Don't Be Afraid, Amanda

Don't Be Afraid, Amanda PDF Author: Lilian Moore
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606211543
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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City mouse Amanda and country mouse Adam agree to visit each other. When Amanda arrives in the country, she floats away on a fallen leaf in a pond until she is rescued by a turtle. This variation of the classic fable teaches lessons on friendship, overcoming fear, and the love of poetry. Illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Don't Be Afraid, Amanda

Don't Be Afraid, Amanda PDF Author: Lilian Moore
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606211543
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
City mouse Amanda and country mouse Adam agree to visit each other. When Amanda arrives in the country, she floats away on a fallen leaf in a pond until she is rescued by a turtle. This variation of the classic fable teaches lessons on friendship, overcoming fear, and the love of poetry. Illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Art of Asking

The Art of Asking PDF Author: Amanda Palmer
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455581070
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter. Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of The Art of Asking. Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. The Art of Asking will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love.

Hey, That's MY Monster!

Hey, That's MY Monster! PDF Author: Amanda Noll
Publisher: Flashlight Press
ISBN: 1947277081
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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This enhanced eBook features read-along narration. Winner: CLC Seal of Approval 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards, Silver, Preschool/Early Reader Fantasy Finalist: 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards 2017 PNBA Long-List When Ethan looks under the bed for his monster, he finds this note instead: "So long, kid. Gotta go. Someone needs me more than you do. –Gabe" How will Ethan ever get to sleep without his monster's familiar, comforting snorts? And who could need Gabe more than Ethan does? Gabe must have gone to Ethan's little sister's room! She has been climbing out of bed every night to play, and obviously needs a monster to help her get to sleep – but not HIS monster! Ethan tries to help his sister find her own monster, but none are the perfect blend of cute and creepy. Just when it seems that Ethan will lose his monster forever, an uninvited, tutu-toting little monster full of frightening fun appears. Following in the spooky-silly tradition of I Need My Monster, here's another irresistible monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers.

Change Sings

Change Sings PDF Author: Amanda Gorman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593203232
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A lyrical picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long "I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don't fear change coming, And so I sing along." In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves. With lyrical text and rhythmic illustrations that build to a dazzling crescendo by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long, Change Sings is a triumphant call to action for everyone to use their abilities to make a difference.

Baked in Pain

Baked in Pain PDF Author: Amanda Dambuza
Publisher: Amanda Dambuza
ISBN: 9780620815994
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Your traumatic past may just be the fuel you need to soar!In Baked in Pain, Amanda takes readers through the emotional roller-coaster, which was her life growing up in apartheid South Africa. A product of abandonment and rejection, she goes very deep in narrating the abuse she suffered as a child and the negative scripts that were fed to her over the years. She further explores, supported with research the way these messages can be internalised and become the truth. She flips the lid on what is expected of victims of abuse and challenges the notion of "once abused always abused" as she reflects on her own life as a mother, wife and an internationally celebrated business woman. What would happen when Amanda finally summonses the courage to break free from her old life, in search of a relationship with her mother and a brighter future? Would she find what she's looking for? Amanda's candid recollections bare her soul, the deep faith and courage that carried her from her earliest days as a young child to her current life. It is an applaudable universal story. In a time where all forms of abuse remain rife, this book provides incredible inspiration and lessons that will motivate the reader to use their traumatic past as the fuel they need to soar and live a life filled with purpose and to be of service to others.Buy your copy of Baked in Pain today!

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

Conversations with People Who Hate Me PDF Author: Dylan Marron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982129271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Book Description
From the host of the award-winning podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me comes a thought-provoking, and witty, exploration of difficult conversations and how to navigate them.

The Second Life of Mirielle West

The Second Life of Mirielle West PDF Author: Amanda Skenandore
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496726529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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The glamorous world of a silent film star’s wife abruptly crumbles when she’s forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict. Based on the true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920’s socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne and the star-studded parties of Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, she’s immediately branded a leper and carted hundreds of miles from home to Carville, taking a new name to spare her family and famous husband the shame that accompanies the disease. At first she hopes her exile will be brief, but those sent to Carville are more prisoners than patients and their disease has no cure. Instead she must find community and purpose within its walls, struggling to redefine her self-worth while fighting an unchosen fate. As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore’s medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville – the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. A tale of repulsion, resilience, and the Roaring ‘20s, The Second Life of Mirielle West is also the story of a health crisis in America’s past, made all the more poignant by the author’s experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis. PRAISE FOR AMANDA SKENANDORE’S BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY “Intensely emotional…Skenandore’s deeply introspective and moving novel will appeal to readers of American history.” —Publishers Weekly

The sword of light

The sword of light PDF Author: Ursula Williams
Publisher: Ursula Williams
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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The protagonist, the 16-year-old Amanda is the only child of an Inn keeper in the scottish Highlands. Her life was pretty uneventful and protected until one cold January morning some dreadful news turned everything upside down. “Clouds of powdery snow drifted across the frozen meadows like bands of golden gossamer as the sun rose over Glen Orchy. Amanda lay awake, gazing at the crystalline ice flowers that had covered her window overnight. Soon she would have to get out of her cosy bed to help her grandmother to prepare the food for the inn’s early guests. Today was the first market day after Hogmanay so that the Inn would be crowded with travelling tradesman, farmers and people from the surrounding villages and hamlets. Amanda eagerly looked forward to hearing, the latest news and juicy gossip but most of all, to the visit of her best friends. It is going to be a fantastic day; she thought as she closed her eyes, hoping she could remain in bed a bit longer. Little did she know that the news she longed to hear would shatter her life and replace the feeling of tranquillity with fear and tribulation. Soon, very soon, she would learn that her very survival depended on her friends loyalty, the ability to fight and the help from beings she believed to only exist in myths and legends.

A Mother's Story

A Mother's Story PDF Author: Amanda Prowse
Publisher: Head of Zeus
ISBN: 9781781856604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control... This is her story. A mother's story.

Little Panic

Little Panic PDF Author: Amanda Stern
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538711915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic. The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there's something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don't have to cope with. Growing up in the 1970s and 80s in New York, Amanda experiences the magic and madness of life through the filter of unrelenting panic. Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she's not watching-that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away-Amanda treats every parting as her last. Shuttled between a barefoot bohemian life with her mother in Greenwich Village, and a sanitized, stricter world of affluence uptown with her father, Amanda has little she can depend on. And when Etan Patz disappears down the block from their MacDougal Street home, she can't help but believe that all her worst fears are about to come true. Tenderly delivered and expertly structured, Amanda Stern's memoir is a document of the transformation of New York City and a deep, personal, and comedic account of the trials and errors of seeing life through a very unusual lens.