Download or read book Disability Visibility written by Alice Wong and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

Download or read book Raising and Losing My Remarkable Teenage Mother written by Stacey Aaronson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stacey Aaronson was born in 1969, her mother, Bree, was sixteen and barely out of braces. Hastily wed to Stacey's dad and divorced soon after, Bree raised Stacey with his and her parents' loving support. Growing up together in an often role-reversal scenario and mistaken for sisters, Bree would come to say, "I didn't raise Stacey. Stacey raised me." Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother tells the extraordinary story of this mother-daughter duo reminiscent of Gilmore Girls. Anchoring each other to the world through unwavering love and acceptance, Bree and Stacey take on life with an uncanny gift for seeing magic in the most ordinary moments. Whether bouncing between the markedly different homes of her mom, dad, and grandparents, discovering her religious and sexual identities, or starting college in her mid-twenties, Stacey is buoyed by Bree's devotion as a mother, a sister, a daughter, and a friend. She helps Bree navigate her own path as she seeks the biological mother she never knew and a partner to grow old with. But Bree-despite her vibrant spirit and astounding near-reversal of an MS diagnosis-learns too young she has cancer, whose underlying emotional roots even a cutting-edge, non-toxic treatment can't cure. As Stacey steps into the role of caregiver, the two face the most poignant leg of their journey: nurturing their deep soul connection even as one soul transitions to another realm. Brimming with miracles, wonder, and joy even in its saddest moments, Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother is a tender yet ebullient celebration of life, of love, of death's mysterious passage, and the mystical forces that bind us all. Includes a gallery of over sixty photos, book discussion questions, and an interview with the author.

Download or read book Outrun the Moon written by Stacey Heather Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the eve of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--

Download or read book A Matter of Temptation written by Stacy Reid and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Wilhelmina “Mina” Crawford is desperate. Having been ruined in the eyes of society years ago for one foolish, starry-eyed mistake, she spends her days secreted away at her family’s crumbling estate, helping her brother manage the land but not able to truly live life the way she’s always dreamed. When her brother admits to just how dire their finances have gotten, she takes it upon herself to procure employment...but the only one who will even consider the scandalous idea of a female secretary is the brilliant, ruthless, and infuriating Earl of Creswick. Simon Loughton, the Earl of Creswick, needs help if he wants to finally pass the reform bill he’s been championing for years and secure the vote for England’s most vulnerable constituents. Too bad help comes in the form of a woman with breathtaking nerve, fiery red hair, and a sense of humor to match. Now temptation—disguised as a lovely, clever-mouthed devil—lives and works under Simon’s very roof. And Mina finally feels as though she’s truly living life to her wildest dreams. But even the most incendiary of kisses can’t incinerate Mina’s past...or the shocking secret that could ruin them both. Exclusive bonus: Get swept up with an additional short story by author Stacy Reid—available only in print! Each book in the Unforgettable Love series is STANDALONE: * A Matter of Temptation * An Earl to Remember

Download or read book The Last Wilder written by Janis Reams Hudson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIS WYATT COUNTY WOMAN Sheriff Dane Powell stumbled upon sassy Stacey Landers snooping around private property. And the stunning trespasser wouldn't divulge what she was doing on Wilder land. Dane's big dilemma was whether to arrest the beauty—or kiss the living daylights out of her! Stacey wasn't about to tell the sexy, take-charge lawman about her urgent family errand. Especially when she realized that Dane was friends with those upstart Wilders! But after days and nights spent in close proximity with the handsome sheriff, Stacey found herself in danger of revealing the whole truth—and losing her heart in the process….

Download or read book The Care We Dream Of written by Zena Sharman and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honored and valued queer and trans people’s lives, bodies and expertise? What if LGBTQ+ communities led and organized our own health care as a form of mutual aid? What if every aspect of our health care was rooted in a commitment to our healing, pleasure and liberation? LGBTQ+ health care doesn’t look like this today, but it could. This is the care we dream of. Through a series of essays (by the author and others) and interviews, this book by the editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy offers possibilities—grounded in historical examples, present-day experiments, and dreams of the future – for more liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing. It challenges readers to think differently about LGBTQ+ health and asks what it would look if our health care was rooted in a commitment to the flourishing and liberation of all LGBTQ+ people. This book is a calling out, a calling in and a call to action. It is a spell of healing and transformation, rooted in love.

Download or read book His Baby Dream written by Jacqueline Diamond and published by K. Loren Wilson. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single mom’s on a special list...with a handsome surprise in store! Dedicated to raising her cute little girl alone, nurse Harper signed up to help create a family. She has no idea she’s been secretly chosen from the egg donor list by a single guy... a very sexy one! Peter longs for fatherhood, and he considers Harper the perfect woman to make his dreams come true. But does Harper see him as father material? And what about her dreams, the ones she doesn’t even realize she has? His Baby Dream is a Safe Harbor Medical romance from USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond. “Harper's little girl, Mia, is so adorable. The growing family unit warms the heart.”— Tracy Farnsworth, Round Table Reviews.

Download or read book A Dream Within A Dream written by Gary Wayne Cade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Jones childhood was spent mostly in the backwoods of Charleston, South Carolina. The year was 1935 and this young teen took survival to a new level. This historical "Southern" setting takes you from the plantation days to the late seventies "City" life of New Jersey. There are many twist and turns in each and every chapter. An arrival of a newly love son, Sean Alexander-an all american high school basketball great.Co-starring Darryl Johnston and Stacey Livingston. The three teens turned tragedy into triumph! You will be connected to each and every character; from beginning to end. "A Dream Within A Dream" fictious storyline takes you into the world of "What if?" This is Gary Cade's debut book. A novel that can be passed down from generation to generation to come. Gary Cade's second release, entitled- "Standing In The Wind Of A Hurricane" will be released in the Winter of 2007.

Download or read book Deceiving the Elect Quickening Dreams written by Douglas Christian Larsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet book about how an intensely deceptive movement can begin, with its almost innocent origins buried deeply in the hopes and fears of good people. Quickening Dreams is the first book in the Deceiving the Elect series, introducing us to a cast of quirky, lovable characters, both good and bad. This book speaks to that growing feeling of uncertainty, deep in your heart, where you are beginning to question the reality of this world, and the religion your parents taught you. In distant echoes you are beginning to hear the still, small voice, and perhaps you are one of the very few that is having odd dreams, dreams that seem to waken you, and bring you to life.

Download or read book Mallory and the Dream Horse The Baby Sitters Club 54 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Mallory loves horses. She loves reading about them. She loves writing about them. And most of all, she loves daydreaming about them.So when Mallory's parents agree to let her take riding lessons, it's a dream come true! Mallory is so excited that she can hardly concentrate at the BSC meetings anymore. But then the lessons begin, and Mallory discovers that dreaming about horses can be a lot more fun than actually riding them.The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

Download or read book Vestigial Surreality Omnibus One Coincidence Episodes 1 28 written by Douglas Christian Larsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality, what a concept. Is life a puppet show and are we nothing but puppets? A hidden world all about us, angels and demons, or is what we can touch and sense all there is? And now, the Simulation Hypothesis plagues us. Could we really be living in a computer simulation? Through the ages, the conundrum of Reality has messed with the collective consciousness of humanity. The Allegory of Plato's Cave down through the ages to The Matrix. A chance meeting in the park leads two strangers to discover strange connections between themselves and the world, and in truth both had felt that perhaps there was something not quite right with the world, something different. They have both noticed improbable coincidences popping up in their lives, at an almost alarming regularity, and now, meeting, they witness strange signs in the heavens, and find themselves on a bizarre path that will make them question their very reality, and the reality of the world about them, and the universe itself.

Download or read book Anne s House of Dreams written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1981 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne's House of Dreams is a wholesome, sunny and refreshing story and a close rival to the author's success "Anne of Green Gables". The winsome heroine of the earlier tales marries a doctor and goes away to live in an old white house in Four Winds Harbour. The young bride makes some interesting friends among her few and far-between neighbors. There is the sharp-tongued old spinster with a grudge against men and their ways and a helping hand for the weak and needy. Then there is the entertaining old sea captain, keeper of the lighthouse, and the beautiful tragic girl whose history forms one of the most engrossing episodes of the book. It is a kindly tale, permeated with the spirit of common sense and the essence of happiness.

Download or read book The Remington Registry of Outstanding Professionals written by Remington Registry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dream Crossing written by Matthew Todd Vossler and published by Dreamz Work Productions. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan Wright is has a problem with the school bully. He reads all the books in the library on the subject of magic. One night, Duncan travles astrally into the other boy’s dream to confront him. Before he can claim revenge, he becomes caught in Lastra, a land on the brink of war. Duncan has to live up to a prophecy or forever be imprisoned in a land quickly descending into darkness.

Download or read book Marvin Hendrix Stacy 1877 1919 written by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wind in the Reeds written by Wendell Pierce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American middle-class subdivision in New Orleans. The hurricane breached many of the city's levees, and the resulting flooding submerged Pontchartrain Park under as much as 20 feet of water. Katrina left New Orleans later that day, but for the next three days the water kept relentlessly gushing into the city, plunging eighty percent of New Orleans under water. Nearly 1,500 people were killed. Half the houses in the city had four feet of water in them—or more. There was no electricity or clean water in the city; looting and the breakdown of civil order soon followed. Tens of thousands of New Orleanians were stranded in the city, with no way out; many more evacuees were displaced, with no way back in. Pierce and his family were some of the lucky ones: They survived and were able to ride out the storm at a relative's house 70 miles away. When they were finally allowed to return, they found their family home in tatters, their neighborhood decimated. Heartbroken but resilient, Pierce vowed to help rebuild, and not just his family's home, but all of Pontchartrain Park. In this powerful and redemptive narrative, Pierce brings together the stories of his family, his city, and his history, why they are all worth saving and the critical importance art played in reuniting and revitalizing this unique American city.

Download or read book Sweet Dreams written by Stacey Keith and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a little town in the heart of Texas, the same old story can turn into happily ever after . . . On any given day, Maggie Roby has cake batter on her sleeve, flour where the blush supposedly goes, and sore feet from standing since dawn. For her sister’s wedding day, she’s added a side of heartache. Maggie’s failed marriage taught her that love is a lie and commitment a mistake, and it was an expensive lesson. But with her bakery thriving and her life simplified to work, family, and knitting for her pug, Maggie thinks she's bought some peace. Until Jake Sutton walks in and she realizes she isn't safe from desire at all . . . Jake has model-perfect looks and about a billion dollars to throw around, but Maggie also sees the same never-say-die grit she prizes in herself. The attraction between them is hotter than her oven in July. But when Jake decides to restore the old Art Deco movie theater right around the corner from her bakery, she worries that temptation is a little too close for comfort. And the added ingredient of a man from her past only complicates the mix. This time nothing less than true love will do. If she can learn to listen to her heart, she just may be able to have her cake and eat it too. . .