Download or read book The Girl No One Wanted written by Maggie Hartley and published by Trapeze. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control. Since being taken into care at the age of three, she has had over forty placements, each carer less able to cope with her anger and destruction than the last. Late one night, foster carer Maggie Hartley receives a terrified call from Leanne's current placement, who has barricaded herself in her bathroom to protect herself from Leanne's rage. With the police on standby, Maggie manages to diffuse the situation but Leanne is left without a home once more. Maggie is Leanne's only hope. But this is her last chance. If this placement fails, she will have to be put in a secure unit. Then Leanne threatens Maggie with a knife and makes accusations against her that have to be investigated by Maggie's superiors. Where most others would simply walk away, Maggie refuses to give up on the little girl who's never known love. Can Maggie get through to Leanne and begin to help her heal? Will the girl no one wanted find her forever home? A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years. 'Pulled at my heart strings' 5* Amazon reader review

Download or read book The Little Girl No One Wanted written by Jo Ann Brewer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Girl No One Wanted was an abused yet beautiful three year old girl. At the age of 18 the little girl’s mother decides she doesn’t want her after the father married her best friend. After being severely beaten, the little girl’s great aunt decided to adopt her and renamed her Lacey. With lots of love, hugs, kisses and therapy Lacey heals. She later pursue her dream of becoming a pediatrician so that she could show other children the love her great aunt showed her.

Download or read book The Girl Nobody Wanted The Santina Crown Book 7 written by Lynn Raye Harris and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jilted Bride Stranded with a Notorious Playboy

Download or read book THE GIRL NOBODY WANTED written by Lynn raye Harris and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did I do to deserve this? Engaged to be married at an early age, Anna devoted her life to becoming the future queen of Santina. Little did she imagine that her fianc? would fall in love with another woman and announce his engagement on TV… To avoid embarrassing her parents and the royal family, Anna attends her ex-fianc?’s engagement party, where she is humiliated in front of the crowd and the media. But she is saved when gorgeous billionaire Leo appears in front of her. He then spirits Anna away from the palace and tries to seduce her…with a date that goes terribly wrong!

Download or read book The Family Nobody Wanted written by Helen Doss and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.

Download or read book The Jesus Storybook Bible written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David---every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle---the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, The Jesus Storybook Bible invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God's great story of salvation---and at the center of their Story too.

Download or read book The Girls Who Went Away written by Ann Fessler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.

Download or read book Foster written by Claire Keegan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.

Download or read book No One Wants You written by Celine Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it. Illegitimate and unwanted, Celine was forced by her foster mother into prostitution. Her bones were broken, her nose was crushed and she ate candle wax to stay alive. Celine was finally rescued and sent to an industrial school, where she picked up the pieces of her shattered life. She also began the search for her parents. But what she found gave her battered survival instincts the hardest knock of all ... Full of the most heartbreaking tragedy but ultimately survival and hope, No One Wants You is the remarkably honest and compelling memoir of a woman triumphing over her brutal past.

Download or read book FOCUS Families Of Children United In Spirit A group no one wants to belong to written by Regina Elkhatib and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those of you who have lost a loved one, our goal is that this collection of personal stories will bring you hope. You are not alone. Many have walked your path and know the true depth of your sorrow. Our wish is that these stories will resonate with you and healing will begin. With that healing, we wish you hope for the future. With hope, your future will someday include being reunited with your loved one.Our message is simple. Your loved one is closer to you in spirit than you can ever imagine. Through the darkness of grief, know there will come a day when you will feel the warmth of sunshine, hear the joy of laughter and taste life with a new perspective.To those of you who have not lost a loved one, our desire is that you gain understanding of the bereaved. We hope our stories speak to your soul. We offer you insight that may help you gain compassion and sympathy for those who are grieving.

Download or read book Annie the Girl Nobody Wanted A Journey from Abandonment and Abuse to a New Identity in Christ written by Dr Annie Hurley and published by Hurley Books. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you realize your mother doesn't want you...and you're only five years old? Find out in this graphic narrative as Dr. Annie Hurley shares her personal story of childhood abandonment, a life that entailed years of poverty, fear, hunger, loneliness- and unimaginable physical and sexual abuse. Annie's journey led her through over thirty different home living situations, including several years of residing with her mother, whose love and attention Annie craved above all else. Yet instead of living secure in her mother's love and protection, Annie lived in fear and emotional torment on a daily basis. Though she always believed God was real, and even caught supernatural glimpses of Him along the way, Annie could never seem to find the relationship with Him she longed for. Finally, when a high school teacher invited Annie to hear a Christian speaker, Annie prayed to receive Jesus. This life-altering event set her on a path toward healing, deliverance, and restoration, where she learned....How to renew her mind to the Word of God. How to find her true identity in Christ. How to break free from torment through the power of forgiveness. How to overcome rejection through receiving Jesus' love. How to exchange Satan's lies for God's truth. How to keep her children free from the issues of her past. How to know God as a Father to the fatherless Evil is real and it exists in this world; Annie's story proves it. More importantly, it proves that no matter how deep the enemy assaults, Jesus' love is deeper still. Nothing can separate us from that love, or the faithfulness of a heavenly Father who offers hope and healing to all who will reach out to Him and ask for His guidance to peace and freedom.

Download or read book Girl Wanted written by Steve Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Pender was an attractive, outgoing, intelligent woman with great potential. But the straight and narrow had no appeal for this depraved young woman dubbed "the female Charles Manson", who knew how to get what she wanted from men-even if it meant murder.

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Download or read book The Fairest of Them All written by Maria Tatar and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked The story of the rivalry between a beautiful, innocent girl and her cruel and jealous mother has been endlessly repeated and refashioned all over the world. The Brothers Grimm gave this story the name by which we know it best, and in 1937 Walt Disney sweetened their somber version to make the first feature-length, animated fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, the Disney film has become our cultural touchstone—the innocent heroine, her evil stepmother, the envy that divides them, and a romantic rescue from domestic drudgery and maternal persecution. But each culture has its own way of telling this story of jealousy and competition. An acclaimed folklorist, Maria Tatar brings to life a global melodrama of mother-daughter rivalries that play out in unforgettable variations across countries and cultures. “Fascinating...A strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy, and maternal persecution.” —Wall Street Journal “Is the story of Snow White the cruelest, the deepest, the strangest, the most mythopoeic of them all?...Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale...a feast of rich thoughts...An exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale.” —Marina Warner “The inimitable Maria Tatar offers us a maze of mothers and daughters and within that glorious tangle an archetype with far more meaning than we imagine when we say ‘Snow White.’” —Honor Moore “Shocking yet familiar, these stories...retain the secret whisper of storytelling. This is a properly magical, erudite book.” —Literary Review

Download or read book The Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Activity Book written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is your guide to a complete and creative celebration of the holiday season, filled with crafts, games, recipes, songs, and activities for every day of Advent. The Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Activity Book highlights the significance of the Nativity and meaning of God’s most precious gift. The Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Activity Book is a journey through the Bible stories in both the Old and New Testaments that lead to Christmas. It includes: 24 days of crafts along with songs, recipes, and activities to celebrate Advent, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and color photos Variations on the activities to make them appropriate and accessible for all ages and families A perforated insert with punch-out Jesse Tree ornaments that correspond with the stories of Advent A heartfelt letter and reflection from New York Times bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones All supplies needed are commonly found around the house or easy to obtain. This Christmas, start new holiday traditions with your family with The Jesus Storybook Bible Advent Activity Book, based on the bestselling The Jesus Storybook Bible, with over 6 million copies sold. Other titles by Sally Lloyd-Jones include: The Jesus Storybook Bible, The Jesus Storybook Bible Christmas Collection, and Song of the Stars.

Download or read book Jesus Storybook Bible e book Vol 1 written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the story beneath all the stories in the Bible. From Noah to Moses to King David, every story whispers his name. This multiple award-winning storybook Bible was created to encourage children to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God’s great story of salvation—and at the center of their story, too. Audio for each story is also included with narration by British actor, David Suchet. Volume 1 includes the following eleven stories: The Story and the SongThe beginning: a perfect home (Creation)The terrible lie (The fall)A new beginning (Noah’s Ark)A giant staircase to heaven (Tower of Babel)Son of laughter (God’s promise to Abraham)The present (Abraham and Isaac)The girl no one wanted (Jacob, Leah, and Rachel)The forgiving prince (Joseph and his brothers)God to the rescue! (Moses and the great escape from Egypt)God makes a way (Moses and the Red Sea) (Due to the limitations of digital file size, the complete ebook has been divided into volumes.)

Download or read book The Healthy Leader written by Anna Michelle and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will guide you on a journey of self-reflection. It was created to help you identify your character strengths and weaknesses and to motivate you to create a plan of action to empower the leader within you and enhance your personal performance. Developing your character unlocks the leader within you and stabilize your gifts. Sometimes we place people where we think they should go. But the role of leadership is guiding them where they are destined to be. If we concentrate on developing our character first, leadership second, then our gift, we would see far greater results. During the character-building process, you will discover the leader inside you first. During that stage, your gifts are revealed. Many of us become so excited about the talents that we move out and walk in them before fully maturing in all stages. Your gifts are only the vehicles used to transport you into your purpose, which is your final destination. When a person doesnt submit to the character-building process, it causes them to rely on a weak gift. A person with a weak gift becomes a weak leader, and a weak leader will bring disaster to their team. Healthy leaders submit to the maturing process. They rely on their strengths and perfect their weaknesses. They are problem solvers who ultimately become change agents. The greatest problem solvers are those who are curious enoughto search for the solution.