Download or read book Pacific Island Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects forty-three historical or traditional stories from the Pacific Islands, including creation myths and stories of gods, heroes, and ordinary people. --amazon.com.
Download or read book Oral Traditions of Southeast Asia and Oceania written by Herman C. Kemp and published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wise Turtle written by Barbara Rabong and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara was going through a challenging time. Her marriage broke down after eighteen years. A year later, she booked a beach holiday in Turkey. She was asking herself, What is life all about? Why does all this happen to her? Then at the beach, when she is relaxing, she gets in contact with her guardian angel. He appears as a giant turtle and tells her about life and what the challenges mean to us—that we should see the gift in every challenge that comes in our lives! Nothing just happens. The turtle teaches her about the fact that our thoughts create our lives and that God is love and his angels are here to help and support us. We are never alone, no matter how alone we feel. We can always pray and ask our angels to help us! She learns how important self-love is because God created us perfect. So any self-doubt will keep you away from your real self—pure love! You are loved!
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fatal Lie written by Sally Chew and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book reveals fascinating truth about a crime involving a teenage lesbian love triangle that exploded when two girls dragged their roommate into a wooded area and beat and stabbed her to death in Richmond, Virginia, in July 1997.Chew covered the story for "Out" magazine. 8 pages of photos.
Download or read book The Future Has a Past written by J. California Cooper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved author of Family and A Piece of Mine comes a dazzling new collection of stories featuring ordinary women who discover that love sometimes comes when you least expect it. Vinnie is an overworked and self-sacrificing single mother who gets a second chance at love and independence, in "The Eagle Flies." In "A Shooting Star" a happily married mother of two laments the fate of her beautiful friend Lorene, whose naivete about desire has deadly consequences. In "A Filet of Soul," Luella's luck soon changes when her mother leaves her a modest inheritance, but not as soon as she initially imagines. And in "The Lost and Found," Irene confronts her womanizing boyfriend with the one piece of information that will bring him to his knees. Bursting with earthy wisdom and humor, these warmly engaging tales are a testament to Cooper's gifts as a storyteller.
Download or read book The Magic of You written by Kare Less and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Magic of You, You are the main actor of your own story! Do not hesitate to disguise yourself and play the part of each character in every short story included in this very special and magical book. Completely inspired by Spirit, each story is sorted by date so you can fully experience the values and life lessons they contain. Reading, repeating, but mostly imagining yourself in these stories by becoming each character will create magic in your life, especially if you take some time every day for the amount of days written on top of each page. It is a wonderful way to start your day for it will uplift your spirit, and you will be able to see the power of imagination and the law of attraction in action. I deeply encourage you to practice these values in your daily lives for your ultimate happiness. Imagination + Action = Creation. Be creative! Enjoy yourself! But most of all, Kare Less and love more!
Download or read book Zen and Gone written by Emily France and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With another aching deep dive into human spirituality, Emily France mines her home state of Colorado in a novel of a teen girl's harrowing search for her missing younger sister—and her own search for self. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Essence McKree feels older than any seventeen-year-old she knows. Ever since weed was legalized, her mother has been working in a pot shop, high more often than not. Lately it’s been up to Essa to care for her nine-year-old sister, Puck. When Essa meets Oliver—a brainy indoor type who’s in town for the summer—she is cautious at first, distrustful of the tourist crowd and suspicious of Oliver’s mysterious past in Chicago. But Puck is charmed and pushes Essa toward him. Soon Essa finds herself showing Oliver the Boulder she has forgotten: the mountain parties, the long hikes . . . and at Oliver’s urging, the exploration of Buddhism at the local zendo. When Oliver agrees to accompany Essa on a three-day survival game in the Rocky Mountains, she feels a lightness she hasn’t known in a long time. Then she discovers that Puck has stowed away and followed them into the wilderness. After spending a night stuck in a mountain storm, Essa wakes to find Puck missing. Now Essa must rely on her newfound spiritual strength if she is to save her sister’s life, and ultimately her own.
Download or read book Major Uriah Barber written by Cora Tula Watters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of Uriah Barber is full of one cliff hanger after another as Barber, veteran of the Revolutionary War, and his younger step-brother Isaac Bonser lead five families across the new nation from Northumberland County in Pennsylvania to the Ohio River Valley. Dashing Uriah, his wife Barbara, blond, intelligent and pregnant, head south with their six children and nanny, lovely Rachael Baird. Heading down the Susquehanna River with Isaac, wife Abigail their four children, the Wards, Beattys and McAdams, who were newlyweds. Two keelboats were constructed to float them down the long and twisting Susquehanna to Paxtang, present day Harrisburg, where they exchanged their boats for Conestoga wagons and horses. Needing another man to pole the second boat, dark handsome Shawnee scout Jacob Early was hired in Sunbury. When they reached Paxtang he returned home taking with him the heart of Rachael Baird. Crossing the breadth of Pennsylvania on what is now Pennsylvania Turnpike, they encounter everything from broken axles, tornadoes, critically ill children, another pregnancy and a wagon tumbling over the mountainside taking everything. They finish their journey aboard an amazing three-story high majestic keelboat named the Floating Palace. Just when they need him most Early shows up to help them finish their journey on the Monongahela, then the Ohio where they encounter sandbars, underwater trees and river pirates. The rest of the story tells how Major Barber settled in southern Ohio and carved his name forever in the history of Scioto County. The tale is full of passion, love, hope, humor and tragedy enough for a Shakespearean play.
Download or read book Journey to the Past written by Holly Hunter and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Campbell comments on the hero’s journey, “The seeker of the life beyond life must press beyond, surpass the temptation of her call, and soar to the immaculate ether beyond.” Aster Snowden’s journey started early. Her cruel childhood began a cascade of challenges. She endured an abusive father, vacant mother, and peers who detested her obscure gift of predictive dreams. Years go by, and at middle age, Aster remains timid as she struggles to find love. Grannyme, a so-called dream weaver, acts as Aster’s nocturnal guide. As of late, the old woman messes with fate, and manipulates Aster into a personal quest to find her holy grail. Jack McFadden time travels into past lives for a living. Unwittingly he is a pawn in Grannyme’s plan for Aster’s self-discovery.
Download or read book Father Found written by RM Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same passion and insight he brought to The Harris Men, RM Johnson offers a gripping look at a pressing social issue -- and a rare window into the contemporary male psyche. Father Found As founder of an organization that tracks down deadbeat dads and holds them accountable to the children they abandoned, Zale Rowen is no ordinary nine-to-fiver. Fiercely devoted to Father Found and its mission, he is all but obsessed. And though Zale's heart is in the right place, his life begins to spiral out of control as he is pulled further into Chicago's underbelly in his pursuit of homeless youth and delinquent dads. Soon he is ruining his most valued relationships, jeopardizing his life, and undermining the very organization for which he has sacrificed everything. Forced to take a step back and examine his behavior, Zale is finally beginning to face the dark, long-repressed secrets motivating him when he is blindsided by a shocking revelation that challenges everything he holds true. As in his acclaimed debut, RM Johnson weaves a deeply engaging novel of family and self-sacrifice. Unflinching yet compassionate, Father Found is a testament to the power of forgiveness, and a striking commentary on our times.
Download or read book George s Pond written by Scott Waring and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old fifth grader West Tate loves living in an old farmhouse in Sutherlin, Oregon, where he has seven acres of unused farmland for his backyard. But that happiness is threatened when the family receives a letter from the bank demanding they pay their loan or risk losing the farmhouse and the land forever. In West's adventures, he and his dog Friendly cleverly save the life of a baby turtle that West names George, and they rescue a baby squirrel they call Nadia. George uses a remote control helicopter to seek revenge on an evil crow and finds a secret pond! Along the way, George learns to understand the critical importance of friendship, family and freedom. The bare essentials of life itself! While helping West with a book report, the animals discover an old map of Sutherlin in a library book. The map doesn't show the farmhouse, but it does show something even better-B.B.'s Gold Mine! Determined to return the kindness West showed them, George and his pals set out to save the farm!
Download or read book A Field Guide to Coral Reefs written by Eugene Herbert Kaplan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 500 species described and more than 400 illustrations, this guide provides quick and easy visual identification of fishes, mollusks, sponges, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and much more of the fauna found on the coral reefs of the Caribbean and Florida.
Download or read book The Family Secrets Collection Before I Saw You How Sweet the Sound Then Sings My Soul Lead Me Home written by Amy K. Sorrells and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of Amy Sorrells’s novels in one e-book! Before I Saw You In a southern Indiana town ravaged by the heroin epidemic, Jaycee Givens lives with little more than a thread of hope. Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one, including kind, handsome Gabe, who is new to town and to the local diner where she works. Jaycee nurses her broken heart among a collection of unlikely friends, the closest thing to family that she has. Eventually, she can’t hide her pregnancy—not even from the baby’s abusive father, who is furious when he finds out. The choices Jaycee must make for the safety of her unborn child threaten to derail any chance she ever had for hope and redemption. Ultimately, she must decide whether the truest form of love means hanging on or letting go. How Sweet the Sound Anniston Harlan cares little for high society and the rigid rules and expectations of her grandmother, Princella. She finds solace working the orchards alongside her father and grandfather, and relief in the cool waters of Mobile Bay. Anniston’s aunt, Comfort Harlan, has never lived up to the family name, or so her mother Princella’s scowl implies. When she gleefully accepts her boyfriend Solly’s proposal, a flood tide of tragedy ensues, stripping Comfort of her innocence and unleashing generations of family secrets. While Comfort struggles to recover, Anniston discovers an unlikely new friend from the seedy part of town who helps her try to make sense of the chaos. Together, they and the whole town of Bay Spring, Alabama discover how true love is a risk, but one worth taking. Then Sings My Soul When Jakob’s wife dies, he and his daughter, Nel, must face the realities of his worsening dementia and emerging shadows Nel didn’t know lay beneath her father’s beloved, curmudgeonly ways. While Nel navigates the restoration and sale of Jakob’s dilapidated lake house, her high school sweetheart shows up in town, along with unexpected correspondence from Ukraine. And when she discovers a mysterious gemstone in Jakob’s old lapidary room, Jakob’s condition worsens as he begins having flashbacks about his baby sister from nearly a century past. As father and daughter race against time to discover the truth behind Jackob’s fragmented memories, the God they have both been running from shows that he redeems broken years and also the future. Lead Me Home Amid open fields and empty pews, small towns can crush big dreams. Abandoned by his no-good father and forced to grow up too soon, Noble Burden has set his dreams aside to run the family farm. Meanwhile, James Horton, the pastor of the local church, questions his own calling as he prepares to close the doors for good. As a severe storm rolls through, threatening their community and very livelihood, both men fear losing what they care about most . . . and reconsider where they truly belong.
Download or read book Before I Saw You written by Amy K. Sorrells and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folks are dying fast as the ash trees in the southern Indiana town ravaged by the heroin epidemic, where Jaycee Givens lives with nothing more than a thread of hope and a quirky neighbor, Sudie, who rescues injured wildlife. After a tragedy leaves her mother in prison, Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one, including the kind and handsome Gabe, who is new to town and to the local diner where she works. Dividing her time between the diner and Sudie’s place, Jaycee nurses her broken heart among a collection of unlikely friends who are the closest thing to family that she has. Eventually, she realizes she can’t hide her pregnancy any longer—not even from the baby’s abusive father, who is furious when he finds out. The choices she must make for the safety of her unborn child threaten to derail any chance she ever had for hope and redemption. Ultimately, Jaycee must decide whether the truest form of love means hanging on or letting go. Includes discussion guide.
Download or read book Masque of Dreams written by Bruce Boston and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masques of 17th century Europe presented dramatic entertainments based on mythic themes and enhanced by lavish costumes and sets. The entertainments in Bruce Boston's Masque of Dreams fashion myths of their own and are enhanced by the voice of a poet, often lyric and at times pyrotechnic. Journey to the depths of a mutant rain forest that strikes back against the encroachments of civilization. Join a Victorian stage magician in his search for real magic. Descend to the depths of an omnivorous singularity where everything is everything. Meet a true gentleman farmer and stand with vorpal sword in hand. Explore these masques of illusion and identity that entertain as they mine the limits of reality and dreams.
Download or read book The Magical Adventures of Brian Witherspoon written by Shirley Valencia and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven stories about Brian, a typical small boy growing up in a small town. His best friends are Mr. Nittin, a gentle old man who lives next door, and his beloved pet, Dog.