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The author is intentional in sharing her kindness through words. This book is filled with love, grace, emotion, secrets, advise, and genuine interest in helping those who read it. You can't help but reflect on your personal experiences or to feel her softness of her voice as she shares her message. It is certain, The Moment You're In is a guide for personal development and improvement. The author wants you to grow, and to learn to be free, to breathe, to live, but most importantly to allow yourself to feel the many emotions that you perhaps have dismissed or ignored because of fear.

This volume of paintings and essays is Dorothy Canote's third book. Her focus is on her paintings with essays based on her life experience and observation. She often introduces twists by blending history and science into the writings, and in this effort she has even added some of her poetry. The mix is informative as well as entertaining!

Kitty Hart shares her unique story through short anecdotes and photos. Kitty has always loved to write. This is her first book. She has lived in many places, attended schools in many different towns, and traveled the world. Now she lives in Bellevue, Nebraska, with her husband Curt and cat Meiko. Kitty continues to write short stories and poems. Any proceeds from this book and any future writings will be donated to the Epilepsy Foundation Nebraska.

This is a true story about an American woman who lives her life in pursuit of a fairy tale romance. Dreaming of a life in France, she unexpectedly finds herself en route to Nice. Here, she discovers the love of her life, whose love she doesn't have to chase or earn. Suddenly, tragedy strikes, and all is lost. She returns to the U.S., heartbroken and bewildered, but eventually finds the courage to open her heart again. In time, a dazzling man appears, and she is hypnotized by a fantasy of their life together. Blinded by life-long patterns in love, she surges forward, but he rejects her, forcing her to become starkly honest about her illusions. In a series of stunning epiphanies, she is catapulted toward discovering a deeper experience of being alive. Through compassion, forgiveness, and embracing the path of self-love, she is transformed, reclaiming the wholeness that beckoned to her all along.Her emotional, thought-provoking journey will inspire and encourage you to look at life in a new way.

In the small town of Orange, NJ, in the dark shadowsof an underground world, lurks the streets twisted bymoney, greed, murder and power.Carmine would be one of the young menpulled between good and evil, and when his cardswere dealt, he played the dirtiest hand in the game.Join the journey and see how he turnedthat evil into pleasure.

A comprehensive overview of the life of Baptist leader David Coffey - his family, his inspiring sermons, his informative addresses, engaging articles and an epilogue about growing into old age with God. A very honest, personal and authentic memoir of the travels, people met and enduring faith of this well-known leader.

He had never planned to work in Public Transport, yet over thirty years Later, Alan Scriven MBE is still working 'on the buses'. In that time, he has been a driver, a manager, an inspector... and worked at numerous depots across the Midlands, making firm friends and occasionally clashing heads with fellow drivers, and even the odd passenger or two! As with so many industries, the public transport system has been subject to major, rigorous change over the decades. Alan has seen if not all, then quite a lot - and has many colourful stories as a result. Next Stop Please is a great read for anyone who has worked in this industry, or been a passenger on a bus. There is certainly a lot going on behind the scenes!

Marcella's leven begon met haar ouders' beslissing om in 1922 naar een door oorlog verscheurd land te verhuizen. Ondanks politieke repressie en de Tweede Wereldoorlog...

"Use memory, don't allow memory to use you." ~ Deepak Chopra In "Wise Little One: Learning to Love and Listen to My Inner Child," Jana Wilson takes us on a deeply personal journey of triumph over childhood trauma and the transformative power of connecting with one's inner child. This gripping memoir is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the extraordinary capacity for healing through self-discovery and taking self-responsibility.In her candid and evocative storytelling, Jana invites readers into the recesses of her heart, sharing her darkest moments and shining light on her triumphant victories. She reflects on the impact of her traumatic past, unraveling the intricate web of emotions that held her back from experiencing true joy and fulfillment. With vulnerability and courage, she reveals the profound healing that occurred when she finally learned to embrace her inner child and acknowledge her pain."Wise Little One" is a guidebook for anyone who seeks to rediscover their authentic self. Jana's heartfelt anecdotes and practical advice offer invaluable tools for self-reflection, self-care, and cultivating a loving relationship with yourself. Through her own journey, she shows us how to harness the power of self-compassion, forgiveness, and resilience to overcome and learn from the past to manifest an inspiring future.

This book is a true story of how I was told by my mother at 52 years old that my dad may or may not be my biological father. She then blamed me for telling her "secret". It's a story of betrayal by a mother so evil I was forced to search for answers on my own through DNA. This revelation changed me entirely. I was changed mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I was then discarded by two families, biological and non-biological. This is my story and it's not over yet.

My Life at the Cemetery: It's Not as Dead as You Think is a selection of entertaining and moving stories gleaned from the 12 years author Sandra Kay Doyle worked in the deathcare industry. Some of these stories will make you laugh out loud. Others will elicit tears. Still others will leave you shaking your head in amazement at the wide range of human behavior that rears its head during the stressful times surrounding the death of a loved one. One thing's for sure: death brings out not only the best in people, but also the absolute worst. You'll learn the importance of pre-planning arrangements for your own or a loved one's transition from this world and how doing so will help you sidestep the emotional stress and turmoil that can occur without it. We willingly make plans for our education, careers, weddings, and retirement, but it's a rare person indeed who plans ahead for death. Because death is simply a part of the cycle of life, talking about it and planning for it can bring about healing before the event occurs."This book is warm and touching and will make you laugh and cry."Mary Morrissey, Bestselling Author and founder of Brave Thinking Institute

After a devastating breakup, Spencer Swalm underwent a dramatic conversion to Christianity as a young man. But while his newfound faith saved his soul, his life continued to spiral. Beginning with a two-week, involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital after a hunting trip gone bad, his life with bipolar disorder became a series of wild rides up followed by harrowing, life-threatening rides down. Along the way were side excursions as an attorney, Amway distributor, outdoorsman, prominent Colorado politician, Christian, and devoted family man.The roller coaster of his life led him to rely on psychotropic medication but ultimately with nowhere to turn except Christ. Now, in his twilight years, he's in the battle of his life as he confronts the scourge of his generation: Alzheimer's disease.This is his story.

What is it like to be forged and refined in fire?For Harry Hobbs, a biracial boy born out of wedlock and into poverty in the deep south, fire was the catalyst behind three pivotal moments that forged his young life. Later, it would be the flame of God's presence and forgiveness that became the refining fire that helped him overcome his many flaws and live in the pure light of God's plan.In A Flawed Man's Plans in God's Hands, Dr. Harry Hobbs and his wife, Erica, demonstrate that God is real and available to help you overcome obstacles and be all you can be! They share stories from their childhoods, how they met and fell in love, life in the United States Army, and their challenges in raising children as they confronted racism and prejudice, found their faith in Christ, succeeded in corporate America, and overcame their human weaknesses and failures.Their story and lessons learned will inspire and empower you to live a better, fuller life with fewer flaws and more joy!

"A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 1990s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of "best" friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Emelia returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large. While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily. Award-winning poet and author Aislinn Hunter describes Skid Dogs as a "riveting, raucous and tender look at growing up a girl in a boy's world. [...] Beautifully written and bravely told, this book is the Stand By Me for girls that's been far too long in coming.""--

The powerful story of a mother’s struggle to save her son from addiction—and the strength and hope for change that she found in her grief.When the author’s son, Tristan, began experimenting with drugs at the age of fourteen, Kathy Wagner told herself it was just a phase. But by the time he was fifteen, she had to face the gravity of Tristan’s addiction. Unable to get him treatment without his consent, she did everything else that she could to try to save her child, from sending him to China to study kung fu with Shaolin monks, to signing him up for culinary school, to paying for his drugs in an attempt to keep him safe.When Tristan finally began his recovery journey, six years later, Wagner was unexpectedly thrown onto her own recovery path. Learning from other parents of children struggling with addiction, she began, for the first time, to live for herself. But soon her oldest daughter needed help for her own addictions, and Tristan struggled with relapse, eventually dying by accidental fentanyl overdose.After Tristan’s death, Wagner struggled to find herself without him and travelled the world to be alone with her pain. But she soon realized that to truly heal, she needed to come home to her family, and herself, in all their messy wonder. Told with compassion and insight, Here With You is a story about how addiction tore a family apart and how they came back together through shared love and a deep commitment to learning a better way. Timely and honest, it will resonate with those struggling with substance abuse, their families and anyone who wants to better understand the impact of the current drug toxicity crisis.

Grief and Her Narrative explores the loss of therapist, which is not commonly addressed in psychotherapeutic fields, through the authors own experiences of exploring her life without her therapist.

In Search of a Salve is the written personification of what it means to stare the truth of yourself in the mirror and accept it wholeheartedly. In stories tender and raw, K E Garland invites readers on the journey of her life as she discovers herself, her sexuality, and subsequent sex addiction.No topic is too taboo or off limits; from the sexual assaults she suffered as a child to the exhibitionism displayed and multiple abortions she had as an adult. Garland weaves the seedy and secretive world of a sex addict with her words, removing the erotic and replacing it with the reality of what it means to live a double life; lying to and cheating on the ones you love.But like anyone wanting to see the other side of addiction, Garland had to do the necessary work to put her urges in perspective and her desires in check. In Search of a Salve is the memoir of someone who's spent years excavating her interior; rooting out what never belonged and pouring in all that she needed to live courageously bold, honest, and healing.

This is the story of my existence and all the memories that I could remember . The title of the book is SEVENTY ?EVEN which is the time frame of my life to date .The story is that of my mother, father and two sisters and I . We were brought up by two Polish parents that were Catholic and we lived in a town called Toledo in the state of Ohio. My father was a very unique man who had the ability to do mostly anything he puts his mind to . My father was a good provider and a hard worker . He had the ability to think in a way that amazed people . My father had been in many different businesses and occupations . He also was an inventor with over thirty patens credited to his name . My father loved his family and did his best to provide for us and make a loving atmosphere for us to live in . My mother was a wonderful mother who was able to raise us in a manner that help us throughout our lives we were taught to be kind , be polite , be caring towards others . have manners . love and forgive each other . believe in God and thank him for all he provided for us .The early years as far back as I can remember were happy , sad and confusing . Our lives took many twists and turns mainly because of my father and his desire to succeed . My mother was a saint to give him free reign to do what he wanted , but I guess she didn't have much of a choice . This book is different because instead of chapters I decided to use the name of the streets we lived on , which were quite a few . And just for a little challenge there are a couple of things throughout the book that are different , see if you can find out what they are when you finish the book .The answers will be in code at the end of the book with instructions how to find out the answers . So I hope you enjoy the adventure of my life.

Gasping for Air is an emotional journey that follows Sara Smith, a vibrant and successful thirty-two-year-old, as her life takes an unexpected turn. After recently relocating, finding love, and excelling in her nursing career, Sara's world is shattered when a sudden lung collapse lands her in the hospital with a devastating diagnosis and an uncertain future. With a unique blend of raw emotion, candidness, biting sarcasm, and occasional expletives, Gasping for Air captures Sara's struggle to come to terms with a rare and incurable lung disease. This powerful narrative resonates with readers who may not always have the perfect coping mechanisms, reminding them that it's okay to feel messy and enraged when confronted with life-altering illness. Through the highs and lows of Sara's journey, the book explores the complexities of navigating an otherwise healthy life that has been forever changed. Gasping for Air offers solace and understanding to those who have faced similar challenges, while providing a universal message of resilience and self-acceptance in the face of adversity.

I was raised with the understanding that I would never have to work outside the home. Looking beautiful and keeping a nice house seemed to be the only requirements for my life. Then my mother died when I was 10, and my father's alcoholism raged. The decline in our circumstances was slow at first, then sudden. I ended up living with other families and couch-surfing for years. I observed the harsh realities of not being able to support oneself. I grew up in a deteriorating factory town where some of my girlfriends became strippers to earn money. My first boyfriend joined the mob. Clinical depression forced me to face and then change my reality.Financial institutions were exclusively male-dominated at that time. As a consequence of being raised by an alcoholic father, I had a predilection for alcoholic men. I ended up at Fidelity Investments, where I was the only financial professional without a college education. I became a stock analyst. And I found love!The changes in finance and society have been enormous since the 1950s. The thinking and behavior of the past were bizarre. I lived and worked in the middle of it. I had just enough moral judgment, pragmatism, and luck to beat the odds.

Life can be complicated and difficult. Some people try to end their life. In the midst of my homelessness, illness, and disappointments-after being homeless and in different shelters on different occasions-I experienced firsthand how our system here in America was not created to help women like myself. No female should have to stay in an abandoned building, sleep in her car or a tent; especially in the cold winter months. She should not have to give her beautiful body to a man that is not her husband for the resources and or money he has or think she can get from him. After reading this book. I pray females young and old all around the world will learn to trust in the only one and true living God Jesus Christ for their resources; NOT man or a government system. I hope this book encourages and strengthens you as you are "Surviving The Jungle Called Life." Thank you in advance for purchasing this book. Your money is going towards an excellent cause. 70% of the net profit to me will go towards transitional homes for women like myself. This is an assignment God has placed on my heart to assist his daughters in need.

In late August 1951, the strange phenomenon known as The Lubbock Lights leads to days of UFO sightings from Texas northward through to Canada. An infant appearing in a Chicago hospital is swiftly adopted and whisked away to New York as quickly as health and law allow. As the child grows, it is obvious he is not quite like friends or family. By adolescence, his jokes that the events surrounding his "birth" prove he is an alien are met without ridicule, without argument; the "joke" is always met by some form of, "That explains a lot!" Maybe you knew someone similar, someone who didn't fit in…even with those who liked and loved them, someone who was there and apart all at once, and all the time. Four friends are drawn together by strange serendipity after nearly forty years apart; talking through the night, reliving that place and time they turned from teen to adult becomes a magical experience. That weekend with old friends causes a fundamental change in the alien. This book is a reflection upon that life that caused even his closest friends to say, "Marc, you weren't like the rest of us."The experiences of a young musician turned light artist by age fifteen to legendary Fillmore East House Light Show by eighteen produce many interesting stories. But an entire life is not the same as a youthful success. However, the continued creation of niches, excelling in each, is even more remarkable.How did he get there? Where did he go from there? What did he learn over the years about HOW he wasn't like the rest. Find out the WHY behind it all. One of the last things his adopted father, the only father he ever knew, said to him was, "I hope you learn before you die how lucky you were to go through life doing things you loved."

"At first, forgiving myself implied I had done something wrong, and I couldn't face the possibility that I played a part in allowing this overpowering denial to happen."In this special memoir told through a collection of earlier works including fictional short stories, non-fiction essays, and poetry, Shari Lopatin tells the story of her younger self-a millennial coming of age through the 1990s and 2000s while fighting to make sense of a world rapidly changing amidst The Great Recession and September 11. Touching on themes still relevant today, Shari shares deeply emotional pieces from her formative years about mental health, the search for home, the awkwardness of dating, love and heartbreak, and the effects of Antisemitism.Included in this hand-selected collection are the fictional short stories "Pomegranates" about the power of kindness and connection; "A Call from Paris" about a young marriage falling apart; "Stone from HELL" about the effects of a monstrous society; and the namesake of this book, "The Condemned" about finding self-acceptance. Shari also included other personal essays and poems never before seen. Ultimately, The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry reveals one young woman's struggle to find herself within a confusing and sometimes ostracizing world, and the messages of love, hope, and truth she now brings to others.