Download or read book Sweet Memories Hurt written by Xiao Shu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ... The ten years he had promised could not be fulfilled. Thinking back to the love she once had, it was like a beautiful dream. All the sweetness from the past had turned into glass fragments that pierced her heart. Now, all Jiang Lingyue could feel was numbed pain and a bone-piercing coldness.
Download or read book Sweet Memories written by N.K. Padua and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reina Maruyama has always had sweet memories of her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. But when her father dies and her mother relocates her to Tokyo, life for Reina is turned on its head. Longing for the home she lost, she struggles to adjust, until a fateful accident takes her back to Amai Omoide, her family’s traditional sweets shop in the heart of Kyoto. But Amai Omoide is more than just a business; it’s the Maruyama family’s legacy. When Reina’s uncle, the head sweet artisan, falls ill, it’s up to Reina to save the shop and preserve her family’s heritage. Yet there is more at stake than the shop’s future. When Reina’s childhood friend Hajime returns suddenly from France, she can’t help but feel an irresistible pull to the kind young man she’s known all her life. As Reina and Hajime’s relationship blossoms, dark secrets from both their pasts come knocking on the doors of Amai Omoide. To save the shop and each other, they must set aside their doubts and hold on to what has always mattered most: love and family.
Download or read book Sweet Memories written by T.S. McNeil and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the sudden death of her beloved older sister, big city girl Astra Read inherits her house and teddy bear business and relocates to a tiny town running on cottage industries. Focused on doing her dearly departed proud, which gives her some big shoes to fill, Astra vows to keep her head down, but love works in mysterious ways, and more than one sort of temptation lurks at the bakery across the street.
Download or read book Crying in H Mart written by Michelle Zauner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
Download or read book Sail into the World of My Poems written by Shalini Joseph and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book and its contents belong solely to me, and I have composed these poems over a period of time. They are what I can daily muse or my experience from day to day. These poems relate to no one in particular and are just feelings and experiences that I have gone through in daily life. Some of the poems relate to some events in my life but are solely composed by me, and all the original copies are in my custody.
Download or read book Memories written by Lang Leav and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Lang Leav, this beautiful gift book is a must-have! Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The author's original art is presented in lovely four-color illustrations. Lang Leav's evocative poetry in a gorgeous package with ribbon marker and cloth spine is an irresistible gift for any poetry lover!
Download or read book Where Memories Go written by Sally Magnusson and published by Two Roads. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph 'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday 'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro 'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand. Words. Then, as the enormity of the social crisis my family was part of began to dawn, I wrote with the thought that other forgotten lives might be nudged into the light along with hers. Dementia is one of the greatest social, medical, economic, scientific, philosophical and moral challenges of our times. I am a reporter. It became the biggest story of my life.' Sally Magnusson Sad and funny, wise and honest, Where Memories Go is a deeply intimate account of insidious losses and unexpected joys in the terrible face of dementia, and a call to arms that challenges us all to think differently about how we care for our loved ones when they need us most. Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation, Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a celebration of words - words that she fought to retain in the grip of a disease which is fast becoming the scourge of the 21st century. Married to writer and broadcaster Magnus Magnusson, they had five children of whom Sally is the eldest. As well as chronicling the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs and joys that she and her sisters experienced while accompanying their beloved mother on the long dementia road for eight years until her death in 2012, Sally Magnusson seeks understanding from a range of experts and asks penetrating questions about how we treat older people, how we can face one of the greatest social, medical, economic and moral challenges of our times, and what it means to be human.
Download or read book Hurt Road written by Mark Lee and published by Revell. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third Day guitarist Mark Lee is no stranger to heartache and hopes deferred; the road to success is never traveled without missteps along the way. Life is messy and uncertain and full of surprises. And one of the best things he's ever done is let go of his expectations about how life should be in order to embrace life as it is: a moment-by-moment walk with God. Hurt Road is the engaging true story of a man who, as a teen, found in music a refuge from the uncertainties of life. Who set out to discover a better way to live than constantly struggling to make sure life turned out the way he planned it. Who stopped substituting what's next for what's now and learned the truth--that coming or going, God's got us. Poignant, funny, and thoughtful, Hurt Road dares anyone feeling knocked down or run over by their circumstances to give up control to the One who already has the road all mapped out. Includes black and white photos.
Download or read book The Withering written by P.S. Patton and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? During the apocalyptic final days of Noloro, three orphaned teens have nothing left in the world but each other. A sardonic sorcerer offers them a way off their dying world, but at what cost? Family, courage, and faith are at the heart of this end-of-the-world adventure.
Download or read book Today Tomorrow Yesterday written by Nickadia Daniels and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From odes in memory of her mother to poetry that educates younger readers about her heroes, Nickadia Daniels offers verse that is spiritually revolutionary. The distinctive tone of her work is informed by a legacy of unbridled promise and thwarted dreams. Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday is a collection of poetry that relays an empowering spirit of love, memorializing people of hope and moments of purpose. The passionate style of her work brings the trials and triumphs of her life and dreams to reality. Her poetry gives a view into her experiences covering a wide range of emotionslaughter, tears, triumph, and disappointmentand exploring the past, the present, and the future. Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday portrays experiences inspiring yet heartfelt sentiments that are universal to human existence. Reflections Through the mirrors of my mind Day after day I see reflections of life itself Reflections of all the days of old I can see it as if it were today When I was a slave and you Were the boss Yes, I must agree that times Have changed but yet I am not free It seems you still have a bond over me Through the mirrors of my mind As my heart pound I see reflections of life today Reflections of what life should be Reflections of what it means to me
Download or read book Passion s Ransom written by Betina Krahn and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNo one gets the better of Blythe Woolrich, who manages to run Woolrich Mercantile and keep her virtue intact among Revolutionary Philadelphia's unsavory characters. But Pirate captain Raider Prescott is intent on making quick money, and ransoming a proper Philadelphia lady seems the perfect scheme - until he discovers that her family has no money. Now he's stuck at sea with the headstrong "Woolwitch," a creature as vexing as she is lovely.
Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Download or read book Before We Were Strangers written by Renée Carlino and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Download or read book TRY The Fatal Word written by Pranjal Verma and published by Puffins Publishers Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ‘Try: The Fatal Word’ is a collection of 34 poems divided into three sections namely, Suppressed, Scarred and Healed. It follows a journey of getting out of an insulting relationship, which holds up the add-ons of maltreatment and inhumanly behaviour. It goes on with rewarding one’s self contentment at the very end. It contains the experiences of how people feel whilst they deal with narcissism, controlling behaviour and abuse in a relationship! Along with those experiences, it also includes the after story of getting out and leaving behind the inhuman behaviour they had dealt with and the process of how to be content once again. The author summarises the whole story into poems and proses, her favourite genre when pain has to be expressed, when a healing journey has to be put into words! As it is said, ‘Poetry is the art of converting pain into art’; alike this saying, immense pain and remorse has been conveyed in the form of art, poems and proses. For all the admirers of poetry and the ones in pain; the author hopes for the one who glances inside the book and comprehends every piece of write-up this book holds; finds contentment and a way to reconnect to their conscience, which they may have lost whilst fighting some wars with themselves.
Download or read book Remember Me written by Lexy Parker and published by BrixBaxter Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never wanted to fall in love until I met her. And now? I’m the man who is going to save her from her past. But the sparks between us aren’t enough. She’s lived far too much life for that. I’m not giving up until I figure out where her pain comes from and how to heal it. Life’s never than easy though. The minute I start to crack the code and move in to help her heal, my past shows up. And a choice must be made. One that threatens to destroy what we’ve started. I’m a good man. I’ll always sacrifice for others. Even if that means that I’m nothing but a memory.
Download or read book Firefly Lane written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship—jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you—and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
Download or read book Changes written by H. M. Walt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes by H.M. Walt is a book of poems. It has four chapters that range different emotions. Pink, Red, Yellow and Blue, colors that most people relate to certain feelings. I have written these poems about various personal situations or what has inspired me. Inspiration can be anything from music to a book to a movie. I write about my own personal feelings and experiences. I use my emotions to show how I feel and how I dealt with my experiences. Most people can relate to them but don't know how deal with the feelings. I hope this helps as much as it helps me when I write. I use colors as my chapters since that is how I see emotions. I also use music to get the poems onto paper. Sometimes when emotions are so muddled, music helps soothe me. I listen to a little bit of everything.
