Author: Dorean Edwards
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512316599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is the chilling, highly acclaimed story of Dorean Edwards, famed Los Angeles concert promoter and publicist. The story spans across decades of pain, struggle, survival and eventual triumph. Edwards was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, with eight siblings. Her rude awakening of innocence-lost was magnified during the ages of seven to seventeen, when she was repeatedly molested. Edwards' home life caused her to suffer a shattered self-esteem, while being bullied at school because of her freckles, which led her into increased isolation and a suicide attempt. Later in life, she was mugged at knife-point in a Chicago alley and then brutally raped in her Los Angeles apartment. Nevertheless, it became apparent that God had a great work for her to do. Through it all, she clearly saw that God was with her and that angels guarded and guided her throughout life. Dorean Edwards understands the difficulty of abuse victims coming forward about molestation. Therefore, she discloses her story for the benefit of other victims who endured identical traumas. In her first, chilling, tell-all book, Dorean Edward makes it clear that she is one of these faces, and she is silent no more.
Trapped in a Little Girl's Body
Author: Dorean Edwards
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512316599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is the chilling, highly acclaimed story of Dorean Edwards, famed Los Angeles concert promoter and publicist. The story spans across decades of pain, struggle, survival and eventual triumph. Edwards was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, with eight siblings. Her rude awakening of innocence-lost was magnified during the ages of seven to seventeen, when she was repeatedly molested. Edwards' home life caused her to suffer a shattered self-esteem, while being bullied at school because of her freckles, which led her into increased isolation and a suicide attempt. Later in life, she was mugged at knife-point in a Chicago alley and then brutally raped in her Los Angeles apartment. Nevertheless, it became apparent that God had a great work for her to do. Through it all, she clearly saw that God was with her and that angels guarded and guided her throughout life. Dorean Edwards understands the difficulty of abuse victims coming forward about molestation. Therefore, she discloses her story for the benefit of other victims who endured identical traumas. In her first, chilling, tell-all book, Dorean Edward makes it clear that she is one of these faces, and she is silent no more.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512316599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This is the chilling, highly acclaimed story of Dorean Edwards, famed Los Angeles concert promoter and publicist. The story spans across decades of pain, struggle, survival and eventual triumph. Edwards was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, with eight siblings. Her rude awakening of innocence-lost was magnified during the ages of seven to seventeen, when she was repeatedly molested. Edwards' home life caused her to suffer a shattered self-esteem, while being bullied at school because of her freckles, which led her into increased isolation and a suicide attempt. Later in life, she was mugged at knife-point in a Chicago alley and then brutally raped in her Los Angeles apartment. Nevertheless, it became apparent that God had a great work for her to do. Through it all, she clearly saw that God was with her and that angels guarded and guided her throughout life. Dorean Edwards understands the difficulty of abuse victims coming forward about molestation. Therefore, she discloses her story for the benefit of other victims who endured identical traumas. In her first, chilling, tell-all book, Dorean Edward makes it clear that she is one of these faces, and she is silent no more.
Help! I'm Trapped in My Teacher's Body
Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590477376
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Jake Sherman used to be your average, ordinary twelve year old, until he turned into his weirdo teacher, Mr. Dirksen! To make matters worse, dorky Mr. Dirksen is running around in Jake's body!
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590477376
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Jake Sherman used to be your average, ordinary twelve year old, until he turned into his weirdo teacher, Mr. Dirksen! To make matters worse, dorky Mr. Dirksen is running around in Jake's body!
Ghost Boy
Author: Martin Pistorius
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400205840
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
When you lose your voice, who will speak for you? When it all seems hopeless, how do you get through each day? In the New York Times bestseller Ghost Boy, Martin Pistorius tells the harrowing story of his return to life through the healing power of love and faith. In January 1988, a happy, healthy twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius came home from school with a sore throat. Soon, he was sleeping all day, refusing meals, and starting to lose his voice. His doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months, his voice fell silent and his developing mind became trapped inside a body he couldn't control. Martin's parents were told that the unknown degenerative disease he was struggling with would mean that he had less than two years to live. He felt invisible--like a ghost of himself. The stress and heartache shook his family to the core, bringing his parents to the brink of separation. Their boy was gone--or so they thought. Martin started to come back to life. He couldn't make a sign or a sound, but he'd become aware of the world around him again and was finally finding his way back to himself. In these pages, you'll hear the highs and lows of Martin's journey from his own perspective, including: A family's resilience in the face of hardship The consequences of misdiagnosis The gift of a wild imagination Ghost Boy shares the beautiful, heart-wrenching story of a life reclaimed, a business created, a family transformed, and a new love that's blossomed. Martin's emergence from his own darkness invites us to celebrate our own lives and fight for a better life for those around us.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400205840
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
When you lose your voice, who will speak for you? When it all seems hopeless, how do you get through each day? In the New York Times bestseller Ghost Boy, Martin Pistorius tells the harrowing story of his return to life through the healing power of love and faith. In January 1988, a happy, healthy twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius came home from school with a sore throat. Soon, he was sleeping all day, refusing meals, and starting to lose his voice. His doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months, his voice fell silent and his developing mind became trapped inside a body he couldn't control. Martin's parents were told that the unknown degenerative disease he was struggling with would mean that he had less than two years to live. He felt invisible--like a ghost of himself. The stress and heartache shook his family to the core, bringing his parents to the brink of separation. Their boy was gone--or so they thought. Martin started to come back to life. He couldn't make a sign or a sound, but he'd become aware of the world around him again and was finally finding his way back to himself. In these pages, you'll hear the highs and lows of Martin's journey from his own perspective, including: A family's resilience in the face of hardship The consequences of misdiagnosis The gift of a wild imagination Ghost Boy shares the beautiful, heart-wrenching story of a life reclaimed, a business created, a family transformed, and a new love that's blossomed. Martin's emergence from his own darkness invites us to celebrate our own lives and fight for a better life for those around us.
Kathy Fiscus
Author: William Deverell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626400870
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well--a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family's home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio's klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers, miners, cesspool laborers, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. The region, the nation, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well's proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. William Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626400870
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well--a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in American history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family's home in Southern California. Across more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown. Thousands of concerned Southern Californians rushed to the scene. Jockeys hurried over from the nearby racetracks, offering to be sent down the well after Kathy. 20th Century Fox sent over the studio's klieg lights to illuminate the scene. Rescue workers-ditch diggers, miners, cesspool laborers, World War II veterans-dug and bored holes deep into the aquifer below, hoping to tunnel across to the old well shaft that the little girl had somehow tumbled down. The region, the nation, and the world watched and listened to every moment of the rescue attempt by way of radio, newsreel footage, and wire service reporting. They also watched live television. Because of the well's proximity to the radio towers on nearby Mount Wilson, the rescue attempt because the first breaking-news event to be broadcast live on television. The Kathy Fiscus event invented reality television and proved that real-time television news broadcasting could work and could transfix the public. William Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.
Ghost Hunter in Underworld
Author: Ji Fu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636662633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
I am a true northeastern man, once determined by the Great Deity to be dead, no more than nineteen years old. Being forced into a corner, he could only follow "Uncle" and learn Tao techniques. However, I never expected that an accident at the age of eleven would turn me into a monster that was half human, half ghost. From then on, I stepped into the Underworld to catch ghosts ...
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636662633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
I am a true northeastern man, once determined by the Great Deity to be dead, no more than nineteen years old. Being forced into a corner, he could only follow "Uncle" and learn Tao techniques. However, I never expected that an accident at the age of eleven would turn me into a monster that was half human, half ghost. From then on, I stepped into the Underworld to catch ghosts ...
The Midnight Land
Author: E.P. Clark
Publisher: Helia Press
ISBN: 1734036761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Love First Lessons or The Bear and the Nightingale? Try both books of this award-winning epic fantasy adventure in one omnibus edition! “A bold beginning to a series that explores gender, empathy, and the frozen north”--Kirkus “A riveting saga”—Midwest Book Review Women rule in Zem’. Krasnoslava Tsarinovna is the second-most powerful woman in Zem’. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a lot of power. Krasnoslava (Slava to her friends, if she had any) is the younger sister to the Empress of Zem’. She lives in luxury in her sister’s kremlin, eats at her sister’s rich feasts, and sits on her sister’s council. She has everything any woman could want—except respect. Instead, she is the bearer of her family’s double-edged gifts of clairvoyance and empathy. Knowing what other people feel about you is difficult at the best of times. In the Imperial court, it’s torture. When an adventurer comes asking for Imperial support to explore the Midnight Land, the far North where the sun never rises all winter, Slava is so desperate to leave the kremlin that she asks to come with her. To her surprise, her request is granted. Slava’s journey is supposed to take her to the very edge of Zem’ and the Known World, and maybe help her learn more about her gifts. But as she travels North, she finds herself drawn into the center of a plot that could bring down her family. Slava would do anything to protect her family—except what the gods call upon her to do. Everyone has always considered Slava a coward. Will she learn to become a hero in order to save the people she loves? This high fantasy saga set in a magical Slavic world infused with Russian myths and fairy tales contains elements of metaphysical and visionary fantasy, ecofiction/ecofantasy, noblebright (or maybe a touch of nobledark), and hopepunk.
Publisher: Helia Press
ISBN: 1734036761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Love First Lessons or The Bear and the Nightingale? Try both books of this award-winning epic fantasy adventure in one omnibus edition! “A bold beginning to a series that explores gender, empathy, and the frozen north”--Kirkus “A riveting saga”—Midwest Book Review Women rule in Zem’. Krasnoslava Tsarinovna is the second-most powerful woman in Zem’. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have a lot of power. Krasnoslava (Slava to her friends, if she had any) is the younger sister to the Empress of Zem’. She lives in luxury in her sister’s kremlin, eats at her sister’s rich feasts, and sits on her sister’s council. She has everything any woman could want—except respect. Instead, she is the bearer of her family’s double-edged gifts of clairvoyance and empathy. Knowing what other people feel about you is difficult at the best of times. In the Imperial court, it’s torture. When an adventurer comes asking for Imperial support to explore the Midnight Land, the far North where the sun never rises all winter, Slava is so desperate to leave the kremlin that she asks to come with her. To her surprise, her request is granted. Slava’s journey is supposed to take her to the very edge of Zem’ and the Known World, and maybe help her learn more about her gifts. But as she travels North, she finds herself drawn into the center of a plot that could bring down her family. Slava would do anything to protect her family—except what the gods call upon her to do. Everyone has always considered Slava a coward. Will she learn to become a hero in order to save the people she loves? This high fantasy saga set in a magical Slavic world infused with Russian myths and fairy tales contains elements of metaphysical and visionary fantasy, ecofiction/ecofantasy, noblebright (or maybe a touch of nobledark), and hopepunk.
The Assignment
Author: Midchild Carter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483634566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
As a young girl, growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Lina has traveled a dark and gloomy road of loneliness and despair. She longed to escape her childhood miseries and become her own woman. Now at the age of 25, Lina has finally fled Mississippi with fervent endeavors to encounter a new life in Alabama. Her dry and monotonous life of all-work-and-no-play has made her a very dull gal’, but a hot, new position at Speakin’ Out News, takes her on a vivacious journey of acceptance, courage, truth, and love. The question is, will Ms. Lina survive The Assignment, or be consumed?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483634566
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
As a young girl, growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Lina has traveled a dark and gloomy road of loneliness and despair. She longed to escape her childhood miseries and become her own woman. Now at the age of 25, Lina has finally fled Mississippi with fervent endeavors to encounter a new life in Alabama. Her dry and monotonous life of all-work-and-no-play has made her a very dull gal’, but a hot, new position at Speakin’ Out News, takes her on a vivacious journey of acceptance, courage, truth, and love. The question is, will Ms. Lina survive The Assignment, or be consumed?
The Trapped Girl
Author: Robert Dugoni
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781683245698
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When a woman's body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD's Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781683245698
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When a woman's body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD's Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?
IT'S THE JUICE
Author: Shawnette Handley
Publisher: Shawnette Handley
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Mo'Nay is on a mission to get money by any means necessary. Her mama named her that for a reason. She hates her mama, Tamela, with a passion. Mo'Nay is Tamela's spitting image, and she hates her daughter just as much. Mo'Nay is determined to be and do everything better than Tamela. She's a conniving scheming sex addict who extorts old men for cash and special benefits. What's crazy is, Tamela, has a mission identical to Mo'Nay's....with all of the same men! Ride with Mo'Nay on her journey of sex, lies and deceit....
Publisher: Shawnette Handley
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Mo'Nay is on a mission to get money by any means necessary. Her mama named her that for a reason. She hates her mama, Tamela, with a passion. Mo'Nay is Tamela's spitting image, and she hates her daughter just as much. Mo'Nay is determined to be and do everything better than Tamela. She's a conniving scheming sex addict who extorts old men for cash and special benefits. What's crazy is, Tamela, has a mission identical to Mo'Nay's....with all of the same men! Ride with Mo'Nay on her journey of sex, lies and deceit....
The Remnant
Author: Diane Anthony
Publisher: Authors 4 Authors Publishing
ISBN: 164477142X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Now that Olivia and David have discovered that their life in the city was a lie, their pursuit of the truth gives them a newfound purpose. Is there more to their Rare abilities than what they’ve discovered so far? Is there something about them that the government is trying to keep hidden? Taken captive and tortured by her oppressors, Olivia narrowly escapes with help from an unexpected source. She rejoins what’s left of her new friends, only to find their home destroyed and coalition forces closing in to finish them off. Running for their lives, they set out on a desperate quest to find the Haven, a mysterious city that is rumored to be harboring and protecting Rares. This journey will take them deep into the wilderness and bring them to the edges of another coalition stronghold before they find their way. But the danger in front of them is rivaled only by the danger closing in behind them, and Olivia’s new abilities will be put to the test. As they discover more secrets, the ones they bring with them may be the most important of all. Authors 4 Authors Content Rating This title has been rated 17+ appropriate for older teens and adults, and contains: - intense violence - brief intense implied sexual violence - negative mild illicit drug use - discussions of mental illness and suicide and sexual abuse - governmental conspiracy For more information on our rating system, please, visit Authors4AuthorsPublishing.com/books/ratings
Publisher: Authors 4 Authors Publishing
ISBN: 164477142X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Now that Olivia and David have discovered that their life in the city was a lie, their pursuit of the truth gives them a newfound purpose. Is there more to their Rare abilities than what they’ve discovered so far? Is there something about them that the government is trying to keep hidden? Taken captive and tortured by her oppressors, Olivia narrowly escapes with help from an unexpected source. She rejoins what’s left of her new friends, only to find their home destroyed and coalition forces closing in to finish them off. Running for their lives, they set out on a desperate quest to find the Haven, a mysterious city that is rumored to be harboring and protecting Rares. This journey will take them deep into the wilderness and bring them to the edges of another coalition stronghold before they find their way. But the danger in front of them is rivaled only by the danger closing in behind them, and Olivia’s new abilities will be put to the test. As they discover more secrets, the ones they bring with them may be the most important of all. Authors 4 Authors Content Rating This title has been rated 17+ appropriate for older teens and adults, and contains: - intense violence - brief intense implied sexual violence - negative mild illicit drug use - discussions of mental illness and suicide and sexual abuse - governmental conspiracy For more information on our rating system, please, visit Authors4AuthorsPublishing.com/books/ratings