Download or read book The BEAUTY Within Tragedy written by Robin Gargano and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is not about the small changes that occur in life. It's about the tragic, soul-sucking, and utterly depressing moments that shake our world. It's about the fight we get to embrace to endure the long haul for transformation to be fulfilled. You will read about my 'happily ever after' and how I crawled back from darkness to find a new and brighter light. The joy of this book will show how suffering is necessary to build the 2.0 version of yourself and achieve greatness. This story allows you to recognize the catalyst to happiness and provides the tools to achieve it.I wrote this book because I now understand that there is beauty within tragedy. My wish is to help you grieve freely, accept, transform and find the happiness you deserve. I learned that I am stronger than I ever gave myself credit because I took control and slayed my inner dragon. I will help you start healing by explaining why being kind to yourself is fundamental. I will show you how to live positively despite any circumstance thrown your way. It's not necessary to walk the exact same path as the person next to you in order to experience the same pain. Struggle is relative to your situation and should not be compared to anything or anyone else. Walk with me as I help you accept your new life after tragedy and love all the beautiful beginnings to come.
Download or read book Thing of Beauty written by Stephen Fried and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration behind the Emmy Award–winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this “vivid…exhaustive” (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author. At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world’s top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry’s standard of beauty. But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother’s approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS. This “chilling tale” (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society’s views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
Download or read book The Beauty Within written by Christopher Alan Anderson and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the purity of heart that lies at the center of each one of us.
Download or read book Separated written by Jacob Soboroff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." —Rachel Maddow The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | American Book Award Winner | American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award Finalist In June 2018, Donald Trump’s most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government—the deliberate separation of migrant parents and children at U.S. border facilities. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalists to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His influential series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president reversing his own policy and earned Soboroff the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Broadcast Journalism and, with his colleagues, the 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism. But beyond the headlines, the complete, multilayered story lay untold. How, exactly, had such a humanitarian tragedy—now deemed “torture” by physicians—happened on American soil? Most important, what has been the human experience of those separated children and parents? Soboroff has spent the past two years reporting the many strands of this complex narrative, developing sources from within the Trump administration who share critical details for the first time. He also traces the dramatic odyssey of one separated family from Guatemala, where their lives were threatened by narcos, to seek asylum at the U.S. border, where they were separated—the son ending up in Texas, and the father thousands of miles away, in the Mojave desert of central California. And he joins the heroes who emerged to challenge the policy, and who worked on the ground to reunite parents with children. In this essential reckoning, Soboroff weaves together these key voices with his own experience covering this national issue—at the border in Texas, California, and Arizona; with administration officials in Washington, D.C., and inside the disturbing detention facilities. Separated lays out compassionately, yet in the starkest of terms, its human toll, and makes clear what is at stake as America struggles to reset its immigration policies post-Trump.
Download or read book Beautiful Tragedy written by Judy Thureson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEAUTIFUL TRAGEDY is a story of loss and a guide to surviving the darkest seasons of your life. Judy chronicles her heart-wrenching journey from the moment she learned her 18-year-old son was found unresponsive from an apparent overdose, his time in the ICU, his ultimate passing, and her painful task of navigating grief in the days to come. Following her step-by-step guide called the GIVE principle, Judy models the actionable steps needed to get you out of anxious thinking and into peace. Reading BEAUTIFUL TRAGEDY will remind you that you can overcome your greatest challenge and that your strength is found on the other side of your struggle.
Download or read book The Fire Within written by Valerie Greene and published by Alex Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an amazing survival story. A massive stroke at age 31 left Valerie Greene paralysed and unable to speak. Determined to heal, she spent years regaining and refining her abilities. Today she is a national speaker empowering others to overcome their obstacles and lobbying in Congress to further the advancement of stroke research and education. 'The Fire Within' is uplifting and inspiring. It demonstrates the power of the human spirit and how all things are possible! Allow Valerie's compelling story to ignite the fire within you!
Download or read book The Beauty Within written by Marguerite Kaye and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Considered the plain, clever one in her family, Lady Cressida Armstrong knows her father has given up on her ever marrying. But who needs a husband when science is the only thing to set Cressie's pulse racing? Disillusioned artist Giovanni di Matteo is setting the ton abuzz with his expertly executed portraits. Once his art was inspired; now it's only technique. Until he meets Cressie…. Challenging, intelligent and yet insecure, Cressie is the one whose face and body he dreams of capturing on canvas. In the enclosed, intimate world of his studio, Giovanni rediscovers his passion as he awakens hers….
Download or read book The Beauty That Remains written by Ashley Woodfolk and published by Ember. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give, believes "will stay with you long after you put it down." We've lost everything . . . and found ourselves. Loss pulled Autumn, Shay, and Logan apart. Will music bring them back together? Autumn always knew exactly who she was: a talented artist and a loyal friend. Shay was defined by two things: her bond with her twin sister, Sasha, and her love of music. And Logan has always turned to writing love songs when his real love life was a little less than perfect. But when tragedy strikes each of them, somehow music is no longer enough. Now Logan can't stop watching vlogs of his dead ex-boyfriend. Shay is a music blogger who's struggling to keep it together. And Autumn sends messages that she knows can never be answered. Despite the odds, one band's music will reunite them and prove that after grief, beauty thrives in the people left behind. "Woodfolk's debut cuts deeply, and then wipes your tears away. Wrenching, heartfelt, and vividly human." --Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Download or read book Triumph Over Tragedy written by Bobby Petrocelli and published by WRS Group. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Petrocelli's story is one of personal triumph and hope following a devastating tragedy in his life. One night he went to bed in his suburban America (League City, Texas) home a happy man with a loving wife, but when he woke up dazed in his kitchen, his wife was dead and his life changed forever. A pickup had crashed into the wall of his bedroom driven by a man more than twice legally drunk. Now he tells his story nationwide to high school students, speaking of the consequences of drinking and driving.
Download or read book The Gifts from Losing You written by Sara Green and published by Sara Green. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gifts from Losing You is a poignant chronicle that shares a family's experience of their first year grieving the sudden loss of their only son and brother, aged 19. Written by his mother, it is a story of personal tragedy, immeasurable love, heartbreak, and sadness, coupled with gratitude, courage, and perseverance. Her reflections explore the themes of loss, shock, pain, acceptance, and eternal love. She focuses on how her family found a way to weave their grief into the fabric of their lives while opening their hearts and minds to the gifts bestow on them. She discovers that deep despair and blessing can co-exist simultaneously in grief. This unique perspective has guided them in their healing, enabling them to live alongside their heartache. From her experience as a health coach, she shares the self-care practices that enabled her to cope with her devastating reality. For anyone suffering the loss of a child or a loved one, this part memoir, part self-help book provides hope and inspiration, with insights to help you navigate your path out of the dark, toward the light.
Download or read book Journal of an Ordinary Grief written by Mahmoud Darwish and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 PEN Translation Prize A collection of autobiographical essays by one of the greatest poets to come from Palestine. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the roots and ramifications of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. Muhawi's own prose and meticulous footnotes are impeccable. An inspired and scholarly piece of research. —Words Without Borders “Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,” writes Mahmoud Darwish. In these probing essays, Darwish, a voice of the Palestinian people and one of the most transcendent poets of his generation, interrogates the experience of occupation and the meaning of liberation. Calling upon myth, memory, and language, these essays delve into the poet’s experience of house arrest, his encounters with Israeli interrogators, and the periods he spent in prison. Meditative, lyrical, and rhythmic—Darwish gives absence a vital presence in these linked essays. Journal is a moving and intimate account of the loss of homeland and, for many, of life inside the porous walls of occupation—no ordinary grief.
Download or read book The Violence Inside Us written by Chris Murphy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America.”—Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Education of an Idealist Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores the origins of our violent impulses, the roots of our obsession with firearms, and the mythologies that prevent us from confronting our national crisis. In many ways, the United States sets the pace for other nations to follow. Yet on the most important human concern—the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from physical harm—America isn’t a leader. We are disturbingly laggard. To confront this problem, we must first understand it. In this carefully researched and deeply emotional book, Senator Chris Murphy dissects our country’s violence-filled history and the role that our unique obsession with firearms plays in this national epidemic. Murphy tells the story of his profound personal transformation in the wake of the mass murder at Newtown, and his subsequent immersion in the complicated web of influences that drive American violence. Murphy comes to the conclusion that while America’s relationship to violence is indeed unique, America is not inescapably violent. Even as he details the reasons we’ve tolerated so much bloodshed for so long, he explains that we have the power to change. Murphy takes on the familiar arguments, obliterates the stale talking points, and charts the way to a fresh, less polarized conversation about violence and the weapons that enable it—a conversation we urgently need in order to transform the national dialogue and save lives.
Download or read book The Beautiful Survivor The Beauty Within Our Struggles written by Kaylie Louise and published by Kaylie Louise . This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEAUTIFUL SURVIVOR is based on a true story. A story of a young woman who wants to share her life to help others. She shows how tough life can be, but with the courage to never give up. Living is not easy. In her heart, she believes no one is perfect, but the perfect you is. No one can judge you and only you can. You can listen to others, but you need ot listen to yourself to know from right to wrong. Only you can help yourself. Kaylie has been battling her life through relationships, suffering from Meningitis Septicemia from seven years old. Mental Health and conceiving to get pregnant with her current partner. She has somehow overcome her fears, but life will always be a rollercoaster and full of challenges. She has learnt to keep moving forward in life, even though it may feel it's the end. She believes surviving is always better than giving up.
Download or read book Hope A Tragedy written by Shalom Auslander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel… His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.
Download or read book Twisted written by Esme Devlin and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I caught his attention. Now he demands every last piece of mine.His infatuation with me saves my life, but threatens my sanity. A self-made King in his own Kingdom, his notorious cruelty is only overshadowed by his madness.I sit on his knee while he plays with me.I keep my eyes low on the ground at all times.I watch the wicked things he does to people while he whispers in my ear how precious I am.I dance for him. I amuse him. I play his games. I worship at his feet.I'm not allowed to walk. I'm not allowed to see his face.And above all else, I'm not allowed to fall in love with him.He says he's going to give me to the whole world on a silver plate.All I have to do... is everything he wants.His lust becomes obsession, obsession becomes devotion, devotion becomes dedication and with dedication comes... power.My name is Sapphire, and I'm a good girl. This is the story of how I learned to control a psychopath. Author warning: No part of Baron is a hero. He's a cross between the mad hatter, the goblin king, and a mafia boss. He has no limits, and he lives for... triggers. If you don't like dark romance -- and I mean dark romance, cough cough, -- please don't read this book.Previously published as The Carnival's Daughter (part of The Kingdom duet) this book has been extended and now forms book 1 of a new series.Reading Order:Twisted (Baron & Sapphire)Torment (Baron & Sapphire)Toxic (Cut & Amelie)Torment (Mason & Estella)
Download or read book The Sun Does Shine written by Anthony Ray Hinton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Download or read book The Tragedy of Eva Mott written by David Adams Richards and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power. The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society—asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific scrutiny, with reports of serious illness linked to the place. The world is changing, no doubt for the better . . . But in the shadow of the mine, the values of a whole community are transforming, in more sinister ways. The Raskins' nephew Byron, a war hero and man of wealth, urges the brothers to look for other, less toxic minerals to extract. But meanwhile his own world is unravelling in ways that are unlikely ever to be fixed. His wife Carmel, whom he vaingloriously believed he was rescuing with his marriage proposal, has become an intellectual and political poseur. She and her son Albert are contemptuous of the values of Byron and his kind, while still finding use for his wealth and property. Carmel and Albert, it seems, are heralds of a new world addicted to mimicry and empty self-promotion, to delusions and temptations. Its victims are growing in number: a college professor in town is falsely accused of sexual harassment; a young woman is slipped a hallucinogen at a party with appalling consequences for her and two boys. And what of poor, naive Eva Mott, the captivating beauty who wished to be like her talented cousin Clara? Her story and the book that bears her name will haunt you. The Tragedy of Eva Mott has all the power and brilliance—and many flashes of wry humour—of David Adams Richards at the very top of his form. It will attract controversy but its fierce authenticity cannot be denied.
