Download or read book Take Your Shirt Off and Cry written by Nancy Balbirer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without sparing the embarrassing details, Balbirer chronicles the two decades she spent as a struggling actress in the trenches of show business. From the searing purist tutelage of David Mamet at NYU Drama School ("In show business, women who are lucky enough to find employment are asked to do only two things in every role they ever play: take your shirt off and cry") to her bizarre 1 AM Saturday Night Live audition for Lorne Michael, Balbirer recounts her sometimes disappointing, sometimes painful, and always bizarre adventures. Among the stories in Take Your Shirt Off and Cry is "Friendly Fire," which is about Nancy's friendship and eventual falling out with a good friend who went on to become a huge star with a top-rated sitcom. Fame may not have knocked on her door, but it certainly slept on her couch. Take your Shirt Off and Cry is an utterly engaging, deeply personal, and absurdly comic memoir from a one-of-a-kind talent.
Download or read book Reasons My Kid Is Crying written by Greg Pembroke and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into the tribulations of parenting that is part documentary, part therapy, and completely hilarious. It all started when busy father Greg Pembroke posted a few pictures online of his three-year-old son, mid-tantrum, alongside the reason his son was crying: He had broken his bit of cheese in half. In Reasons My Kid is Crying, Greg collects together photos sent from parents around the world, documenting the many, completely logical reasons why small children cry. Among them: “I let him play on the grass” . . . “He ran out of toys to throw into his pool” . . . “The neighbor’s dog isn’t outside”. The result is both an affectionate portrait of the universal, baffling logic of toddlers—and a reminder for burned-out parents everywhere that they are not alone.
Download or read book The Crying Book written by Heather Christle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Download or read book Thugs Do Cry written by Frederick Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a cycle of death from one generation to the next. From day one we all have equal opportunities in life. As a young man who made some wrong choices at an early age and those choices will follow him all through the rest of his life. While trying not to become a statistic of the hood, but growing up in a society of poverty without a father can have a major effect on how your life turns out. Being raised around pimps, drug dealers, and wine-os their habits are bound to rub off on you. There are two roads in life: the road to destruction and the road to success; its totally up to you which one you will choose in life. You have to play the hand you were dealt, but you must play it to win. Sometimes things may not go as planned. You must never mix business with pleasure and loyalty and trust are everything. By know means ever should you let a woman come between you and your homies. Always stay true to yourself and know that snitches get stitches. If you ever get to the point that the money makes you instead of you making the money... GAME OVER! Written by: Frederick Williams aka Kwunt Dedicated to: Letha Williams
Download or read book I ll Give You Something to Cry About written by Corey Mesler and published by Queen's Ferry Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knuffle Bunny Free written by Mo Willems and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trixie and her family are off on a fantastic trip to visit her grandparents—all the way in Holland! But does Knuffle Bunny have different travel plans? An emotional tour de force, Knuffle Bunny Free concludes one of the most beloved picture-book series in recent memory, with pitchperfect text and art, photos from around the world, and a stunning foldout spread, culminating in a hilarious and moving surprise that no child or parent will be able to resist. Bestselling, award-winning author Mo Willems has created an epic love story as only he can, filled with the joys and sadness of growing up —and the unconditional love that binds a father, mother, daughter, and a stuffed bunny.
Download or read book Tomboy Survival Guide written by Ivan Coyote and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don’t fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels. Ivan writes movingly about many firsts: the first time they were mistaken for a boy; the first time they purposely discarded their bikini top so they could join the boys at the local swimming pool; and the first time they were chastised for using the women’s washroom. Ivan also explores their years as a young butch, dealing with new infatuations and old baggage, and life as a gender-box-defying adult, in which they offer advice to young people while seeking guidance from others. (And for tomboys in training, there are even directions on building your very own unicorn trap.) Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan’s adventures and mishaps as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don’t quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength. These heartfelt, funny, and moving stories are about the culture of difference—a “guide” to being true to one’s self. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Download or read book My Heart s Cry and Heaven My Father s House written by Anne Graham Lotz and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Heart's Cry and My Father's House is authored by Anne Graham Lotz and bundled into a 2-in-1 collection.
Download or read book Even Strong Men Cry written by Annetta Swift and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even Strong Men Cry", introduces us to Chad Wesley Sinclair. Chad's life has been full of tragedy since his early childhood. The ghosts of time past bombard his thoughts and regret resides in his soul. He has made some bad choices that have affected not only his life, but the lives of those whom he loves the most. Crime, lies, mischief and MURDER all have made the headlines in the Sinclair family. Chad is forced to face the demons of his past, present, and future in the pages of this riveting novel. At the end of the day, Chad will show the readers that no matter how tough a man's exterior is, EVEN STRONG MEN CRY.
Download or read book The Cry of Another Mother written by Felicia Noble and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cry of Another Mother is a personal story of a mother’s ultimate challenge. Coping with the murder of her only son and how she continues to live while healing. Her battle remains on going, yet her strength continues to triumphant with the comfort of knowing that she's empowered by a strength greater than herself. Entrusting that she has been chosen by God to reach out to those who have been directly and indirectly affected by the death of a child and or loved one. This is a must read, the author is not just telling her story as though she’s engaged with the reader. She reaches out to her audience embracing and reassuring them that they are not alone. In life’s sometimes painful storm, she is here also. There are some of us that have been unknowingly challenged with: teenage pregnancy, broken relationships, physical and mental abuse. Many are all too familiar with the trials and tribulations. Feeling overwhelmed and perhaps unprepared because we have not learned the power of prayer. The writer shares her heart-filled story with her audience so that they can be strengthened at time when they think, they are weak. This novel was written and inspired by the remembrance of her first born child Damond “aka” Mr. Face Harris.
Download or read book Please Don t Cry written by Maria Herkal and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s shortly after World War II in Eastern Europe when a tormented young woman steps up to the door of a speeding train...and prepares to throw her baby outside. What happens next will forever alter the lives of the young woman, the horrified teacher who steps up to stop her...and the three-month old baby born into such dark circumstances. And so begins the life of Yugoslavian Ramona, whose childhood will be terribly marred by the weaknesses of those entrusted with her care. Buffeted from place to place with the violent secrets of how she came to be slowly revealed to her, Ramona eventually decides to leave the horrors of her childhood behind for a new start in Canada. There she begins to find her way and learn to love...until fresh tragedy sends her life off course and she finds herself trapped in an abusive marriage as miserable as her childhood. But Ramona has endured so much; she has vast reservoirs of strength within her. Now with two children of her own to protect, she slowly begins to extricate herself from the horror of her marriage to build a new life, free of abuse at last.
Download or read book One Woman S Cry Is Another Woman S Answer written by Rosemary C Green and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Calls Too Deep Over the years, Ive always felt I had a great relationship with the Lord. I was told I was a gifted child. I would hear things or see people that werent there. My grandmother Letha Mae would tell me that it was a gift from God, that he would one day use me to HELP (healing everything life presents) people. Yes, what a life to live! For that reason, I stayed close to God as I could. I lived in much fear and silence in an upside-down world that never stopped turning. The tears I shed and the rejection I witnessed became my personal testimony. I felt I needed to keep this a secret. In order to do so, I talked less. I would dream, and the next day, I would be walking into my dream. They sometimes dictated my day. As a child, Ive always wanted to just grow up, live my life, get married, and have children with God being the center. Im living in a world they say is normal, which seems to take me on a different path in life. The comfort I find in God is that he loves me and he cares for me and Im always on his mind. His favor follows me, and I cant do anything about it. So I choose to love him back. Knowing that he knew me before I was in my mothers womb is amazing to me. The safety of his love takes my fears away as I crawl upon his lap and let him be my God. What I want you to see in my writings is that no matter what youve gone through or where youve been, he cant help but love you. We are to serve and walk in love. Its notes all the time, but it gets easier with the Lords help. It is a learned behavior to choose and do it! I remembered hearing people call out for help. Yet when I looked around, everyone would appear to be very happy. I believe then God was guiding me in a path of faith. Deliverance and healing Im experiencing now in ministry. The biggest challenge is to hear someone calling for HELP and not finding the voice that carries such pain. I fasted and prayed to God for an answer for what to do with what Im hearing. The answer I got was to challenge it by praying and looking for a person. I did, and when I located who that person might have been, she tried to deny it until I sincerely, with oozing love, asked her again, How are you really doing? Then at that point, she burst into uncontrollable tears that I knew as a human being I couldnt handle within myself. God led me every step of what to do, and from then on, I cant help myself. Ladies, in this book alone, we choose to share our stories. What is your story? Remember, one womans cry is another womans cry. You must choose to be loved. Forgive them that wounded you. Win by losing. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever lose his life shall for my sake shall save it (Luke 9:2324, KJV).
Download or read book The Cry That No One Heard written by Andrea Lynn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the years went by I didnt think about how much yell was putting me down until we had moved to Louisiana and then back to Oregon. You call yourself a mother and in your heart you could never do wrong. What kind of a mother would do that to her own daughter? You all would always tell me that I did not belong with you guys well you know youre right I dont belong to none of you. So you know all of you guys were wrong in what you have done. One day I will find my children.
Download or read book Lord Please Don t Let Her See Me Cry written by Steve Heine and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord, Please Don't Let Her See Me Cry is a true story of child abuse so atrocious I have suffered from it for over fifty years, having not only the endure the memory but also being forced to see the scars every time I change my clothes. I only survived because of my faith in God and God's mercy on me. As a child, I promised God that if he would see me through, I would one day pay him back by helping other children in similar situations. I hope this book helps bring the attention of the world to the problem of child abuse so that the abusers may be punished and the abused healed. Please help the children of the world. They are our future. Love in Jesus Christ. Steve Heine "Steve's story re minds us of the great hope we have in Christ; He continued to take the broken pieces of our lives, and puts them together by forgiveness, healing, and love. Steve is one of the most inspiring people I have ever known. I highly recommend this book for all to read, especially those who have been hurt and broken by abuse. There is hope!" Dr. C. Alan Floyd Senior Pastor First Baptist Church of Middleburg "I urge anyone to read this moving and poignant book. Put yourself in Mr. Heine's place and you will be thankful to God for his goodness and bounty." Major Allan Phillips Salvation Army Clay County, Florida "Awe inspiring! A story of courage and triumph. Steve is truly a man who understands his purpose" Tim and Brooke Hewitt Entrepreneur "Heart wrenching and a must read. I could not put the book down. It is a story of human suffering, but ultimately a God-given triumph." Dr. Vaugn Dalrymple
Download or read book The Cry of Tamar written by Pamela Cooper-White and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time. She describes specific forms of such violence and outlines appropriate pastoral responses. The second edition of this groundbreaking work is thoroughly updated and examines not only where the church has made progress since 1995 but also where women remain at unchanged or even greater risk of violence.
Download or read book Battle Cry Compendium Volume 5 written by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle Cry Compendium Volume 5 Battle Cry Compendium is a compilation of spiritual warfare bulletins of messages by Dr. D. K. Olukoya, the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, for prayer warriors and intercessors. It is an outstanding collection for those who seek spiritual power from the Almighty.
Download or read book Cry Me a River written by Sonya O’Neill and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the lyrics to an old Bee Gees tune called Tragedy? How about rearranging them slightly to When your pants fall down, flashing all of the town, its a tragedy! It is a tragic incident for Stella OBrien, who is new to town. Losing your trou down the catwalk wasnt part of her vision, if you know what Im saying. And speaking of visions, she didnt exactly visualise herself having to visit her mother in the local psychiatric hospital, Sunny Haven. Sunny Haven for the Stark Ravin is what her family jokingly called it. This is no joke; in fact, jokes and fun hadnt really been a big feature in Stellas life for a while now. Stellas mum gets diagnosed with the big D word, depression. But Stella thinks she knows what the real D word is: disappointment. Stella is into fashion and design (hence the trouser incident) and her mums into nature and saving the world. Stella sees the conflict, and she sets out to make her mum proud. The thing is, Stella doesnt do things by halves. What Stella has planned not only involves her and her best buddies but the whole community!