Download or read book There s a Rooster in My Bathroom written by Trish Ostroski and published by Sojourn Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Trish Ostroski shares a variety of thoughtful and real lessons in this whimsical, easy-to-read book. With insights and observations from a life well lived in places like Moldova all the way to Hollywood and beyond, she shares her wonderful ride! With a career focused on service above selk, she was able to experience places and people most of us can only imagine. The stories resonate with those who love travel and life lessons learned along the ride. The book reads life scenes from a movie. Each one a new chapter in the travels of Trish, allowing the reader to skip from section to section as the stories demand. From poignant Peace Corps experiences to tha trauma of surviving an earthquake, there are life lessons for any reader. The people places and things that Trish Ostroski has experienced will keep you reading into the night. A beautiful, book-on-the nightstand read for anyone who loves a good story! Extras include the complete words to Janis Ian's award winning song "At Seventeen", the play "See You Sooner" -a tribute to Sharon Lane who was the only woman killed in the Vietnam war from eneemy fire, an in addition each chapter ends in an inspirational quote that will resonate with you. About the Author An award-winning writer, Trish Ostroski has led an interesting life. She served in the United States Peace Corps 2013-2015 in Moldova in Eastern Europe, a former Soviet nation. Prior to the Peace Corps, she was active in the entertainment industry in Hollywood as a playwright, theatrical reviewer, performer, writer, and speaker. While in Los Angeles, she worked in advertising in both print and broadcast media. With more than 500 articles published in newspapers and magazines, she also co-authored several books and performed standup comedy at the famous Ice House in Pasadena. She had the opportunity to share the stage with Joan van Ark, Lee Meriwether, Lainie Kazan, and Debbie Reynolds. She switched gears by training as a hypnotherapist. Somewhere in the middle, she survived the Northridge Earthquake, losing her car and condo reduced to rubble that fateful day in January 1994. In reflection, it was just another journey in life's marathon. Trish has served on numerous boards and is an alum of Gonzaga Univeristy, UCLA and the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. She is a longtime member of Toastmasters International, a certified Jack Canfield Trainer and a certified ambassador for International Cities of Peace. She currently lives in Ohio near the scenis Cuyahoga Valley National Park. She writes books that help readers understand the world more clearly by sharing lessons and stories in hopes to anable people to live their lives with greater meaning and purpose.

Download or read book Can t and Won t written by Lydia Davis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.

Download or read book Drinking with Chickens written by Kate E. Richards and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's drinks, it's chickens: It's the cocktail book you didn't know you needed! To add some extra happy to your happy hour , invite a chicken and pour yourself a drink. Author Kate Richards serves up cocktails made for Instagram with the spoils of her Southern California garden, chicken friends by her side. Enjoy any (or all) of the 60+ deliciously drinkable garden-to-glass beverages, such as: Lilac Apricot Rum Sour Meyer Lemon + Rosemary Old Fashioned Rhubarb Rose Cobbler Blackberry Sage Spritz Cantaloupe Mint Rum Punch Cocktails are arranged seasonally, and are 100% accessible for those of us without perpetually sunny backyard gardens at our disposal. Drinking with Chickens will quickly become a boozy favorite, perfect for gifting or for hoarding all for yourself. You don't need chickens to enjoy these drinks or the colorful photos, but be careful, because you may even find yourself aspiring to be, as Kate is, a home chixologist overrun by gorgeous, loud, early-rising egg-laying ladies, and in need of a very strong drink.

Download or read book Ride Me Dirty written by Vanessa Vale and published by Bridger Media. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine is forced to choose the life she really wants: the big-city lawyer or the small town cowgirl with two men who want to take her for a very dirty ride. Her life’s in New York. The property she’s inherited is in Bridgewater, Montana. Going back to the town she visited every summer as a child stirs up long forgotten memories and a girlhood crush, on not one teen-turned-hot-cowboy, but two. Jack and Sam. Fortunately for her, in Bridgewater, one cowboy’s never enough. KEYWORDS: romance books, contemporary romance, small town, new adult romance, best friends, cowboy romance, western romance, menage, mfm romance, marriage and family, series starter, first in series, romance series, romance saga, romantic family saga, bestseller romance, steamy, sexy, heartwarming, heart-warming, family, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, captivating romance, emotional, healing, hot, hot romance, forbidden love, second chance romance, sparks, loyalty, swoon, funny romance, modern romance, forbidden romance, enemies to lovers, childhood crush, friends to lovers, one night stand, second chance romance, hidden romance, strong alpha, alpha hero, family business, strong female lead, workplace romance, strong heroine, family secrets, top romance reads, best seller, New Adult, Romance books free, romance novels, love story, alpha, angst, American western, Montana, unrequited love, coming of age, adult romance, mature romance, rodeo, sports, heartbreak, tear jerker, first person, breakup, redemption, strong woman, contemporary women, full length, girl power, steamy, banter, angsty, first love, romance series, series, circle of friends, college, found family, mistaken identity, grumpy hero, historical, American historical western, historical cowboy, mail order bride, marriage of convenience, paranormal romance, shifter romance, cowboy shifter, werewolf, fated mates, country westerns. Readers also enjoyed books by: Ann Mayburn, Anna Zaires, B.J. Daniels, Carly Phillips, Carrie Ann Ryan, Cat Johnson, Catherine Cowles, Chelle Bliss, Cherise Sinclair, Cheyenne McCray, Claudia Burgoa, Debra Holt, Devney Perry, Diana Palmer, Esther E. Schmidt, Genevieve Turner, Helen Hardt, Jane Henry, Janet Dailey, Jeanne St. James, Jenna Jacob, Jennifer Ryan, Julia Sykes, Kennedy Fox, Kim Loraine, Lani Lynn Vale, Lauren Blakely, Lauren Landish, Laylah Roberts, Lexi Blake, Linda Lael Miller, Lindsay McKenna, Lorelei James, Lori Wilde, Maisy Yates, Max Monroe, Megan March, Melissa Foster, Nicole Snow, Penelope Ward, Renee Rose, Samantha Madisen, Shayla Black, Sophie Oak, Stephanie Rowe, Susan Stoker, Vi Keeland, Vivian Arend, Willa Nash, Willow Winters

Download or read book When You Are Engulfed in Flames written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames: "Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist Table of Contents: It's Catching Keeping Up The Understudy This Old House Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie? Road Trips What I Learned That's Amore The Monster Mash In the Waiting Room Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool Memento Mori All the Beauty You Will Ever Need Town and Country Aerial The Man in the Hut Of Mice and Men April in Paris Crybaby Old Faithful The Smoking Section

Download or read book Rooster in the Rice written by George Holmes Honadle and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooster in the Rice captures the excitement of living, studying, and working in a foreign culture. Based on the view that there is a nether world between the edges of interacting cultures where the rules of neither culture dominate, it presents over sixty incidents where cross-cultural collisions resulted in either problems or insights that changed the experience of life abroad. It identifies immediate causes of the collisions and places those incidents in an ecological framework to understand deeper global changes that affect us all. This book also examines the nature of global citizenship, describes the shock of re-entering one’s home culture after an extended period overseas, shows how natural environments mold cultural practices, and offers suggestions for strengthening global education to meet the environmental, population, and socio-economic challenges of the twenty-first century.

Download or read book The Christmas Drink written by Clay Cunningham and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christmas Drink is a historic fiction novel that describes a counter espionage investigation that, by law, could not be disclosed for fifty years. It involves two nineteen year old military counter intelligence agents, a famous Russian spy master, the FBI, CIA, Army Security Agencys communication personnel, a beautiful female Russian agent, love relationships, KGB agents in Juarez, Mexico; traitors, paid informants, UFO sightings and military personnel from White Sands Proving Grounds, NM, and from Biggs Air Force Base and Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX.

Download or read book Congratulations It s Asperger Syndrome written by Jen Birch and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the increasing number of people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in adulthood, New Zealand-born Jen Birch relates her story with humour and honesty, taking us through the years of frustration and confusion that led to her diagnosis in 1999. Now that she can put her life experiences into context, she candidly describes her continual search for 'normality', including her experiences at work, her difficulties with relationships, her time spent in a psychiatric hospital and her struggle for correct diagnosis in a country where the syndrome is relatively unknown. Talking positively about how her life has changed since the 'revelation', Jen aims to use this new-found knowledge to inform others about the syndrome and how, once its pros and cons are understood, life can be lived to the full.

Download or read book Feng Shui Q A written by Master Aaron Lee Koch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feng Shui Q&A is the world's most complete book of answers to real Feng Shui situations. It is based on 13 years of Master Aaron Lee Koch's monthly column "Ask Aaron - About Feng Shui and Life". The index makes this an easy to use reference work that should be on the desk of every Feng Shui aficionado.

Download or read book Modern Arabic Drama written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of 12 Arabic plays written and produced during the past thirty years.

Download or read book Mothering Our Boys written by Maggie Dent and published by Pennington Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maggie is earthy and real, full of love and knowledge, especially on raising sons." - Steve Biddulph "Maggie's perspective on raising boys is spot on. She writes with humor and depth, providing insight and strategies for many of the most important issues facing moms. There is a lovely ease to her writing and a powerful honesty. I hope every mother of a son (and everyone else!) will read this book. The future of the world, to a great extent, depends on how we raise our boys." - Michael Gurian, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wonder of Boys and Saving Our Sons If we can see the world through boys' eyes a little better, we will make different choices in the way we mother them... and we will find them less confusing, and love them more deeply. Mothers of sons are worried about raising their boys in a world where negative images of masculinity are front and centre of our media, almost every day. Not only that, but statistically our boys are still struggling in many ways. Even though we live in a time where we recognise that nothing in gender is fixed, it remains a fact that the influence of a mother on her son is massive. A mother of four sons herself, Maggie Dent draws on her personal experience - and over four decades work as a teacher, counsellor and now author and speaker - to help build understanding, empathy and compassion for our boys. Maggie shares her five key secrets that every mum needs to know and uses the voices of men she has worked with and surveyed to reveal what really matters in a boy's relationship with his mother and other mother figures. Maggie is one of Australia's most popular parenting authors and educators, and her seminars about boys have sold out all across Australia and in the UK. She is finally sharing her insights, her reflections, and (as always) her humour around mothering boys to help you be the mum your son needs you to be.

Download or read book There is a Season written by L. D. Bergsgaard and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of dark secrets hidden for decades beckons Special Agent Doc Martini and journalist Ann Rand to the exotic tropics of Vietnam. Terrifying memories of the savage battlefields in the highlands return when Doc is arrested and accused of being a spy. Murky intelligence agents emerge from the shadows to assure that at all costs the secrets never see the light of day. While Doc negotiates for his life, Ann becomes increasingly tangled in the messy spider’s web. What price is Doc willing to pay to survive?

Download or read book My Horizontal Life written by Chelsea Handler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this raucous collection of true-life stories, Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won't be ashamed to talk about in the morning.

Download or read book I Ll Never Be Pope written by Bob Crouch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of stories that chronicle a sometimes side-splitting childhoodmine. I thought the episodic approach was the best way to tell the account. A boys life has no path to follow. Kids wake up each day and live that day. The vignettes spans ten years, from approximately 1938 to 1948, and the locales are Brooklyn, New York and Bellflower, California. I have changed some names, tried to make the stories interesting, clear, honest and easy to follow. The book is a series of little packages. The reader can begin anywhere."

Download or read book Bridgewater County Series The Complete Boxed Set written by Vanessa Vale and published by Bridger Media. This book was released on with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate boxed set! All 6 USA Today Bestselling Bridgewater County series books in one! Included: Ride Me Dirty Claim Me Hard Take Me Fast Hold Me Close Make Me Yours Kiss Me Crazy The ultimate cowboy ménage experience! The steamy contemporary series that has it all, including two cowboys in every book! Ride Me Dirty: Catherine is forced to choose the life she really wants: the big-city lawyer or the small town cowgirl with two men who want to take her for a very dirty ride. Her life’s in New York. The property she’s inherited is in Bridgewater, Montana. Going back to the town she visited every summer as a child stirs up long forgotten memories and a girlhood crush, on not one teen-turned-hot-cowboy, but two. Jack and Sam. Fortunately for her, in Bridgewater, one cowboy’s never enough. * Claim Me Hard They’re going to claim her, even if they have to do it the hard way…one seductive kiss at a time. Hiding from a crazy ex-boyfriend, Hannah Winters is determined to keep her head down and her heart locked safely away. Burned out from practicing medicine and dealing with a controlling jerk, her interest in romance is at absolute zero…until she sees them. One look at Cole and Declan and Hannah is going to have a very hard time keeping the ice around her heart from melting. When her past catches up to her, it’ll be Cole and Declan who convince her to stop running, from her past, and from the desire burning white hot between them. * Take Me Fast They claimed her once. After seven years in the military, they’re home. Now, they’ll claim her again. Rory and Cooper haven’t forgotten Ivy. She’s the one for them, the one who became theirs one starry night before shipping off to boot camp. They didn’t expect so much time to pass before they saw her again. She’s left Bridgewater County. Changed. But they don’t care. They’ll do everything they can to make her theirs… and the baby she kept a secret. * Hold Me Close Rachel wants one thing in life, a baby of her own. Now she has not one, but two cowboys, willing to help. They may have ruined their chances in the past, but Matt and Ethan know Rachel’s the woman for them. When they discover her baby-making plans, they’ll offer to give her exactly what she wants. The old fashioned way. Because once they get their hands on her, they’ll hold her close and never let go. * Make Me Yours A movie star heroine who wants to hide herself from the world and two obsessed alpha cowboys who find her. Claim her. Make her theirs. Lacey has fame and fortune. That’s everything she’s ever wanted. Right? When she becomes tabloid fodder, she’s had enough. She needs a break. No more limelight. Escaping to a guest ranch in Bridgewater is the perfect place to hide. But when two hot cowboys do everything they can to make her theirs, are they seeking fifteen minutes of fame or because they want a forever with her? * Kiss Me Crazy One night with two cowboys. It’ll never be enough. A wild, snowy night stranded in a hotel room with two sexy men is perfect for Avery. She believes in flirting and flings, not relationships. Except those two cowboys aren’t strangers, they’re from her Montana hometown. When they see her at her sister’s wedding, they try to change her mind about the one “f” word she avoids: fiancés. Because they’ll do everything they can to make her theirs. Permanently.

Download or read book Musing and Munching written by Gloria VanDemmeltraadt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloria Jane Tyler Shigley Cannon VanDemmeltraadt is a self-described Gray-haired grandma, whos survived a number of life-style extremes and still manages to ride the bumps and smile through it all. She describes memories like sifting flour. The original product is one thing, but when it is sifted or strained through a screen it falls below in a new form. Memories are sifted through the minds of everyone who shares the same event, and the resulting product is changed forever. Musing and Munching is a unique collection of memories and menus that VanDemmeltraadt has put together to share stories of her life. She overlaps these stories with a wide variety of foods and recipes that have followed her diverse life path. As the stories unfold, readers will both laugh and cry and mouths will water. This charming volume will find its way to many a kitchen shelf where precious cookbooks are saved. VanDemmeltraadt lives and cooks in Minnesota with her husband, Onno. Book Reviews "Musing and Munching" by Gloria VanDemmeltraadt is riveting! I had a hard time putting it down. The connection between the smiling Gloria who I know with the Gloria in the book was amazing. Her inner strength and courage shine through the pages. Sharing her recipes throughout her story gives greater meaning to them, and helped me to understand their importance in her life. Wonderful book!

Download or read book Sweet Voices of Angels written by Annette Smith and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Everyday angels. c2002.