Download or read book Coming Clean written by Seth Haines and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book Award Winner; ECPA Award Finalist Boldly honest, powerfully told, deeply moving - this is a story about finding yourself. Seth Haines' memoir holds up a mirror to all of our stories to show the peace that is possible when we release our addictions and receive the healing presence of God. Seth Haines was in the hospital with his wife, planning funeral songs for their not-yet two-year-old, when he made a very conscious decision: this was the last day he wanted to feel. That evening, he asked his sister to smuggle in a bottle of gin and gave in to addiction. But whether or not you've ever had a drop to drink in your life, this book is for all who have sought ways to stop their pain. Like Seth, we're all seeking balms for the anxiety of what sometimes seems to be an absent, unresponsive God - whether it's through people-pleasing, social media likes, shopping, the internet, food, career highs, or even good works and elite theology. Too often we attempt to escape our anxiety through addiction - any old addiction. But it often leaves us feeling even more empty than before. In Coming Clean, Seth Haines writes a raw account of his first 90 days of sobriety, illuminating how to face the pain we'd rather avoid, and even more importantly, how an abiding God meets us in that pain. Seth shows us that true wholeness is found in facing our pain and anxieties with the tenacity and tenderness of Jesus, and only through Christ’s passion can we truly come clean.
Download or read book Thirst written by Scott Harrison and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an endless cycle of drugs, booze, models—repeat. But 10 years in, desperately unhappy and morally bankrupt, he asked himself, "What would the exact opposite of my life look like?" Walking away from everything, Harrison spent the next 16 months on a hospital ship in West Africa and discovered his true calling. In 2006, with no money and less than no experience, Harrison founded charity: water. Today, his organization has raised over $750 million to bring clean drinking water to more than 17.4 million people around the globe. In Thirst, Harrison recounts the twists and turns that built charity: water into one of the most trusted and admired nonprofits in the world. Renowned for its 100% donation model, bold storytelling, imaginative branding, and radical commitment to transparency, charity: water has disrupted how social entrepreneurs work while inspiring millions of people to join its mission of bringing clean water to everyone on the planet within our lifetime. In the tradition of such bestselling books as Shoe Dog and Mountains Beyond Mountains, Thirst is a riveting account of how to build a better charity, a better business, a better life—and a gritty tale that proves it’s never too late to make a change. 100% of the author’s net proceeds from Thirst will go to fund charity: water projects around the world.
Download or read book A Manual for Cleaning Women written by Lucia Berlin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016 A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place. "Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis
Download or read book Slave written by Laura Frances and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no sun. There is no moon. There is only gray-the smog belched from coal-fueled factories. The Workers silently shuffle to their assigned posts. The Outcasts watch from the alley walls. On every corner, a Watcher stands stone-faced, a rifle in hand. This is the only life that exists. Beyond the mountains is a dream. But dreams are foolish in a place like this. Hannah has spent nineteen years dodging Watchers and doing as she is told. Do not look Watchers in the eye. Don't give them a reason to notice you. When she wakes to the valley exploding in revolution, Hannah is forced onto a dangerous path, where nothing is what she believed. Suddenly freedom is in her grasp, and the way there requires working with the men she once feared."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book A Clean Break written by Christophe Bassons and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of cycling's Mr Clean who refused to dope or to remain silent about doping - and was exiled from the sport
Download or read book African Short Stories Vol 1 written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions. In partnership with Progeny international, the Lsi aims to assess and promote the emergence of works of visionary creative impetus in the genres of modern African fiction, non-fiction and visual arts. 38 stories are included in this anthology.
Download or read book The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms written by J. P. Donleavy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful classic in the making--by the author of "The Gingerman". Joy, who finds her resources rapidly dwindling after her husband divorces her for a bit of "fresh flesh", finds comfort in her quest for the cleanest restrooms in New York City. 8 line drawings.
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Download or read book Building Value through Marketing written by Philip Sugai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Value through Marketing provides a hands-on guide to understanding and building compelling marketing plans that create value, not only in profit terms but also for customers and stakeholders. Working step-by-step through strategy development, this book empowers those responsible for creating or managing new products or services to have the right mindset, understand the most important marketing tools that they can use and apply these to create unprecedented levels of value. Founded on the principle of Service Dominant Logic, the book is organized into three key sections: "The Value Mindset," "The 12 Building Blocks of Value," and "Value-Focused Marketing in Action," which walk through the process of value-focused product and service development. The strategies and tools put forward have been tested successfully across multiple industries and countries and are grounded in academic theory, emphasized by real-life case studies throughout. Readers will gain the ability to align their marketing scholarship and practices with the current definition of why a business exists and the role that marketing plays within these business practices. This is essential reading for those studying Marketing Planning and Strategy at Advanced Undergraduate, Postgraduate and MBA levels. Its uniquely applied approach also makes it an excellent guide for marketing practitioners and institutions offering professional qualifications.
Download or read book Explore Bible Stories written by David C Cook and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lessons help children thank, worship, and pray to God; learn about and begin to follow Jesus; decide to share and be kind; and tell what is special about Jesus. A 52-Week Bible Journey–Just for Kids!Route 52™ is a Bible-based journey that will take kids through the Bible every year from age 4 to 6. Every lesson features: Scripturally sound themes Culturally relevant, hands-on activities Age-appropriate Bible-learning challenges Reproducible life-application activity pages Route 52™ Bible lessons will help kids learn the Bible and how to apply it to their lives at their own level of spiritual development. These reproducible Bible lessons are appropriate for Bible school, children's church, youth group, kids club, and midweek Bible study programs.
Download or read book McSweeney s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories written by Michael Chabon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, and more! Margaret Atwood- Lusus Naturae David Mitchell- What You Do Not Know You Want Jonathan Lethem- Vivian Relf Ayelet Waldman - Minnow Steve Erickson- Zeroville Stephen King- Lisey and the Madman Jason Roberts - 7C Heidi Julavits- The Miniaturist Roddy Doyle - The Child Daniel Handler - Delmonico Charles D’Ambrosio - The Scheme of Things Poppy Z. Brite - The Devil of Delery Street China Mieville- Reports of Certain Events in London Joyce Carol Oates - The Fabled Light-house at Vi–a del Mar Peter Straub - Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle
Download or read book The Second Book of Short Stories written by Lyn Funnell and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the Short Stories by Lyn Funnell series of easy reading stories that cover a variety of situations, places and characters. A Head of His Time, Just Once More, Nelly the Pig, Virtie and more will keep you entertained while your on the move, enjoying a quite Sunday or reading in bed.
Download or read book Roman Stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form since her number one New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary event. In “The Boundary,” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker’s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family’s immigrant past. In “P’s Parties,” a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend’s yearly birthday gathering—until the husband crosses a line. And in “The Steps,” on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy’s capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city: visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home. These are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri’s adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz. Stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto Moravia and guided, in the concluding tale, by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri, whose words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life.
Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1950 Hearings Before 81 1 on H R 3082 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Taker and Other Stories written by Rubem Fonseca and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.
Download or read book Short Stories written by H Antonia Howe and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six fictional stories about love and tragedy. Each story lets us into somebody’s life as their problems unfold, and we follow each protagonist in their quest to cope. All stories are very different from each other but all are sure to have real life parallels and resonate with many readers. Emotionally charged accounts with some unexpected twists, often written with an underlying sense of humour, they make a compelling read. 'FOR LOVE'S SAKE' – The story of a woman who keeps on doing the wrong thing, albeit for the right reason. 'JUST POPPING OUT' – A tranquil weekend turns into a disaster. 'ADULT EDUCATION' – Returning to university as a mature full time student but getting more than just a college education. 'FROM LOVE TO HATE IN TEN SECONDS' – Shows how quickly a single incident can change somebody’s life forever. 'A GOOD DEAL' – The importance of worldly possessions versus love and morals. It shows how people’s lives crumble under the pressure of financial burden. 'JUST IN CASE' – Depicts a mother getting carried away as she writes a note to her son.
Download or read book Warwick Deeping Ultimate Collection 120 Novels Short Stories written by Warwick Deeping and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 13129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warwick Deeping's 'Ultimate Collection: 120+ Novels & Short Stories' is a comprehensive anthology of the author's work, showcasing his talent for crafting captivating narratives across a wide range of genres. Known for his unique literary style that blends rich character development with vivid storytelling, Deeping's works offer readers a glimpse into the social and cultural landscapes of the early 20th century. From historical romances to thrilling mysteries, this collection is a treasure trove for fans of classic literature. Deeping's ability to create compelling narratives that resonate with readers remains unmatched, making this anthology a must-read for anyone looking to explore the depths of English literature. Warwick Deeping's personal experiences as a medical doctor deeply influenced his writing, adding a layer of authenticity and depth to his stories. His keen observations of human nature and meticulous attention to detail shine through in each story, making them both entertaining and thought-provoking. For readers who appreciate well-crafted storytelling and timeless themes, Warwick Deeping's 'Ultimate Collection' is a literary journey worth embarking on.
