Author: Miriam E. Cariveau
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512723770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Through the eyes of a cheerful nine-year-old girl, we see a bit of life along the dusty roads of Judea. Imagine Ruthie watching other children who are walking, running, jumping, and chasing each other. She could not join them. But she knew that her physical limitations would never limit her expressions of hope and joy. Always expect a miracle, even from a dreamfrom your very own dream, her mother had often said. Ruthie knew that Gods love was real, and her hope was in trusting Him. One of her special delights was caring for their donkey, Samuel. Even to this old creature, her kindness and compassion radiated. Ruthies story of what happened one day on the way to Jerusalem is intended to touch the heart. A vividly colorful story with many lovely layers depicting Gods love and grace, [Ruthies Dream] truly shows the faith of a child and the blessings that follow. It is as pure and delightful as its author. Lisa Binzoni, owner of The English Rose Tea Room and Gifts in Pleasanton, California As a father and grandfather, Im pleased to endorse Miriams story about a little girl whose faith in Jesus is rewarded in a miraculous way. As a pastor, Im always looking for ways to make the story of Jesus personal. Miriam has done that with Ruthies dream. Earl Heverly, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Sacramento, California
Author: Ruthie Lindsey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982107928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Brain on Fire meets Carry On, Warrior in this inspirational memoir and “testament to the things that break us, heal us, and make us who we are” (Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores one woman’s journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy, redemption, and healing. At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She’s given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing, imaging, and treatment, they prescribe narcotic painkillers—lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden, dependent on painkillers, and hopeless, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery, she could well become paralyzed, but in many ways, she already is. Ruthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain, dependent on prescription painkillers, and leaves the same way. She can still walk but has no idea where she’s going. As her life unravels, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healing—of coming home to her body. Raw and redemptive, There I Am is not just about the magic of optimism, but the work of it. Ruthie’s extraordinary memoir “like going on a walk with a best friend and listening to a life-changing speech at the same time: it’s equal parts familiar and profound, warm and insightful, comforting and challenging, relatable and unlike anything you’ve read before” (Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author).
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613228053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Set in a small Indiana farming community at the start of World War I, this is the heartwarming story of an eight-year-old tomboy who develops a stronger sense of self and selfishness during a particularly dramatic year in her life. Brisk pacing, affectionate humor, and an unforgettable heroine distinguish this first novel.--Publishers Weekly.
Author: Rod Dreher
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455521906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie "decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community."
Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399546464
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award! “A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative—based on the author’s childhood in the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie’s plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. Just when she’s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood’s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie’s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345807197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Author: Judith Weinshall Liberman
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457552779
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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RUTHIE AND HER ANCESTORS tells the story of a young girl who becomes curious about her ancestry. She is particularly eager to find out whether one of her ancestors was a king, which would make her a princess of sorts. Her father begins telling her the story of her ancestry going all the way back to Abraham the Patriarch, but the story is so long that she falls asleep before her father finishes the story. Yet when she falls asleep, she dreams about searching for her ancestors at various times and places in history. What she discovers in the course of her dream makes her realize that she may be a princess after all.
Author: Ruthie Lewis
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1613468148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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I'm so different now, so different from the naive high school senior full of heart and dreams. Like a firefly whose very being lights up a summer night like a Fourth of July sparkler, my soul's light was at its brightest. Tammy and Charla have been friends since childhood, but lost touch when life took them separate directions. In their time apart, both women have found themselves in situations far beyond their control. Tammy Trovich had been full of dreams, but had sacrificed and forgotten them all. Truth collides with her head-on when she realizes she's been caught like a firefly in a proverbial jar, living a life of have-to and supposed-to, when all the while, freedom was only inches away. Despite many obstacles, Charla Calibrisi thinks she's living her dream as a news anchor, but when her husband's aggressive behavior mirrors her dark past, will she allow the truth she has buried to be excavated, or will she be buried with it? Trapped in a jar with their lights dimming, both women wrestle with their devotion to the sanctity of marriage. To what limit will Tammy and Charla let their lives grow fainter before their light is extinguished-unable to emanate even the faintest glow? Fireflies is Ruthie Lewis's debut novel, a glimpse into the twisted lives of marriage, what it means to be a woman, the lies they believe, and the choices they make.
Author: M. Lee Prescott
Publisher: M. Lee Prescott
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Ruthie Morgan and Harley Langdon have been doing their passionate dance for years. In love with the drop-dead, gorgeous wrangler for as long as she can remember, Harley still sees her as his kid sister. When she hears he is leaving the valley for a job in California, she explodes, heartbroken and angry. As Harley contemplates the move, he gazes around at what he’s leaving especially his best friend, Ben Morgan’s little sister, now a beautiful, sexy woman. When the two begin a sizzling red hot affair, sparks fly and a job offer closer to home means Harley must choose between the chance of a lifetime and the woman he loves. Join the Morgan family and friends for this much awaited sixth book in the series. The story of these two lovers will leave your breathless from beginning to end. Warning-- the heat is up several notches on this one!
Author: Al Gowan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462073867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Praise for stories in FORT MOMMA: "Surprise and delight lurk in every paragraph of DEFROSTING HOWARD, a well-crafted story written in a clear, strong voice." -Vicki Hendricks fiction editor of QUIXOTE QUARTERLY, and author of five novels including MIAMI PURITY, IGUANA LOVE and SKY BLUES "REAL TIME is an humorous insight into the computer anxiety of the early eighties." -Dan Wakefield guest editor of PLOUGHSHARES and author of sixteen books including best selling novels STARTING OVER and GOING ALL THE WAY, and non-fiction books NEW YORK IN THE 1950'S and RETURNING. With deepest gratitude to the editors who published my stories: Dan Wakefield, PLOUGHSHARES, 1981 (REAL TIME) Michael Ishii, PAINTED HILLS REVIEW, 1993 (THE DEPRESSION) J.H.E. Paine, TENNESSEE QUARTERLY, 1993 (CURLEY'S PICTURE) Vicki Hendricks, QUIXOTE QUARTERLY, 1994 (DEFROSTING HOWARD) Reviews on Al Gowan's last novel ZAMORA'S TATTOO "Marks the debut of a new American novelist of insight, intelligence, style and sensitivity. Al Gowan is a writer with something to say that's fresh and provocative and he says it in a voice that is utterly, uniquely his own." -Gerald Gross, EDITORS ON EDITING "A dangerous and startling novel full of wit and grace. Al Gowan is a writer who takes delight in revealing the struggles of his people" -Melanie Rae Thon, SWEET HEARTS, IONA MOON, GIRLS IN THE GRASS, METEORS IN AUGUST and FIRST, BODY.
