Download or read book My Presents written by Rod Campbell and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lift-the-flap birthday book by the creator of the bestselling classic preschool book Dear Zoo. In My Presents, toddlers can lift the flaps to find out what's inside all the birthday presents. Then open the very last one and look inside the basket to find the best present of all!With bright, bold artwork, an engaging story and lots of presents to open, My Presents is the perfect birthday gift for fans of Dear Zoo and Dear Santa - and the thick card pages, sturdy flaps and chunky cased cover make it great for small hands.

Download or read book Where Did They Hide My Presents written by Alan Katz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known Christmas songs, including "O Christmas Tree" and "Deck the Halls," are presented with new words and titles, such as "Toy Catalogs" and "At the Mall."

Download or read book California S Girl written by Tamara Warren and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's Girl is the story of a young girl growing up on the beach in Southern California during the 1960s and '70s. It is told through journal entries, short stories, poetry, and associated recollections. It begins with an idyllic childhood in a small beach town on the California coast. It details the lifestyle unique to the beach culture. A timeless span of innocence, bursting with the joy of life, surrounded by sand and sea. Adolescence arrives during an era of rebellion and social upheaval. Through the high school years, lessons are learned, and the complexity of life is examined. Reality begins to erode the fantasies of childhood. The first kiss, the first heartbreak, the loss of innocence, and the emergence of personal identity are seen through the eyes of a young girl. The beginning of one life's journey, when choices are made that will ultimately affect the unforeseeable future. A young girl does the best she can, makes mistakes, and savors the triumphsa microcosm of the human experience.

Download or read book Starved written by Anne McTiernan and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Failure to thrive" is not a phrase in this doctor's vocabulary. At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at a boarding school. Overcome by sadness from the neglect she experiences there, Anne emotionally and physically starves. A doctor, appalled by her excessive weight loss, forces Anne’s mother to bring her home, but she is still not safe. Set in working-class, Irish-American Boston of the 1950s–1960s, Anne transitions from a malnourished state to obesity to obsessive dieting. Without love and support from her family, Anne decides she must take full responsibility for her own life during her last eighteen months as a minor. Today as a doctor and researcher, Anne has helped thousands of women improve their relationship with food—but this is not their story. Starved is the gripping tale of how Anne used hard work, undaunted intelligence, and persistence to turn the adversity she encountered as a child into a strength and set of skills that would later help her meet the demands of her career. ANNE McTIERNAN, MD, PhD, conducts research on the effects of diet, exercise, and weight loss on cancer and health. Currently, she is a professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine in Seattle, Washington.

Download or read book From a Window Or Two written by Alan Burton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's memoirs from 1990-2005, filled with joyful, thought-provoking, dismal, and sad moments.

Download or read book Happily Ever After written by Annette Morris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abused children in our world do not know that an expansion has occurred in their brains as a result of the abuse. They do not know that they have a deeper understanding and recognition for love than most others. They have not yet been told that the dissociative states, the constant firing of fear in their brains (panic disorders), and the need to scan an environment for danger actually created an expansion in their consciousness. That expansion will allow abused or violated people to heal their wounds, release the blocks to love in their lives, and be the pioneers who create our New Reality. Happily Ever After is a collection of stories about six children who suffered from abuse. These stories have been strategically written through NLP techniques to allow the reader to access compassion and tap into the vast imagination that is available to all at birth. The children in these stories offer an incredible gift in their imaginative scenarios toward building a kinder and more compassionate world--a New World that elicits motivation and enthusiasm instead of violence.

Download or read book Birth and After Birth and Other Plays written by Tina Howe and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Birth and After Birth is] as appalling as it is perceptive…one of the more primal works by this woman who describes herself as a ‘well-mannered anarchist.’”—Newsday A revised edition of Howe’s early farce Birth and After Birth, about overweening parents and their four-year-old child. Also included are Approaching Zanzibar, a comedy about mortality, and the “rich, gorgeous and compelling” (New York Post) domestic drama One Shoe Off. Tina Howe was born and lives in New York City. Major honors include an Outer Critics Circle Award, an OBIE Award for Distinguished Playwriting, and a Tony Award nomination for her play Coastal Disturbances.

Download or read book Hope s Gift written by Terra Kelly and published by Balto Creative Media, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loving holiday romance that includes recipes made by the characters. When you fall at just the right moment. Greyson is the new hot firefighter in the small-town. He thought his life was perfect until the day the cutest klutz he has ever met fell at his feet. Now he wants more… no, he wants her. Annie is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Actually, she’s usually the guest in the back row no one ever notices. That was true until her struggle with staying vertical changes that… She is finding it hard to believe the man with the most delicious beard is interested in her. Get ready to fall in love with this sweet Christmas story which is perfectly complimented with a slice of decadent hot chocolate peppermint cheesecake.

Download or read book The Collected Stories written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.

Download or read book A Child S Cry for Freedom written by Grace Burke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth be told, many children suffer some kind of abuse, ranging from different categories, but it all comes down to the same wordabusewhether its committed by friends, family members, or just an evil predator. See the story through my childhood eyes. After multiple attempts of escape from this taunting and after violent years have gone by, the years are enough for me to have the courage to share my life and live in hope that one day I will receive the justice I deserve.

Download or read book 24 Hours Changed Me written by Leah R. Bergstrom and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book 1 of the Kids of Celebrities Trilogy, Danni is her own worst enemy. Unable to make eye contact with adults, she has been passed over for adoption again and again. Her fears of anything new or different and her weak stomach have her resigned to to living in Hope House forever. If it was not for her love of music and the kindness of her only real friend, the choir director, she would be totally imprisoned by her present lifestyle. Danni sees no way of escape. But a 24 hour period changes everythingespecially Danni. She slowly becomes aware of the creativity, passions and talents that lie within her, but she also learns that there are definite hurdles to jump and obstacles that must be overcome. Faith and perseverance bring about a transformation in not only Danni but also in the lives of some other very special people. Make sure that you read the other exciting books in the Kids of Celebrities Trilogy: Book 2: 5 Minutes Could Change It All Book 3: 2 Minutes

Download or read book The Gift of the Magi written by O. Henry and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.

Download or read book For Your Own Good written by Alice Miller and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions—on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler—offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects. This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world—indeed, of the ever-more-violent world—that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard—namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.

Download or read book King Mombo written by Paul B. Du Chaillu and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaillu was one of the first explorers to make contact with tribes in equatorial West Africa. There, he was greeted with warm hospitality by King Mombo. This non-fiction novel contains vivid descriptions of the African vegetation and ways of life of West Africans.

Download or read book Music on the Wind written by Gardiner M. Weir and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short stories are set primarily in the farmland of County Antrim in Northern Ireland during the author's youth, but some stories also take place in the city of Belfast. County Antrim has always enjoyed a strong Scottish influence, dating from the plantation that began in the seventeenth century. That influence is reflected not only in the manner of speech but also in the social values that the young author experienced, wherein money, land and family were especially important - often in that order. World War II also had a marked influence at that time and affected the peace of mind, outlook and decisions of the people. Long before television entered the home, family and neighborhood get-togethers were common and discussions that often tripped into friendly gossip were a form of keeping abreast of things. The very human lives of these wholesome people, their sorrow, happiness, humor and futility, are picturesquely captured in the author's sensitive, homespun stories.

Download or read book Homilies on Numbers written by Origen, and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origen was one of the most influential pre-Nicene church fathers, whose exegetical method shaped much of subsequent interpretation of the Old Testament. Some of his theological speculations were condemned in the 6th cenutry, but his influence as a Christian scholar and Old Testament exegete remain undiminished. This book offers a fresh, contemporary translation of Origen's 28 homilies on the book of Numbers.

Download or read book Every Thing Left Unsaid written by Jessica Davidson and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wait for him, the cold seeping through my clothes, until it finally dawns on me that he's not coming back. And I wonder why he chose her instead of me? Why he went looking for her when I was right there." Tai and Juliet have been best friends forever - since they met at kindy and decided to get married in first grade. They understand each other in the way that only best friends can. They love music, beach walks, energy drinks and, they are slowly discovering, each other. As they begin to dream of adventures beyond the HSC - a future free of homework, curfews and parents, a life together - their plans are suddenly and dramatically derailed. For Tai is sick. And not everything you wish for can come true. A poignant story of first love, hope, grief, family, and the twistedness of life. Shortlisted for Prime Minster's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction 2013