Download or read book Son We Need to Talk written by LeRoy Lawson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Son, We Need to Talk" candidly confronts the tough topic of suicide--not an easy assignment for a pastor father. Could he have done anything to save his son's life? How did he miss the signs? And what about his prayers asking God to protect all his children? "Son, We Need to Talk" reveals one's father's struggle to regain his balance when his almost twenty-seven-year-old son, brilliant and full of promise, at last gives in to the bouts of depression that had haunted him for so long. In a loving suicide letter, he explains himself, but the reasons he writes down as carbon monoxide fills his vehicle do little to ease the family's pain. His father pleads for him not to kill himself, but of course he's too late. The author can't save the young man, but he does at long last fight his way back to peace. In "Son, We Need to Talk," the author confesses his sense of a loss beyond calculation, of a faith unafraid to ask questions (even of God), of a love that will not let go, and of the ultimate triumph of hope.

Download or read book We Need to Talk About Kevin written by Lionel Shriver and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient. Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much–adored teacher in a school shooting two days before his sixteenth birthday. Neither nature nor nurture exclusively shapes a child's character. But Eva was always uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood. Did her internalized dislike for her own son shape him into the killer he’s become? How much is her fault? Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with Kevin’s horrific rampage, all in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. A piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “impossible to put down,” is a stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family.

Download or read book Mom and Dad We Need to Talk written by Cameron Huddleston and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to start open, productive talks about money with your parents as they age As your parents age, you may find that you want or need to broach the often-difficult subject of finances. In Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances, you’ll learn the best ways to approach this issue, along with a wealth of financial and legal information that will help you help your parents into and through their golden years. Sometimes parents are reluctant to address money matters with their adult children, and topics such as long-term care, retirement savings (or lack thereof), and end-of-life planning can be particularly touchy. In this book, you’ll hear from others in your position who have successfully had “the talk” with their parents, and you’ll read about a variety of conversation strategies that can make talking finances more comfortable and more productive. Learn conversation starters and strategies to open the lines of communication about your parents’ finances Discover the essential financial and legal information you should gather from your parents to be prepared for the future Gain insight from others’ stories of successfully talking money with aging parents Gather the courage, hope, and motivation you need to broach difficult subjects such as care facilities and end-of-life plans For children of Baby Boomers and others looking to assist aging parents with their finances, Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk is a welcome and comforting read. Although talking money with your parents can be hard, you aren’t alone, and this book will guide you through the process of having fruitful financial conversations that lead to meaningful action.

Download or read book 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son Revised and Expanded Edition written by Vicki Courtney and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cradle to college, tell your sons the truth about life before they believe the culture’s lies. For mothers with boys newborn to eighteen, 5 Conversations You MustHave with Your Son is simply a must-have book. Award-winning youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms and dads pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in a boy’s formative years. Fully addressing the dynamic social and spiritual issues and other influencers at hand, several chapters are written for each of the conversations, which are: 1. Don’t let the culture define you 2. Guard your heart 3. Have a little sex respect 4. Childhood is only for a season 5. You are who you’ve been becoming The book also includes questions at the end of each conversation to help facilitate individual or group study.

Download or read book You re Hitched Son written by Kathy Ann Powers Ogden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a desperate quest to become legal guardian of her younger sisters, India runs away to find help. In searching to find help, she runs into a loud, cocky bull rider, Chad Watch. She proposes a temporary marriage agreement to gain custody of her sisters. Will India achieve her number one goalto save her sistersor will she find disappointment? Chad Watch is a ladies man, good-looking, cocky, a professional bull rider, a deputy for the local sheriffs department, and a womanizer. He loves parties, rodeos, and women. Chad never gave love, family, or children a single thought. But in meeting India, Chad will agree to anything for just one night. Will Chad agree to an everlasting love and a family?

Download or read book What Dads Need to Know About Daughters What Moms Need to Know About Sons written by John Burns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a boy! New mothers welcome this announcement with both excitement and trepidation. It's the beginning of a great adventure, as well as one of the most challenging jobs a woman can face. Moms, your desire to understand your son can equip you with the power to influence his life for good, thereby influencing his family and generations to come. God made you this little boy's mom on purpose! And with John Burns's experienced help in this book, you can learn not only to endure it but to celebrate it. It's a girl! Those three little words create a rush of joy and anticipation for every new dad -- typically followed by a healthy dose of fear and apprehension. Dads, from God you can learn the qualities and characteristics that will make you the kind of dad your daughter needs you to be -- and the kind of dad God always intended you to become. And with Helen Burns's gentle advice about girls, it may be easier than you think. Join us now as we celebrate the divine differences in sons and daughters. Learn to be gentle, loving, and understanding dads and moms from the wise and gracious Father of us all.

Download or read book What a Difference a Mom Makes written by Dr. Kevin Leman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every mom wants the best for her son. She wants him to succeed in life, to be a man of character, to find a good woman, to be a great dad. But sometimes boys are hard for moms to understand. Sometimes they're strange, annoying, and downright disgusting! Yet always they need a mother who is engaged and interested in them, because a mom is the most important person in a boy's life. In What a Difference a Mom Makes, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman uses his wit and wisdom to show Mom how to lay the groundwork that will allow her son to grow into a good man. Armed with Dr. Leman's expert advice and insight, Mom will gain an understanding of her boy at every stage, from that very first diaper change to the moment he leaves for college. Dr. Leman shows how to discipline a boy, how to command respect, how to let him fight his own battles, how to understand his sexuality, and how to weather the changes in the mother-son relationship as he grows up. Most of all, Leman shows Mom how to lighten up and have some fun along the way with that boy who will always have her heart.

Download or read book Don t Let My Mama Read This written by Hadjii and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Hadjii. He’s got a loving family, a taste for making trouble, and a wicked sense of humor. His first book, Don’t Let My Mama Read This, is a rarity—an upbeat memoir about a blessedly normal childhood written by a natural-born storyteller. In it, he offers a warm, witty look at the pleasures and pitfalls of growing up in a close-knit Southern family, from a young man who’s just like you, only funnier.

Download or read book We Need to Talk written by Robert G. Barnes and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical book full of usable communication keys that help couples develop a closer, more vital relationship.

Download or read book If You Only Knew written by Debra Miller Gonzales and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish civil war was heating up again. It had Carol sending her brother Paddy and her daughter Fiona to America. Fiona was very grateful Uncle Paddy had made a hefty down payment for the flower shop she wanted to open. She was afraid he was walking both sides of the law again in order to come up with the money. Most of Fiona's supplies were being delivered by Antonelli's Deliveries. It didn't take long for Giovanni Antonelli and Fiona McTavish to strike sparks off each other. Though he had gone straight, his family had Mafia ties. Giovanni's prejudiced twin didn't like his brother dating an Irish girl and tried to warn him off. This was supposed to be his neighborhood. The Irish had no business being here. He tried unsuccessfully to drive Fiona away. So one evening, when Fiona was closing, he grabbed her off the street, dragged her into his van, and beat her soundly. He threw her back out on the sidewalk and took off. Uncle Paddy was in a rage. He was going to handle things just as he would back home: hunt down who did this and kill them. He headed into Little Ireland to round up troops. Then they would storm Little Italy and wreak as much havoc as possible until the perpetrator was found and punished. Street justice was achieved, but the Mafia dons weren't about to take this lying down. It wasn't long before they were hitting Little Ireland in retaliation. Though he'd fallen hard, Giovanni couldn't help but think if he took himself out of the equation, maybe the fighting would stop. It seemed it was dating Fiona that was the initial cause of all the battles. The street wars continued. Guido, Giovanni's youngest brother, was now making deliveries to Fiona's shop. It killed him to see his favorite customer and his brother so miserable. So Guido enlisted Paddy's help in trying to stop the street fighting. If they could get both sides to stand down, maybe they could end the bloody war. If there was no longer any fighting, Giovanni could go back to Fiona.

Download or read book The Crystallization Study of the Gospel of John written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1996 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Down Thru Love written by H. B. Pierre Simon Jr. and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down Thru Love is a heartfelt story about a young man named Peyton Love, his journey of being born with Down syndrome, and his triumphs of life through self-realization, forgiveness, and love. Peyton Love’s life has been full of challenges, but he has persevered through them all because of his mother’s sacrifices and consistent lessons. With the hope of one day finding his father and proving his worth, Peyton works his entire life collecting awards, accolades, trophies, and anything that would validate his existence. Being abandoned before taking his first breath, Peyton’s pain fueled his passion for his father’s validation and acceptance. But would it be enough? When tragedy strikes and Peyton’s world falls apart, he sets out to find his father, with no promise of a welcoming reconciliation. As he searches, Peyton struggles to keep his mother’s beliefs alive—that it is possible to change the world through forgiveness and love. Unbeknownst to Peyton, this very forgiveness would not only allow him to change the world, but it would become the critical puzzle piece to saving his own life, and fulfilling his purpose. As his search draws closer to finding his father, will Peyton be able to forgive him? Can he move past old hurts to fulfill his mother’s dream of becoming the Love the world needs? What will be the view of Love, Thru Down?

Download or read book Delightful Sensations All Are Oli written by Claudia Linares Quackenbush and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each scent spread Olinda's cooking nectar throughout the house, unforgettable and impossible to be confused with others, internally singular, all her own, an Olindian odor. It was the strongest fragrant sensation found anywhere in the world, which permeated the culinary desires of both family and guests. Each and every palate savored the texture, consistency, silken elasticity and flexibility, the colorful tenderness of every bite that transferred each eater from the dining room to a celestial sphere.In Delightful Sensations all' Are'Oli, Claudia Quackenbush establishes through the three main characters--Arely, Olinda, and Hugo--the concept that the culinary art creates historical and joyful memories and emotions when the dishes are being prepared and that these memories remain imbued in each human being. Because human beings not only create food but also coexist when cultivating the fruit and vegetables while cooking and savoring the food, regardless of the culture or society in question.Quackenbush also presents three main topics--feeding the society in a (1) hypermetacognitive, (2) psychological, and (3) physical manner--which are all developed by Olinda, the professor; Arely, the psychologist; and Hugo, the agronomist engineer, respectively, while they are creating recipes. These characters become role models not just because of their interfamily love, union, and support but also because of new visions they propose according to their professions in order to improve their world, society, and themselves and to reach their human and hypermetacognitive vocations so "we can all reach and fulfill our spiritual and physical limits and growth."

Download or read book Black Sheet Vengeance written by Harry Brooks Crayton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission: Create distrust for and among the KKK in Caloosa and discourage them from terrorizing colored people! Oceans is a boy growing up in the fictitious town of Caloosa, Mississippi, in the 1920s and 1930s under the Jim Crow system and Ku Klux Klan dominance. He sees his mentor and other colored men face injustice from the system and lynchings by the Klan and determines that one day, he will rid his town of the Klan menace. Somehow, he will find a way to terrorize individual members of the Klan and make them scared to wear the white sheet and hood, much less terrorize the colored population. As a young army volunteer in World War II, he faces all types of discrimination. The colored GIs are segregated as well as undervalued, underestimated, and marginalized. He is assigned as a truck driver even though his testing shows that he is qualified for much more. His truck is blown up, and he is captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp where he escapes and ends up fighting with the French underground. He returns home after the war to use his skills with weapons and his God-given ability to mimic any voice or accent once he’s heard it to rescue colored men from lynchings by the Klan by disguising himself as a white man and eventually terrorizing the Klan to the point that they’re afraid to show themselves.

Download or read book Beyond the Storm written by Johnny Neil Smith and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1864. The freezing winds off Lake Michigan swept across the snow laden grounds and through the cracks of a building that held Southern prisoners in Camp Douglas, Illinois. Huddled with the other prisoners, John mulled over the reasons he had enlisted, even after his father had forbidden it. He knew the only real reason was to protect his best friend Frankie, who had enlisted first but never even bothered to show up at the station when the recruits left for war. Shivering, he wondered if he would ever see his family again or especially the girl he had loved since childhood. John realized that nothing but an act of God could deliver him from this hell on earth. Includes Readers Guide.

Download or read book The Sinclair Solution written by Joyce Rosenwald and published by THE SINCLAIR SOLUTION. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At any moment Israel, Iran or other countries will launch their missiles sending civilization into World War III. As quickly as Proliferation was building up, so had Propaganda on all sides. The fifth column controlled all the news now. The hunted must immediately become the hunters. The action begins in the shadowy forests of California known as Bohemian Grove and moves quickly across the entire world centering on the Middle East and the hunt for the nuclear bombs smuggled in across our unattended borders.. If any of the characters survived, their lives would never be the same. At any moment unseen hands would push the button that would end civilization; if not eliminate all known life on the planet.The problems that had to be resolved immediately were how to identify the enemies. Hoover's documents would identify only the beginning of the planners of destruction. The external enemies had been identified by current events. The surprise was that some of the so called Enemies were actually on his side.How could Sinclair's people know on February 21 how much time was left? His group originally started out as seven very concerned men, growing to only forty-nine. The other original members of the Cabal-as they referred to themselves were-the heir to the huge tool and die conglomerate he had helped create, a Mr. Floyd and six other Industrialists- Men who had integrity and would pledge their resources and ultimately their lives....Visit our web site: @ http://www.writers-table.net

Download or read book Sidetracked written by Allan Michael Hardin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive once more the action packed, shoot em up western in the tradition of Zane Grey. Ride with Marshal Woodrow Kinslow as he brings an embittered Colorado landowner to justice. An accident claims the life of a young son of a Colorado rancher, Johnathan Birk. Although, he reluctantly agreed to let homesteaders onto land that he claimed for his own, the death of his son sends him on a vengeful crusade to rid the valley of all the homesteaders. Marshall Woodrow Kinslow is shot at on a high country trail by Ansen Miller, the homesteader who accidentally killed Birks son. Kinslow listens to his story and decides to take him to see a judge. Birk and his hired guns kill Miller and wound Kinslow. Upon recovery, he goes to a Federal judge, gets some warrants and returns to dispense his own brand of frontier justice. Ride with Marshal Woodrow Kinslow as he brings an embittered Colorado landowner to justice. An accident claims the life of a young son of a Colorado rancher, Johnathan Birk. Although, he reluctantly agreed to let homesteaders onto land that he claimed for his own, the death of his son sends him on a vengeful crusade to rid the valley of all the homesteaders. Marshall Woodrow Kinslow is shot at on a high country trail by Ansen Miller, the homesteader who accidentally killed Birks son. He mistakes the marshal for one of Birks men. After the dust settles, Kinslow listens to what Miller has to say and decides to help the man get to a judge so he can his side of the story. Birk and his hired guns catch up to them where they kill Miller and wound Kinslow. Upon recovery, Kinslow goes to a Federal judge, gets some warrants and returns to dispense his own brand of frontier justice.