Download or read book Onika Wants to Help written by Jo Meserve Mach and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tanzania, there is a little village where a girl named Onika lives. She loves to go to school with her friends. Onika, Teophani, Agnes and Elibeth each have activities they like to do at their school. What is Onika's favorite thing to do? How can Onika and her friends learn skills to help their village? Finding My Way Books honor children with special needs or disabilities by sharing their stories. Onika has intellectual disabilities.Onika Wants to Help is Book 3 in the Finding My World series.
Download or read book Onika Wants to Help written by Jo Meserve Mach and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Onika is a teenager with intellectual disabilities. The construction of the Irente Rainbow School allowed her to attend school and befriend children her age. ... Onika's story represents the importance of inclusion of individuals with disabilities"--Page [i].
Download or read book Her Secret Life written by Tiffany L. Warren and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When I read a Tiffany L. Warren novel I know I’m going to get two things—a riveting story and a faith boost!” –ReShonda Tate Billingsley Scarred by poverty and life with a crackhead mother, Onika Lewis had a rough start. Still, thanks to her sharp mind, and hard work, she graduated with honors from a prestigious college. But her achievements weren’t enough to earn her the elite status she craved. So she leveraged her gorgeous looks to become a rich man’s trophy…and was eventually dumped her for a younger model. Now Onika is unemployed, broke—and homeless. She’s making a fresh start through a unique women’s shelter, but when she meets Graham, a kind-hearted commuter with whom she has an instant connection, she can’t bring herself to tell him her secret… Suddenly Onika has someone who cares about who she is beyond her looks. Graham’s unselfish love gives her the kind of hope she’s never had. But when Onika’s wealthy ex wants her back, she plays one deception too many trying to have it all. Now present lies and past secrets are tearing her world apart. And Onika will need to educate herself once more—to learn what really matters, find faith, forgiveness—and build a life she truly deserves. Praise for Tiffany L. Warren’s novels “Filled with love, betrayal, heartbreak and forgiveness.” --Kimberla Lawson Roby on The Favorite Son “Highly entertaining. Captivating and compelling. Great book club option.” --USAToday.com on The Replacement Wife “In a fine blend of suspense and inspirational fiction, Warren spins an entertaining tale about folks misbehaving behind the pulpit in a modern African American church.” --Library Journal on The Pastor’s Husband
Download or read book Humble Bastard written by Onika Pointer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt like a goldfish in a bowlthe way the goldfish seems to be full of anxiety swimming around in circles as if trying to find a way out? In this memoir, author Onika Pointer discusses how she felt like a goldfish in a bowl for most of her life, and she demonstrates how she learns to take responsibility for her own happiness. Granddaughter and great niece of the famous singing group, The Pointer Sisters, Onika was born at the peak of the groups success. In Humble Bastard, she talks about the privileges and advantages afforded to her as a result of her familys stardom. But this memoir also addresses how some of that privilege came with pain. Abused by her mother both physically and emotionally for seventeen years, Onika reveals the darkness in her lifeweight issues, suicide attempts, homelessness, a tragic accident, and the deaths of those close to her. Endowed with a sixth sense that allows her to see past time and before time, Onika looks within herself, discovers personal strength, and prevails. Humble Bastard speaks to those in similar situations and demonstrates that hopes, goals, and inner peace are all attainable.
Download or read book There s No Place Like My Own Home written by Florenza D. Lee and published by Words to Ponder Publishing Company, LLC . This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is Alyssa's first day at Lee Ponder Intermediate School, and along with learning new names, faces, and classrooms, she has to maintain her secret. One that she doesn't want anyone to know, not even her new best friend, Onika. You see, Alyssa and her mom are homeless. When Alyssa has an assignment (to write a letter to a student in Alabama whose school and home have been destroyed by a tornado), she bears her soul. However, when the note is lost and believes the school's bully, Marcus has found it, that things drastically change for Alyssa and her mom. Readers have enjoyed this book as young as second grade, and the comments from parents, educators, children, counselors, and more may be summed up in this one sentence, "Although Alyssa and her mom are homeless, they are not hopeless." The book may be used in conjunction with classroom Standard of Learning subjects such as Language Arts, Health, Social Studies, Government, and Public Speaking. There's No Place Like My Own Home has been found helpful for Social-Emotional Learning to include (but is not limited to) kindness, gratitude, sufficient conflict resolution, positive self-image. The reader will also learn how to reduce aggressive behavior, demonstrate self-control, manage emotions, set positive goals, engage in positive relations, and learn to solve problems effectively. Lastly, the book has an anti-bullying message. A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR As parents, we see so many distractions vying for our children's attention, challenges that may cause them to disconnect from humanity. We want them to understand the power of gratitude and empathy without feeling as if we are forcing it upon them. Age-appropriate books have a way of emerging our children into worlds that represent the qualities we know will make them kinder, more caring, and compassionate. This is what I had in mind as I penned the words to my book, "There's No Place Like My Own Home." I have to confess; I didn't set out to write this book. It was born out of a conversation I had with Christine Bush, the Valoha Giving Movement founder. She told someone I had written a children's book on the subject of homelessness; I had not. But from that conversation, this beautiful book was born. Reading it with your child will open the door to honest, sincere dialogue about those less fortunate, empathy, compassion, and the power of hope, faith, and friendship. I cannot wait to read your reviews on this work of love. Stay tuned, the sequel, "Home is Where the Heart Lives," is in production.
Download or read book A Deliverer Comes The Kinsman Chronicles written by Jill Williamson and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 8 of Jill Williamson's Epic Fantasy Series The Kinsman Chronicles Grayson has become the king's spy, traveling the new land to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Armania's enemies. On one such mission, he uncovers a seedbed of destruction that is responsible for the infighting between the giant tribes and the oppression of the Puru people. He does what he can to help, but his actions are considered an act of war. Meanwhile, Chieftess Charlon has found a way to make magic in this new land, and as evenroot sources diminish, Barthel Rogedoth and Empress Jazlyn will do anything to learn her secret. In her captivity, Onika the prophetess stumbles onto a new ability of the voicing magic. She returns to Armanguard to train warriors to enter the Veil and fight an unseen evil that has been subjugating the souls of humanity for generations. A Deliverer Comes is collected together with parts 7 and 9 in King's War.
Download or read book Waiting to Exhale written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and It's Not All Downhill From Here. When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship as they struggle to regain stability and an identity they don’t have to share with anyone. Because for the first time in a long time, their dreams are finally OFF hold.... “Hilarious, irreverent...Reading Waiting to Exhale is like being in the company of a great friend...thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining, and very, very comforting.”—The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Foundations of Our Heart You are cordially invited to inspire us written by The Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by artist Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, the authors in this anthology navigated their roles as artists and writers. After identifying a significant person they wanted to honor, the eighth graders of The Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn designed and created their own representation of this person, and then wrote an artist's statement to reflect on the process and purpose of their creation. Within this beautiful collection, readers are provided a unique opportunity to get to know each young woman as an author and an artist. A collaboration between the Student Press Initiative at Teachers College Columbia University and The Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn
Download or read book Getting to Happy written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan's exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale. Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel—its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy and vibrant story about four black women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched a cultural nerve, inspired a blockbuster film, and generated a devoted audience. Now, McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again—at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle, been swindled by her husband number two, and conned herself into thinking that a few pills will help distract her from her pain. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism, while the big dream of her life—to wear a wedding dress—has gone unrealized. And for years, Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another. They've exhaled: now they are learning to breathe.
Download or read book The Reluctant King The Kinsman Chronicles written by Jill Williamson and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One battle is over, but the war has just begun. Following the ambush that destroyed the veteran armies of Armania and Sarikar, Prince Trevn travels back to Armanguard to help defend his people from future attacks. With a sorcerer trying to usurp the throne and giants threatening to enslave them, the struggle to unite the people will be a difficult task.
Download or read book Grieving Hearts written by Ricky Donna and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 2 of Grieving Hearts. Agustin DeLuca looked at the photos in front of him, rage burning through his veins, as he watched his wife in someone else's arms. He was one of the most renowned businessmen in the country, known for his ruthlessness and arrogance. He prided himself on being good at reading people like an open book, he thought nothing goes unseen from his scrutinizing eyes, yet the irony, he couldn't see the truth of his own wife when innocence was written all over her face, vulnerability swirling in her doe eyes, silently begging for him to believe her. He lost everything that mattered to him two years back because he chose to trust the wrong person, but now that he knows the truth, there is nothing he won’t do to get her back, anything.’Get ready Onika DeLuca, I am coming,' he said to himself, determination shining in his orbs, holding a dark promise. "I promise you, the face I remember before dying will be yours, the last thing I will wish to see will be you, whether it is today, tomorrow, or fifty years from now. It will always be you, Onika".-Agustin DeLuca.
Download or read book The Rise of the Neb written by Janis Frazier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century, during the height of the African slave trade, two young boys, Ahoto and Chicha Kojo of the Nebu’ tribe, were abducted and taken to America. To prevent future abductions, and to protect his village from invasions, King Rami summoned the Spirit Gods, who moved the village under the ground and hid them deep within the earth. An unknown illness, caused by toxic waste contaminates which had soaked into the ground from landfills on earth, overtakes one of the children, the grandson of the king, and threatens to take his life. The only thing that can save him is blood that contains the natural immunities found in people who live on the earth. The main criteria, however, is that the donner must be a descendant of the Nebu’ tribe. Thus begins the journey of two distant cousins, Kim and Quinton, as they are led by the Spirit Gods to the long-hidden village of the Nebu’ to provide healing blood to the young relative. The Rise of the Nebu’ takes its readers on a journey of danger, faith and courage, and most of all, love of family. It is through this union of the ancient and the new, the recognition of future harm from the modern world, and the desire to avoid extinction that the Nebu’, with the help of the Spirit Gods, must decide to rise to the surface of the earth. It is a journey that, in the end, will unite family from both within and on the surface of the earth -- a mystical family reunion.
Download or read book King s War The Kinsman Chronicles Book 3 written by Jill Williamson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One battle is over, but the war has just begun. They escaped the Five Realms and have found a home, but peace is much harder to find. The aftermath of the Battle of Sarikar should have been a time to mourn those lost in the slaughter. The enemies of Armania are many, however, and when one steps back to regroup, another surges forward in attack. While the remnant must take responsibility for the evil they brought to Er'Rets, it would seem that something just as dark already existed in this new world. The growing struggle between Armania and Barthel Rogedoth is but a pale reflection of a far more dangerous battle for the souls of humanity. And so begins this awe-inspiring conclusion to Jill Williamson's Kinsman Chronicles. The Hadar family and their allies prepare to make one final stand in the name of Arman. There shall be war--in Er'Rets and in the Veil--to vanquish evil or be ruled by darkness.
Download or read book Voices of Blood The Kinsman Chronicles written by Jill Williamson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 6 of Jill Williamson's Epic Fantasy Series The Kinsman Chronicles The unanticipated supernatural ability to hear each other's thoughts fills many Armanians with fear and embroils the Armanian people in a bitter conflict. Priests protest this "bloodvoicing" magic as evil, but Prince Wilek believes it a gift from the One God to his Armanite followers. To honor his newfound faith, Prince Wilek establishes a city called Armanguard and begins building an illustrious castle. He sends explorers to the north to discover what this land might have to offer, putting his brother Trevn in charge of the expedition. In the west, as spring comes and the ground softens, Charlon sets the Magonian people to planting evenroot and preparing for the long-prophesied uprising of their Deliverer, who they believe will crush the skulls of his enemies, turn their citadels to dust, and make Magonia the ruler of nations. Voices of Blood is collected together with parts 4 and 5 in King's Blood.
Download or read book Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory written by Bennett Onika and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your poker face is set. Now train your brain with memory-strengthening exercises that will increase your odds of winning. Going beyond the common poker strategy book, this one-of-a-kind guide utilizes basic memory techniques designed to enable a player to easily keep track of poker statistics during a live game. A variety of engaging imagery is provided, teaching players how to remember approximately 10 to 100 times the information an untrained player would have at a tournament. Covering everything from how often a player plays to memorizing tells, this is the ideal companion for both serious amateurs and professional card sharks.
Download or read book King s Folly The Kinsman Chronicles Book 1 written by Jill Williamson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Epic New Fantasy Series from Fan Favorite Jill Williamson This edition includes the first three parts of the Kinsman Chronicles originally released as ebooks. o Part 1--Darkness Reigns o Part 2--The Heir War o Part 3--The End of All Things The gods are angry. Volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, ground shakers--everything points to their unhappiness. At least that is what the king of Armania believes. His son, Prince Wilek, thinks his father's superstitions are nonsense, though he remains the ever dutiful First Arm of Armania. When a messenger arrives and claims that the town of Farway has been swallowed by the earth, the king sends Wilek to investigate. But what Wilek discovers is more cataclysmic than one lost city. Even as the ground shifts beneath his feet, Wilek sets out on a desperate journey to save his people and his world. But can he do it before the entire land crumbles?
Download or read book The Heir War The Kinsman Chronicles written by Jill Williamson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 2 of Jill Williamson's Epic Fantasy Series The Kinsman Chronicles With Prince Wilek still searching Armania for a murderer, his brother Prince Trevn finds himself pulled deeper into the dangerous politics of who will be Heir. Trevn, though, is far more interested in his studies with a local priest and the attentions of a young honor maiden. The book that he has been copying during his lessons is not the book that teaches of the god of the soil. Instead, it teaches of a one true God. If accurate, then it means there is no soil god to satiate. There is nothing they can do to save their world, and all of King Echad's sacrifices have been futile. The Heir War is collected together with parts 1 and 3 in King's Folly.
