Download or read book This Is for You Abuela written by Linda Garcia and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a heart felt story about a grandmother and granddaughters unconditional love for one another. The love is so strong and undying. Linda, our author, is a stronger person than she lets any one in on, and would like for people to look at her life as a success story. Going through so many trials and tribulations, and set backs and still being able to raise her children on a very small income, and always being a working mom; she was able to overcome so many obstacles and still make sure her children had what they needed to get through everyday life. Even though she longs for her fathers love, affection, and attention, and one on one relationship, she was able to learn so much from everyone around her,.family members. Linda grew up with her aunt Adelia as well as her maternal grandmother, and even though times were rough some days, she was able to grow to learn from and admire her aunt that took her in at a young age. Even though her aunt Adelia had her own family and there were struggles within the household, she was able to raise Linda, and teach her so much. Linda will always love and appreciate , and respect her aunt Adelia for all she had to go through raising a rebellious adolescent, and not giving up. Linda also loses faith in love and all that it stands for, not being able to open herself to marriage the way its supposed to be and a relationship with a man by her side, she floats endlessly like a lost soul and finds it hard to let her heart fall deeply in love, unconditionally. (a major obstacle) for her. Linda, would like to challenge her audience while reading her book, in the fact that, theres so much to learn and discover about life, when a parent dies, and children are left behind to make a name, and life for themselves, enduring everyday life as it comes at you. Throughout reading you will find that everything about Lindas life, and the person she is today and has become, is like a shadow of who her nana was, and thanks to the man upstairs for never leaving her side, proves there is a God, and you should never give into losing your faith, and never give up, no matter how bad you want to or how bad things get. In the end, striving to be your best acts as inspiration to others and you dont even know you could be helping others.

Download or read book The Time is Now written by Christa Boske and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school students, teachers, community members, and leaders come together in this innovative book to share the profound influence of artmaking and justice- oriented work. Authors paint vibrant images of being empowered and engaging in social change. Throughout their art-based meaning making, authors pose critical questions and unlock possibilities. Their first-tellings regarding the power of art provide readers with a lens to understand how they navigate injustices they endure and ways in which artmaking is a vehicle for transformation. Their artmaking is a call for change. Authors emphasize how artmaking bridges relationships and brings diverse community members together with purpose. Together, they engage in new understandings of self and other. Authors identify how their arts-based collaborations publicly showcase their justice-oriented work, but more importantly, promote possibility and hope. Youth explore how artmaking plays a vital role in promoting collective efficacy and engaging diverse communities in social transformation. Artmaking mobilizes people. And once activated, these authors utilize their newly cultivated communities to foster justice-oriented work throughout schools and communities. Their justice-oriented artmaking affords community members opportunities to respond in new ways by embracing community strengths and students’ lived experiences. This authentic collaboration empowers the artmaker and community to promote justice-oriented work and practices centered on diversity and inclusivity. ENDORSEMENTS: Reading Christa Boske’s The Time is Now is to find a profound sense of joy, wholeness, and energy to push out the borders of consciousness too tightly bound to the hyperrationalism of the workday world grounded in materialism and business transactions. The collected authors in Christa’s book give form to the spirit world, and its proclivity to allow the whole human being to embrace it, putter in it, explore it and find themselves in the journey. Artmaking is about self-discovery and emancipation. It’s a must read for anyone who wants re-establish a belief in themselves and in humanity. — Fenwick W. English, Professor and Department Chair, Ball State University Read this compelling new resource if you want to engage the next generation of youth activists in transforming our world. Truly, The Time is Now offers school leaders the most exciting, creative avenues for generating justice we’ve seen in a long time. This book rises to the challenge of being real when so much is at stake. — Margaret Grogan, Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Chapman University The Time is Now. A profound title that encapsulates so much regarding what we need in today's world. Woven through the various narratives, we accept the invitation to hear the stories of artists and explorers in their respective communities. An authentic confrontation of the many tensions that exist in our quest to seek out equity in the areas of diversity, inclusivity, and lived experiences. Voices that ring of radical change, the reconceptualization of freedom, and the agentive stance we are called to take to realize a higher state of being and a more noble existence. The stories remind us that the dream of transformation is our most compelling force- this book gives us a map of all that is possible if we work together. — Lillian McEnery-Benavente, Director and Professor, University of Houston Christa Boske’s edited book, The Time is Now, provides readers with a profound sense of what it means to live through injustice. The book, though, is not just a collection of heartbreaking stories, but a chronicle of triumphs, as the previously unheard are finally given a voice through artmaking. In chapter after deeply moving chapter, I was struck by the simultaneous vulnerability and bravery of the artists who shared their stories. What was clear, was that artmaking was a form of awakening for the artmakers: awakening to social justice issues, awakening to their ability to connect to the community through art and even awakening to their own value, which for so many, had been wholly unrecognized prior to this experience. This book comes at a time of deep reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion in our nation and the stories remind us that our children are absorbing these conversations. They are living these experiences and their voices are an essential part of the dialogue. — Habeebah R. Grimes, Chief Executive Officer

Download or read book Light Goddess written by Cloris Athena and published by Outskirts Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magic world in the Flower Goddess Fairyland. Snow and ice, flower sea and the pixie forest. Path of art and magic, the wonderland and the great journey...... On the border of the Dark Land and the Light World, there is a great war burning grandly. A handsome boy in silver armor, with a long spear in hands, he was fighting hundreds of the dark knights. On the far side of the battlefield, the Moon Goddess Diana is fighting hundreds of ice dragons and fire dragons. The mighty forces of light are fighting fiercely against the mighty forces of darkness. Millions of evil demons and enormous dragons, against millions of the brave knights and great fairies...... In the brilliant nebula sea, there is a huge Souls Tree blooming gorgeously in the Flower Goddess Fairyland, on this holy Souls Tree, every bud of soul will split in two light pixies and fly to different worlds, fall in different bodies, then growing and shining. They always have the same beginning, but eventually get in the different paths...... Long long time ago, in the Phoenix Nebula, there was a blue white star bursting into pure gorgeous light, “Even if let me live in the brilliant Mermaid Sea all my life, and eat thousands of the dazzling moon jellyfishes every day until choke me to death, I still must be a great musician of the whole fairy world! And in the world of countless evil demons, fire dragons and ice griffins, I will fight them bravely with the Lyre of Apollo, the Sword of Athena, and the Spear of the Valkyries!” Once Ori lived in a tragic world of ice dragons and fire dragons, he wanted to be a great musician when he was very little, but he was tortured by his fire demon father and ice griffin mother in the Dark Sunflower Sea Pixies Castle. At six years old, he got in the Diana College of the Moon Goddess Magic, but always bullied by his iceberg demon wolf classmates and evil siren teachers. When he nearly died in the flying snow pixies, he was just saved by the Light Goddess Florithena, she taking the child’s hand, then flying to a new gorgeous world of shining pixies, beautiful peris and flower fairies. Forget everything you ever knew, just don’t be surprised at everything you will see, everything of everything......

Download or read book The Ugly Cry written by Danielle Henderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They say comedy equals tragedy plus time: This very funny account of an often miserable childhood is proof.” --People “What a strong, funny, heartbreaking memoir, with a voice that is completely its own (written by a woman who very much seems to be completely her own, as well.) I loved it.”--Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love An uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and redefining what it means to be family “If you fight that motherf**ker and you don’t win, you’re going to come home and fight me.” Not the advice you’d normally expect from your grandmother—but Danielle Henderson would be the first to tell you her childhood was anything but conventional. Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who chose her drug-addicted, abusive boyfriend, Danielle was raised by grandparents who thought their child-rearing days had ended in the 1960s. She grew up Black, weird, and overwhelmingly uncool in a mostly white neighborhood in upstate New York, which created its own identity crises. Under the eye-rolling, foul-mouthed, loving tutelage of her uncompromising grandmother—and the horror movies she obsessively watched—Danielle grew into a tall, awkward, Sassy-loving teenager who wore black eyeliner as lipstick and was struggling with the aftermath of her mother’s choices. But she also learned that she had the strength and smarts to save herself, her grandmother gifting her a faith in her own capabilities that the world would not have most Black girls possess. With humor, wit, and deep insight, Danielle shares how she grew up and grew wise—and the lessons she’s carried from those days to these. In the process, she upends our conventional understanding of family and redefines its boundaries to include the millions of people who share her story.

Download or read book The Secrets I kept written by Kiva McClendon Crutcher and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets only have power in the dark, but in the light, they die off like fungus. Kiva McClendon Crutcher is a new Author. She has a heart of compassion for others in the recovery process. In her story she speaks about the trauma from childhood and her battle with addiction as well as her success in Recovery. Child sexual abuse is not only challenging, but can strip you from the very thing that kept you safe mentally and emotionally. When the silence of keeping the abuse inside destroys our God given right to be happy and free, we find courage from within to speak our truth Along with trust issues It can be even harder to recover from trauma when family members discredit and minimize your pain. No matter where you are in your life mentally, physically, or spiritually, God can and He will put your broken pieces together so perfectly that your past will look like a lie. If you have picked up my book, please take it home and read it for identification purposes, while allowing the God in me to touch the God in you.

Download or read book The Christian Grandma s Idea Book written by Ellen Banks Elwell and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features hundreds of ideas from not only 200 grandmas around the world but a host of moms and grandkids. Make the time with your grandchildren count with these creative and spiritually insightful suggestions and interviews.

Download or read book Mobius Blvd Stories from the Byway between Reality and Dream No 1 November 2023 written by Wayne Kyle Spitzer and published by Hobb's End Press. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a byway between reality and dream. A transit we call Möbius Blvd … Inspired by the enigmatic Möbius strip, a mathematical construct that defies conventional notions of linearity and infinity, Möbius Blvd has no beginning or end but exists in a place where reality and dream have fused … coalesced … merged. With each turn of the page, you'll encounter a unique blend of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction—fiction that will challenge your perceptions and leave you in awe of the infinite possibilities that exist within the written word. Indeed, Möbius Blvd is far more than a magazine; it's an experience. It's an exploration of the infinite, a passage through dimensions where the only constant is storytelling at its most daring, a kaleidoscope of wonder and terror. Join us on this winding, never-ending journey of speculative fiction that will keep you entranced from the first twist to the last loop. Open your mind to the limitless worlds of Möbius Blvd … and discover that the boundary between fiction and reality is as thin as a strip of paper with a twist. In this issue: SEEING IS BELIEVING Gale Huxley FIRSTNAME LASTNAME Wil Magness ON THE BUS Matthew Spence CROSSROADS Rob Rosen THE AUTUMN OF ‘79 Wayne Kyle Spitzer THE TIMES THAT BROKE BONES K.A. Hunter SOFT SCIENCE Joseph Hirsch THE UNMASKED Daniel Loebl THE WAY OF THE WIND Rick M. Clausen THE UNWEAVING Elana Gomel

Download or read book Grandma s Gleanings written by Joyce H. Pomp and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma’s Gleanings are the result of many years of journaling done by Joyce Pomp during her “quiet time” with the Lord. She is a pastor’s wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. The devotionals are saturated with God’s Word; they are also intended to bring you into a special relationship with our Father God, not a “plastic, must-do” religious activity. Grandma Joyce was encouraged to compile her writings into a yearly devotion book. Individuals who have had the opportunity to read Gleanings have told her how the true anecdotes/incidents have touched a specific need in their life as they read an entry for the day. Come to know God loves you. Come to know true joy in your life. Know that God still performs miracles today. Be assured: The joy of the Lord is your strength. You will be challenged. You will be blessed.

Download or read book Why Didn t You Tell Me written by Carmen Rita Wong and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir “Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a hero’s journey.”—The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, “Papi” Wong, a hustler, would show her and her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red and gold. Then came the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire after her mother married her stepfather, Marty, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad. As Carmen entered this new world with her new family—Lupe and Marty quickly had four more children—her relationship with her mother became fraught with tension, suspicion, and conflict, explained only years later by the secrets her mother had kept for so long. And when those secrets were revealed, bringing clarity to so much of Carmen’s life, it was too late for answers. When her mother passed away, Carmen wanted to shake her soul by its shoulders and demand: Why didn’t you tell me? A former national television host, advice columnist, and professor, Carmen searches to understand who she really is as she discovers her mother’s hidden history, facing the revelations that seep out. Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is a riveting and poignant story of Carmen’s experience of race and culture in America and how they shape who we think we are.

Download or read book Diary of an Irish Grandma written by Kathy Kelly and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book during the Covid-19 lockdown, Feb-July 2020. It was important to me to pass on my Irish heritage to my girls. I want them to know what it was like growing up in the fifties in Ireland surrounded by the richness of extended family and the love of music. The heartbreak of leaving home, the stupid mistakes I made because of insecurities and the importance of having God in one’s life. And most of all because my Granddaughter asked me to do it.

Download or read book The Collected written by K. R. Alexander and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From horror superstar K.R. Alexander . . . Something horrible happened to Josie--something so horrible she won't talk about it. But when the horror returns for her little sister, Anna, she's back in the battle against a fearsome force that manifests in diabolically deadly dolls. It's been five years since Josie squared off against the evil Beryl and her killer haunted dolls. She hasn't talked about it since, and likes to pretend it didn't happen. Too bad she didn't tell her younger sister, Anna. Because Anna is now the one being drawn in to the evil -- and the evil has some new tricks this time.

Download or read book Who Murdered Butterfly Dancer written by J. Charles Harris and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man Jon Charles Harris sought guidance for his life by fasting for four days in the spiritual silence of mountains, searching for a sign. Although he did not know it then, he did find his answer when a butterfly visited him. He preferred a visit from a wolf but he got a butterfly; the butterfly talked but Harris did not understand. Little did he know what this visit really meant and how butterflies would become important to him, and in that moment, unbeknownst to him, his life started to change. And now, with Who Murdered Butterfly Dancer, J Charles Harris offers readers a chance to see what Butterfly Dancer taught Harris about what the butterfly said that Harris did not understand. A reader may see that what is often taught as incorruptible knowledge that should be enforced with perpetual tradition is not what Love is giving us a chance to do: to become the intention of the creation you were made to be. Just as young Harris himself changed when Butterfly Dancer visited him and asked him to understand “love me as I am,” Or a reader may be trying to express their true self within a community they fear will reject them, or, on the other side of that coin, may be trying to accept and have compassion for a member of their community they did not previously embrace. Those who challenge themselves to read this book, who dare themselves to consider possibilities outside what they have known, will discover what all explorers find when they persist: treasure

Download or read book Grandma Someday I ll Travel the World written by Elfie Rainals and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first few years of her life, four-year-old Sandra Schmidt endured TB, the death of her mother and the abandonment of her father. It is 1938: Hitler runs Sandras homeland and soon much of the homelands of Germanys neighbors. She is raised in the safety of her grandparents home until the Americans and British start bombing Germany and her village. Sandra is struck by a piece of shrapnel and almost dies from infection. Her lifelong friend and Sandra wonder what the Jewish Solution is all about when her beloved grandfather is sent to a concentration camp for hiring Jews in the market he manages. He escapes with the help of a former employee who now is a warden there. After Sandras grandfather dies she lets an American GI trundle her off to New York, but doesnt like it there and runs off to California. But being beautiful doesnt guarantee you a job there. She struggles for a while, and after a few mishaps she lands a job as a Tour Manager to India. The tour companys management is impressed with her and offers her a permanent position. She always told her grandmother that: someday I will travel the world. Oddly enough, this will be her new profession, and she travels with American tourists for many years. The dream she had of traveling with the rich and famous had finally come true.

Download or read book Donnie and Jean written by Ph. D. Samuel D. G. Heath and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donnie and Jean was a time of great transition for our nation, one in which there was no television, and radio and Hollywood were the main sources of both entertainment and news defining what would later be called "The Great Generation." Comic books and the funny papers were war oriented and children were ready to defend America against all invaders; while adults fought the war, children played at war. Donnie and Jean is more than a story of two twelve year old children meeting and beginning to learn what it is to love; they were born into a generation that epitomized the best of what America was during that era when the leaders of America were trusted, when teachers and police were the friends of children. In many ways it was an age of innocence lost and not to be recovered, but recalled here in the story of these two children.

Download or read book Immortal Vegas Box Set Books 1 3 written by Jenn Stark and published by Jenn Stark. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three full-length novels of the fast-paced, high-adventure, international urban fantasy Immortal Vegas Series in one box set! Show up for the smart-mouthed jokes, stay for the adventure, and never bet against the house… Wilde Magic: Tarot-reading artifact hunter Sara Wilde has had her share of tough assignments, but this one just might take the cake. When her newest client hires her to steal a fertility idol from an Amazonian sex-and-death cult, she finds herself south of the equator and shoulder deep in true believers, while Rio de Janeiro gears up for the closing celebrations of Carnival. Stealing the idol is one thing, however. Keeping it is another. Getting Wilde: Using her well-worn Tarot deck, magical-artifacts hunter Sara Wilde can find anything--for a price. And the price had better be right, since she needs to finance her own personal mission to rescue several young psychics recently sold on the paranormal black market. Enter Sara's most mysterious client, the wickedly sexy Magician, with a job that could yield the ultimate payday. All she'll have to do is get behind Vatican walls... and steal the Devil himself. Wilde Card: When an antique gold show comes to Vegas, artifact-hunter Sara Wilde's job is simple: to locate and liberate a set of relics rumored to give their bearers access to an ancient, incredible power. Yet within the Connected community, whispers of a war against magic draw every psychic, mystic, warlock, and witch to Sin City. The most powerful Connected also covet the infamous relics, but no one wants them more than Sara's client—the insufferably arrogant, criminally sensual, and endlessly evasive Magician. Take the adventure with Sara Wilde and Immortal Vegas…where everything changes with a flip of a card.

Download or read book Walking into My Freedom written by Colandra Hall and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is about my struggles of becoming a strong woman of faith, and how I had to over come so much of my past. I would run when trouble would come my way and I did this for years of my life until one day I just surrender to Christ. After years of tormenting myself, but in the meantime God was changing my character so I would look like Jesus. I have learn that all of my trails was to take me out of me so God could put his spirit into me.

Download or read book Cinder Girl written by Holly Thompson Rehder and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child. But unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter. Two decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouri—and indeed, the entire nation—all while never forgetting where she came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances. As a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in Cinder Girl, Rehder rises above standard political prose to provide an unvarnished look inside the worst of American poverty––those living in the margins. Rehder challenges us to recall the plight of those far less fortunate, who struggle without the opportunities most of us take for granted.