Download or read book Surprised by Motherhood written by Lisa-Jo Baker and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer with a well-stamped passport and a passion for human rights, Lisa-Jo Baker never wanted to be a mom. And then she had kids. Having lost her own mother to cancer as a teenager, Lisa-Jo felt lost on her journey to womanhood and wholly unprepared to raise children.Surprised by Motherhoodis Lisa-Jo's story of becoming and being a mom, and in the process, discovering that all the "what to expect" and "how to" books in the world can never truly prepare you for the sheer exhilaration, joy, and terrifying love that accompanies motherhood.Set partly in South Africa and partly in the US (with a slight detour to Ukraine along the way), Surprised by Motherhoodis a poignant memoir of one woman's dawning realization that being a mom isn't about being perfect--it's about being present.

Download or read book The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again written by Nancy Thayer and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors–as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for massages and seaweed wraps, each struggling to reconcile her secret dreams, biggest fears, and deepest feelings as topsy-turvy events shake up her life. After eighteen years of trying to make peace with her husband’s cold-as-ice mother, Polly vows to be the perfect mother-in-law: loving, accepting, and determined to keep her mouth shut. Then her son marries Amy, a Birkenstocked gal whose organic farm and family ooze a rather creepy serenity. Ever the optimist, Polly puts her best foot forward . . . so why does it end up in her mouth? A shy and brilliant professor-to-be, Beth has lived a sheltered life. Then she meets Sonny, a rugged, sexy carpenter who sweeps her off her feet. The problem? Beth may not survive his loud, affectionate, athletic family–especially when the very beautiful and earthy woman everybody wanted Sonny to marry is still hanging around the family dinner table. Heiress to one of New England’s oldest paper companies, Carolyn is the driving force behind the brand. Now, at thirty-seven, the workaholic executive is finally pregnant with her first child, and high blood pressure is forcing her to do something totally alien: relax. But how can she let down her guard when her seventy-something father has gone and eloped with a young bank clerk named Heather, whose rather plain looks and unassuming nature still manage to fill Carolyn with suspicion. A free-spirited photographer, Julia has married a man she loves, but he’s come packed with baggage. Tim is a widower with a young daughter, and Julia has bravely stepped up to the plate, doing her best to provide maternal support. But as if being pinned down by the child’s slightly manipulative ways and (dare Julia say it) spoiled behavior wasn’t enough, there’s Tim’s ex-mother-in-law, whose meddling is getting nastier by the week. For Polly, Beth, Carolyn, and Julia, the time has come to stand up for what matters–for their passions, their hearts, and themselves. As they maneuver through family drama and embrace unexpected change, they come to find that life is much easier (and a lot more fun) when you’ve got friends, wine, and chocolate along for the ride.

Download or read book My New Roots written by Sarah Britton and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holistic nutritionist and highly-regarded blogger Sarah Britton presents a refreshing, straight-forward approach to balancing mind, body, and spirit through a diet made up of whole foods. Sarah Britton's approach to plant-based cuisine is about satisfaction--foods that satiate on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Based on her knowledge of nutrition and her love of cooking, Sarah Britton crafts recipes made from organic vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds. She explains how a diet based on whole foods allows the body to regulate itself, eliminating the need to count calories. My New Roots draws on the enormous appeal of Sarah Britton's blog, which strikes the perfect balance between healthy and delicious food. She is a "whole food lover," a cook who makes simple accessible plant-based meals that are a pleasure to eat and a joy to make. This book takes its cues from the rhythms of the earth, showcasing 100 seasonal recipes. Sarah simmers thinly sliced celery root until it mimics pasta for Butternut Squash Lasagna, and whips up easy raw chocolate to make homemade chocolate-nut butter candy cups. Her recipes are not about sacrifice, deprivation, or labels--they are about enjoying delicious food that's also good for you.

Download or read book From the Heart of a Man written by Rick Mizuno and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, the provocatively engaging style of this true romantic has created a book that is sure to touch the hearts of his ever-increasing fans. Like reading passages from his personal diary From the Heart of a Man is a moving collection of letters and poems about Love, Romance and just a little Heartbreak. "Wonderful! Reminded me of one of my favorite compilations by Leonard Cohen and I thought he was a genius. Loved the mixture of passages, poetry, the variety, the sensuality...wow... took my breath away. For a man to express himself like this is an unexpected treat. This book is truly one of a kind!" JJ Kennedy, MS/LMFT - Radio Personality - New York, NY "Mizuno gives an intense account of manly desires. His stories are divided by beautiful fine-line images of lovers and touching poems with lines like, '... a cloud-like latte of tiny bubbles.' His voice reveals the ecstasy of a desire-filled teenager and the sensual expressions of Rumi. The book is positive and uplifting, and it is obvious to any reader that he adores and respects women. Bravo to Rick Mizuno for this ecstatic, sexy, sweet book." Marcielle Brandler, Educator/Producer and Author of The Breathing House: Imagist Poems - Pasadena, CA An amazingly gifted writer, Rick's ability to create vivid images and articulate his inner feelings is a sensuous blend of simple eloquence and unabashed raw passion. As you read each original piece, you will begin to sense a personal connection with each passionate expression. Such a book as this may very well secure an endearing place on your bedside table.

Download or read book Max Starr Complete Series written by Jasmine Haynes and published by Redwood Valley Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ghost, a psychic, and one very hunky detective, all tied up with a bit of murder and mayhem... Thirty-something, down-on-her-luck accountant Max Starr has the unfortunate gift of being psychic, a newly-discovered wrinkle in her already messed-up life. Her husband, Cameron, is dead, killed in a botched 7-11 robbery two years ago. In her grief, Max has cut herself off from friends, moved out of her San Francisco home in favor of a studio apartment, and dumped her flourishing career as a CPA to do temp work. Now Max has developed an annoying penchant for attracting the spirits of murdered women. Okay, they possess her. And to exorcize them, Max must unmask their killers. But how?! By stepping into the void their deaths created, taking their jobs, befriending the loved ones they left behind. Max goes wherever she has to go and does whatever she has to do, with a lot of help from the ghost of her late husband Cameron and hunky and very enticing Detective Witt Long. The Max Starr boxed set includes the complete series. DEAD TO THE MAX Max steps into the shoes of a murdered accountant and starts to learn that even supposedly boring accountants can have secret lives and secret desires. Max just has to hope the secrets she uncovers don’t get her killed, too. EVIL TO THE MAX Max Starr has another vision of murder, and once again she goes on the hunt for the killer herself, dragging a reluctant Witt Long with her. As she ventures into the dead woman’s life, the deeper she gets, the more she sees that everyone has something to hide. As she stirs up a hornet’s nest, Max might become the next victim. When it comes to Witt and her sexy visions about him, she suspects resistance is futile. DESPERATE TO THE MAX When phone sex operator Bethany is brutally murdered, Max is plunged into her kinky after-midnight world. Barely surviving this crash course in Phone Sex 101, Max turns to detective Witt Long for help in catching the murderer. Needing Witt for his detecting skills is one thing, but meeting his mother is scarier than facing down a cold-blooded killer. POWER TO THE MAX Lance La Russa had exotic tastes and the money to pay them. Angela Rocket, the beautiful call girl willing to fulfill his fantasies, was the last person to see him alive. To solve the crime, Max Starr must enter the world of sex for hire, to the chagrin of her ghostly late husband Cameron and boyfriend Witt Long. But the scariest thing of all? Witt’s mom Ladybird wants to help do the detecting! VENGEANCE TO THE MAX Her husband Cameron has been dead for two years, but Max Starr has never let him go. Now comes her greatest challenge. Was Cameron murdered because he stumbled onto a robbery at the wrong time in the wrong place? Or was something far more sinister going on? With Detective Witt Long’s helping hand, Max must make the terrifying trip into her worst nightmare. Can Max bury her past and learn to love again? Or will the quest for vengeance take over her soul? The Max Starr series is a contemporary paranormal romance/mystery series. REVIEWS for the Max Starr series: “This story is dark and dangerous while also being erotic and exciting. Readers will be immersed in Max’s story right from the beginning, and they will be eager to find out what turn of events her latest vision brings.” ~ Romance Junkies “This book has a wonderful flow and is an excellent mystery. Every time you think you’ve got it figured out, [Ms. Haynes] throws you another curve!” ~ Fallen Angel Reviews “Funny? Yes! Sizzling? Absolutely! However you might want to turn on the lights because, otherwise, the dark might give life to odd nightmares.” ~ Romance Reviews Today

Download or read book Cry Mother Spain written by Lydie Salvayre and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit). Montse lives in a small village, high in the hills, where few people can read or write and fewer still ever leave. If everything goes according to her mother's plan, Montse will never leave either. She will become a good, humble maid for the local landowners, muchísimas gracias, with every Sunday off to dance the jota in the church square. But Montse's world is changing. Her brother José has just returned from Lérida with a red and black scarf and a new, dangerous vocabulary and his words are beginning to open up new realms to his little sister. She might not understand half of what he says, but how can anyone become a maid in the Burgos family when their head is ringing with shouts of Revolución, Comunidad and Libertad? The war, it seems, has arrived in the nick of time.

Download or read book Harlequin Medical Romance October 2015 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Amalie Berlin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Medical Romance brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin® Medical Romance box set includes: FALLING FOR HER RELUCTANT SHEIKH by Amalie Berlin Could gorgeous sheikh Khalil Al-Akkari hold the key to sleep therapist Adalyn’s locked-away heart? FATHER FOR HER NEWBORN BABY Cowboys, Doctors…Daddies by Lynne Marshall Famed cardiologist Cole Montgomery falls head over heels for beautiful Lizzie…and her newborn daughter, too! SAFE IN THE SURGEON’S ARMS by Molly Evans Surgeon Chase Montgomery is determined to show Emily that in his arms, she’ll always be safe… Look for six new captivating love stories every month from Harlequin® Medical Romance!

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Download or read book The Story Biz Handbook written by Dianne de Las Casas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, this is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail, from choosing a sound system to building a website to using podcasts and setting up an office. Resource lists and tried and true ideas abound as the author shares her marketing and business success story throughout. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement.

Download or read book The Shirt off His Back written by Parry EbonySatin Brown and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An animating, heartwarming look into the life of single parenthood.”—Black Issues Book Review After a brief relationship in college, Catherine and Terry found themselves the parents of twin baby girls. A reluctant mother from the start, Catherine quickly abandoned the children for a successful career overseas. With the help of family and friends, Terry has raised the twins by himself, and now, eleven years later, he’s about to expand his family by marrying Jackie, herself a single parent. Suddenly realizing she needs a better family image to advance her career, Catherine shows up and demands custody of the twins. But Terry will not give them up without a fight. Engagingly blending humor and drama, Parry “EbonySatin” Brown has written an entertaining novel of friendship, romance, and one man’s determination to keep his family together. “Parry ‘EbonySatin’ Brown has done a superb job in her debut novel of portraying a strong man doing exactly what he needs to do.”—Booklist

Download or read book The Healer of Guildenwood written by Mary E. Calvert and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Ann Shepherd just wants to be a “normal” high school senior and not be seen as the least bit weird. But nothing extraordinary ever happens to anyone who is not a little odd . . . When Margaret Ann wakes one morning acting as though she’s just stepped out of the Middle Ages, everyone starts to doubt her sanity. But what really happened on the night in question? Placed in therapy to get to the bottom of her “eccentricities,” memories emerge of another body, another world, another life—lived over the course of one night. In The Soultrekker Chronicles Book I, The Healer of Guildenwood, Margaret Ann struggles to make a new life with a new name, Arwyn, in a world where elves, mortals, and dwarves live beneath a shadow of tyranny, groaning for redemption. Arwyn must carefully navigate her abilities in combat and the art of healing, which she learns from a mysterious old hermit who seems to know more about her than he willingly admits. And when she accidentally attracts the attention of a brutal dictator, Draigon, her new world becomes even more dangerous. Is she truly an elf, revered by some, feared and hated by the powers that be, or do her passionate tendencies hint at a mortal nature? Elf or mortal, her soul was “borrowed” for a purpose she can scarcely imagine. Arwyn will either fall into despair over her lost life . . . or discover that which she was born to be.

Download or read book Bred to the Bone written by Lin Waterhouse and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this small-town mystery, a retired teacher moves to the Ozark mountains, where her eager manner ruffles some feathers—and unearths dark secrets. Retired schoolteacher Caroline Hudson has moved to Hickory Bend, Missouri, to embrace small-town life. But her eagerness to join the community only rouses the suspicions of longtime residents. Luckily, her friend Terry needs help fixing up the old Hunter’s Mill. Caroline is thrilled to learn about her new home through this historic building—especially when she discovers some fascinating documents hidden in the attic. These documents reveal family secrets of prejudice, pride, murder, and mayhem—just the kind of story that piques Caroline’s curiosity! But some residents would prefer to keep the unpleasantness buried in the past. When someone launches a cover-up as shocking and foolhardy as the original crime, it could bring a permanent end to Caroline’s new career in sleuthing . . .

Download or read book Letters to My Child s Guardian written by Virginia C. Antipolo-Utt and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a wonderful gift to parents, children, and estate planning practitioners. It offers a helpful reference on many items they need to consider when selecting a guardian for minor children and provides a souvenir to cherish forever. Lorraine del Prado, Vice President, Principal Gifts & Philanthropic Initiatives at Seattle Children’s In this remarkable book, Virginia, a deeply caring and professionally accomplished person, brings what she shares with family, friends, and clients in her everyday life: compassion, wisdom, expertise, and a profound commitment to making our world a better place through the wellbeing of children and families. Al Boren, CEO of the Shasta Family YMCA I highly endorse this book! It as a valuable tool for parents . . . and the best legacy we can leave our children. Brenda Baltrusch, Career Trust Officer at Large National Bank Every parent faces the often gut-wrenching question: “Who will raise my child in the event of a disaster?” As difficult as it is to focus on dire possibilities, selecting a guardian for one’s minor child is an essential part of every parent’s will. Parents who fail to act leave their child’s guardian unprepared and may leave their child’s future, routines, and traditions up to strangers to decide. If you could spend a few moments now that would make it possible to dramatically help your child navigate a profoundly difficult time later, would you? Letters to My Child’s Guardian offers: • Many parent-attorney insights about child guardianship decisions • Identifies critical legal issues and practical choices to consider in wills and trusts • Demystifies this process for each family and provides great insight Letters creates a unique “catastrophe” resource, jumpstarts vital discussions, and guides parents to share an enduring family legacy that will captivate future generations. Through Letters parents can supplement their estate plans in a non-legally binding fashion and reveal and preserve profoundly meaningful advice. Families can use this inspirational resource to create powerful letters of encouragement, advice, and wisdom for their children. For over thirty years attorney Virginia Antipolo-Utt has provided sophisticated and compassionate estate planning counsel to her clients about wills, trusts, and guardianships. Virginia graduated from Duke University Law School, enjoys writing and cooking, and since elementary school has enjoyed serving in many diverse volunteer capacities. Virginia lives with her husband, daughter, and fur-faced friends near Seattle, Washington.

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Download or read book Llewellyn s Book of Natural Remedies written by Vannoy Gentles Fite and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Hundreds of Holistic Remedies and Wellness Tips Llewellyn's Book of Natural Remedies shares a powerful integrative approach to healing and living a more natural life. Author Vannoy Gentles Fite shares effective remedies for more than a hundred ailments, exploring contemporary and traditional techniques using common, everyday ingredients. Integrative medicine combines natural, holistic approaches with mainstream medicine. In this book, each ailment includes treatments using essential oils, herbs, Ayurveda, and home remedies. The recipes are easy to locate based on your specific needs, and they include materials you can typically find in your home. From balms and baths to tinctures and wraps, these outstanding remedies will support your healing process as you live your best possible life. One of BookAuthority.Org's 19 Best Holistic eBooks to Read in 2020

Download or read book Herbal Choices written by Carolee Snyder and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the continuation of Callies story chronicling her second season at Joyful Heart Herbs. A story of second chances, this book features recipes for the second course a choice, of course, of soup or salad! All of the recipes are original with flavor combinations and ideas sparked by the scents of the herbs.