Download or read book When Wallflowers Dance written by Angela Thomas and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-03-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we were two, we were no longer babies-we were becoming little girls. And when we were thirteen, we were leaving childhood behind, becoming young women. But somewhere along the way, we stopped becoming. We became "un-women." Wallflowers who are just breathing and smiling and blending in to stay out of the way. That is not what God had in mind when He created us. He wants us to keep becoming. He wants us to become strong, decisive, wise, creative, passionate, courageous-all the things we've dreamed of becoming. When Wallflowers Dance is a fresh challenge to women who have lived hesitant, cautious lives but long to break free and dance! Using both Scripture and story, Angela Thomas addresses the attributes of "becoming" and the freedom we have in Christ to keep developing the characteristics that reflect our God-given longings.
Download or read book When Wallflowers Dance written by Angela Thomas and published by Lifeway Church Resources. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Wallflowers Dance: Becoming a Woman of Righteous Confidence - Member Book by Angela Thomas provides a personal study experience five days a week and includes a Leader Guide and a Retreat Guide.
Download or read book My Heroes Ask Wallflowers to Dance written by Jennifer Sattley and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have now read this book more than once. I want to be clear about my response. It is one of the most powerful, inspiring, personal journeys I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I have never read anything like it before. I give it my highest possible recommendation. Although I am personally familiar with Jennifer's story, I was unprepared for how deeply it inspired me to want to be a better person." - S. Eric OttesenMy childhood memories are sweet and wonderful - except for my memories of cystic fibrosis (CF), the number one genetic killer of children and young adults in the United States. As I grew up with my brothers and sister, I can now see that we were just kids being kids-loving life in the present, oblivious of the future and not knowing how much we would treasure our past.Justin, my witty, zealous, older brother, had many reasons to not feel like smiling. He had even more reasons not to feel like dancing. After all, his physicians had told him he wasn't supposed to live past the age of nineteen due to CF. Still, Justin was always the first one grinning on the dance floor as he asked "wallflowers" to dance. Justin had an uncanny ability to look past his wants, pain and discomfort and to instead focus on becoming a wallflower's knight in shining armor.While still mourning Justin's passing, my own lung capacity became critical and shrunk to the size of a silver dollar. In order to save my life, more than 30 friends stepped forward, offering to donate lobes of their lungs. From tragedy to triumph, "My Heroes Ask Wallflowers to Dance" chronicles my family's struggles to live with a terminal illness while at the same time celebrating the courageous human spirit, Christ-like love and selfless sacrifice.
Download or read book Secrets of a Summer Night written by Lisa Kleypas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Devil in Disguise, the first book in her beloved Wallflowers series. The Wallflowers: four young ladies at the side of the ballroom make a pact to help each other find husbands . . . no matter what it takes. Proud and beautiful Annabelle Peyton could have her pick of suitors—if only she had a dowry. Her family is on the brink of disaster, and the only way Annabelle can save them is to marry a wealthy man. Unfortunately her most persistent admirer is the brash Simon Hunt, a handsome and ambitious entrepreneur who wants her as his mistress. Annabelle is determined to resist Simon's wicked propositions, but she can't deny her attraction to the boldly seductive rogue, any more than he can resist the challenge she presents. As they try to outmaneuver each other, they find themselves surrendering to a love more powerful than they could have ever imagined. But fate may have other plans—and it will take all of Annabelle's courage to face a peril that could destroy everything she holds dear.
Download or read book How to Dance With a Duke written by Manda Collins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her father's exclusive academic society forbid her entrance until she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing father's name of a scandalous rumour, Cecily is willing to marry any old dullard to do it.
Download or read book From Wallflower to Sunflower written by Claire Schrader and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Claire Schrader's new confidence-building system, the Sunflower Effect, fills in the gaps where assertiveness training and other techniques leave off. If you are a wallflower and you've tried practically everything else, read this book and discover that all the things that people have been saying about you are plainly not true."Raymond Aaron. NY Times Best Selling Author www.aaron.com If you are sick and tired of being a wallflower, this book will set you on a pathway of radical transformation to becoming the person you've always wanted to be. To be stuck on the sidelines, cut off from other people, unable to express what you really feel or know, and unable to participate in the dance of life in the way you want to... is painful. Particularly when you know there's so much inside you that you want to express... but you just can't.You may already know about what you should do if you want to stop being a wallflower. You should get out more, be more sociable, just speak up, behave how the confident people behave, try this technique or that, stop being so afraid of what other people are thinking of you.Most books and advice handed out on confidence may work very well for certain people - but they don't work wallflowers. This is one of the mistakes that most wallflowers make when they are trying to build confidence. But what you probably don't know is that there is a Missing Link and without that link it's going to be very hard to access the confidence you are seeking. This is because there is complex psychological process that keeps you locked behind powerful internal walls. Claire Schrader, a former wallflower stumbled by chance on a very simple and effective way to build a natural and lasting confidence that didn't involve any of these methods - that enabled her to say goodbye to her life as a wallflower in a matter of a few months. This is the Missing Link, that is going to enable you to cross over the River of Life into the place where the "sunflowers"(the confident people) live - and to start building a totally new You. The "Sunflower You". The "You" you've always wanted to be - that has the capacity to shine without having to do anything. This Missing Link is the Sunflower Effect - a proven system developed by Claire over 20 years that has assisted many hundreds of people move from Wallflower to Sunflower.The Sunflower Effect is based on methods that are as old as history itself but have never been put together in quite this way. It is in fact based on the secret that every ex-wallflower movie star knows about, that has enabled them to achieve outstanding success in their lives. It doesn't involve any of the confidence techniques that don't work for wallflowers. It's highly practical, grounded in psychology and scientific research and it will work for you even if you count yourself as a lost cause - very shy, highly reserved and acutely self-conscious. The only thing you need is willingness to give it a go - and the persistence to keep going. From Wallflower to Sunflower offers a step-by-step guide with proven strategies, practical tips and exercises as well as free online resources, to back up and intensify the reader's experience of the book. This is a book about courageous and sensitive people, often with significant abilities, who are trapped within themselves. They are both men and women at all stages of life, from high powered executives to people who are struggling to get started in life. There's nothing on the market quite like 'From Wallflower to Sunflower: the quiet person's path to natural self-confidence'.
Download or read book What a Wallflower Wants written by Maya Rodale and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third novel in Maya Rodale's charming Wallflower series, London's Least Likely to Be Caught in a Compromising Position finds temptation in a devilishly handsome stranger . . . Miss Prudence Merryweather Payton has a secret. Everyone knows that she's the only graduate from her finishing school to remain unwed on her fourth season—but no one knows why. With her romantic illusions shattered after being compromised against her will, Prudence accepts a proposal even though her betrothed is not exactly a knight in shining armor. When he cowardly pushes her out of their stagecoach to divert a highwayman, she vows never to trust another man again. John Roark, Viscount Castleton, is nobody's hero. He's a blue-eyed charmer with a mysterious past and ambitious plans for his future—that do not include a wife. When he finds himself stranded at a country inn with a captivating young woman, a delicate dance of seduction ensues. He knows he should keep his distance. And he definitely shouldn't start falling in love with her. When Prudence's dark past comes back to haunt her, John must protect her—even though he risks revealing his own secrets that could destroy his future.
Download or read book And Then We Danced written by Henry Alford and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Captivating…equal parts memoir and cultural history, Henry Alford seamlessly interweaves heartwarming and hilarious anecdotes about his deep dive into all things dance” (Misty Copeland, The New York Times Book Review). When Henry Alford wrote about his experience with a Zumba class for The New York Times, little did he realize that it was the start of something much bigger. Dance would grow and take on many roles for Henry: exercise, stress reliever, confidence builder, an excuse to travel, a source of ongoing wonder, and—when he dances with Alzheimer’s patients—even a kind of community service. Tackling a wide range of forms (including ballet, hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, tap, contact improvisation, Zumba, swing), Alford’s grand tour takes us through the works and careers of luminaries ranging from Bob Fosse to George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp to Arthur Murray. Rich in insight and humor, Alford mines both personal experience and fascinating cultural history to offer a witty and ultimately moving portrait of how dance can express all things human. And Then We Danced “is in one sense a celebration of hoofer in all its wonder and variety, from abandon to refinement. But it is also history, investigation, memoir, and even, in its smart, sly way, self-help…very funny, but more, it is joyful—a dance all its own” (Vanity Fair).
Download or read book Dancing with God written by Jay Emerson Johnson and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson uses the metaphor of dance to help readers--especially those without a theological background--approach the discipline of theology as something everyone does, and not only something to believe.
Download or read book It Happened One Autumn written by Lisa Kleypas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headstrong American heiress Lillian Bowman has come to England to find an aristocratic husband. Unfortunately, no man is strong enough to tame the stubborn beauty's fierce will. Except, perhaps, the powerful and arrogant Earl of Westcliff—a man Lillian despises more than anyone she's ever met. Marcus, Lord Westcliff, is famous for his icy English reserve and his supreme self-control. But something about the audacious Lillian drives him mad. Whenever they're in the same room, they can't stop themselves from battling furiously to gain the upper hand. Then one afternoon, a stunningly sensuous encounter changes everything . . . and Lillian discovers that beneath the earl's reserved façade, he is the passionate and tender lover of her dreams. What neither Westcliff nor Lillian suspect, however, is that a sinister conspiracy threatens to destroy any chance of happiness. After a shocking betrayal endangers Lillian's safety—and possibly her life—will Marcus be able to save her before it's too late?
Download or read book Dance Hall Days written by Randy McBee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book I Dared the Duke written by Anna Bennett and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mysterious forces jeopardize the safety of his grandmother and her companion--the woman he desires--the Duke of Blackshire must do everything he can to keep them out of harm’s way, even if that includes playing by the rules of his beloved.
Download or read book A Beautiful Offering written by Angela Thomas and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2006-05-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Angela Thomas thought of the Beatitudes as a list of "Gotta Be's," as in: Gotta be meek. Gotta be merciful. And when she compared her life to the standard they set, she always felt that she came up short. But through God's great mercy, she has come to see this passage instead as a roster of "When You Are's." When you are meek, there is a spiritual inheritance. When you are merciful, you will be shown mercy. This shift in thinking has led Thomas to understand that God does not require perfection, but rather our gracious obedience. In His eyes, our lives-complete with mistakes, blemishes, and imperfections-are A Beautiful Offering.
Download or read book A Wallflower s Midsummer Night s Caper written by Alina K. Field and published by Havenlock Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Night’s masquerade at her family’s country home presents the Honorable Nancy Lovelace with the perfect opportunity for revenge against the man who ruined her first London season—a man she’s known since childhood, a man she’d once thought she loved. With the help of her crew of younger relatives, she’ll give him his comeuppance. Simon Crayding’s newly inherited properties are in disarray, and, thanks to his bad behavior, he’s no longer known to society as Captain Crayding but as the Swilling Duke. When an old school chum invites him for a Midsummer Night’s party, he jumps at the chance to lick his wounds among friends… as well as apologize to his friend’s sister, Nancy, because apparently, he’s done something to hurt her, he just doesn’t remember what. It soon becomes clear that Nancy will not easily forgive. Never one to resist a challenge—or a beautiful woman—Simon vows to find out why. As the night unfolds and passions rise, will Simon be well and truly punished, or will Nancy be caught in her own game?
Download or read book The Wallflower Wager written by Lana Williams and published by Lana Williams. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One high-stakes wager. Two stubborn hearts. After a humiliating debut three years earlier, Lady Prudence Davies decided to embrace her status as a wallflower and sets course for spinsterhood. But when her fellow wallflowers become targets of a band of rogues, Prudence ventures out of the shadows to aid them. Silas Hayward, Viscount Winstead, and his friends make an unfortunate wager, one that Silas deeply regrets. If his family didn’t so desperately need the winnings, he would’ve found a way to bow out. Twelve balls and a dance with twelve different wallflowers. How hard could it be? Prudence has no intention of allowing any of the rogues to win the ridiculous wager—not when she’s one of the twelve. While a steamy kiss with Silas has her reconsidering her opinion of rogues, she refuses to allow her friends to be hurt. Silas is knocked sideways as he comes to know Prudence and doesn’t like the idea of using her to win. Suddenly there’s more at stake than the money, yet he can’t possibly choose her over helping his family. Who will win the wallflower wager? This standalone novella is connected to Revenge of the Wallflowers and The Mayfair Literary League series, which starts with A Matter of Convenience. If you enjoy wallflower romances with charming rogues, read The Wallflower Wager!
Download or read book The Routledge Dance Studies Reader written by Jens Richard Giersdorf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid-to-late twentieth century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.
Download or read book The Routledge Dance Studies Reader written by Alexandra Carter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid to late 20th century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance.