Author: Edward K. Bower
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595474063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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On present-day Earth, an alien artifact is discovered that was recently manufactured with materials from beyond our solar system. An investigation leads the FBI to a human who helps the aliens speculate in the commodities market. With discovery imminent, the aliens reveal themselves by sending a videotape to the news media. This date becomes known as The Day Everything Changed. On the tape, an alien announces that it is an ambassador from the Traders, who wish to colonize Mars. Although individual Traders aren't as intelligent as humans, over millions of years they have slowly built an advanced technology that they propose trading for commodities and human intellectual creativity. They initially offer a device that uses hydrogen fusion to produce electric power, which crashes the energy markets. Humans display a wide range of reactions to the Traders. A company is set up to supervise the distribution of Trader technology, collect royalties for its use, and reduce the corruption that the Traders see as a great obstacle to human progress. This organization encounters industrial spies and rogue governments trying to subvert its mission. Traders fear humans will surpass their technology, so they try to withhold their ultimate secret.
Author: Joseph Margulies
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300195206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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DIV Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape—especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam—American identity is not only darker than it was before September 11, 2001, but substantially more repressive than it was immediately after the attacks. These repressive attitudes, Margulies shows us, have taken hold even as the terrorist threat has diminished significantly. Contrary to what is widely imagined, at the moment of greatest perceived threat, when the fear of another attack “hung over the country like a shroud,” favorable attitudes toward Muslims and Islam were at record highs, and the suggestion that America should torture was denounced in the public square. Only much later did it become socially acceptable to favor “enhanced interrogation” and exhibit clear anti-Muslim prejudice. Margulies accounts for this unexpected turn and explains what it means to the nation’s identity as it moves beyond 9/11. We express our values in the same language, but that language can hide profound differences and radical changes in what we actually believe. “National identity,” he writes, “is not fixed, it is made.” /div
Author: Beth Moran
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1838893393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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At a time when I needed a lift, this novel came into my life.' 5* Reader ReviewAmy Piper is in need of a bit of luck. She’s lost her confidence, her mojo and her way. But one thing she has never lost is her total love for her thirteen-year-old son Joey, and for his sake she knows it’s time for a change. But first she has to be brave enough to leave the house... What she needs are friends and an adventure. And when she joins a running group of women who call themselves The Larks, she finds both. Not to mention their inspiring (and rather handsome) coach, Nathan. The trick to changing your life, is to take it one day at a time. Now, with every ounce of strength she has left, Amy is determined to make just one day special - for herself and for Joey. And who knows, today might be the day that changes everything... Uplifting, funny and unforgettable, Beth Moran returns with a joyous tale of friendship, love and facing your fears. This book was previously published as How Not to be a Loser.{::}** ** Praise for Beth Moran 'Beth Moran's heartwarming books never fail to leave me feeling uplifted' Jessica Redland ‘Life-affirming, joyful and tender.’ Zoe Folbigg * 'Every day is a perfect day to read this.’ Shari Low 'A British author to watch.' *Publisher's Weekly * 'A wonderfully warm-hearted story full of love and laughter.' Victoria Connelly What readers are saying about A Day That Changed Everything: 'Beth Moran has such wonderful way with words and can brilliantly write about feelings' 'An inspirational story that will make you want to put on your trainers and go for a run. It is about second chances, friendship, love and hope' 'Hilarious and thought - provoking' 'Beth Moran has created a family dynamic that will capture your heart. At a time when I needed a lift, this novel came into my life.' 'Uplifting and inspiring.' 'I just binged this book in just over a day and really enjoyed it.' 'A poignant and heartwarming story that kept me turning pages as fast as I could.' 'Uplifting in the truest sense of the word' 'Such a positive story! A fabulous read and especially for everyone who has struggled, or is currently struggling, with life.' 'Wonderfully Inspirational' 'Warm and funny and inspiring.' 'From beginning to end this book had me hooked.' 'This uplifting and ultimately life-affirming story serves to remind us that help can come from the most unlikely people, and that maybe that first step is the most important.' 'A very beautiful story about second chances and friendship' 'Lovely read guaranteed to touch the heartstrings.'
Author: Georgia Bockoven
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062069330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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“Bockoven is magic.” —Catherine Coulter Four sisters who never knew their father—or each other—come together around his deathbed and learn what it means to be a family in The Year Everything Changed , a magnificent novel brimming with heart and feeling from author Georgia Bockoven. The bestselling, award-winning writer who enthralled readers with The Beach House and Another Summer returns with a masterful work of contemporary women’s fiction that fans of Jodi Picoult and Marian Keyes will read, share, and remember for years to come.
Author: Dr. Sheri Prentiss
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491748354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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When Everything Changed: My Journey from Physician to Patient is the inspiring memoir of Dr. Sheri Prentiss, a compassionate and quick-witted woman who speaks candidly about the death of her mother, her battle with breast cancer, and her ongoing struggle with lymphedema, all of which have radically changed her life. The transition from physician to patient pushed Dr. Sheri down a vicious spiral toward professional, emotional, and physical death When Everything Changed. Find out how she ended up as an international champion of survival in this inspiring story of pain, loss, and self-discovery. Dr. Sheri has transcended her battle with cancer and become a source of love and inspiration to thousands of women and men still navigating their journey with the disease. She makes the world a better place. Norm Bowling, Chief Revenue & Marketing Officer, Susan G. Komen
Author: Gail Collins
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316071666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female" ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way. Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off, When Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's imagining.
Author: Kelley Donner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955698016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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An inspiring picture book explains what it means to live, love, and hope during a pandemic in a child-friendly way. Without ever saying "Coronavirus" or "Pandemic," The Day the Lines Changed explains what it means to live through a viral outbreak and gives children a much needed, optimistic view of the future. Through the use of ripped paper and basic shapes, Kelley Donner takes a frightening and complicated pandemic and turns it into an uplifting, easily understandable story about the life of a green line. A welcome resource for parents, teachers, and caregivers who are trying their best to explain the pandemic to worried children. Carefree and happy, the green line lives together with her family, goes to school during the week, and on weekends visits the town square. Then one day some of the orange and purple lines begin to turn crooked and suddenly, everything is different for the green line and her family. Just as green begins to worry, if her own family might turn crooked, one line makes a fantastic discovery which changes the lives of the lines forever.
Author: Charlotte Eriksson
Publisher: Broken Glass Records
ISBN: 9789163978449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Love does the job. travelling too. writing does it. music. Also art, whisky, dark-coloured flowers and watching the landscape change in October. Driving on a small road somewhere in Italy with a beautiful boy and I don't want to be anywhere else in the whole wide world than right there, with him, that very car, smiling. But I close my eyes for one second and the moment is gone. I'm back to getting high on empty roads somewhere in Sweden and I'm the loneliest girl in the whole damn world and I just want all things beautiful. I just want the music, the literature, the art and the moments of driving in a car with a beautiful boy in Italy. but here, alone, I have no cares in the world. I have no cares in the world. I just want it all to be beautiful. ___________ The 4th book from Swedish songwriter & author Charlotte Eriksson is a narrative journey from a lost and wandering youth, trying to find a place in the world, to slowly growing into a peaceful meditation on the joys of growing up, changing and befriending yourself. We get to follow a young woman, consciously creating herself, striving towards an adult self. "Where are our heroes?" she asks. "Where are our role models? Why are we leaving youth behind and laughing at the ones who are still there? Why not help each other out instead? with a little grace. with a little compassion. Love for all and everyone around because we're all stumbling or succeeding back and forth, every day, and I want more community. I want helpers and guidance. Am I helping someone?" Charlotte helps by documenting her struggles, inner journeys and outer experiences, and she helps by sharing them with the world as boldly and bravely as she does. "We're all going through the same journey of growing from kids to teenagers to young adults to somewhat adult-to maybe a little calmer, to even more calm, and some lose their ways here but I want to speak up about it and hear that we're all on the same journey. We're all on the same road but it feels like everyone's ashamed of walking this road so everyone's looking down, trying not to be seen, pretending their feet are steady and not stumbling." ___________ "And what am I? I'm forever stuck in a nonexistent place where no time passes and I do so much and learn so much but I don't grow. I'm still teenage me wanting more. Wanting less. Wanting anything and everything and I think I should grow up now. Grow out of childish anxiety and sorrows for all things past and everyone has moved on from schools and neighbourhoods and I moved first and swore the loudest on never coming back but now I dream about all things past. Going back. How do you transition from being a lost teenager, to one of those calm and serene souls of integrity and certainty? Because that's what I must do, now, soon. Do others feel left behind too, or is it just me? Like the train left with everyone on it and I'm still standing on the platform trying to decide if I should watch the sky for another hour or go change my ticket. Maybe sometimes you need to just close your eyes and jump on the train without feeling ready, and grow your steady breath on the way. I think sometimes you don't know how much you're capable of until you're forced to grow into it."
Author: Alaina Isbouts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692898710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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"Today is the first day of my new life, I am certain of it."Thus begins Adriana's journey from the familiar comforts of suburban Colorado to the unknown and foreign cobblestone streets of Prague. Adriana seems to have everything a twenty-one year-old could want: steady boyfriend, a good job, her own apartment, and full schedule of college classes. But when tragedy and deceit tear apart the worldview she once held, she impulsively embarks on a quest of self-discovery she never expected. Halfway across the world, in a country she's never been to, with a language she's never spoken, living with people she's never met, Adriana finally finds the courage to confront truths about herself that she never before had the courage to embrace.Set across the grand landmarks and charming alleyways of modern day Europe, And Then Everything Changed reveals how one genuine leap of faith can change your world forever. It's a story of travel, exploration, and how to find what you really want in life - as long as you have the courage to look for it.
Author: Sandra Rinaldi
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039110495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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When Savannah Bucca, an up-and-coming fashion designer, wins a coveted summer apprenticeship in Rome, at the House Of Capri—one of the most illustrious fashion houses in the world—she can only imagine how greatly it will impact her career. But as excited as she is to hone her craft and gain much-needed experience in the fashion industry, she is just as eager to put some distance between herself and the frustrating romantic complications at home. She’s known Luca Lalli her entire life. Growing up, they were practically family as their parents emigrated from Italy together as young adults and became the best of friends. As her feelings for him grew, Luca ‘s flirting did too. However, his apparent disinterest and dismissal was infuriating. She just had to accept the fact that he still sees her as nothing more than a little sister. Savannah’s trip to Italy is not just a chance to step into her future as a fashion designer or reunite her with family still living in the old country—it’s a chance to embrace the freedom and excitement of a summer away from home. And with any luck, a summer fling that will finally push Luca Lalli out of her mind, and her heart, for good.
