Author: Jahquel J.
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648405576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Tracy never thought that he would be the guardian of his two younger sisters, especially a teenager. After his mother dropped them off and never looked back, he pulled his sleeves up and left the streets alone. Trading in his guns for construction boots and a vest, he puts in work at a job to provide for his sisters. Not being able to be home until late, he depends on his sixteen-year-old sister, Traylee to make sure their seven-year-old sister, Stacy is good. When Traylee is busy being a sixteen-year-old, a chain of events causes Tracy to revaluate his life and weather the storm that is being thrown toward his family. Not being one to mess with a chick because, let's be real, in a world full of artificial, he's looking for that real one. When he meets her, will she be as real as he wants her to be? One call in the middle of the night from a nonchalant caller changes Lavie's entire world. Raising her seventeen-year-old brother and running her veterinary practice, all while making sure her brother's grades are good enough to get into college in the fall, is enough for anybody to be overwhelmed. When she finds out Michael has been up to things he shouldn't have, will she stick by his side? Or will she throw him to the wolves? Having a dark past of her own, Lavie knows what the streets will do to you. The life she and her best friend, Heaven, came from is enough for her to keep her brother sheltered from it. Vowing to take her secrets to the grave, she builds up walls. What happens when one of her secrets comes popping back into her life? Heaven is in love with Lucus. Lucus is in love with Heaven. Lucus' family isn't in love with his black girlfriend and biracial child. Making him choose between Heaven or his family, Lucus picks Heaven and their daughter, Honor. Coming from wealth and being cut off causes problems with Lucus who is at a job that is barely giving him hours. With a mortgage and slew of bills under their belt, Heaven takes matters into her own hands to make the load lighter. Will this cause issues in their relationship? The life of pink clothes, ponytails and the little infant that resembles him isn't what Kas is used to. Yet, with the mother of his child, Tyra, serving in the Navy overseas, he has no choice but to become the sole provider for his daughter, Nomi. While trying to be single father, run a mechanic shop and maintain a long distance relationship with his secretive girlfriend, he's stretched pretty thin. When his neighbor, Laylani starts coming around, feelings get involved and hearts will get broken. Will Kas make it work Tyra, while raising their child or will he throw caution in the wind and start something Laylani? He might have had some, but he need a real one.
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Aphrodite Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671023888
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The story of the murder of three people in Nebraska, including a girl posing as a boy.
Author: Allie Brosh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451666187
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Author: Mimi Baird
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 080413748X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2015 A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself. By the time the results of his groundbreaking experiments were published, Dr. Baird had been institutionalized multiple times, his medical license revoked, and his wife and daughters estranged. He later received a lobotomy and died from a consequent seizure, his research incomplete, his achievements unrecognized. Mimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood. Decades later, a string of extraordinary coincidences led to the recovery of a manuscript which Dr. Baird had worked on throughout his brutal institutionalization, confinement, and escape. This remarkable document, reflecting periods of both manic exhilaration and clear-headed health, presents a startling portrait of a man who was a uniquely astute observer of his own condition, struggling with a disease for which there was no cure, racing against time to unlock the key to treatment before his illness became impossible to manage. Fifty years after being told her father would forever be “ill” and “away,” Mimi Baird set off on a quest to piece together the memoir and the man. In time her fingers became stained with the lead of the pencil he had used to write his manuscript, as she devoted herself to understanding who he was, why he disappeared, and what legacy she had inherited. The result of his extraordinary record and her journey to bring his name to light is He Wanted the Moon, an unforgettable testament to the reaches of the mind and the redeeming power of a determined heart.
Author: Olivier Tallec
Publisher: words & pictures
ISBN: 0711255288
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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He had always wanted one ever since he was little… He might not be the one he would have picked himself. He has some strange habits, eats weird food and disappears for hours of the day. But he is perfect really, in his own way. This is the classic story of a boy and his best friend but with a twist! Told from the perspective of the dog, this book is a hilarious, touching and fresh take on the relationship between a boy and his dog, or in this case, a dog and his boy. Written and illustrated by the wonderfully talented Olivier Tallec, this is book would make the perfect story for a child with a furry best friend.
Author: Admiral William H. McRaven
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455570230
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments. "Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." --Washington Post "Superb, smart, and succinct." --Forbes
Author: Annabeth Albert
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 160183506X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Giving true love a spin . . . Michelin Moses is a country music star on the rise. With a hit single under his Texas-sized belt buckle and a sold-out concert tour underway, his childhood dreams of making it big are finally coming true. But there’s one thing missing—a promise to his dying mother that he’d find it—him—when the time was right. With a little luck, he won’t have to wait too long . . . Lucky Ramirez is a hunky boy toy who dances at The Broom Closet, one of West Hollywood’s hottest gay bars. He loves what he does, and he’s good at it—almost as good as he is at playing dumb when he spots Michelin Moses at the bar. What happens next is off the charts—and keeps Michelin coming back for more. He’s just not sure it’s the right move for his career. But if Lucky gets his way, Michelin will get Lucky—and no matter how the media spins it, neither of them will be faking it . . . Praise for the Portland Heat series “Tremendously charming and sexy.”—RT Book Reviews on Served Hot “A really enjoyable story.”—Joyfully Jay on Baked Fresh “Sometimes an author just gets everything right...Absolutely perfect.”—Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews on Delivered Fast
Author: Darren Wilson
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 0768489016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Worldwide Fury! Up close and personal—these stories bring God’s supernatural love and protection closer to “real life” than you may have thought possible. Igniting Furious Love is an eclectic spiritual partnering of nine on-fire-for-God believers who “turn everything upside down in the church to be as unlike the world as absolutely possible.” Spanning the globe from Kosovo to Thailand, Russia, Mozambique, and inner-city USA, each writer has a unique story of their furious love for God as manifested in their lives. Through humorous stories, intelligent commentary, and real-life miracles and healings, the culmination of distinct voices and callings of these men and women range from witnessing a blood-drinking witch, confronting Buddhists with machetes, prostitution and gay bars—to lecturing at Cambridge University, experiencing victorious spiritual warfare, planting underground churches, and seeing people being raised from the dead. Exciting chapters and authors include: It’s All in the Delivery by Matteus Van Der Steen Called to Feed the Hungry by Heidi Baker Worldview Shakedown by Greg Boyd Raising the Dead by Rolland Baker I Will Get Him by Philip Mantofa Simply Love by Shampa Rice Witches, Babies, and Soldiers by Will Hart Stepping Stones by Angela Greenig Cradle to Coffin by Robby Dawkins Igniting Furious Love reveals God’s wildly soul-stirring plans for any who wants to know Him inside out.
Author: Subina Giuletti
Publisher: Subina Giuletti/Dast-Verlag
ISBN: 3945098009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A deep novel - with a personal dedication from Rev. June Juliet Gatlin, Michael Jackson's spiritual advisor. When Michael Jackson died, millions of people were affected and many felt that there was something strange around his death. In this book you will have intimate insights into Michael's personal world, for the first time in the form of a novel, and perhaps find a new answer. This is about the moving spectrum of feelings behind his dramas - taking into account his spiritual interests, but above all the question as to why ... why did he of all people have to experience disasters of this scale? The touching and poignant story of Michael Jackson as the emotional story of his life: nuances that are so often and readily omitted by the tabloids, his thoughts, feelings, fears, especially in the last two years before his death - are based on details, facts and background knowledge of people who knew Michael personally. Michael always said: Before you judge me, try hard to love me. This is an important piece of truth about Michael – share the thrill, read the book, gift it, review it, criticize it - give the truth around Michael Jackson a chance - let the true Michael live!
