Download or read book Wiping My Mother s E written by Iain Heggie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A caustic new comedy by one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrights When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing home, resentful of June, the patient with no arms and legs, who gets all the attention. The only saving grace is her care assistant Larry - a camp, ageing clubber. However, what Derek and Kath don't know is that Larry holds the key to a few secrets that are perhaps best left in the closet... Published to coincide with its premiere in July 2001 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh "Cut-cross dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed" (TES) "The dialogue cuts into paradox, swagger and self defence as keenly as a surgeon's knife" (Observer)
Download or read book Who Will Wipe My Tears Away written by Evangelist Earlina Denise Gilford-Weaver and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the compelling memoir Who Will Wipe My Tears Away?, Earlina Gilford-Weaver tells the story of how she survived childhood sexual abuse and was later saved by God. Earlina was nine years old when she was first sexually abused by uncles who were entrusted to care for her, but instead, robbed her of her innocence. Raised by an emotionally-distant mother and an overwhelmed grandmother, Earlinas journey through childhood became agonizing. She relays how she dealt with her internal pain by stealing, lying, and running awayeventually becoming a ward of the state. After she was moved from group homes to foster care where she would stay with over twenty different families, Earlina was once again sexually molested by the males who surrounded her. All the while, Earlina would continually ask herself the same question: Why isnt God wiping my tears away? It would not be until much later when Earlina walked into a church on her birthday that she would realize God had been by her side all along. Throughout Earlinas heartbreaking story is an unforgettable message that through it all, loving yourselfno matter what others have done to youis the key to surviving even the worst of circumstances.
Download or read book Wipe My Tears written by Penelope S. Hession and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book #1 of a 5 book series about the life of a priest, Father Jon Mark. As a young college student, Jon Mark decides to enter a seminary after graduation from the university. In seeking to serve God as Jesus would do, Father jon Mark becomes profoundly and compassionately involved in the lives of those with whom he comes into contact following the pattern of what would Jesus do.
Download or read book Away from My Mother s Watchful Eye written by Jesse A. Mayfield and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a coming of age story that chronicles my early years growing up in inner-city, Brooklyn, New York amidst the turbulent, racially and socially explosive 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and while many older Negroes supported Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his calls for peaceful protests, many young Negroes gravitated to a more militant and confrontational approach to winning freedom and equal treatment under the law for all Negroes. Young people were constantly being called upon to be down with the revolution and encouraged to hate Whitey and to fear the Police in particular who were looked upon as an occupying force within the Negro community. All of this was swirling around me as I struggled to just be a kid. I certainly didn't hate anyone and my being bussed to a White school only served to complicate things as I found myself eventually feeling trapped in my own community and walking a tightrope between two diverse cultures. Surprisingly, I found peace, friendship and acceptance in the most unlikely of places. My years in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn were both character building and life changing and laid the foundation for my becoming the man that I am today. This story is told through the eyes of a precocious and intelligent little boy and it's told with humor and love. It is my hope that while you're reading this book you will get a strong sense of the love I had for my family, my community and the new world of friendships that embraced me. Being away from my mother's watchful eye offered me a newfound freedom but it also demanded that I grow up quickly, keep my wits about me and utilize everything I'd ever learned.
Download or read book Craft written by Ananda Lima and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry—Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima. "Remarkable and memorable." —OLIVIE BLAKE • “An astounding new voice.” —ERIC LaROCCA • "I love it so much.” —KELLY LINK • “Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound.” —JOHN KEENE • “Incredible. Truly wondrous.” —KEVIN WILSON • "Heart-wrenching and wickedly funny." —GWEN KIRBY • “Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built.” —JULIA FINE At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true. Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences–of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as “singular and wise and fresh” (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: “Rapture,” “Ghost Story,” “Tropicália,” “Antropógaga,” “Idle Hands,” “Rent,” “Porcelain,” “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,” and “Hasselblad.” A great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Recommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book WIPE The Complete Post Apocalyptic Story written by Joseph Turkot and published by Joseph A. Turkot. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This is the full novel version of WIPE, including Parts 1 through 5* I’ve seen the tower from the beach a million times. Way out in the sea, impossible to reach. It rises gray and bare, up and up, and then out of sight. As if the sea gave birth to something meant to connect it to the sky. I’ve never seen the top. Maze says she’s not convinced it has one. And I’ve always taken its impossible presence for what the Fathers say it is: a relic from before the Wipe. The hubris of pre-Wipe man, and a reminder for us all as to why it is God’s Will that we never return to technology. But Maze suddenly has it in her head that the tower means something else, something different than the history the Fathers have given us. I think she’s a conspiracy theorist. Until she shows me the map. Just the word mirror scribbled in red ink, next to a marking, and she expects me to go into the Deadlands with her. As long as I’ve known of her recklessness, and as much of a bad influence as she is on me, I can’t say no. Because while she doesn’t know they exist, I can’t stop my feelings for her. And I start to realize, when we first pass over the rotting gates, into the ruin that was a city, that it will take something much more than either of us ever knew we had in order to survive the truth.
Download or read book The Dominion Series Complete Collection written by S. E. Lund and published by Acadian Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire Dominion Series in one collection, The Dominion Series Complete Collection follows novice vampire hunter Eve Hayden and the two enigmatic twin vampire brothers as they fight Dominion -- vampire rule over humans.
Download or read book Wiped written by Rebecca Eckler and published by Villard. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pregnancy was a 90-minute massage compared to life now.” After her little bundle of joy, Rowan (aka The Dictator) arrives, Rebecca Eckler wonders when the promised “rewarding” part will kick in. She wasn’t supposed to trade in tight jeans for baggy sweatpants, or give up the dream of sound sleep and a passionate sex life. Yet, even in the throes of her exhaustion, Rebecca gleans and shares some sound advice for modern moms, including everything you need to know on • The Diaper Genie: “It’s been six weeks and we have yet to use this ‘must-have’ baby item because we can’t figure out how the damn thing works.” • Achievement: “No matter how well I had done in school, no matter what my career accomplishments were, my mother had never been so proud of me as when I gave birth.” • Keeping up appearances: “How is it possible that I haven’t had a drink in months, yet still look worse than I ever did hung over?” • The effectiveness of baby monitors: “You can hear a baby screaming through walls. Unless you live in the Taj Mahal and place your baby at the other end of the palace, there is no way you won’t hear her cry.” • Size matters: “I had made the mistake of trying on a pair of pre-pregnancy jeans, which I couldn’t get up past my knees. It was the worst decision I have ever made.” With the same dry wit as her hilarious chronicle Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be, Eckler sets the record straight on being a new mom: the highs, the lows, and the sheer bliss that comes when you’re dealing with the demands of someone who’s not very large but undeniably in charge. Praise for Knocked Up “Painfully funny . . . biting wit.” –Los Angeles Times “Quirky and outlandish.” –New York Daily News
Download or read book The Day My Mother Died A Mystery Novel written by Jason Costa and published by Bay Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hurricane shattered hometown. A murdered best friend. A debut mystery you won’t be able to put down. An unspeakable tragedy leaves both of Jimmy Miller’s parents dead and Jimmy in juvenile detention. After his release, Jimmy puts miles, continents, and years between himself and his seemingly idyllic New Jersey hometown. Finally settled in Costa Rica, Jimmy is found by Dillon, his childhood best friend, and the two quickly fall back into old rhythms. At the airport, Dillon apologizes for what he thinks is his part in the death of Jimmy’s parents. Jimmy is stunned, but instead of assuring his friend that none of what happened was Dillon’s fault, Jimmy freezes, and Dillon turns to go. Three weeks later Hurricane Sandy turns their hometown into a disaster zone. Three weeks after that Dillon is murdered. Jimmy gets on a plane and goes home. He finds a town ready to lock up a childhood classmate for Dillon’s murder even though the crime itself makes no sense. A jailhouse visit convinces Jimmy the classmate is innocent and leaves him determined to find the real killer. In his search, he learns that old friends and neighbors have unimaginable secrets, and that even though he watched his mother die, he understood only a small part of what actually happened. But Dillon’s real killer? Finding a person who isn’t hiding is always the hardest thing. ______________________________________________ ★★★★★ “Fast-paced and evocative with a dark, witty, slightly damaged main character you want to follow from page one." ★★★★★ "Jason Costa is a terrific stylist, with great narrative, dialogue, and pacing. It’s a pleasure just coasting along in the sentences of this whodunit."
Download or read book My Mother s Funeral written by Adriana Paramo and published by Cavankerry Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My MotherÕs Funeral circles around the death of the authorÕs mother, but what also emerges is a landscape of personal loss and pain, of innocence, humor, violence and beauty. Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and Colombian heritage, P‡ramo describes the volatile bond linking mothers and daughters in a culture largely unknown to Americans. The book moves between past (Colombia in the 1940s) and present lives, and maps scenes both geographical (Bogot‡, Medell’n, Anchorage) as well as psychological--ultimately revealing the indomitable spirit of the women in her family. Especially from P‡ramoÕs mother the reader learns what it means to be a Colombian woman.
Download or read book Retribution written by S. E. Lund and published by S. E. Lund. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve Hayden had no idea what to expect the night she went in search of a translator for an 800-year old French illuminated manuscript but it certainly wasn’t what she found -- Michel and Julien de Cernay: 800-year old identical twin vampire brothers – beautiful, temperamental opposites, both wanting her for themselves. Michel -- dark, brooding, control-freak, former priest who broke his vows the night he was turned into a vampire. Julien -- impetuous, valiant, passionate, a brave knight who lost his life on a battlefield when a vampire claimed him. Caught between the two brothers, Eve searches for the truth about her mother's death, her birth, and the fight to prevent Dominion – vampire rule over humans. Eve's mother gave her life to keep Eve safe, but was unable to protect herself. Now, Eve can't escape this fate nor can she escape them -- even if she wanted to. This is her story. They say the truth will set you free, but it might also drive you mad. After finding Michel again, Eve discovers the truth about her accident and embarks on a new life with Julien, learning the skills of a vampire hunter, determined to work with him to prevent Dominion. But fate has other plans and the three are once again drawn into old battles and new wars. The future of humanity hangs in the balance. NOTE: Intended for 18+ due to explicit content and language.
Download or read book At My Mother s Knee And Other Low Joints written by Paul O'Grady and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER 'Warmly funny, dry and mischievous . . . Genuine and brilliant.' Daily Mail Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4 or the massive hit ITV show, For the Love of Dogs. Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long and winding road from mischievous altar boy to national treasure. It is a brilliantly evoked, hilarious and often moving tale of gossip in the back yard, bragging in the corner shop and slanging matches on the front doorstep, populated by larger-than-life characters with hearts of gold and tongues as sharp as razors. At My Mother's Knee features an unforgettable cast of rogues, rascals, lovers, fighters, saints and sinners - and one iconic bus conductress. It's a book which really does have something for everyone and which reminds us that, when all's said and done, there's a bit of savage in all of us... Readers love At My Mother's Knee: 'I laughed, I cried, I couldn't put it down and the characters really just jumped out of the page.' ***** 'Candid, heart warming and also hilarious.' ***** 'Wonderfully written, laugh out loud funny and poignant by turns.' *****
Download or read book From His Lips to My Ears written by Pamela J. Brady and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From His Lips to My Ears contains a variety of poetry and inspirational writings that I have written over the past several years. The collection includes poems that are very dear to my heart & they range from Spiritual, whimsical, Childrens poems & personal poems written for special people in my life, I like to think that all of my poetry is completely inspired by the Holy Spirit. He inspires me & I write.
Download or read book Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy written by Peter E. Sifneos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: xii the evaluations, techniques, and outcome have helped to document the efficacy of their therapeutic modalities. In addition, many good books and articles have been published introducing new concepts, such as the importance of systematic case studies and personality styles by Horowitz, a variety of brief therapies by Budman, and an integrating model of time-limited psychotherapy by Strupp, to men tion only a few. The investigation of the efficacy of short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy (STAPP), which is the subject of this book, has con tinued during the last eight years, particularly in reference to pa tients with unresolved Oedipal conflicts. The chapter on outcome has therefore been expanded to include some of our findings. Cautious attempts have also been made to utilize focal and in novating techniques for the treatment of individuals with borderline as well as compulsive personalities. In this second edition an effort has been made to present the specific technical factors which seem to have a therapeutic effect, such as problem solving, self-understanding, and new learning, and which are utilized by the patients to solve new emotional conflicts long after the end of their treatment. Chapters on the treatment of elderly patients and the handling of individuals with physical symptomatology have been added; a history of the extensive treatment of a male patient has been pre sented to complement the discussion of the therapy of my female patient which appears in Appendix I.
Download or read book Who Killed My Mother written by Kory M. Shrum and published by Timberlane Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two phone calls. One mysterious death. This is a true story. On July 4, 2020 Kory received two phone calls. One from her uncle, saying her mother was found dead in her bedroom from an overdose. A second from a homicide detective saying he believes it was murder—and her uncle is the suspect. Now Kory wants to find the truth about what happened to her mother. But sifting through the conflicting details and compelling evidence turns out to be a hell of a ride. Only after a fearless look into her mother's dark past, will she uncover a truth—one she never expected.
Download or read book A Mother s Patience written by Sharon Lee Hobbs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah was a bubbly little girl growing up. Loving her family unconditionally. Never did she dream that conditions were constantly put on that love. The child she had at a tender age always seemed to be put out of her reach. Never understanding why. It seemed she fought all the time and failed. For several years this consumed Sarah's very being until one night she gave up. It almost took her life. How would she be able to go on? It was a venture and a definite learning experience. Her answer was love.
Download or read book A Mother s Secret written by Amy Clipston and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unwed Amish woman yearns for real love and a family. The only thing in her way is the shame she’s been carrying for half of her life. Thirty-one-year-old Carolyn Lapp has never been married—but she’s been a mother for fifteen years. In a community with strict standards and a long memory, Carolyn knows she might never find a man who will have her and her son, Benjamin. Carolyn’s family tries to marry her off to a widower with a daughter who needs a mother. A marriage of convenience doesn’t sound so bad, yet despite her loneliness, Carolyn knows what she really wants: a traditional Amish family and a marriage for love. When Benjamin gets into trouble at an auction, he finds himself beholden to a handsome horse breeder named Joshua Glick. Joshua and Carolyn feel an instant attraction, and soon a romance is budding between them. The trouble is Joshua believes Benjamin is Carolyn’s nephew, not her son. After years of shame and loneliness, Carolyn suddenly has two men vying for her attention. Can either man give her the family—and the unconditional love—she longs for? Or will her past once again sabotage the future she wants? “. . . will leave readers craving more.” —RT Book Reviews, TOP PICK!, 4 1/2-star review
