Download or read book Walks with Ollie written by Aleta Harris and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to enjoy some unforgettable walks with this playful, inquisitive Shih Tzu and, in the delightful process, discover a renewed focus on life and faith. You’ll chuckle at Ollie’s antics and suddenly realize you are identifying with his serendipitous discoveries in the neighborhood this happy boy calls home. Ollie, in his carefree daily treks, reveals to us that God resides even in the mundane. Set aside the concerns of your day, look a little closer, and you’ll find Him there.
Download or read book Walking Ollie written by Stephen Foster and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's answer to Marley and Me-the hilarious and heartwarming international bestseller about learning to live with a troublesome dog. Like many first-time pet owners, London-based novelist Stephen Foster was upbeat as he began his search for a puppy to adopt. How hard can it be to take care of a dog, he thought-read a guidebook or two, buy a few supplies, and get on with it. But all the books and supplies in the world couldn't have prepared him for life with Ollie, a willful and moody adopted dog who quickly demonstrated his displeasure at the notion of being told what to do. Walking Ollie tells the funny and charming story of how a growling, skittish man and his equally growling, skittish dog broke each other in, came to see eye to eye, and decided to become best friends.
Download or read book Roddenberry the Adventure Rescue Pup written by Kelly R. Pettibone and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roddenberry the Adventure Rescue Pup is the delightful and entertaining tale of Roddenberry, one of over two hundred dogs who were hoarded by an overwhelmed owner. This story will be enjoyed by adults and children alike. It is told from the perspective of Roddenberry himself, a Chihuahua mix who is rescued by Kelly, a man beloved by all dogs at the shelter where he frequently visits. Join Roddenberry and his human companions as they navigate life’s joys, challenges, and new experiences. About the Author Kelly R. Pettibone was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He has been a volunteer at an animal rescue for over ten years. He has always loved dogs and cats, and Roddenberry was the first small dog he ever owned. He believes that he and this special little guy saved each other. He and his girlfriend Alex have also fostered many dogs with the help of Roddenberry. Kelly enjoys going to Renaissance fairs, watching sumo wrestling, cheering for the Seahawks, and going to the beach for vacation.
Download or read book Walking to Listen written by Andrew Forsthoefel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way. Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us. At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself. Ultimately, it's the stories of others living all along the roads of America that carry this journey and sing out in a hopeful, heartfelt book about how a life is made, and how our nation defines itself on the most human level.
Download or read book The Microcosm written by Ford Hoffmann and published by Ford Hoffmann. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a strange reality known only as "The Microcosm", a mysterious and catastrophic threat is quickly approaching. A young being named Ollie is tasked with forming a plan to prevent this extra-dimensional anomaly from annihilating all of existence. But as he travels to new worlds and meets new beings, he finds more questions than answers about his existence and his reality.
Download or read book Raising Ollie written by Tom Rademacher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child Seven-year-old Ollie was researching local advanced school programs—because every second grader does that, right? Ollie, who used to hate weekends because they meant no school, was crying on the way to school almost every day. Sure, there were the slings and arrows of bullies and bad teachers, but, maybe worse, Ollie, a funny, anxious, smart kid with a thing for choir and an eye for graphic art, was gravely underchallenged and also struggling with identity and how to live totally as themselves. Ollie begged to switch to a new school with “kids like me,” where they wouldn’t feel so alone, or so bored, and so they made the change. Raising Ollie is dad Tom Rademacher’s story (really, many stories) of that eventful and sometimes painful school year, parenting Ollie and relearning every day what it means to be a father and teacher. As Ollie—who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, and prefers art to athletics, vegetables to cake, and animals to most humans—flourishes in their new school, Rademacher is making an eye-opening adjustment to a new school of his own, one that’s whiter and more suburban than anywhere he has previously taught, with a history of racial tension that he tries to address and navigate. While Ollie is learning to code, 3D model, animate, speak Japanese, and finally feel comfortable at school, Rademacher increasingly sees how his own educational struggles, anxieties, and childhood upbringing are reflected in his teaching, writing, and parenting, as well as in Ollie’s experience. And with this story of one anything-but-academic year of inquiry and wonder, doubt and revelation, he shows us how raising a kid changes everything—and how much raising a kid like Ollie can teach us about who we are and what we’re doing in the world.
Download or read book Understand This written by Jervey Tervalon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gritty and gripping, "Understand This" marks the debut of a powerful new voice in American fiction."--Henry Louis Gates Jr., author of "The Signifying Monkey" "Lean, wire-tight, and dazzlingly structured, Tervalon's "Understand This" is a book for our times."--Jose Saldivar, author of "Border Matters"
Download or read book I Love Claire written by Tracey Bateman and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loveable and quirky Claire Everett finally snags a man, but how will she pay for the wedding when her writing career hits a snag of its own?
Download or read book The Children written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “profoundly shocking” tale of immigrant children growing up in New York tenements from the New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus (Kirkus Reviews). Ishky is Jewish; Marie and Shomake are Irish; Ollie is Italian. All children of immigrants, they are confronted daily by the prejudice that rules in one of the world’s greatest urban centers: New York City. Living in slums, they must rely on each other to overcome hunger, disease, violence, and the bigotry of those who arrived before them. Fighting for a better life against the tide of poverty, the children must overcome their own city’s barbarism, or be consumed by it. Heartrending in its scope and harrowing in its realism, The Children is an elegy of the ghettoes and a moving cri de coeur against bigotry and oppression in all its forms. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate.
Download or read book The Slow Constellations Wheeled On written by David Wayne Hampton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel
Download or read book Ollie the Purple Elephant written by Jarrett J. Krosoczka and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo. Ollie is a purple elephant who is lost and has no place to call home. Until Shelby and Peter find him in the park—and invite him to live with them. Soon Ollie is a regular part of the family. He doesn't have a room to call his own, but he doesn't mind. He is happy. He loves hopscotch and kickball—but most of all he loves the dance parties the McLaughlins have after dinner. But Mr. Puddlebottom, the downstairs neighbor, most certainly does not love Ollie. And neither does the McLaughlins' cat, Ginger. Ollie has taken her spot on the couch at night. When the conspirators hatch a plan to get rid of Ollie, the purple elephant walks right into their trap—and onto a circus cart. Will he ever be reunited with his family?
Download or read book Paradise by Paradise written by Howard Burman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, Roland Paradise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony of those who knew him and those he knew. In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boy genius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, to hermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, the epicist, the enigmatist. The rumors, the stories, the accusations. Where is he? Is he? Was he ever.? His mind was a cryptish place, an enigma, a harmless cipher machine knocked senseless by the insane attempts of others to decode it as though it held an inherent truth while driving him to another time, to anytime. Roland Paradise was ultimately a sad and lonely figure, a possibly delusional reclusive intellectual for whom life held little joy. For all his brilliance, he never learned life's simplest lessons. A compulsive fabulist whose life and disappearance was more fantastic than any of the stories he invented or the lies he couldn't help telling.
Download or read book A Long Walk Home written by Judith Tebbutt and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and all means that I could muster.In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt and her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for thirty-three years, they had first met in Zambia: Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort forty kilometres south of Somalia. And there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck them.Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged over sea and land to a village in the arid heart of lawless Somalia, and there held hostage in a squalid room, a ransom on her head. There, too, she learned the terrible truth that the responsibility of securing her release now rested with her son Ollie. But though she was isolated, intimidated and near-starved, Judith resolved to survive - walking endless circuits of her nine-foot prison, trying to make her captors see her as a human being, keeping her faith at all times in Ollie. Powerful, moving and at times quite devastating, this is Judith Tebbutt's story in her own words. It is a memoir of the life she shared with her beloved husband, an unflinching account of the ordeal that overturned her world, and a testament to the inner resilience and familial love that sustained her through captivity.There is nothing so bad in life as to have no hope - to believe you have been defeated, to give in to that. Now that I found myself in confinement, four thousand miles from home under a hostile sky, I would not accept that fate for myself.
Download or read book Ollie s Lost written by Shrey Sahjwani and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Oliver turner. One minute I had it all-the perfect job, the perfect fiancée, and the perfect life-and the next minute, I woke up in a desert with no money, no identity, and no clue as to how I got there." Oliver Turner is a twenty-six-year-old who is madly in love with his work, family, and fiancée. After a short while of making friends and taking on responsibilities at the job he had worked so hard to get, he finds himself on top of the world. Before he can get accustomed to his new life, everything gets taken from him in an instant. In the middle of a very intense meeting, Oliver shuts his eyes for a brief moment, and when he opens them, he finds himself in a strange wasteland with nothing but misery and bloodshed for company. Can Oliver find his way back home before he loses his sanity, or will all be lost?
Download or read book Blind Love written by Ashley Farley and published by Leisure Time Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One young woman's journey of self discovery. Ada’s world is torn apart when she discovers the man who raised her isn’t her biological father. To make matters worse, Daniel’s illegitimate daughter, Casey, has taken Ada’s place in his life. Faced with losing everything, Ada searches her dead mother’s belongings for answers. What she discovers will change her life forever. The more Casey settles into her new life, the more unsettled she feels. She’s grateful to her father for welcoming her into his life. For buying her a fancy sports car, building her a house, and setting her up in a cushy job. But she soon learns his generosity comes at a price. Her freedom. Does Casey have the courage to stand up to him? Burdened by her troubled past, Ollie must confront her demons in order to control her anger. When she undergoes extensive counseling, she discovers the men in her life aren’t the people she thought they were. Is it possible her arch enemy could be the man of her dreams?
Download or read book All or Nothing Boxed Set written by Ashley Erin and published by Ashley Erin. This book was released on with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with the Hyatt family as they find love and build up the family ranch. All About Us It took twenty-four hours for Emma’s world to shatter, leaving her broken. Returning to her childhood home, Emma wonders if it could be exactly what she needs to heal. Dane finally has a chance at the girl he lost all those years ago. When Emma blows back into his world, he knows he won’t let her go again. They’re drawn together, their chemistry undeniable. Emma just needs to decide whether she’s willing to risk her heart when it’s just begun to heal. All About Hope Friends with benefits. Toe curling, ecstasy inducing, and completely secret. Alex and Lia succumb to their scorching attraction, striking a deal of no-strings sex. Neither of them want a commitment, both of them are unable to stop the sparks from flying when they’re together. Feelings develop, old fears surface and sex is no longer enough. Will a glimmering sense of hope allow them to let go of the past, or will their secret blow up, leaving them shattered? All About Forever The moment she walked into his clinic, Ryan knew he was in trouble. It wasn’t his idea to hire Reese, and the woman who walks in his door is definitely a surprise, an unwelcome one at that. Reese has worked in a male-dominated field for ten years. The cold welcome she receives her first day isn’t unexpected. She’s used to working twice as hard to prove she’s just as good or better than her male counterparts. She’s always kept business separate from pleasure. Easily. That is, until Ryan. He’s strong and sexy. He awakens a part in Reese that died when she signed her divorce papers four years ago. She doesn’t want to be attracted to her boss, she wants to focus on getting herself out of debt and finding her happiness. Ryan isn’t willing to give his heart to someone again, but the connection he feels with Reese is hard to deny. They both struggle to resist the temptation, but one way or another, things are about to implode.
Download or read book Troublemakers written by Catherine Barter and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was three, Alena's activist mother died. She's been raised by her half-brother and his boyfriend in East London, which is being targeted by a lone bomber. Alena desperately wants to know about her mother, but her brother won't tell her anything. Alena's played by the rules all her life, but that's over. When she starts digging up information herself and does something that costs her brother his job and puts the family in jeopardy, Alena discovers she can be a troublemaker—just like her mother. Now she must figure out what sort of trouble she's willing to get into to find out the truth.
