family is the center of life and it is the key to eternal happiness” (L. Tom Perry).
Download or read book Sisters of Heart and Snow written by Margaret Dilloway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of How to Be an American Housewife returns with a poignant story of estranged sisters, forced together by family tragedy, who soon learn that sisterhood knows no limits. Rachel and Drew Snow may be sisters, but their lives have followed completely different paths. Married to a wonderful man and a mother to two strong-minded teens, Rachel hasn’t returned to her childhood home since being kicked out by her strict father after an act of careless teenage rebellion. Drew, her younger sister, followed her passion for music but takes side jobs to make ends meet and longs for the stability that has always eluded her. Both sisters recall how close they were, but the distance between them seems more than they can bridge. When their deferential Japanese mother, Hikari, is diagnosed with dementia and gives Rachel power of attorney, Rachel’s domineering father, Killian becomes enraged. In a rare moment of lucidity, Hikari asks Rachel for a book in her sewing room, and Rachel enlists her sister’s help in the search. The book—which tells the tale of real-life female samurai Tomoe Gozen, an epic saga of love, loss, and conflict during twelfth-century Japan—reveals truths about Drew and Rachel’s relationship that resonate across the centuries, connecting them in ways that turn their differences into assets.
Download or read book The Gods of Asphalt Book One written by H. E. Ellis and published by H.E. Ellis. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When police search seventeen year-old Sawyer Hayden's wallet after he steals and crashes a vintage motorcycle they find just three things:The fake I.D. his brother bought him, his real ID without a motorcycle endorsement and the empty condom wrapper he saved from his first night with Sarah.What police don't find is his list. A list of the three things Sawyer blames for turning his once promising athlete of a father into a trucker who's life went nowhere. A list that before tonight he never left home without. Before tonight Sawyer lived his life by that list, like a map he used to avoid the same path his father traveled. A map he used to find a road of own, a road he knew for a fact would pave the way to a college scholarship and a future in basketball. But that was before tonight. Because despite all Sawyer's careful planning his map sends him down a road toward an obstacle he never sees coming. An obstacle that slams him head on and reveals a fate worse than failure. Success. Now broken, bleeding and running out of time Sawyer is forced to make a new list. A simple list with only one strategy. Live long enough to fail.
Download or read book Love With Training Wheels written by Chrissy Q Martin and published by Swimmer Girl Books. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya isn’t looking for love. When her virtual world collides with her real world, she’s bound to crash headfirst into it. Maya has a hard time saying no. She’ll say yes to helping her friends, to extra errands for her elderly neighbor, and to chasing another virtual jersey with a mystery guy on her bicycle training program. Maya wishes she could say no to Ethan, the great-grandson of her neighbor, who keeps handing off his chores to her, but she can’t. Ethan is only a voice on the phone to Maya, and the mystery guy she trains with is only a virtual avatar on a screen. When Maya finally meets Ethan, they grow close, and she’s torn between him and the mystery guy she only knows as Mr. Awesome. Mr. Awesome understands Maya and helps her train for a spot on an esports cycling team. But when a crime destroys her opportunity and her neighbor ends up in the hospital, Maya will have to learn to say no. Can she do it, even if it means hurting someone she loves? Race into this sweet sports romance, a standalone in the “For the Love of Sports” series. Get sucked into the draft of Maya chasing after her heart and her pain when she throws off the training wheels of love too soon. Can Maya recover and who will be there to help pick her up?
Download or read book Don t Blame the Music written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn Caroline B. Cooney’s powerful novel about love, independence, and responsibility, a prodigal daughter returns—and a high school senior and her family must cope with the fallout/divDIV Things are starting to come together for seventeen-year-old Susan Hall. She has great friends and a major crush on handsome, privileged Anthony Fielding, who has finally begun to show some interest. And she was just asked to be music editor of the yearbook./divDIV Suddenly, her older sister comes home. Ashley ran away at sixteen to join a rock band. For an impossibly short time, her star burned bright. She had a hit song. Now she’s back, filled with bitterness and anger. She hates her parents. She hates her younger sister. But most of all, she hates herself./divDIV As Ashley’s self-destructive behavior starts tearing the family apart, Susan’s life changes in unexpected ways. It becomes harder to maintain her equilibrium, both at school and at home. She still loves her sister, but she’s starting to see things—and people, like Whit, an outcast rock musician—in a different light./divDIV With charity, grace, and a generous heart, Caroline B. Cooney gives us an immensely moving story about what it means to be a family./divDIV/div/div
Download or read book Elizabeth s Daughter There s Power in Adversity written by Sharon Alston and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is about a daughter's story of overcoming witnessing domestic abuse and the murder of her mother by her father. This is a spirited memoir never sinking to self-pity, which ensures that the author's message stays inspirational. Although the author addresses family dysfunction at its worst, she maintains a sense of family at its best-the support of her relatives and the warmth of the home at her grandmother's. Through this candid, intimate story of a daughter's account of navigating through the events in her life and her consistently resilient tone, the author raises awareness about the impact of domestic violence upon children and inspires readers to conquer their own adversities, particularly those related to domestic abuse. The loving yet realistic tone of this memoir sets a good example of how readers can look at their own flawed families in a healthy, self-preserving way.This is truly an extraordinary human story of how the author used her power from the pain of adversity to triumph over it.
Download or read book The Reel Sisters written by Michelle Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A naked girl gets swept downstream and is fished out by four women fly fishers. Tales of adventure, as well as stories of renewal, discovery, and tragedy follow the five women as they find each other (and themselves) through the sport of fly fishing. Through the tales of each character, The Reel Sisters fosters the notion that fly fishing has the potential to transcend age, gender, culture, and even socioeconomic barriers, and can occasionally be the glue that binds us. The Reel Sisters is a story about the power of women friendships, and how we learn a little bit about ourselves each time we step into the river. By the end of the book, you'll want to start planning your own Reel Sisters adventures.
Download or read book The Secrets of Heaven written by Reni Stankova and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to The Enemy of Heaven Raphael and Dante, the enemies of Heaven who committed regicide and ascended a new queen on the throne, have enjoyed five idyllic years hiding in the mountains. But, their sanctuary shatters when Archangel Remiel, one of the best investigators in the world, closes in on them, forcing the couple into a life on the run. Meanwhile, Raphael stumbles upon a clue regarding his late mother's enigmatic discovery -- the ancient artifact that cost her life at the hands of her tyrannical husband. The clue leads him to the Holy Land. Determined to honor his mother's legacy, Raphael and Dante embark on a quest across three continents while avoiding Remiel's pursuit and contending with old and new acquaintances, all eager to exploit their predicament for personal gain. Turns out, enemies of Heaven are very valuable. But ffighting the world is nothing their powerful teamwork cannot overcome. But what will they find when they reach the Holy Land? Why does unveiling the secrets of the distant past threaten to unleash a cataclysmic force the world hasn't seen since the Great War? And what does Raphael's brother, Michael Azelys, have to do with everything?
Download or read book Cellar Girl written by Josefina Rivera and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I stood there for a moment, silently speaking to myself: Josefina, you will survive this. You are strong. You are a fighter. You adapt.' As a young mum-of-three, Josefina Rivera was determined to get her troubled life back on track. But then she met Gary Heidnik and the next four months became a living nightmare. Along with five women Josefina was held captive in a cellar where she was starved, beaten, and repeatedly raped to fulfil Heidnik’s desire of creating a ‘family’ of ten children. Cellar Girl is the shocking but ultimately inspiring story of how one brave, young woman saved herself and others from a life worse than hell.
Download or read book The Relationship Coach written by Sylvia McDaniel and published by Virtual Bookseller, LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Boy One—Relationship Coach Zero Documentary filmmaker Reed Hunter has one job: expose relationship coach Lacey Morgan as a fraud. With his recently dumped boss breathing down his neck, Reed attends Lacey’s expensive seminars in search of the real dirt on this self-proclaimed love expert. But as he digs deeper, Reed discovers two truths he’s not ready to accept: Lacey isn’t the swindler he thought, and he’s falling head over heels for her. Lacey Morgan has made a lucrative career as a relationship coach teaching other people how to find that perfect someone, but she’s beginning to feel like a fraud. How can she be so good at helping everyone else find love, when her own love life is an emotional disaster. What must she do to find her own perfect someone?
Download or read book When God Writes Your Love Story Expanded Edition written by Eric Ludy and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their most popular book, bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge singles to take a fresh approach to relationships in a culture where love has been replaced by cheap sensual passion. When God Writes Your Love Story shows that God's way to true love brings fulfillment and romance in its purest, richest, and most satisfying form. This new edition includes an extra chapter from Leslie Ludy about the surprises of life after marriage! “I had dreamed of a perfect love story for my entire life. But somewhere in the midst of the endless cycle of temporary romances, my dreams had shattered.” How can I find a love worth waiting for? Lay the foundation now—whether you’ve met your future spouse or not—for a lifelong romance. Bestselling authors Eric and Leslie Ludy invite you to discover how beautiful your love story can be when the Author of romance scripts every detail. Story Behind the Book Eric and Leslie Ludy want to offer an exciting vision of hope, proving that the Author of romance is alive and well and that true and lasting love can become a reality. Using the “four secrets to an amazing love story,” Eric and Leslie present a Christ-centered approach to building a relationship that will stand the test of time.
Download or read book Sea Monkeys written by Kris Saknussemm and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone. These are just a few of the luminous characters and conjurings Kris Saknussemm delivers in his kaleidoscopic Sea Monkeys—the story of his growing up in the counterculture San Francisco Bay Area and central California in the 1960s. Known for his genre-bending works Zanesville and Private Midnight, Saknussemm now gives us a highly original take on the nonfiction memoir, in which he shatters the stained glass windows of his father's church and mixes the pieces with ghost cartoons, the Cronkite contradictions of Civil Rights demonstrations, and ads for laxatives during a strange hiatus in American sanity when Sly Stone and Perry Como could both be in the Top 10. Honest, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Sea Monkeys is the no-holds-barred tale of one of our most exciting contemporary authors’ own coming of age, and the perfect follow-up to Saknussemm’s Zanesville, which Booklist hailed as “one of the most creative, edgy, and entertaining novels spawned in a decade.”
Download or read book The Girl Code written by Diane Farr and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This good-humored, Generation-X inspired, illustrated "love dictionary" contains tongue-in-cheek slang terms for the different stages of love and dating, for body parts and common sexual experiences, ways of making up and breaking up, and the basic rules of play that every woman should know. 50 two-color illustrations.
Download or read book Plan Interrupted written by Valerie J. Clarizio and published by VJC Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s a widower who deserves to be honored as the “Father of the Year.” She’s a corporate powerhouse who won’t be inconvenienced by the broken family next door. When attraction strikes, both are catapulted out of their comfort zone. Elizabeth Shaw’s professional life is going according to plan until she meets the handsome widower and his two young children next door. Having shelved her personal life to land her dream job, she disregards her romantic feelings for him. But the forces of nature have other ideas for her. Joe Antonetti has made his children his main focus since the death of his wife. But his beautiful neighbor becomes an irresistible distraction and has him wondering if he can change her priorities. Surrendering to their attraction for each other causes another player to step in with his own plan for Elizabeth. One that could not only end the budding romance but her life as well.
