Download or read book The Patron Saint of Ugly written by Marie Manilla and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic lore, American tales, and Sicilian superstition blend in this “clever, funny, heartbreaking, and heartwarming” novel (Publishers Weekly). Born with unruly red hair, a sharp tongue, and wine-colored marks all over her body—marks that oddly mimick a map of the world and make her subject to endless ridicule—Garnet Ferrari would hardly consider herself blessed. So when an emissary from the Vatican shows up at her door, convinced that her seeming ability to cure the skin ailments of others qualifies her for sainthood, she’s not quite convinced—or pleased. Garnet sets off on a quest to better understand who she is and where she and her unusual gifts came from. Tracing a twisted path that leads from Sicily to West Virginia, poverty to riches, romance to loss, reality to mythology, Garnet uncovers a truth far more powerful than any dermatological miracle: that the things of which we are most ashamed often become our greatest strengths. “A cleareyed, touching fable of a girl learning the hard truths about herself and others.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Songs My Grandma Sang written by Michael B. Curry and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a conversation about his teaching and preaching style, Michael Curry notes with a laugh that hymns and songs of faith were always a part of the mix. “I learned what I believed in the songs I heard my family—especially my grandmother—sing. We sang our faith every day.” Out of that strong foundation, Bishop Curry shares the music of his childhood—the songs that have grown with him to shape an adult and vibrant faith.
Download or read book Anna Grandmother of Jesus written by Claire Heartsong and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-published spiritual word-of-mouth bestseller. Anna, Grandmother of Jesus became a publishing sensation when the self-published version sold 50,000 copies through word of mouth alone, amassing a worldwide following in the process. Anna is the mother of the Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus. Her teachings and service birthed a spiritual lineage that changed the world. In this book, you'll discover missing pieces of history concerning Anna, Mary and Jesus, as channelled by Claire Heartsong, who has been receiving telepathic messages from Anna for 30 years. Told through the gentle and heartwarming voice of Anna herself, this book offers insights into unknown places the holy family visited, people they knew and intimate details of their daily struggle to complete the Resurrection challenges. You will learn about the Essenes of Mount Carmel and their secret teachings and initiations, and gain a new understanding of Jesus's mission. Containing encoded activations to bring Anna's wisdom and energy into your own spiritual life, this book is an invitation to complete a journey of initiation begun long ago.
Download or read book Two Days and One Suitcase written by Anne E. Neuberger and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagine you learn that there are kids your age living in a prison with their families. None of them have done anything wrong. It is racial prejudice and fear that has put these people there. Then imagine that your family volunteers to live in one of these places to help the people who are imprisoned. That is what twelve-year-old Helen Hannan experiences in 1945. She hears about these prisons before most other Americans do. Traveling to a place called Camp Amache with her brother, sister and parents, she quickly discovers this is no summer camp. The families at Amache are living in crowded, cold barracks, behind barbed wire fences, with armed guards watching them from towers. Helen learns to cope with this. She experiences the cost of racial prejudice. She struggles to understand how some people can hurt others so badly. But she also makes many friends, and learns that everyone loves French fries! Most importantly, Helen sees first hand how vital it is to act on your beliefs."--Back cover.
Download or read book God s Grandmother written by Brian Kiczek and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who venerate good St. Anne shall want for nothing, either in this life or the next." Abbot TrithemiusI admonish you to venerate and praise my dear mother...if you desire great graces from me. Our LadyI wrote this book to thank Saint Anne for the graces she obtained for me and to inspire everyone to become her grandchildren as she will shower her grandchildren with so many great graces. This book tells the inspired story of her amazing holy life and how she obtained the grace to become the mother of the Mother All Graces, Mary. It also tells the story of one of the greatest Basilica's in the World: Saint Anne de Beaupre and the amazing graces obtained there. It also has a chapter on Prayer, to inspire you to pray as best as you can and a chapter on Grandparents and how important and special they are to us all. "St. Anne by her intercession drives out depression...aids the poor, cures the sick and comforts the sorrowing...For the barren in the married state, she obtains children and Heavenly assistance in delivery...Those who worthily venerate St. Anne can obtain aid in every necessity through her mediation.""No one knows, no one believes, how many favors God confers on lovers of Saint Anne!" Abbot Trithemius "The honor you show to my mother is doubly dear and pleasing to me." Our LadyOrder your "God's Grandmother: Saint Anne" Book Today
Download or read book Grandma s Moral Stories written by Rajesh Kavassery and published by Sura Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Grandparents Divorce written by Katie Saint and published by CoffeeTablePress.com. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's story with included parent guide to help families deal with the divorce of grandparents.
Download or read book Saint Sullivan S Daughter written by Claire Germain Nail and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jazz cats call him Saint Sullivan, but hes far from pious. Musician Barry Sullivan drinks too much, cant keep a job, and fights with his fiery Mexican wife. Ceci, their young daughter, witnesses their fury from the shadows. The child finds comfort with plaster saints and the spirits of her ancestorsuntil a tragic accident threatens her body and soul. Great-aunt Pilar fears the Evil Eye and decides to intervene, taking Ceci and her family to a traditional Mexican healer, a curandera. Even in the ultra-modern Los Angeles of 1960, ancient ways survive in the barrio. The curandera prescribes an unconventional pharmacopeia of folk remedies, compassion, humor, and stories, which charm the ailing child. Barry is caught between two worldsthe jazz scene, where he speaks the lingo, and the barrio, where he is a clueless foreigner stumbling into a dangerous feud. He teeters on the brink of peril, while the curandera asks of him a sacrifice few men of the era know how to make, even for the sake of love.
Download or read book Grandma Josefina and the Heroic Boy written by Joseph P. Policape and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of innocence and intrigue about a beautiful, selfish grandmother bent upon destroying her grandson who possesses remarkable, spiritual powers that will expose her cherished secret in a small, quiet town in southern Haiti. What happens when a community of witches led by Josefina Bergin Cadet confronts an army of one, uncompromising Christian boy child, Jaclyn Flaubert. Grandma Josefina and the Heroic Boy are the explosive results of this great spiritual warfare that takes place in the environs of Bainet, Haiti.
Download or read book Still My Grandma written by Vronique Van den Abeele and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl describes her special relationship with her grandmother, both before and after Grandma contracts Alzheimer's Disease.
Download or read book Pixie Pushes on written by Tamara Bundy and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.
Download or read book Cake Boss written by Buddy Valastro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartfelt memoir, master baker and star of the #1 hit TLC show, Buddy Valastro tells his inspiring story—and recounts his family’s warm memories from a lifetime of living, loving, and cake making. Television viewers have fallen in love with Buddy Valastro, master cake maker, and his funny and fiery family, proprietors of Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, on the smash hit TLC series Cake Boss. Now, to coincide with Carlo’s 100th anniversary, cake designer extraordinaire Buddy Valastro brings together his passion for baking and his high-energy family stories in the pages of this charming, heartwarming book—complete with 25 recipes and tips that will make every reader the “cake boss” of their own kitchen. Buddy’s beautifully designed cakes are the stuff of legend—and so is the remarkable story of his father, a beloved pillar of the community and himself a talented baker who set the stage for his family’s rise to the pinnacle of their industry. Cake Boss recounts the story of Buddy’s life and of his family’s bakeshop, originally established in 1910 and now a Hoboken, New Jersey, landmark and culinary tourist destination. Here also are twenty-five recipes for Carlo’s Bakery’s most sought-after pastries, pies, cupcakes, and cakes, an irresistible combination of time-tested old-world recipes and modern creations, all founded on a rock-solid “old-school” baking foundation and classic techniques. This is the incredible true story of how Carlo’s Bakery came to be, how one hard-working family realized their patriarch’s dream of making their beloved bake shop a household name. The special bond and loving dynamic of the Valastro clan make this an uncommonly touching and truly inspiring memoir.
Download or read book Bold as Brass written by Bettejane Synott Wesson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold as Brass is a collection of twenty-four stories set in Waterbury, Connecticut, once Brass Capital of the World. All the stories are works of fiction. They are the author's look into long-ago lives, both of her Irish Catholic family and of imagined characters who might have joined them in their daily goings on, in a period of time that stretches from the thirties through the fifties. Whether the characters are swimming at Scovill's Dam on a hot summer day and wondering what is beneath that water or telling stories around the kitchen table on a rainy afternoon, making a pilgrimage to Saint Anne de Beaupre in Canada to request a baby or bearing gifts to a birthday celebration with mixed results, their stories are presented in a way that shows how insightful commonplace occurrences can prove to be. Bold as Brass is the authors second book, deliciously anecdotal, and a true companion to her first book, The View from Cracker Hill, a memoir of 1950s Waterbury. These are stories of working-class people, of whom Betty notes in "Saturday Night Swells," the idea that "ordinary people can have extraordinary moments is a wonderful discovery." The author says, "I echo Betty's sentiment, and I am delighted to share these stories."
Download or read book Trouble the Saints written by Alaya Dawn Johnson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD “Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story...in a word: awesome.” —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II. Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything—not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side—and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it’s too late—is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novel—a magical love story, a compelling exposure of racial fault lines—and an altogether brilliant and deeply American saga. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Messiah 8 with the 3rd Anti Christ written by Albert Velazquez and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the holy grail and God passing judgment on mankind and the father of this holy divine story being dragged to the gates of Hell and leaving his begotten son with the sword of destiny. This book also tells about angels and demons and saints and the movement of the reaper among the humans on Earth. At the end of this eternal dark world of destiny the divine son finds the redemption of his father with his sword of destiny at the end of the road.
Download or read book Hate the 1 Social Behavioral Disease written by Sir Steven Anthony and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy meets girl. Steven is from the country club brought up with understanding reasoning, believing in facts, having a consciousness, and carrying a moral compass. Octapella lives in a trailer park and under her mother’s standards, disbelieves, suffocating control tactics. Zoo controls all of Octapella’s decision-makings. Zoo wants her children to be bad, thoughtless, and much as possible, uneducated with life, society, and not understand how the real world lives. Zoo’s network of people she titles as family are all corrupted in the way they think, act, and believe. The more Steven tries to listen to Octapella, the more he wants to give Octapella a better life. However, Zoo continues to interfere, so Octapella, like a mermaid, keeps going back to her mother for advice, instead of her fiancé. The book resembles a reflection of the Cinderella story. Questions seem to unveil. Do we live in a society where evil is prevailing and becoming the ruler, the norm, and way of life? Do we have immature people in higher-up places of authority making decisions to the people and for the people? This story unfolds. We can sweep off and brush away the dirt on society through detection by observation and then making awareness for other to adjust accordingly for the better. There is always room to make change for the better of the people. Steven and Octapella move in together. They practice together the steps and ceremony of marriage in church, however, never reach the point of marriage. As the same time, Steven practices for war and eventually goes off to war for five years in the deserts of Iraq. It is not Octapella who needs rescue from a knight in shining armor. It is their daughter, Santana Maria. Worse, the presidential judge happens to have the same character of Zoo and Octapella, a social behavioral disease that carries internal deception, an intergenerational violent behavior of selfishness, hate, control, shaming, jealousy, and unjust. Therefore, a tease of unfairness just for their personal satisfaction. People like Judge Sorrow, Zoo and Octapella love the center of attention and being in charge only to spread more corruption in decision-making. They must have the final word, right or wrong. They despise when others are smarter, keen, happy, organized, correct, and content without drama. Judge Sorrow’s technique in court is not to make a final decision. Even after fifteen years, Steven continues to ring more evidence, and the judge says she needs more evidence and in the meantime, gives Steven zero custody. Like an undertow, families get separated because of a misrepresentation, heartbroken allegation, false promised arbitration, all from a malpracticed broken lopsided, slippery slope inconsiderate judge’s sloppy, careless, and weak rulings.
Download or read book SFWP Annual written by Melanie J. Cordova and published by Santa Fe Writers Project. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inaugural issue of the SFWP Annual includes twelve fiction and creative nonfiction stories from the first issues of the SFWP Quarterly, formerly known as the SFWP Journal. Read heartbreaking fiction about finding companionship as the sun literally burns itself out, learn about the trauma young gay men in Iran often endure, hide from witches in Salem in the 1600s, and even make your way through a modern choose-your-own-adventure story. Our creative nonfiction pieces range from life in a Mexican psychiatric ward to the social fallout of an abortion. These stories have a staying power that will keep readers enthralled for days. The featured authors of creative nonfiction include Samantha Edmonds, Randon Billings Noble, N. R. Robinson, Morgan Smith, and Kayleigh Wanzer. For fiction, our featured authors are Kelli Jo Ford, Sadie Hoagland, Kerri Pierce, Emily Rems, June Sylvester Saraceno, Atossa Shafaie, and Nancy Smith.
