Download or read book What My Mother and I Don t Talk About written by Michele Filgate and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.

Download or read book Don t Make Me written by Renee Rose and published by Renee Rose Romance. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE'S FORBIDDEN TO TOUCH ME. I'm the Don's daughter. A mafia princess. He's my father's right-hand man. When Carlo catches me taking my clothes off in a strip club, he wants to haul me into my father's office. I suggest an alternative–one more pleasurable for both of us. He can handle my punishment. Dominate me the way he's always wanted. Take care of my needs and, most importantly, keep my secret. But we're playing with fire. Every day, I fall a little more for the underboss and if my father finds out... It won't just be my future destroyed. It could mean Carlo's life. This stand-alone romance is a lengthened and revised version of the previously published book, The Don's Daughter. No cliff-hangers, no cheating. HEA guaranteed.

Download or read book Amante A hurt comfort gay romance written by Melissa Power and published by Power Play Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know how deep your love is until it’s tested. Richard has pushed aside the idea of a relationship with another man for his entire life. He has built a persona of a cold, aloof prodigy; excelling in his position as the youngest CFO in the history of the company he works for. But when he can no longer deny his attraction to Zack, he pursues him, despite the fear of rejection. Zack has been burying his attraction to Richard beneath a slew of bodies, sleeping his way through scores of men. Ironically, they all look like the one person he wants to be with. He finally gives in, but insists their relationship be kept a secret from not only the people they work with, but their friends as well. His fear of being outed puts a strain on their relationship from the start and it soon becomes obvious that he’s hiding something else from Richard. Just when Richard finally breaks through Zack’s stubbornness and secrecy, and things are finally looking like the life they both want, someone from Zack’s past shows up with violent intent. The trauma that follows tests them both, and Zack’s dread of being judged for his past drives a wedge between them that they may not recover from. Author's Note: This novel contains a scene of sexual violence, mental health issues, and references to addiction recovery.

Download or read book Will I Ever be Good Enough written by Karyl McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.

Download or read book The Complete 3 Book Splintered Saga Collection written by A. G. Howard and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the darkly enchanting world of A. G. Howard's Splintered series with this complete collection, featuring all three spellbinding novels: Splintered, Unhinged, and Ensnared. This collection is perfect for fans of dark fantasy, romance, and reimagined fairy tales. Immerse yourself in A. G. Howard's lush, imaginative storytelling and experience the magic of Wonderland like never before. Splintered: Follow Alyssa Gardner as she discovers her connection to Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With a family curse looming over her, Alyssa must navigate a twisted Wonderland to save her mother and herself. Unhinged: The adventure continues as Alyssa grapples with her dual life—one foot in the real world and the other in the chaotic realm of Wonderland. With her heart torn between her mortal love, Jeb, and the enigmatic Morpheus, Alyssa faces new challenges and dark secrets. Ensnared: In the thrilling conclusion, Alyssa must journey deeper into Wonderland than ever before. With the fate of both worlds hanging in the balance, she must confront her darkest fears and make the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves.

Download or read book The Rebel Girl s Guide to Marketing Stop Committing Random Acts of Marketing written by Lisa Raebel and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever feel like you’re just committing random acts of marketing? Do you know you need marketing yet have NO IDEA where to start? Start here. If you’re looking for a boring business book, put this one down—it’s not for you. This book is about having a RebelMindset and intended to make you think outside the proverbial box of how you create your sales and marketing strategies, considering what marketing is and what it is not. This book is for: • business owners who are frustrated because their marketing is not working • organizations that are getting less than stellar reviews • entrepreneurs who hate to sell • business owners who need to generate leads and find more customers How do you know if you need better marketing? Trust your instincts. You picked up this book, so somewhere in the back of your mind you know your sales and marketing strategies can be improved. At its core, marketing is perception. The hard part is knowing the who, how, when, why, and where to build that perspective! For example: do you know what your voicemail greeting sounds like to a customer? Is it welcoming and inviting for them to leave a message? Or does it sound like you are rushed and just too busy to bother answering the phone when they call? Still not sure this book is for you? Ask yourself this: do you know how you and your organization is being perceived by your customers, prospects, network, and your team? WARNING: As you read this book, you’ll need a pen. The content is intended to be interactive. Each chapter has a downloadable PDF worksheet for you to fill-in so you can take what you learn and customize it to you and your organization. The old saying is that “you cannot see the forest for the trees.” Let me be your guide out of the marketing wilderness and help you create sales and marketing strategies that work!

Download or read book The Rancher s Full House written by Sasha Summers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the four reasons he wants to run Become five reasons he wants to stay? Buzz Lafferty can’t be hot for the teacher. The handsome veterinarian’s “no kids” policy is to protect his heart. But Jenna Morris sends Buzz’s pulse into overdrive. The beautiful teacher is raising her four younger siblings…and that’s t-r-o-u-b-l-e. If only Jenna’s fiery kisses didn’t feel so darn right—and her precocious siblings weren’t so darn lovable. Maybe it’s time for the Morris party of five to become a Lafferty party of six… From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Texas Cowboys & K-9s Book 1: The Rancher's Forever Family Book 2: Their Rancher Protector Book 3: The Rancher's Baby Surprise Book 4: The Rancher's Full House

Download or read book Crossing Back Over written by Brett Stevens and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett’s most recent manic episode has derailed him from life as the director of operations at a prominent software start-up in Texas. He is now at home, fully dependent on his mother, and officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Brett is terrified. He has no guarantees on his long-term health, no understanding of how his medication works and is still dealing with hell-like anxiety, restlessness, mania, and depression. Crossing Back Over: The Practice of Owning and Accepting Bipolar Disorder details Brett’s battle with taming the beast that is bipolar. Written in the same style as part 1 of his story, Crossover: A Look inside a Manic Mind, Crossing Back Over sheds light on what true recovery looks and feels like from a firsthand account. No matter the environment, recovering from a serious event takes hard work, discipline, patience, and acceptance. Crossing Back Over allows the reader to peek behind the curtain of an individual determined to find a happy life, even with his chronic brain disorder. This book is valuable for anyone who is facing a deeply personal challenge.

Download or read book Secret Prophecy written by Tiffany Kahapea and published by Tiffany Kahapea. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the daughter of one of the legendary six sisters, Danielle's heritage remains concealed from the prying eyes of her classmates. In a cruel twist of fate, she is deemed a "nopow," seemingly devoid of any magical abilities. Tormented and bullied, she endures the relentless taunting of her fellow students, their words etching scars upon her spirit. Yet, the fragile peace of the Institute is shattered one fateful day. Demons, relentless and merciless, attack the sacred grounds of the school, plunging it into chaos and terror. In the midst of the chaos, Danielle's world begins to unravel, and she discovers that the reality she has clung to is but a fragile facade. In a sudden surge of power, Danielle's dormant abilities ignite, flooding her mind with a torrent of raw magic. As her newfound powers surge uncontrollably, her fragile psyche teeters on the brink of madness. In the grip of this overwhelming force, she inadvertently unleashes havoc upon those around her, her actions stained with an unspeakable darkness. Betrayal taints the air as Danielle feels abandoned by the very ones she holds closest to her heart. But as the battle rages within Danielle, threatening to unleash cataclysmic destruction, she must confront the darkness that resides within herself. In a realm where trust is fragile, she must reconcile her shattered soul and find the strength to forgive those she loves. Danielle's struggle intertwines with the fate of the magical world itself. Can Daniele be saved from her own powers, or will she succumb to the darkness that threatens to consume her?

Download or read book Because of Savannah written by Sarah Patt and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dakota Buchannan believes there can be nothing worse in life than losing her motheruntil her father suddenly dies, leaving her orphaned at sixteen. As she attempts to muddle her way through the funeral, Dakota is introduced to a man twice her age who looks remarkably like her father. Moments later, it is revealed that Luke is the son her father never knew he hadand her brother. Luke invites her to join his family with the option of returning to Fort Worth to live with her bachelor uncle if she is not happy. Despite influence from Lukes narcissistic wife, it does not take long before their adorable four-year-old daughter, Savannah, captivates Dakota. As things begin looking up for Dakota, she meets a college graduate at a barbeque, setting off fireworks in her love life. But when her uncle falls victim to a near fatal hit-and-run, Dakota is compelled to revisit her old home where the past collides with the present as she comes face-to-face with a killer and a shocking secret. In this gripping story, an orphaned teenager is led down an unexpected path through pain, fear, and danger to the eventual realization that everything in life happens for a reason.

Download or read book Wealth Warrior written by Linda Garcia and published by Legacy Lit. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed conversational guide to the stock market by a financial expert empowers you to heal money wounds, establish financial literacy, and make your money work for you. Financial educator Linda García breaks down one of the most elusive yet effective financial systems in existence. A single mother at a young age, Linda struggled to survive. As bills and eviction notices flowed in, she felt stuck. After getting advice from a work friend, Linda took the leap and invested two hundred dollars. Soon, two hundred dollars a month grew to seven thousand dollars, then that became a high six-figure investment. Now she owns her home and is making more money than she’d ever imagined, and is ready to help other people of color access stock knowledge and achieve financial success. As a proud Latina, García understands that building wealth can mean more than stepping into financial arenas historically kept from communities of color. It may first require getting to the root of our money wounds—the factors and experiences that limit our capacity to feel deserving of wealth and capable of building it. In this investing playbook, she guides you on how to establish a budget, create your “opportunity fund,” and pay yourself first. She shows you how to analyze a company, choose the right stocks for you, and create a plan to multiply your money. You’ll learn: What it means to invest, where your money goes, and how to read stock charts. How to assess companies, pick your first stock, and buy your first shares. Tactics to break free from a scarcity mindset and grow your stocks to create life-changing wealth. Complete with an accessible glossary of stock market terms, Wealth Warrior is a true primer on how to generate the wealth you deserve!

Download or read book Blood Red Box Set Books 1 5 written by W.J. May and published by . This book was released on with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Collection of the Blood Red Series by USA Today Bestselling Author, W.J. May. What if courage was your only option? When a raging blood feud between vampires spills into her home, Kallie gets caught in the middle. Torn between love and family loyalty she must find the courage to fight what she fears the most and possibly risk everything, even if it means dying for those she loves.

Download or read book The Billionaire s Christmas Vows written by Gina Robinson and published by Gina Robinson. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get a billionaire for Christmas? No one is feeling the holiday stress more than I am. Six months pregnant, I'm "married" to Seattle billionaire Justin Green. But it's not real. We've never actually said our vows to each other. This year I want to surprise Jus with a real wedding. THE BILLIONAIRE'S CHRISTMAS VOWS is a fun, light standalone billionaire contemporary romance with a marriage of convenience trope and a happily-ever-after. This Christmas, all I want to give Justin is something money can't buy—Christmas Eve wedding vows complete with a legal marriage license. But that's easier said than done. Do you know how hard it is to find a state you can get married in, complete with a real marriage license, when you're theoretically already married? Adding to my stress, Justin is planning his own surprise. And I have the awful feeling it just might get in the way of mine… Grab your copy now!

Download or read book Electro written by Elise Brassell and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electro: Book One – The Thunder Series By: Elise Brassell Electro is your average high school girl with average high school worries, except for her ability to control lightning and run at super speeds. Along with her super-powered friends, a shape-shifter and a water manipulator, Electro will have to come out of her shell, learn who she truly is, and find her place in the world. With danger at every turn, she will need to make difficult decisions on whom they can trust. Written in an unconventional style for a coming-of-age, superhero story, Electro has something for everyone who enjoys an adventure and a good story.

Download or read book Uptown Dreams written by Kelli London and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the prestigious Harlem Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, students are destined to realize their uptown dreams--as long as friends, haters, and crushes don't trip them up. . . La-La Nolan's killer voice could make her a superstar, but she's more focused on scoring the attention of Ziggy Phillip--the cute Jamaican boy in her class. But a singing competition against her arch rival could cost her both Ziggy and her spot at the Academy. . . The daughter of the school's director and voice coach, Reese Allen has to work harder than everyone else to prove herself. But all Reese wants is to be a hip hop producer--a path her mother will never approve of. . . Even though it's clear that Ziggy loves the ladies, he has to keep his passion for dance a secret from his father. But then his brother discovers Ziggy's ballet shoes and threatens to tell all--unless Ziggy gets him into the Academy too. . . No one's a better actress than Jamaica Kincaid Ellison. She's even acted her way out of the boarding school her parents think she's still attending and into the Academy. She'll do anything to achieve her dream--unless her lies destroy everything. . . If that weren't enough drama, rumor has it that the Academy may close at the end of the year. Can these gifted students put their talents to the test to save it? "An amazing tale that is sure to delight, teach, and intrigue teens everywhere!"--Ni-Ni Simone on Boyfriend Season

Download or read book Christmas Duet written by Gina Robinson and published by Three Jays Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Laughter written by Mike Cyra and published by Mike Cyra. This book was released on 2015-01-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Cyra takes us on another hilarious grand tour of the strange medical humor in the real-life world of emergency medicine and surgery. Whether he's assisting trauma surgeons who are singing “Take me out to the ballgame” while removing a well-placed iconic symbol of America’s greatest pasttime, learning how fast he can run after being shot at by an angry couple who called for an ambulance, working with a prankster-loving urologist who demonstrates how bladder problems were diagnosed before modern urinalysis, or screaming like a little girl while doing night rounds with a dead flashlight on a psychiatric ward, Cyra’s comedic style of storytelling will make your cheeks sore. Emergency Laughter: Stories of Humor Inside Ambulances and Operating Rooms shows why most health care professionals have such a twisted sense of humor and how critical laughter is to the survival of both patient and care giver. This is the second book in the Emergency Laughter Series.