Author: Brandon Boswell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450250068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
What do you want to be when you grow up? Like many people, Brandon Boswell asked himself this question throughout his childhood, but he never imagined that when he did grow up, he would become a professional gummy bear giver outer. Confessions of a Professional Gummy Bear Giver Outer is a collection of stories from Brandon Boswell, who, using his faith and humor, shares experiences about growing up in eastern North Carolina, including an in-depth (and hilarious) look at the life of a product demonstrator (a.k.a. a professional gummy bear giver outer) in a retail store. Born legally blind, Brandon has never given up on his dream of writing. He hopes to encourage people, especially those who face the challenges of being physically disabled, to trust in God, never give up on their dreams, and learn to laugh at the situations life throws at us. Brandon is also the author of Raising Prayers, Not Hell: Life through the Eyes of a Christian Teenager (2001) and My Personal Journey on the Road of Life (2007).
Confessions of a Professional Gummy Bear Giver Outer
Author: Brandon Boswell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450250068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
What do you want to be when you grow up? Like many people, Brandon Boswell asked himself this question throughout his childhood, but he never imagined that when he did grow up, he would become a professional gummy bear giver outer. Confessions of a Professional Gummy Bear Giver Outer is a collection of stories from Brandon Boswell, who, using his faith and humor, shares experiences about growing up in eastern North Carolina, including an in-depth (and hilarious) look at the life of a product demonstrator (a.k.a. a professional gummy bear giver outer) in a retail store. Born legally blind, Brandon has never given up on his dream of writing. He hopes to encourage people, especially those who face the challenges of being physically disabled, to trust in God, never give up on their dreams, and learn to laugh at the situations life throws at us. Brandon is also the author of Raising Prayers, Not Hell: Life through the Eyes of a Christian Teenager (2001) and My Personal Journey on the Road of Life (2007).
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450250068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
What do you want to be when you grow up? Like many people, Brandon Boswell asked himself this question throughout his childhood, but he never imagined that when he did grow up, he would become a professional gummy bear giver outer. Confessions of a Professional Gummy Bear Giver Outer is a collection of stories from Brandon Boswell, who, using his faith and humor, shares experiences about growing up in eastern North Carolina, including an in-depth (and hilarious) look at the life of a product demonstrator (a.k.a. a professional gummy bear giver outer) in a retail store. Born legally blind, Brandon has never given up on his dream of writing. He hopes to encourage people, especially those who face the challenges of being physically disabled, to trust in God, never give up on their dreams, and learn to laugh at the situations life throws at us. Brandon is also the author of Raising Prayers, Not Hell: Life through the Eyes of a Christian Teenager (2001) and My Personal Journey on the Road of Life (2007).
Running on Empty
Author: Brandon Boswell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 149174264X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Running on Empty: The Life and Times of a Gas Station Attendant offers a collection of short stories about Boswell's experiences working as a gas station attendant in his hometown, along with other anecdotes and insights of his life on and off the job. From a firsthand perspective, he tells about the good, bad, the interesting, and the downright odd things that sometimes occur as he performs his job duties. Boswell, though legally blind, tries to find the humor in the situations he faces. In Running on Empty, he shares his life's narratives to help others, especially those like him who live with disabilities, to find the humor and the faith in God needed to make the most out of life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 149174264X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Running on Empty: The Life and Times of a Gas Station Attendant offers a collection of short stories about Boswell's experiences working as a gas station attendant in his hometown, along with other anecdotes and insights of his life on and off the job. From a firsthand perspective, he tells about the good, bad, the interesting, and the downright odd things that sometimes occur as he performs his job duties. Boswell, though legally blind, tries to find the humor in the situations he faces. In Running on Empty, he shares his life's narratives to help others, especially those like him who live with disabilities, to find the humor and the faith in God needed to make the most out of life.
Pucked Off
Author: Helena Hunting
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
ISBN: 1649378998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I'm NHL defenseman Lance Romero, AKA Lance "Romance." I’m notorious for parties and excess. I have the most penalty minutes in the league. I get into the most fights. I take the most hits. I’m a player on and off the ice. This is who I am. Until her. I was her first kiss at a party she shouldn’t have been at. I shouldn’t want her because I’m toxic and I know it. But I want her more than anything. I should leave her alone because she’s all the good things in this world. She lights up my dark. But I won’t be able to walk away. Because I don’t know how to stop once I’m already falling.
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
ISBN: 1649378998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I'm NHL defenseman Lance Romero, AKA Lance "Romance." I’m notorious for parties and excess. I have the most penalty minutes in the league. I get into the most fights. I take the most hits. I’m a player on and off the ice. This is who I am. Until her. I was her first kiss at a party she shouldn’t have been at. I shouldn’t want her because I’m toxic and I know it. But I want her more than anything. I should leave her alone because she’s all the good things in this world. She lights up my dark. But I won’t be able to walk away. Because I don’t know how to stop once I’m already falling.
Down in the Chapel
Author: Joshua Dubler
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146683711X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146683711X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.
The Three Hostages
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473373646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473373646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.
Ulysses
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Languages : en
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Travels in West Africa
Author: Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
The Island of Sheep
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Island of Sheep" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Island of Sheep" by John Buchan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Empathy Exams
Author: Leslie Jamison
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970885
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970885
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
Poor Little Guy
Author: Elanna Allen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525428259
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
"An octopus gets a big surprise when he chooses to pick on a tiny fish in the ocean"--
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525428259
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
"An octopus gets a big surprise when he chooses to pick on a tiny fish in the ocean"--