Author : Julie Buxbaum
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553535641
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author : Joanna Cannon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501187406
The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together. There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she’s my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing…might take a bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie “breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals…a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an “amusing and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.
Author : Sheryl Schmeckpeper
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2019-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781711828862
It's 1943, and Clair Wagner and her mother, Ann, are hanging onto the windswept farm in South Central Nebraska that her German grandparents homesteaded fifty years earlier. They've survived almost every plague in God's handbook, including grasshopper invasions, famine, floods. The flu epidemic of 1918 took Clair's father, and the "Great War" took her husband. Now, Hitler is after her only son, and a new war has strained old friendships. Clair blames the Germans and God for her perils and is angry when she learns a German prisoner of war camp is opening just down the road. When one of the prisoners shows up to work on the farm, Clair is forced to face her prejudices. Sheryl Schmeckpeper is a Nebraskan, a journalist and a historian, who has researched and published numerous articles on World War II and the prisoner of war camps in Nebraska.
Author : Mick Brooks
Publisher : Cwr
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781782598282
Based on the seminal work of CWR founder Selwyn Hughes, presented in his book Christ Empowered Living, Mick Brooks now offers a fresh approach to how we can deepen our dependence on God to meet our need for security, self-worth and significance. This new resource, designed for individuals, small groups and whole churches, takes an accessible approach to understanding the key elements of our personalities. It examines the strategies we follow, thinking we know how best to make life work, and ways in which we can learn to rethink how to have our needs met and function well - even when life becomes a struggle. The book: 42 days to help you lean into God every day and discover how to find your security, self-worth and significance in God The group resource: Free online videos and discussion starters to help you fully unpack this vital, life-transforming teaching The church programme: Sermon outlines and PowerPoint templates to help your whole church benefit in journeying through These Three Things together.
Author : Betty Culley
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062908049
Fans of Jandy Nelson and Marieke Nijkamp will love this deeply moving novel in verse about the aftermath of a gun accident. Life changes forever for Liv when her older brother, Jonah, accidentally shoots himself with his best friend Clay’s father’s gun. Now Jonah needs round-the-clock care just to stay alive, and Liv feels like she’s the only person who can see that her brother is still there inside his broken body. With Liv’s mom suing Clay’s family, there are divisions in the community that Liv knows she’s not supposed to cross. But Clay is her friend, too, and she refuses to turn away from him—just like she refuses to give up on Jonah. This powerful novel is a stunning exploration of tragedy, grief, compassion, and forgiveness.
Author : Dorothy Allison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101127988
Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse. As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.
Author : Brett Atlas
Publisher : Addicus Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1950091570
Are You Focused on What Matters Most? If you were asked to tell your life story, would it be one of a life well-lived? According to author Brett Atlas, as our lives evolve at an ever-increasing pace, we have become detached from the universal truths which define our existence. As a result, we risk prioritizing the immaterial while neglecting the essential.In Three Things Matter Most, Atlas explains that how we approach time, relationships, and money has the biggest impact on our lives. The way we balance these three precious resources makes the difference between a life filled with meaning and a life rife with disappointment. Drawing from centuries of wisdom, philosophy, and psychology, as well as from personal experience, Atlas offers an easy-to-follow road map to self-fulfillment and happiness. You're Here Only Once. Make It Count.
Author : Lisa Anderson Shaffer
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780762465293
A journal for the thoughtful observer, These Three Things uses insightful prompts and beautiful images to guide readers in the practice of mindful reflection. This unique guided journal encourages joyful curiosity and thoughtful reflection, centered on three things you've learned over the course of your day. Alongside selected reflections from the author, prompts encourage you to take a moment of focus, while beautiful, full-color photographs will inspire you to view your environment with fresh eyes. This airy, modern journal offers opportunities to reflect, gain inspiration, and experience new things. Using the ongoing art project of author Lisa Anderson Shaffer as a jumping off point, this process of intentional reflection is an accessible, attainable way to stop time, look within, and identify what's truly important. Paired with unique images and thought-provoking insights, the prompts in These Three Things will uplift and focus, guiding you to feel a sense of purpose at the day's end. In an uncertain world, this meditative practice is an invitation to be curious, to have hope, and to be open to what the day can bring.
Author : Jessica A. Fox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476730253
In this inspiring, delightful memoir, a young woman decides to escape the daily grind and turn her “what if” fantasy into a reality, only to find work—and a man—she loves in one fell swoop, all in a secondhand bookstore in a quaint Scottish town. Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood, an ambitious 26-year-old film-maker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she was seized by a moment of inspiration and tapped “second hand bookshop Scotland” into Google. She clicked the first link she saw. A month later, she arrived 2,000 miles across the Atlantic in Wigtown, on the west coast of Scotland, and knocked on the door of the bookshop she would be living in for the next month . . . The rollercoaster journey that ensued—taking in Scottish Hanukkah, yoga on Galloway’s west coast, and a waxing that she will never forget—would both break and mend her heart. It would also teach her that sometimes we must have the courage to travel the path less taken. Only then can we truly become the writers of our own stories.
Author : Remi Carrington
Publisher : Phrey Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947685260
I’m a cat person. He has two BIG dogs. There is no chance this will work. There are three things I said I’d never do— Never move back in with my parents. Thanks to a summer storm, not only am I residing with my parents—temporarily—but a tree falls on their house and traps me in the bathtub. Enter the hottie firefighter who rescues me, bubbles and all. Then my parents have to move in with me. Oh joy. Never let my mom set me up on a blind date. She asks so many times, I finally agree. And the hot firefighter—Adam—is the one who shows up. Because I’ve always wanted to go on a first date with a guy who has seen me in nothing but bubbles. Not. Never date a guy with a dog. Adam is nearly perfect . . . except he has dogs. The furry beasts frighten me, and no way would Pookie tolerate them. But for a chance at love and to get over my fear, I volunteer to dog sit for the weekend. It doesn’t go well. Someone is going to end up in the doghouse. It might be me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three Things I'd Never Do is a sweet romantic comedy with heartwarming characters and a touch of sizzle that will have you laughing your way to the happily ever after.
