Download or read book I Live a Life Like Yours written by Jan Grue and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times I am not talking about surviving. I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that I had always already been human. I am writing about all that I wanted to have, and how I got it. I am writing about what it cost, and how I was able to afford it. Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life—his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father—he intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly wise reflections on the world, social structures, disability, loss, relationships, and the body: in short, on what it means to be human. Along the way, Grue moves effortlessly between his own story and those of others, incorporating reflections on philosophy, film, art, and the work of writers from Joan Didion to Michael Foucault. He revives the cold, clinical language of his childhood, drawing from a stack of medical records that first forced the boy who thought of himself as “just Jan” to perceive that his body, and therefore his self, was defined by its defects. I Live a Life Like Yours is a love story. It is rich with loss, sorrow, and joy, and with the details of one life: a girlfriend pushing Grue through the airport and forgetting him next to the baggage claim; schoolmates forming a chain behind his wheelchair on the ice one winter day; his parents writing desperate letters in search of proper treatment for their son; his own young son climbing into his lap as he sits in his wheelchair, only to leap down and run away too quickly to catch. It is a story about accepting one’s own body and limitations, and learning to love life as it is while remaining open to hope and discovery.

Download or read book Social Justice Parenting written by Dr. Traci Baxley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Social Justice Parenting offers guidance and grace for parents who want to teach their children how to create a fair and inclusive world.”—Diane Debrovner, deputy editor of Parents magazine “Replete with excellent examples and advice that can help parents raise children with a healthy self-image and regard for the welfare of others."—Jane E. Brody, New York Times An empowering, timely guide to raising anti-racist, compassionate, and socially conscious children, from a diversity and inclusion educator with more than thirty years of experience. As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher—in more ways than one. Not only did they take on remote school supervision, but after the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice—with few resources to guide them. Now, in Social Justice Parenting, Dr. Traci Baxley—a professor of education who has spent 30 years teaching diversity and inclusion—will offer the essential guidance and curriculum parents have been searching for. Dr. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting is a form of activism, and encourages parents to acknowledge their influence in developing compassionate, socially-conscious kids. Importantly, Dr. Baxley also guides parents to do the work of recognizing and reconciling their own biases. So often, she suggests, parents make choices based on what’s best for their children, versus what’s best for all children in their community. Dr. Baxley helps readers take inventory of their actions and beliefs, develop self-awareness and accountability, and become role models. Poised to become essential reading for all parents committed to social change, Social Justice Parenting will offer parents everywhere the opportunity to nurture a future generation of humane, compassionate individuals.

Download or read book The Case for Rage written by Myisha Cherry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anger has a bad reputation. Many people think that it is counterproductive, distracting, and destructive. It is a negative emotion, many believe, because it can lead so quickly to violence or an overwhelming fury. And coming from people of color, it takes on connotations that are even more sinister, stirring up stereotypes, making white people fear what an angry other might be capable of doing, when angry, and leading them to turn to hatred or violence in turn, to squelch an anger that might upset the racial status quo"--

Download or read book Tracy My Destiny written by Michael D. Lieberman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan is twenty-six, has a masters degree in international affairs, waits tables to pay the bills, lives with Marnie, but still pines for Julie, who mocks him from behind a huge desk at the law firm where she is a highly-paid summer associate. Tracy is thirty-one, works a dull research job for two guys named John, her mother a hopeless alcoholic, her longtime boyfriend also John a hopeless workaholic; Tracy wants more from life, but does know where to turn. When Tracy invites a Yugoslavian political refugee for dinner, Dan serves them a triple-meat pizza and everything changes. Washington, DC, 1990. Set in the nation's capital and suburban New Jersey in the 1990s, Tracy, My Destiny is a love story. But just who loves whom, how, and where is never clear. Tracy and Dan waste time searching for places they do not know exist, emerging from the ruin of stillborn careers, premature fatalities, irredeemable relationships, sexual harassment, and a mysterious arson in parallel states of confusion. Tracy, My Destiny exposes the powerful emotions that run beneath the surface of modern American life and explores the complex instability and emotional lives of two ordinary, struggling people. This is Michael D. Lieberman's most intimate and poignant fiction, a sometimes bittersweet, and occasionally tragic portrait of the journey into adulthood in late twentieth century America.

Download or read book Mail Order Meddler written by Kirsten Osbourne and published by Unlimited Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis knew something needed to change immediately. He was only sixteen, but he understood that his family couldn’t keep living on bread and beef jerky. In town one day, he noticed an advertisement for a mail order bride, and sent off a letter…after signing his older brother’s name. He’d just make sure to tell Andrew that his fiancée was coming before she arrived. What could go wrong?

Download or read book Legendborn written by Tracy Deonn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and “braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery” (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

Download or read book Traci Edmonds Discovers Her Destiny written by Patrice A. Everage and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traci Edmonds is a 53 year old single mother of three, living a modest an certainly uneventful life. She is a relatively shy, stay at home mom operating a small travel business. She has determined that at her age, her time for finding a life-mate is over, and she resigns herself to living the rest of her life without love. Then she makes a bid to provide travel arrangements for an electronics firm’s annual retreat. She is given the contract to make arrangements for the retreat aboard a cruise ship, with the stipulation that she personally give the firm’s top executive staff a pre-retreat trial run. Little does she know that this particular cruise would bring the unexpected and her life would be changed forever. During the cruise Traci meets the company owner, Gary Crosse. He is what most women fantasize as their dream man; tall, dark, handsome, sometimes brooding. He is also rich and successful, and a playboybut. Like Traci, he is in his 50’s, 57 to be exact. Gary has an infamous reputation in business and his personal life. He is a stickler for detail in business and a barracuda in his romances. Prior to meeting Mr. Crosse, Traci is warned, have all of your T’s crossed, your I’s dotted before presenting anything to Mr. Crosse. And “do not” fall prey to his very lethal charm. Traci heeds the warnings on her interactions with Gary Crosse, and makes sure that her dealings with him are conscientious and professional. Until one fatal night just prior to the end of the cruise, Gary Crosse visits her cabin in the middle of the night and makes his intentions known, and they are not professional. This single act, catapults them on a 30 year relationship filled with passion, romance, spirituality, physical and emotional trials, as well as, danger, intrigue and family unity. They endure tragedy, jealousy, betrayal and forced separation. Then, a racially motivated physical attack nearly destroys their relationship. It ́s that incident which leads Traci into the development of a family ministry. But in spite of the trials they endure, they do endure with the love they share and the grace, mercy and protection of God almighty. And they bequeath a legacy of wisdom and faith to their family, friends and all that knew them.

Download or read book Secrets written by Ronelle Derrick and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECRETS.. A bond shared among four friends comes to an abrupt halt after one of them gets betrayed. Little does one of the girls know that each one of them have a deep secret waiting to be revealed. Will Tracy, Evelyn, Gina and Sheila find the strength and love to over come these obstacles or will it destroy their friendship forever?

Download or read book Purple Hair written by Cate Lewis and published by Stansbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985 America a naive young woman experiences the real world while struggling to find meaning in a life that doesn’t match the roles determined by her Disneyland upbringing in a rural working class family. As a Hoosier girl, Tracy Perry’s background clashes with her life as an adult English as a second language teacher, idealistic feminist, and bi-coastal explorer of life in the undercurrents of social progress. Radical change in sexual politics, counter-cultural art, music, and literature reshape both her life and that of others around her: her father, a WWII vet given electroshock treatment to address PTSD induced schizophrenia, her dancer friend, an HIV positive bisexual man she falls in love with, her lesbian Lakota friend and lover involuntarily sterilized at age 17 after the birth of her second child, and her mother, who must become the breadwinner in a role switch resulting from her husband’s PTSD treatment. Burning issues become unavoidable as Tracy stands on common ground with fellow human beings facing issues she is unprepared to address—HIV/AIDS epidemic, racial prejudice, genocide, poverty, lack of education, and social justice inequities. It’s an individual coming of age story set in a time and place where collective consciousness drowns us all.

Download or read book Active Listening 3 Teacher s Manual with Audio CD written by Steve Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active Listening Second edition for adult and young adult learners has task-based units built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Teacher's Manual 3 contains step-by-step practical teaching notes, optional speaking activities and listening strategies, culture notes, and suggested times for completing lessons. Photocopiable unit quizzes, two complete tests with Audio CD, and complete answer keys are also included.

Download or read book Did You Get the Vibe written by Kelly James-Enger and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking romp through the often perilous world of dating follows two best friends in Chicago as they search for the perfect man who gives off "The Vibe." Reprint.

Download or read book Catching Babies written by J.D. Kleinke and published by Underland Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth, and death. Two ends of the same spectrum. And sometimes the only person standing between is a tired, overworked resident with personal problems of her own. Welcome to the world of Catching Babies. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Jay is running from a life he’s tried to leave behind, while Katie sacrifices everything she has to serve an endless parade of needy patients. Anna is out trying to save the world, while Tracy is trying to save twins dying in utero. Based on true stories from delivery rooms and labor decks, Catching Babies spins the doctors’ stories into a gripping mosaic of the obsessions, the anxieties, and the heroism of doctors who have chosen to preside over life’s greatest medical drama—high-risk childbirth.

Download or read book Knights and Demons Complete 10 Book Boxed Set written by Greg Dragon and published by Thirsty Bird Productions. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Boxed set contains all ten books that comprise Knights and Demons. Knights and Demons is an urban fantasy, action/adventure, about one woman's struggle to save a world besieged by demons. Each book within this series is 80-100 pages. The story so far... Years of martial arts training never prepared nineteen-year-old Alysia Knight for the battle she has to face. War is raging in the streets of New Jersey, and surviving the apocalypse means staying clear of monsters preying on the citizens. As a teen, Alysia never dreamed her first years as an adult would be spent fighting demons. However, as the chosen warrior of the Turevila, she must defeat them in order to save the world. Keywords: action, adventure, epic, quest, exploration, college, spiritual, sword, sorcery, new adult, supernatural, urban fiction, paranormal, omnibus, boxed set, collection, samurai, angels, demons, deities, dystopian, female protagonist, heroine, multicultural, interracial, diverse, coming of age

Download or read book Harlequin Desire October 2015 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Tracy Wolff and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! PURSUED (The Diamond Tycoons) by Tracy Wolff Nic Durand had a one-night stand with the reporter exposing corruption in his company. Now she's having his child. She may be set on bringing him down, but he'll pursue her until he has her right where he wants her! STRANDED WITH THE BOSS (Billionaires and Babies) by Elizabeth Lane Early tragedy led billionaire Dragan to steer clear of children. But could a spunky redhead—who's suing his company!—and her twin toddlers melt his frozen heart when they're stranded together in a winter cabin? FALLING FOR HER FAKE FIANCÉ (The Beaumont Heirs) by Sarah M. Anderson Frances Beaumont needs a fortune. CEO Ethan Logan needs a Beaumont to give him credibility when he takes over the family brewery. Can this engagement of convenience lead to the real deal? Look for Harlequin® Desire's October 2015 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes!

Download or read book Inside Out written by Grayson Cole and published by Genesis Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tracey McAlpine, a privileged African-American graduate student, falls in love with Garrett Atkins, a gorgeous, white law student, their passion makes them face their demons together. Original.

Download or read book The Source of All Things written by Tracy Ross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explains how her love for the outdoors--and her journeys to natural landscapes in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska--became her only source of redemption after suffering sexual abuse from her stepfather for more than six years.

Download or read book Savoring the Seasons written by Traci Borum and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: