Download or read book Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors written by Sherri Levine and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If one of the aims of poetry is to condense our vast, contradictory, and beautiful world into the briefest of songs, Sherri Levine's debut collection stands as a testament to its possibility. Each poem maps out the human heart, in all its internal conflicts, with precision and grace. From broken to sustainable relationships, fears of aging to cultural explorations, familial death to gender studies, these poems probe the many paradoxes of living with an open, curious mind and heart. There is great wisdom and honesty here, vulnerability and linguistic perception. This series of meditative poems simultaneously laments and celebrates life, grounding us in a familiar world that eventually open us up to something far greater. --John Sibley Williams, author of As One Fire Consumes Another and Skin Memory Part elegy, part love letter, part confrontation of self and others, Sherri Levine's first full-length book of poetry traces an emotional journey in which she explores the often confounding mysteries of childhood as they evolve into the traumas and occasional joys of later life: a young woman's confusion about men, about trust, about the nature of sanity. A difficult mother-daughter relationship resolves at the end of the mother's life, and the mother becomes, in memory, "more beautiful." Trouble, love, forgiveness. Isn't this the way our lives go? Levine's fine collection ponders these vital conundrums and provides a revelatory path toward understanding them. --Andrea Hollander, author of Blue Mistaken for Sky and Landscape with Female Figure With an artistic, tonal range, Levine's fearless poems ricochet between captivating and inescapable. At heart, the allure is a strangeness and the energy relentless, as she fulfills with savvy two sections titled "Girl" (then) "Unleashed." She knows where the journey ends and will not blink. As readers, we better not either. With humor sometimes subtle sometimes dark, images gorgeous or stunning, these poems travel twists and loops and satisfy as they land on sure feet. --John C. Morrison, author of Monkey Island and Heaven of the Moment

Download or read book Jazmine written by Verna Clay and published by M.O.I. Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazmine yearns for an assignment in the human realm. To that end, she attends Fairies-in-Training School in Flitter Town. After three classes, she has yet to be selected for assignment. Sadly, she knows she will soon be returned to her clan, the Fragrant Flowers, to resume her duties as a jasmyster. It's not that she doesn't love her job of keeping her namesakes fragrant, but a human assignment has always been her dream. Unexpectedly, Boss-at-the-Top selects her for a very important task. Ryan Lucas is grieving the loss of his wife and unable to connect emotionally with his eight year old son. Both their hearts have holes the size of the universe in them. During a short drive from his home in Bend, Oregon to his office in Sunriver, he almost crashes into a woman following deer across the highway. He can't believe anyone would be so reckless. He screeches to the side of the road and jumps out of his car to lecture her. Her beautiful uptilted eyes keep distracting him. They're not quite blue and not quite lavender. Young Jake Lucas just wants his dad to spend time with him. He desperately misses his mother because she's dead. And although his father is very much alive, he spends more time at his office than with Jake. Since his father ignores him, Jake turns his attention toward his new neighbor. After he sees her spying on him, he decides to spy on her. Snagging his dad's binoculars and hiding in his tree house, he watches her through her dining room window. Maybe she's with the FBI or CIA? Actually, she's pretty boring until he witnesses something impossible. Then he wonders if she's a witch, which makes him wonder if she's a good witch or a bad one.

Download or read book Soaring Above the Ashes on the Wings of Forgiveness written by Kitty Chappell and published by Perfect Bound Marketing + Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I finally realized that no matter how much I wanted to, I could not protect my family. Though I daydreamed of ways for us to escape, I knew it was impossible. Dad had warned us too many times to not go mouthing off to anyone about things that are none of their business, or I'll put you all out of your misery. The oldest of three, Kitty Chappell did her best to shield her brother and sister from their fathers abuse, but little could stand in the way of his beatings and vicious remarks. None of them escaped his brutality. As a well-respected family man in their Texas community in the 1950s, her father enjoyed a sure confidence in his control over his family. His assurance proved correct when he attacked her mother and turned friends against her, aiming shocking accusations at his wife and daughter. Everyone thought her father was wonderful including the jury that gave him the minimum sentence for trying to kill Kitty's mother as she lay sleeping. Only three-and-a-half years for premeditated attempted murder! It just wasn't fair. Kitty loved God but disagreed with Him on the subject of forgiveness. Many people were in her corner, for who hasn't debated this issue with God? She didn't want to forgive, she wanted revenge! But as Kitty developed her relationship with Christ, she realized she needed to forgive the man who had caused her so much pain. Soaring Above the Ashes on the Wings of Forgiveness will keep you riveted to your seat with its twists and turns. You will be enraged and terrified with the author through her difficult journey. Ultimately, you will rejoice with her as she walks through the door of forgiveness and breathes in the fresh air of freedom. Soaring Above the Ashes on Wings of Forgiveness reveals Kittys remarkable story of courage and faith and how she developed the attitude that enabled her to overcome rather than merely survive. This touching story will inspire you to overcome your difficulties and experience your own freedom and joy as you learn to forgive when everything in you screams for revenge.

Download or read book Say you ll Wait for Me A Memoir written by Samantha Rosalia and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the owner of vast stretches of land in certain areas of Pakistan meant you could marry the most beautiful girl of any nearby village, a devout Muslim woman from an affluent family born of a traditional Hindu caste and the eldest daughter of a neighboring landlord. Looking back in writing this now, I think about all the people who were supposed to care about me who had bad intentions related to why they claimed to welcome me as an American, never bothering to fill me in as to the reasons why I traveled to Pakistan. I found myself in a strange new land left to raise Sameer and Asad without a father. Thrust into a world of strangers disguised as well-meaning relatives extending a hand to greet me as a foreigner from the United States, I found myself standing in the middle of a deserted field trying not to see Daniyal in new relatives offering flowers and Muslim prayers of protection in Urdu. I was no longer called by my birth name Samantha but morphed into a Pakistani woman known only by my Muslim name, Kasra Say You’ll Wait for Me is my first book based on a true- to life experience of meeting and marrying an immigrant from a rural village area of Ganish, Pakistan. As I struggle to fit in with a large, eccentric joint family as a foreigner from Louisiana who knows next to nothing about Pakistani customs, haphazard attempts at blending in with my Muslim family turn into a series of cultural blunders and missteps. Secretive in-laws appear as well-meaning family members offering Muslim prayers, revealing a series of family betrayals and secrets surrounding an ongoing legal case in Karachi, Pakistan involving the acquisition of ancestral property. A territorial dispute in Karachi, Pakistan spirals out of control in the form of an ongoing family feud. What remains of my time in a rural village area of Ganish is a true story comprised of people who lied to me, and a broken promise of a happy life in a foreign country that existed in a past memory. The beginning of our financial issues began more than five years ago over a valuable piece of property in Karachi. The most tragic part of my real-life experience about marrying a Pakistani wasn't that years later I had come to find out my immigrant husband's ancestral land had been stolen from him and he could no longer return to his birth country. I prayed for the land to be returned to its rightful owner. Say You’ll Wait for Me

Download or read book This Love Story Will Self Destruct written by Leslie Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic tale of boy meets girl: Girl…goes home with someone else. Meet Eve. She’s a dreamer, a feeler, a careening well of sensitivities who can’t quite keep her feet on the ground, or steer clear of trouble. She’s a laugher, a crier, a quirky and quick-witted bleeding-heart-worrier. Meet Ben. He’s an engineer, an expert at leveling floors who likes order, structure, and straight lines. He doesn’t opine, he doesn’t ruminate, he doesn’t simmer until he boils over. So naturally, when the two first cross paths, sparks don’t exactly fly. But then they meet again. And again. And then, finally, they find themselves with a deep yet fragile connection that will change the course of their relationship—possibly forever. Follow Eve and Ben as they navigate their twenties on a winding journey through first jobs, first dates, and first breakups; through first reunions, first betrayals and, maybe, first love. This is When Harry Met Sally reimagined; a charming tale told from two unapologetically original points of view. With an acerbic edge and heartwarming humor, debut novelist Leslie Cohen takes us on a tour of what life looks like when it doesn’t go according to plan, and explores the complexity, chaos, and comedy in finding a relationship built to last.

Download or read book Sadhu Sanga The Birth Place of Bhakti English written by Gopal Krsna Goswami and published by Golden Age Media . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sadhu Sanga – The Birth Place of Bhakti” by author Gopal Krishna Goswami is a spiritual odyssey that explores the significance of Satsang (spiritual association) in nurturing devotion. This book delves into the transformative power of congregational gatherings, sharing insights and experiences that highlight the role of community in fostering love and devotion. It serves as a guide for seekers to find their spiritual family and kindle the flame of Bhakti within their hearts.

Download or read book Clubland written by Frank Owen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene. In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on Special K, a designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a crumbling church converted into a Manhattan disco, where mesmerizing music, ecstatic dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers. Owen discovered a world where reckless hedonism was elevated to an art form, and where the ever-accelerating party finally spun out of control in the hands of notorious club owner Peter Gatien and his minions. In Clubland, Owen reveals how a lethal drug ring operated in a lawless, black-lit realm of fantasy, and how, when the lights came up, their excesses left countless victims in their wake. Praised for his risk-taking and exhilarating writing style, Frank Owen has spawned a hybrid of literary nonfiction and true crime, capturing the zeitgeist of a world that emerged in the spirit of “peace, love, unity and respect,” and ended in tragedy.

Download or read book Secret Admirer written by Harlow Layne and published by Harlow Layne. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing her for the first time changed everything. Before her I had no purpose, no reason to live. Meeting her changed me. Coco Becket was the most beautiful woman I had ever met, with plump lips, and soft eyes. She beckoned me forward, she called out to me like a siren. My need for her ran deep, deeper than I expected it too. She was the good where I was bad. The sun to my dark cloud, the thunder to my thunderstorm. When a mysterious situation brings us together, I find that I'll go to any length to keep her safe, going so far as to give up my own life, to save hers. Because before her love was never a thought…and now I'll destroy anyone that tries to take her, or that love from me.

Download or read book G A W written by James Joyce and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are the foundation of our society, and when they lose their way, we must help them find it again. GAW is a story of a man's journey to help incarcerated youths find peace and repentance for the crimes they have committed. In order to do this, he exposed the children to the mercy of the Lord through his jail ministry work and showed them how they have the power to change the course of their own lives. Throughout the novel, various stories detail not only the obstacles the children face in their daily lives but also how finding the Lord has helped improved their circumstances.

Download or read book Baby in the Basement written by Donna Doty and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby born in a dark dirty place wakes up: shivering, alone, abondon. It cries its first cries from a dirt hole in the pitch black. It does not know its mother's love will come back for it. . . . even from the grave. The 1950s have a reputation for being "happy days" but for eight boys mourning the death of their mother they are very dark days. Mattie Thomas did not expect to die. She certainly did not expect her sister's betrayal; and nobody expected Mattie to "stay" in the house.

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Download or read book American Victory written by Henry Cejudo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling...American Victory represents the triumph of the human spirit." --Los Angeles Times Henry Cejudo's remarkable journey follows an unlikely hero, the son of illegal immigrants, from the mean streets of South Central LA to the glory of the Beijing Olympics. The first American in sixteen years to win the gold medal in freestyle wrestling and the youngest American gold medalist ever in this event, Henry's grit, passion, and resolve on display in China was a culmination of a life spent fighting-both on and off the mat. American Victory is his poignant and powerful memoir of how he rose above the statistics and dangers to become a winner-and a hero that embodies all that's best and most hopeful in the American dream.

Download or read book Memoirs of a Dead Guy written by Kent Hopkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent has just had a dawning realization. As he slowly turns to face his bed, he wants to hear his daughter laugh one more time, tend to his vegetable garden, and pet his cat. As his reverie is interrupted by a dim glow, an apparition appears before him. As his guide reaches out for his hand, Kent wonders who will water his veggies. It is his time to die. It is not long before Kent discovers that equal opportunity exists in the realms beyond our Earth. As his guide forces him to endure an excruciating scrutiny of his soul and motives in life, Kent is able to see the good he performed, the help he tendered, the evil he fell victim to, and the inspiration he provided. Now on a journey curing which he must coexist with strange souls, feel a wide range of emotions, and reconcile his life on Earth, Kent learns that he cannot move forward on his destined path until he finds the part of his spirit that is missing. Memoirs of a Dead Guy delves into realms of truth and wisdom as a rebellious soul attempts to discover the purpose of life and the ramifications of his past deeds.

Download or read book Edith and Winnifred Eaton written by Dominika Ferens and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reappraisal of the vision and accomplishments of the Eaton sisters, Dominika Ferens departs boldly from the dichotomy that has informed most commentary on them: Edith's "authentic" representations of the Chinese North Americans versus Winnifred's "phony" portrayals of Japanese characters and settings.".

Download or read book Citizenship a Course of Study written by Los Angeles City School District and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book School Publication written by Los Angeles City School District and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Saved Folk in the House written by Sonnie Beverly and published by Walk Worthy Press. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in three parts, a Southern family and their friends grapple with the joys and disappointments of life as a direct result of being raised in a home with strong Christian values.