Author: Stephanie Kauffman
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525595288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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The Girl with Nine Lives is a true adventure story—a candid personal memoir describing the first eighteen years of the author’s life, which began in foster care until she was adopted by a hardworking couple of faith. The book explores the author’s experiences growing up on the farm; her struggles learning to walk, run, ride a bike, and the many scrapes (both figurative and literal!) she got into as a daredevil and a dreamer. Born with a serious balance issue, doctors said Stephanie (or Stacy, in the book) would never walk, and should be relegated to an institution. Being given up for adoption left her feeling discarded and insecure. As she is raised by a loving family, and begins to experience victories, the author learns to see her value in the world, eventually finding her calling as a teacher. Faith has a strong presence in the book; Stacy grows in her faith, and comes to realize that God has a plan for her. With a childhood so full of amusing, frightening, and unusual adventures and misadventures, it really does seem like a miracle that the author emerged in one piece. Readers will find themselves rooting for young Stacy’s success, and at times, her survival!
Author: Sheila Roberts
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429989467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Unwrap a Heartwarming Tale of Love, Laughter, and Furry Feline Mischief in The Nine Lives of Christmas When a guy is in trouble, he starts making deals with his Creator...and Ambrose the cat is no exception. In danger of losing his ninth and final life, Ambrose makes a desperate plea to the universe. He'll do anything—anything!—if he can just survive and enjoy a nice long, final life. His prayer is answered when a stranger comes along and saves him—and now it looks like he has to hold up his end of the bargain. The stranger turns out to be a firefighter named Zach, who's in need of some serious romantic help. If Ambrose can just bring Zach together with Merilee, the nice lady who works at Pet Palace, it's bound to earn him a healthy ninth life. Unfortunately for Ambrose, his mission is a lot harder than he ever thought. Now it's going to take all of Ambrose's feline wiles—and maybe even a good old fashioned Christmas miracle—to make them both realize that what they're looking for is right in front of their eyes.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written a most unusual book in a career of distinctive and unique accomplishments. My Nine Lives is "Chapters of a Possible Past," as the subtitle declares. It is, as the author has commented, a book filled with "invented memories." Nine vignettes are linked to portray a rich life filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York. Each chapter gathers a different cast of characters, some new and some vaguely familiar, and the linked assembly is as exciting and illuminating as an artist's first show at a Soho gallery or a new play at the Studio Theater. After seventeen books, now in her 77th year, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes on as her subject herself, the life she may have or may have wished to live.
Author: E. Earle
Publisher: Elizabeth Earle
ISBN: 1490383026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Fondness of rum? Check. Job heading nowhere? Check. Mastermind criminal boss discovering you have unravelled their plot? Check. Talking cat with an addiction to catnip deciding to take control of the situation? Check. Welcome to the lives and adventures of the ginger moggy Ben and his human, Ellie. Ellena Blackwell is your average woman- desperate to make the best of her Degree and failing miserably. Falling into such a hole of self-pity, even her cat, Ben, is sick of her and tells her to snap out of it. And that's when Ellena realises she has a talking cat, and he's not going to go away anytime soon. Having a devious crime boss as Principal to the college she works at, Ellena discovers a dangerous secret that the Head Office would very much rather that she didn't know. Deciding to take control of her life, Ellena enlists the help of Ben to investigate as soon as her friend goes missing. But Detective Calloway is determined to get involved, and Ellena soon learns that Ben isn't the only one who thinks he has nine lives.
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408801248
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Author: Chyna Doll
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512769894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Over the years of my life I have realized the aspects of my lifethe drug abuse, being molested, domestic violence, and rape. Each situation had to be addressed by me writing my thoughts. I started out as a diary and after a while, when it was healthy for my soul, by me writing my thoughts on what happened to me, on the things people did to me, and on how they treated me. My writing relieves some of the stress and pain. I look back on my life and as I write. I relive it over and over again. I recreated it all over the foibles of others as time went on, so I could forgive by telling my secrets and my story. Some of my most deeply hidden thoughts were pushed back to the back of my mind for years so that I could deal with it at a later time; I just went on living my life until I was able to deal with it years later. I was so ashamed to tell anyone. I was embarrassed. By writing every day, trying to work out my past events and in the conflicts, writing is a way to cleanse my soul. It is and can be an effective method of treatment emotionally and physically. Forgiving myself and others took a long time as far as the domestic violence in my life. I still live in fear every day not knowing if the man was or is ever caught. All the names have been changed to maintain their privacy. I pray my story may help and reach someone who may be in trouble and who needs to reach out. You dont have to be silent anymore. Find someone you can trust and tell them what is going on with you. There is help today.
Author: Patrick Quinlan
Publisher: Strawberry Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Praise for Patrick Quinlan: “A shocking, violent read, jam-packed with action and a cast of incredible characters” -- Independent Weekly (Australia) “A superb debut. A great crime novel. Brilliant is the word” -- Independent on Sunday * * * Susan Jones is dead, and yet alive. Susan is a former robotics scientist for Suncoast Cybernetics, who was murdered by the company. Her awareness is inside Number Nine, the incredible ninth generation prototype of Suncoast’s immensely successful Sexbot line of robotic companions - which Susan herself invented. Number Nine is on the run with Mr. Blue, the corporate assassin who killed Susan Jones. After a blood-soaked confrontation with militarized Suncoast security forces on the docks in Key West, Blue and Nine escape to Cuba. Suncoast CEO Howard Neale believes mind downloading confers immortality, and will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the company. Meanwhile company Chairman James Walsh is dying of cancer and wants to use the technology to save himself. They both need Number Nine to come back, and will stop at nothing to make her do so - including kidnapping her mother. Suncoast scientist Ravi Kapoor has invented the ultimate artificially intelligent home companion - a device he calls God. Howard wants Ravi to take over the mind downloading project in Susan’s absence - rushing straight to human trials with violent convicts at a secret maximum security prison in the remote scrub desert of southwest Texas. Ravi just wants to spend his time developing God. But God has other plans. Mr. Blue and Number Nine are on a collision course with Howard, Suncoast Cybernetics and now Eris - a Sexbot with the downloaded mind of a white supremacist previously on Death Row. A high-tech corporation becoming a law unto itself. Killer robots designed to look and act like small children. A sociopathic artificial intelligence who believes the time of humans is reaching its end. And a Sexbot harboring the awareness of an amoral killer set loose to run amok. Nine Lives is the sequel to Sexbot, by Patrick Quinlan. It’s a fast-paced, sexy, dystopian adventure, with twists, turns and shocking surprises. * * * Praise for Patrick Quinlan: “A turbo-charged tour de force.” -- Port City Life “A fast-paced thriller...the story moves at warp speed, capped by a cinematic chase...before ending in spectacular fashion.” -- Los Angeles Times “Tightly plotted, confidently written and very hip” -- Sunday Observer
Author: Stephanie Kauffman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781525595264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Author: EL NUKOYA
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365185583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Nine Lives tells the story of "Olupitan Ogunrinu," a bright, ambitious son of a common Nigerian fisherman who battles to assert himself within the social segregation of an elite university community. As he struggles with the moral contradiction, corruption and frivolity around him, he resolves not be a victim in the predatory race to success, even when the immediate battle to "belong" seems lost. A wild pursuit of romance turns to deceit, as Olupitan finds escape in America. But he also finds squalor, loss of dignity and, eventually, illicit wealth. NINE LIVES explores the trial of ordinary Nigerian youths and the despair that drives them across the borders... and beyond. It captures the historical culture of the Nigerian people and the new culture as evolved through decades of social hardship, corruption and misrule.
Author: Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329646614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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The first generation of young people following the Revolution were full of hope and anxious to stretch their wings through education and adventure. We know the Dering family's activities because the father Sylvester who saved his letters also wrote of family affairs to his son Nicoll who also saved his letters. These are stories of nine young people (all of whom are related, save one) told through their letters. Abraham Tuthill aspired to be a portrait painter; Frances Dering and Frances Sage would forge a deep bond; Sisters Catherine and Frances Huntington shared a school in New York; Charles Thomas Dering invested in the Union, a whaling ship; Mary L'Hommedieu suffered financially as a child; Margaret Dering married a man who was disowned by his father for seeking a career as a preacher; Eliza Gardiner found comfort in a kind man.
