Download or read book A Gift of Time written by Amy Kuebelbeck and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated and expanded—a gentle and comprehensive guide for parents expecting a baby with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition. When prenatal testing reveals that a baby is expected to die before or shortly after birth, many parents choose to proceed with the pregnancy and embrace the time they are able to have with their baby, before birth as well as afterward. With compassion and support, A Gift of Time walks these parents step-by-step through this challenging and emotional experience—from receiving the diagnosis to coping with the pregnancy and making plans for the baby's birth and peaceful death. The second edition of this gentle guide offers inspiration and reassurance through the voices of numerous parents who have walked this path with their beloved baby. Their moving experiences are stories not only of grief but of joy and peace. This edition: • Expands the content substantially to incorporate new research and guidelines • Features additional vignettes from more than 160 parents about their experiences and coping strategies • Offers encouragement and more practical ideas for moving forward, including updated guidance for decision-making and ideas for embracing the time with the baby, from before birth to after death • Describes the importance of perinatal hospice and palliative care, which has continued to grow worldwide since the first edition was published, and how to access this care Drawing from parent experiences and published research, this new edition is full of practical suggestions for parents as well as health care professionals. Caring and thoughtful, A Gift of Time helps parents navigate this difficult news and the journey that follows.

Download or read book A Family Affair The Gift written by Mary Campisi and published by Mary Campisi Books, LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartache. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Redemption... It's time to head back to Magdalena, New York, and spend a little time with the people we love to love and even a few we love to hate. Only one thing is missing from Tess and Daniel “Cash” Casherdon’s perfect life—a child. Oh, how they long for one to make their life complete. But what is it people say about being careful what you wish for…? Their wish will come true, but not in the way they think. Daniel Casherdon’s past is about to catch up with him. It’s bad enough when a woman arrives in Magdalena with a nine-year-old boy she claims is his, but confessing to a terminal illness and asking Tess and Cash to raise the boy when she’s gone? Well, that’s going to require a big leap of faith that won’t be easy or without repercussions. How can anyone refuse a dying mother such a heartbreaking request? Tess is torn between doing right by the child and acknowledging that another woman has given the man she loves something she may never be able to—a child. As the woman pulls Cash closer into her emotional circle, it is Tess who becomes the outsider, and soon she wonders if the woman has secrets she’s not telling. More than one resident is suspicious of anyone who drives a wedge between one of Magdalena’s favorite couples. The newcomer may look and act like the girl next door, but something isn’t right, and Pop Benito is going to gather ammunition and find out what that something is. But he’d better do it fast, before it’s too late. And Cash isn’t the only one who’s gotten a visitor from his past. Pop Benito encounters his nemesis and is forced to face some hard truths about himself and the choices he made years ago. It’s going to be one very interesting summer in Magdalena! You’re not going to want to miss it!! Truth in Lies Series: Book One: A Family Affair Book Two: A Family Affair: Spring Book Three: A Family Affair: Summer Book Four: A Family Affair: Fall Book Five: A Family Affair: Christmas, a novella Book Six: A Family Affair: Winter Book Seven: A Family Affair: The Promise Book Eight: A Family Affair: The Secret Book Nine: A Family Affair: The Wish Book Ten: A Family Affair: The Gift Book Eleven: A Family Affair: The Weddings, a novella Book Twelve: A Family Affair: The Cabin, a novella Book Thirteen: A Family Affair: The Return That Second Chance Series: Book One: Pulling Home (also prequel to A Family Affair: The Promise) Book Two: The Way They Were (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Secret) Book Three: Simple Riches (Also prequel to A Family Affair: Winter) Book Four: Paradise Found (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Wish) Book Five: Not Your Everyday Housewife (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Gift) Book Six: The Butterfly Garden (Also prequel to A Family Affair: The Return)

Download or read book The Cowboy s Gift Wrapped Bride written by Victoria Pade and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas cowboy Matt McDermott was craving his first white Christmas on his family's Wyoming ranch. But a blizzard delivered more than Matt bargained for—a petite, pretty motorist stuck in a snowbank, with a bump on her head and her memory gone! The woman melted Matt's heart like a puppy at a pound. But hadn't Matt learned that loving someone with secrets was just plain dangerous? Still, he couldn't help but wonder—if he gift-wrapped his heart and gave it away, might this beautiful mystery woman become his bride?

Download or read book Greta s Goat written by M. Lee Prescott and published by M. Lee Prescott. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Murph O’Neill captures Daisy the goat scampering down Coast Road, he also captures the heart of her mistress, Greta Jeffers. The chance meeting brings these two together and it’s love on second sight. When they met earlier, both were dating others. Now they’re free, or are they? Soon ghosts from Murph’s past rear up to rip the young lovers apart. Heart broken, Greta flees to her aunt’s in California for two months. She returns home to uncertainty and a raging hurricane that threatens to destroy a great deal more than her heart. Join Greta and Murph and the community of Horseshoe Crab Cove for number six in the Morgan’s Fire series.

Download or read book A Gift from An Angel written by Christine Roy and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Russell Conrad is a very successful businessman who suffers a devastating heartbreak and has closed himself off from all relationships, including his family. Then he meets an angel named Carmella, who was sent to him to help him find love, happiness, and his family again. While on his journey, he not only finds love and happiness, but he also finds an inner feeling of gratitude and a passion for helping others who are less fortunate. The story is about the journey of how Carmella helps Russell, a billionaire, become the man he really wants to be. Carmella assists him in meeting Diana, who works with many of the low-income people in the city. Russell gets introduced to her world and meets a young boy in a wheelchair whom he becomes very fond of. He has cut his own family out of his life for eight years now. Will they forgive him, and will he be able to reestablish those relationships? Will Russell find happiness, love, and family again? About the Author Christine Roy currently lives in Wisconsin with her fiancé and writing partner, Andrew Tessari. A Gift from an Angel was inspired by an idea from Drew, who collaborated with Roy on parts of the story. Christine is the mother of four grown boys and has four grandchildren. She loves spending time with her family, along with her loving and loyal golden retriever. She worked as a Psychiatric Registered Nurse for seventeen years before leaving the field in order to start writing full-time. In her free time, she enjoys doing crafts of every kind. One of Roy’s sons was born with Spina Bifida and was paralyzed from the waist down. This led to the family’s involvement in adaptive wheelchair sports. Over the years, Christine developed a passion for helping other kids have the life-changing experience that wheelchair sports can bring to their lives. For this reason, she created the Trey Roy Foundation, which raises money to help purchase adaptive sports equipment for kids and families that may not be able to afford it and to also send these kids to sports camps in the summer. A portion of all of the proceeds from her book sales will go to her foundation. For more information about the foundation please visit www.tessarigroup.com and click on Trey Roy Foundation.

Download or read book Greta and the Giants written by Zoë Tucker and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring picture book retells the story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg—the Swedish teenager who has led a global movement to raise awareness about the world’s climate crisis—using allegory to make this important topic accessible to young children. Greta is a little girl who lives in a beautiful forest threatened by Giants. When the Giants first came to the forest, they chopped down trees to make houses. Then they chopped down more trees and made even bigger homes. The houses grew into towns and the towns grew into cities, until now there is hardly any forest left. Greta knows she has to help the animals who live in the forest, but how? Luckily, Greta has an idea… A section at the back explains that, in reality, the fight against the “giants” isn’t over and explains how you can help Greta in her fight. This book has been printed sustainably in the US on 100% recycled paper. By buying a copy of this book, you are making a donation of 3% of the cover price to 350.org.

Download or read book Baby Name Numerology written by Sonia Ducie and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every parent wants to give their child the best start in life, but choosing the perfect name can be difficult. With this book discover how the power of numbers can positively influence your child for their whole lifetime.

Download or read book The Gift and its Paradoxes written by Olli Pyyhtinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving. In addition to exploring the conditions of possibility and impossibility of the gift, the book draws on the thought of figures such as Derrida, Serres, Simmel, Cixous, Irigaray and Heidegger to argue for the relevance of the phenomenon of the gift to broader issues in contemporary social sciences. It takes up questions concerning the constitution of community and the processes by which people are included in or excluded from it, gender relations, materiality, the economy, and the possibility that death itself could be a gift, in the form of euthanasia or self-sacrifice. A rigorous yet accessible examination of the phenomenon of the gift in relation to a range of contemporary concerns, The Gift and its Paradoxes will appeal to scholars and students within sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political theory and film and literature studies.

Download or read book House of Gold written by Natasha Solomons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. The start of a marriage. The end of a dynasty. It's 1911 and Greta Goldbaum is forced to move from glittering Vienna to damp England to wed Albert, a distant cousin. The Goldbaum family are one of the wealthiest in the world, with palaces across Europe, but as Jews and perpetual outsiders they know that strength lies in family. At first defiant and lonely, slowly Greta softens toward Albert, and as the wild paths and untamed beauty of Greta's new English garden begin to take shape, so too does their love begin to blossom. But World War I looms and even the influential Goldbaums cannot alter its course. For the first time in two hundred years, the family will find itself on opposing sides, and Greta will have to choose: the family she's created, or the one she left behind.

Download or read book The Candle Giver written by Barbara Briggs Ward and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been an emotional journey for Steve having lost Abbey after thirty-some years of being happily married. With the passing of time, he thinks about moving on yet hesitates. While encouraged by those around him, Steve seeks a sign, a whisper, something mere words cannot express. With two families coming together in celebration of a double wedding on Christmas Eve at the old farmhouse surrounded by woods and pastures and a majestic barn full of reindeer, the magic of the season demonstrates yet again anything can happen. Sleighs pulled deep into the woods by mighty horses bring loved ones to yet another place full of wonder and surprise as a gift wrapped inside a worn-out trunk full of special things left to a granddaughter by a grandmother she’d never know proves invaluable. What sounds like violins -- like harps being played and a chorus singing from somewhere amidst the pine and birch trees offer reassurance as snow angels lie in wait and eternal love spreads its wings, reaching beyond the mountain tops. Christmas wrapped in new beginnings by old traditions makes a most astonishing season—unforgettable.

Download or read book The Wedding Gift written by Carolyn Brown and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bride with cold feet might just make the mistake of a lifetime... Includes two bonus novellas to help you celebrate the seasons! A week before your wedding is one heckuva time for your ex to ride back into town, stirring up trouble. But that's exactly the predicament Darla McAdams finds herself in. Darla's on the verge of breaking up with her fiancé, Will Jackson—only a week before the wedding. Her parents would disown her, but Darla's sure that her Granny Roxie will understand when Darla tells her that her first love, Andy, has come back to town. Thank goodness for a wise granny's reminiscences of her own sassy wedding at just the right moment... Praise for New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown: "Loved it, loved it, loved it! What great characters! What a great story!"—Joanne Kennedy for One Lucky Cowboy "Fans of beloved Southern films...will flip for this charming small-town tale."—Woman's World for The Sisters Café "A sweet story about building family out of what life hands you."—Kirkus Reviews for Talk Cowboy to Me

Download or read book Greta Thunberg written by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Greta Thunberg tells the inspiring story of this courageous climate activist.

Download or read book I ll Be Gnome for Christmas written by Susan M. Baganz and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gigget Wicket is finding life tough since her husband died, leaving her with two little kids. Her marriage wasn' t the best, so she isn' t seeking a man to rescue her even though many days she feels like a damsel in distress. Twice betrayed, Bing Twinkle still longs for what he believes he can never have— a happy family. Between factory work and serving in the Army National Guard, he keeps himself so busy that usually he doesn' t have time to experience the loneliness. When the two meet, sparks fly even while past hurts make them both cautious. But Gigget' s children are praying for a dad who' ll make them and their mother happy. With the holidays approaching, could a Christmas miracle be in the works?

Download or read book Who Is Greta Thunberg written by Jill Leonard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of a young Swedish schoolgirl who sparked a worldwide revolution, told in a new Who HQ NOW format for trending topics. When she was just fifteen years old, Greta Thunberg knew she wanted to change the world. With a hand-painted sign that read "School strike for the climate" in Swedish, Greta sat alone on the steps of the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change. Her one-person strike would soon spark a worldwide movement. This exciting story details the defining moments in Greta's childhood that led up to her now-famous strike and all the monumental ones that have fueled her revolution since, including being named Time's Most Influential Person of the Year in 2019.

Download or read book First Name Reverse Dictionary written by Yvonne Navarro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative dictionary allows the user to find given names which relate to a specific meaning. Arranged alphabetically by definition, the names are followed by the language of origin, variations (derivatives, diminutives, and nicknames) of the name itself, and the name as interpreted in different languages. Separate sections are included for male and female names. Using the dictionary you could discover that there are over 160 names listed for "flower," from Anthea (Greek) to Zahara (African).

Download or read book The True Gift written by Patricia MacLachlan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the magic of authentic giving in this holiday classic from the Newbery Award–winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall. All year long Lily and Liam look forward to the holidays at their grandparents’ farm. It’s always the perfect trip: walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in the meadow, things will be different. This holiday, Lily and Liam will find out the meaning of a special gift. This holiday classic from a beloved author rings in the season by celebrating the joys of family, community, and true giving.

Download or read book Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors From the silent era to 1965 written by Barry Monush and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!