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As the author's childhood tumbles from her memory onto the pages of print, the reader is privy to all sorts of surprising revelations. Be prepared to chuckle with glee, feel your mouth gape reading about situations too weird to be untrue, wince as your heart breaks in sadness and anger over sordid situations, and shake your head both in disbelief and even perfect understanding of unusual childhood tales. Between the covers of the book, the author's very direct style in sharing the goings-on around her that profoundly affected her talks to the reader personally and even bluntly. As the years pass, the toll from various elements in her life becomes clearer and grows higher.The book's title was chosen because it chronicles from a curious angle a young girl's memories of growing up. The story's framework of recollections connected to given residences, the number of those residences, and the regularity with which this family migrated from one to another was interesting from the storytelling perspective and fortunate for Frances and all her readers. That her memories were mentally magnetized, that they attached and were thereby preserved according to the various times and places Frances called home, was an innovative, efficient, and effective writing device.Use of the rabbit hole idiom was spot-on, because despite growing older, taller, and maturing in ways (growing up), simultaneously an ominous, downward momentum was also steadily gaining more of a foothold in the life of this young person. Left unchecked, this destructive force would increasingly result in a stranger, more problematic, and chaotic life, an exquisite analogy provided by Lewis Carroll.The story shared within this book is a poignant and absorbing account as seen through the eyes of the child who lived it. Much is revealed throughout this narrative, and although the book ends, the story obviously continues. The indubitable question is not written but silently screams, what happens next?
This is a story of a married man with six children whose wife no longer wanted him there and how he dealt with no longer having a family he wanted.
In one awful hour, the Scottish Highlanders lost their way of life forever. Despite surviving the Battle at Culloden Moor, Benjamin MacKenzie and his brothers only had cold comfort from Prince Charles Edward Stuart-save yourselves any way you can. Benjamin whisked his family away to Ireland, thinking they would escape the horrible punishment that awaited them should they be caught by their British enemies. They didn't. In their native home, the MacKenzies were a proud clan with a proud name. In Ireland, that name would become anathema if they carried it forth, and so it became Kimsey. That name didn't hide them either from an English prisoner ship and a fate worse than death: sold as indentured servants in Lord Baltimore's colony. The little family was taken to their knees. With the good fortune of a fellow Scot as their master who became a good friend and set them on their feet again, the Kimseys found a fertile land and a fresh start. While other challenges would test them, including a war with their old enemies, they started a new clan, the head of which would become well-known, and the many generations would claim descent from Benjamin, their common ancestor.
Ted is my husband. He is a retired veteran from the Army National Guard and works in the IT and security industry. While his background makes him a force to be reckoned with in many categories on Jeopardy, after being deployed for a total of three tours in his twenties and thirties, he missed a lot in the pop culture world. Pop culture is one of many topics that lead to hysterical interaction for Ted and me. Our life is full of adventure and laughter and this book is a peek behind the proverbial curtain at some of our conversations. A twelve-year-old with thirty-two years of experience, Ted has the most amazing imagination that leads us down many conversational rabbit holes. Join us as we talk about entertainment, travel, our neighborhood, and life.
This memoir by Johnny Santiago, who is referred to as John-John by his endearing siblings, is just one sibling in a string of sixteen children by his parents. He has survived impoverishment, physical and mental abuse, racism, the suicide death of his three siblings to also having experienced his young son survive cancer, a thirty-eight-year marriage, and depression. It has given him the wisdom in life to write about it, and despite it all, he overcame the odds against him by graduating high school, becoming a Marine, and achieving a very successful twenty-five-year computer engineering career. Late in life, he has becomes a graduate of four collegiate science degrees. Johnny is still going strong in his marriage to the mother of his children and in his continuation of maintaining a great bond with his two adult sons.
Kai Mayers is what you would call a "e;cool breeze."e; She has always been able to effortlessly move about in her creativity, style, humor, and intelligence. Engaged to her college sweetheart, Robert, the twenty-eight-year-old Los Angeles-native has landed herself a dream job as the new creative director at Cocoa Valentine, a fashion label in Chicago and brand to be reckoned with. Strong, black, and determined, life for Kai seems to be right on schedule, at least that's what her therapist says. The pains of losing her mother and the strain of her relationship with her father have inspired her to seek the help of a professional. Preparing for not only a new change in her career and moving to the Midwest, the newest upcoming title of wife is turning her vision of wedding bells into fire alarms. She wants more than just a pretty picture. What she wants and truly desires is peace, her most fashionable garment. To Kai, mental health and beauty goes hand in hand in her complex world. She is determined to build her brand and her mental well-being, but as with everything and anything, there's a battle brewing with some of her key players. Trauma, lies, and deceit in Kai's cup begin to overflow, and her past begins to call amid the shadows. How will she set the tone for her life? When familiar faces drift into dark places, will she allow new light to guide her path? Let's take a walk in her stilettos to follow her journey.
During the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, schools were closed everywhere. A little girl finds herself missing her teacher and friends. She uses her imagination to create a solution to missing school and discovers another problem. See how she realizes learning is important and can still be fun, even though it is different. School is NOT Closed!
Spit Out Your Game is a book of ten stories designed to start conversation with every young girl, every young woman, and every youth. It's aimed at sharing ideas of unforeseen circumstances that are intertwined with their participation, interaction, and decision-making skills, leading to becoming sexually active. Questions are posed after each story to stimulate and encourage clarity as conversation starters. The purpose is to stimulate discussion about all the intricacies of sexual entanglements and all these risk factors embedded. It is simply a cultural disgrace in many parts of the world that many mature women are silently enjoying their hang-ups mentality. They continue to refuse to talk to their young women and girls about sexual entanglements and the obvious results of these choices.Spit Out Your Game shows that girls and women are not monsters who lurk wickedly behind pretty, demure, cutesy bodies all the time while scheming how to trap young boys and men into marriage, or into paying child support. Most females are oblivious and totally unaware of the traumas their bodies will experience on becoming sexually active due to lack of knowledge about their own existence as women living in their biologically assigned bodies.So no more silence. No more secrets. Spit Out Your Game seeks to bring these silent hang-ups out in the open, inside every home where the stormy wind of sexual involvement is presented to any female. The stories are to be discussed lovingly and openly with the intent of creating an understanding of sexual encounters in our young women, no matter what age range marks their jumping-in point of becoming sexually active.
"e;Put your foot back on the cliff and step away from the edge,"e; said on April 4, 2012, by the newest of our attending physicians to my son, Josh. Josh had just told the doctor that he felt like he was on the rim of a cliff, with one foot hanging over the edge. It was obvious Josh's determination to keep fighting was what was hanging on that cliff, teetering all too close to the edge. As the doctor got up to leave Josh's hospital room that day, Josh mustered every bit of energy he had, fought the pain he was feeling in his legs, and stood up to shake the doctor's hand. The doctor's pronouncement gave us all hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be some answers among the myriad of doctors that had paraded through Josh's hospital room.On that day in the little notebook that had become my own daily log regarding Josh's medical condition, I wrote, "e;Thank God for this doctor."e;This is not a story, bit by bit, of detailed medical jargon or descriptions. It is not meant to cast doubt on individual doctors, decisions made or not made, the medical profession, or military hospitals. It is simply a story of courage.Courage, "e;the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action."e; Bravery.
It is 1962, and the underground world in Atlantic City is booming with the profits from illegal casinos. This city has a great deal to offer to those who are willing to take a few chances, and the old battle for dominance over control of the city between Frank Moniarti and Nicholas Malone appears to have finally come to an end. In fact, Frank Moniarti has grown used to living a relatively peaceful lifestyle, until one fateful event changed everything.Now, two old rivals from the streets of New Jersey are forced to team up to handle a new problem that has just arrived from Brooklyn. A New York crime boss named Vincent Plemagoya has just tried making a name for himself in Atlantic City. After Frank Moniarti has his son's life threatened during a jewelry store robbery, he must now pool together all his resources and enlist help from some implausible allies in order to get the problem under control. Once a new conflict for power has begun, Moniarti goes on a tireless quest for revenge, chasing Vincent Plemagoya all over the city.From the glamourous city streets and dark back alleyways in Atlantic City, to the luxurious mansions of New Jersey's most powerful, and onto some adventurous travels through several major cities throughout the Midwest, a nonstop game of strategy has begun in a battle toward ultimate dominance in New Jersey's underground. In a game where everyone is willing to place their bets but nobody wants to lose, the cost of their wagers is very high, and the rules of the game become perilous.
A Relationship Pocket Guide Written for Women by Men is a resource for those with very little or extensive experience with relationships to refer to for guidance on some of the most common relationship issues we face as men and women. It is honest, simple, straightforward, and easy to understand. It will resonate with most people who have been in past relationships and will provide many aha moments for those entering into new relationships!Will make an excellent gift for that young son or daughter or other young person in your life that you know who will benefit from this guide on relationships! Perfect for the newlyweds!
I Suck at Pronouns is an account of the journey of a mother of an adolescent tomboy, who threw a monkey wrench in every parenting book. An adorable little girl who grew into a handsome transgender boy on the cusp of physical transition, her son had raised the bar.The ups and downs, the trials and errors that every mom's faces are amplified when the moments that are considered normal are anything but ordinary. No one ever said parenting was easy, well, maybe they did, but that author did not have a transgender son. Life in a small town is usually no more complicated today than it was thirty years ago-different, yes, but not really problematic as long as you know where to change. But this is no typical life.The bullying, the questioning, the depression, and anxiety are part of everyday life for a kid growing up in the wrong body. But one thing is for certain. If you have the support and love of your family and friends, you can overcome any obstacle thrown in your way!Dropped into the realm of a transgender lifestyle, a mother navigates her way around friendships, family, therapists, and pronouns. Maneuvering through a world she originally knew nothing about while supporting her child every step of the way, the author displays her worry as to the best way to approach this new terrain. Did she know what she was doing? Probably not. Did she screw up? Maybe. Did she do her best? I'd say so. Does she love her child unconditionally? Absolutely!Possibly call this a self-help book in the hopes that it may help the average Joe/Josephine who just wants to know where to begin or would like to be more educated on the subject or at least know that they're not alone.
Behind the Walls: Fifty-Two Weeks and Counting was written to give the reader an inside look at a social economic depravity system existing within the United States, a place where individuals migrate to achieve the American dream. Here in the United States, a country that has the largest prison population in the world, reported as of April 6, 2020, for every 100,000 in population, there are currently 737 inmates locked up (worldpopulationreview.com). If you think that's bad, look at the state of Texas. According to Prison Policy Initiative, for every 100,000 in population, 891 individuals are incarcerated, and this does not include federal prison inmates. And of course, it's no secret that most of the incarcerated population are people of color.The Texas prison system is none other than a business, and though Behind the Walls: Fifty-Two Weeks and Counting does not reflect on the business side of it, it does give the reader an inside look at the community, a community where a different type of social conflict exists. It's a conflict which produces a struggle for power and respect. This conflict not only affects the incarcerated inmate but the correctional officers as well, whose number one goal is to make sure he or she leaves the same way they walked in. Behind the Walls paints a picture of the daily life and struggles from an officer's perspective and will have you asking yourself, "e;If I was convicted, whether wrongfully or not, could I make it behind the walls?"e;
The main character, Captain McCallister, sets out to correct a situation that he himself did not create. Through hardship and heartache, his determination provides him much needed strength.
The title, Through the Eyes of the Eagle, was actually birthed three years prior to the writing of the book. When the author was inspired and compelled to write the story of his life three years later in 2017, his remembrance of a spiritual experience that took place in 2014 would be the stimulus to consider the title. This spiritual experience was an actual visitation and sighting of a golden eagle. This experience became his motivation to choose the title. The title chosen is really a metaphor of sorts and symbolic representation of the author's spiritual eyesight wanting to convey this compelling story as seen through his eyes. When the visitation and sighting took place in August 2014, the author knew there was a higher spiritual connotation to be understood.Yearning for the meaning, the author researched the significance. What the author learns put his compelling story of his life into perspective. He realizes the significance of this sighting was proportionate precisely and relative to what he had been through in his life and what he had learned from a higher perspective. What he learned and already understood were the specifics of spiritual messages that the eagle is trying to convey when one is visited by one.Specifically, when the eagle appears, one is to be fully aware, to be courageous, and to stretch one's limits. Look at things from a new and higher perspective, and know that the future holds possibilities that one may not be able to see. Additionally, with respect to its symbolism and powers, the eagle conveys powers and messages of the spirit. It is man's connection to the divine. In this sighting, the author learns and understands that the eagle bestows freedom and courage to look ahead, and the lesson of the sighting is that one must have the courage to relinquish the state of comfortable habits and beliefs to soar into unknown realms and realities. On that particular day of his life, it seemed to the author that the lessons learned summed up his entire life story.After this magnificent experience, friends, with whom he had shared the spiritual experience of the eagle sighting with, gave him the name Eagle because of his spiritual eyesight and its accuracy. In their opinion, his eyesight was as impeccable as the eyesight of an eagle. The name given stuck and became a profound inspiration to the author to eventually convey this compelling and inspirational story as seen through his eyes, the eyes of the eagle.
This book is about trust and dependence upon God and his saving grace. We must always seek his wisdom, knowledge, guidance, and divine protection. At times, this Christian journey can appear to be a bit burdensome and tedious. However, this book can make this journey worthwhile and a little easier.We must boldly approach the throne of God to seek his face and not his hand. As my faith continues to grow in God, I am learning that developing a deeper and deeper relationship with him is what he desires. To get to this level of intimacy with him, we must go through a school of testing and suffering.During trials and tribulations, character, faith, trust, endurance, and perseverance are produced to establish, settle, and strengthen us. God has placed something inside of each of us that we must give birth to. He wants to make sure that he can entrust us with his time, gifts, talents, and everything else that he has given to us. I admit that God's discipline may seem to be painful at the time, but it will yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness (Heb. 12:11). I am learning that it is divine to ask God to humble you daily. Don't wait to be humbled by him because of being stubborn or disobedient. He will do the exalting.It is my prayer that as God continues to look at each of us, he will begin seeing more and more of the image of his dear Son, Jesus Christ. May we all come completely back to the heart of worship and realize that it is all about God. He is worthy of all honor, glory, and praise! Hallelujah! He reigns! Amen.
We all have our dreams. We all want to be someone or something special in our lives.In this book, you will read about a small-town boy who wanted nothing more than to become a stock car driver and, as a fifteen-year-old teenager, became one. I hope you will enjoy this book.
Come hang out with Rocky the Puppy as she gets lost at the Jersey Shore, only to be rescued by her new friends Charlie the Crab, Susie the Starfish, and Sammy the Seagull, who help Rocky discover the value of friendship and courage. Filled with positive affirmations to help children improve their confidence, this book is an excellent addition to any collection.
The Secret A young man with a high calling from God, his mother a very religious woman, his father a highly decorated man working in the hierarchy of the CIA while he hides behind a semi-successful career and a wall of drugs and shame.An urgent call from his mother, "e;Your father has a brain tumor and very little time left. Because of national security reasons, we can only visit him one last time before he dies."e;During the visit, the young man is told an unbelievable secret that must be told to the masses but is arrested and incarcerated in solitary confinement. Known from childhood as one not to trust with a secret, will he fail and tell his capturers, resulting in sure death, or will he somehow get this message to the world? Find out in this nail-biting story, The Secret. Hunting Virgins Five men known as the "e;wild bunch"e; all working for Hawkeye Tree Service were considered by many the best hazardous tree-removal experts in the world.Then after years of heavy drug abuse and alcoholism, the boss has a spiritual awakening and moves across the country to start a church.Ten years later, he has started working for World Exploration Unlimited. Discovering a thousand-acre patch of timber in far remote northern Siberia, the gang regroups to fell the largest trees on the planet. Will this trip be a huge success or a horrible tragedy...or both? You decide. Take a trip around the world with five tough-as-nails men and one sweet angel (the boss's young daughter) in a story you won't soon forget, Hunting Virgins.
Dean Paul Pearson was born in 1964 and is a native of Wichita, Kansas. Born number ten of twelve children, eight boys and four girls, he developed a passion for reading and the great outdoors as means of escape from a crowded farmhouse. Also, being raised on a forty-acre farm on the outskirts of the city allowed Dean, his siblings, cousins, and friends to enjoy acres upon acres of land in which to explore and share in many adventures together. While co-teaching a high school reading class, he began telling his students about his childhood adventures before reading exams. The students enjoyed the stories, which seemed to relieve some of their test anxiety. Naturally, the students began to request a story before each exam. The enjoyment the students received from the stories inspired Dean to write them down...and thus we have volume one of The Farmhouse Chronicles.
Yuhudi Brown, a sommelier waiter with a second part-time job as an Uber driver; Sarah, an undocumented immigrant financier; and Jennifer, a deep-sea scuba diver scientist, join together to expose a sinister conspiracy of twenty-first-century carpetbaggers. The social order of the entire world was being challenged and rapidly declining. The conspirators sought to achieve world domination to more easily monitor and control movements of individuals by reducing the bulk of the world's population through environmental disasters by controlling the weather. Yuhudi and Jennifer saw the best in each other and overlooked the worse. They loved each others' souls inside and out, and that made them happy. But something different happened when Sarah became a part of this trio. Together, they would touch the sky -turning themselves into something few saw coming.America's nightmare and Russia's dream. Yuhudi Brown discerns the signs of the times. A generation demands a sign and after Yuhudi's disclosure, we are WOKE. The Earth was destroyed by water the first time around (Noah and the Great Flood). It will be the Fire next time unless we do something SOON about man made global warming climate change. Big Sky - Save Our Planet. YUHUDI BROWN, "e;DECLASSIFIED"e;.
Born into a winged warrior race, Lorelei knows how to wield a sword. Now that she is seventeen, her swordsmanship is tested, and when she passes, she's removed from her family for further training to prepare for war. But deep underneath the surface, she faces a greater threat, more formidable than their enemy, the Toraveru. Exposure to battle has awakened a deep-seated psychological disease that will prey upon her emotions, challenge her loyalties, twist her morals, and breed an unquenchable thirst for violence. The elders call it the Renai, and they believe there's only one cure for the infected: death by execution.As she struggles to fight against the disease, Lorelei's strength and resolve begin to wane, but she finds hope when she's sought out by Airik, a dangerously infected, exiled mercenary who tells her the urges she's struggling to restrain can be forged into powerful abilities that have been suppressed by centuries of executions. Shaken by the truth, Lorelei begins to question what she's been told about the disease, about the cure, and about the motivations of her honor-bound race. In order to survive, she must place her life and trust in the hands of dangerous allies and learn to wield the power of the Renai before it's too late.
Bracky Kinsloe graduated in 1967 from Jiba High School, a small Texas town. To get out of the hay fields, he ends up in the medical field-all this while his brother and others are in Vietnam on the battlefield.With the help of many different characters, Bracky uses his sense of humor to get through loss, changing emotions, and basically growing up in the sixties.It doesn't take long for him to lose the green behind his ears.
I'm writing for all of you.Broken heart only to share the pieces.The pain is presented with love. I give you my all.Why me? Well, why not?Because I'd do it all over again. Without the weight,I'd have no strength. It's never just going to be easy.We are survivors. It feels so much better because we are.-Nina Ruiz
James Maurie Halm retired from his chemical research activities when he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains to pursue his avocation of creative writing. His major interest is poetry, and he has published in both chemistry and poetry. His training and experience in science has cast his world in the web of beauty and order. He writes of elegance and poignancy in the human condition. A decade after his wife passed away, James met Dorothy (Doti), a widowed mountain flower of Western, North Carolina.The match went from curiosity to impressiveness to heartfelt respect. James relates, "e;We learned a lot from each other and after several years, a romance evolved which escalated into a grand adventure. We were, and continue to be, blessed with each other's companionship. The strikes of beauty and wonder in this human association were like lightning strikes to command poetic thunder. I hope you hear these cascades throughout this book of poetry."e;
A massive shark, which is supposed to be extinct for thousands of years, terrorizes the shores of the seaside town of Harradon. At first, no one believes the old lobsterman who first spotted it. But as time goes on, the evidence of a massive killer fish becomes a reality, and the locals try everything in their power to destroy it. Eventually, a young fisherman, a scientist, and an old sailor embark on a quest to catch the huge shark alive. But when they finally spot it, the question jumps from whether they can catch it to whether or not they will return to shore alive.
Take a wild adventure with cowboy Zak Bryant and Santa Claus, where the spirit of the Old West and magic of Christmas come together.The story will prove how love and joy will conquer all! Young children will be captivated when reading and will treasure this book.
Secrets Kill: Come out of the Darkness is a true story of a young woman's journey out of the darkness that follows being sexually abused as a child. This book takes you into the mind of someone who had been abused, allowing you to feel what she felt and understand her thoughts. Not only was she abused as a child but she was also revictimized multiple times as a young adult. Feeling alone and confused, Carmen had to figure out how to heal and move forward in life to stop the continued cycle of abuse. Now that she has, she wants to share those tips with everyone in need of them.
The Absolution Tap represents the journey of one man's search for clarity in mastering his lifelong, ongoing dance with depression. Via the power of resurrected faith, forgiveness, and his unique metaphorical perspective on the management and interaction of his "e;life tanks,"e; author Paul Bristol has discovered the path to his "e;middle lane of inner peace."e; By breaking the destructive cycle of being comfortable with discomfort and in changing how life events are interpreted and processed, one can begin the construction of a new life narrative that lies in wait to help master, medication-free, that "e;dance with the ghost."e;"e;It's not about your past and the players who are riding on your "e;team bus,"e; but about who you choose to put behind the wheel each and every day that determines your life course. Through faith and absolute, entrenched forgiveness, there is no obstacle that you cannot conquer"e; (Paul Bristol, The Absolution Tap).
Life's Calendar is a 100 page calendar for 100 years of life. It's not a day-day calendar, but your tangible calendar in your home, to list life events and successes, challenges and goals to help you plan your whole life.
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