Author: Doug Howell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
" I don't think I want you around Bobby Lowe anymore-and I sure don't want him around me or Jason." Rick sat back and looked at Kylie. "Sweetheart, he's one of my oldest and best friends. I can't just 'not' see him anymore." Kylie glowered at Rick, "And I'm your wife," she pointed toward the room where Jason slept, "and that's your son. Your friend is a menace to himself, this family and anyone else he comes in contact with." Traveling through his old hometown on a photo assignment, photographer Rick Gaines stops in Zephyrhills, Florida, to visit his old friends, Mit Suggs and Bobby Lowe. Rick wants a career in New York until he runs into Kylie Simmons, an old friend from high school. Mit Suggs, the redneck, wants to drink beer and chase women-until he meets Kylie's older sister, Trina. Bobby Lowe, the mama's boy, works at his mother's Laundromat and soon joins the army. The friends pick up their relationship where they left off, and things seem to be the same. But something is about to change, taking each of them to new highs and, ultimately, to a tragic low.
Things Were Different
Author: Doug Howell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
" I don't think I want you around Bobby Lowe anymore-and I sure don't want him around me or Jason." Rick sat back and looked at Kylie. "Sweetheart, he's one of my oldest and best friends. I can't just 'not' see him anymore." Kylie glowered at Rick, "And I'm your wife," she pointed toward the room where Jason slept, "and that's your son. Your friend is a menace to himself, this family and anyone else he comes in contact with." Traveling through his old hometown on a photo assignment, photographer Rick Gaines stops in Zephyrhills, Florida, to visit his old friends, Mit Suggs and Bobby Lowe. Rick wants a career in New York until he runs into Kylie Simmons, an old friend from high school. Mit Suggs, the redneck, wants to drink beer and chase women-until he meets Kylie's older sister, Trina. Bobby Lowe, the mama's boy, works at his mother's Laundromat and soon joins the army. The friends pick up their relationship where they left off, and things seem to be the same. But something is about to change, taking each of them to new highs and, ultimately, to a tragic low.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
" I don't think I want you around Bobby Lowe anymore-and I sure don't want him around me or Jason." Rick sat back and looked at Kylie. "Sweetheart, he's one of my oldest and best friends. I can't just 'not' see him anymore." Kylie glowered at Rick, "And I'm your wife," she pointed toward the room where Jason slept, "and that's your son. Your friend is a menace to himself, this family and anyone else he comes in contact with." Traveling through his old hometown on a photo assignment, photographer Rick Gaines stops in Zephyrhills, Florida, to visit his old friends, Mit Suggs and Bobby Lowe. Rick wants a career in New York until he runs into Kylie Simmons, an old friend from high school. Mit Suggs, the redneck, wants to drink beer and chase women-until he meets Kylie's older sister, Trina. Bobby Lowe, the mama's boy, works at his mother's Laundromat and soon joins the army. The friends pick up their relationship where they left off, and things seem to be the same. But something is about to change, taking each of them to new highs and, ultimately, to a tragic low.
Things Were Different in Those Days
Author: Hilary McKay
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447292375
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Here are the twelve dancing princesses, who drove the Old King to distraction by wearing through their slippers every night. (Which sounds like something he could have made less fuss about, until you do the maths: well over four thousand pairs of slippers a year. Satin slippers too!) Things Were Different in Those Days is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination! From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447292375
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Here are the twelve dancing princesses, who drove the Old King to distraction by wearing through their slippers every night. (Which sounds like something he could have made less fuss about, until you do the maths: well over four thousand pairs of slippers a year. Satin slippers too!) Things Were Different in Those Days is an imaginative retelling of the classic fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Originally featured in Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales, this short story is sure to capture the imagination! From the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning storyteller Hilary McKay and featuring black-and-white line and tone illustrations from the talented Sarah Gibb.
The Handbook of Geoscience
Author: Frank R. Spellman
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886154
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-science professionals and general readers with little or no science background, the handbook is a user-friendly overview of our physical, biological and ecological environment that offers up-to-date coverage of the major scientific fields that in combination form the structure of geoscience. Students who are enrolled in a geoscience course or one of its many subdisciplines will find this book to be an invaluable resource and reference to supplement classroom instruction and provide greater insight into many of the topics usually discussed. The emphasis is on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations refined by over 35 years of experience of instruction and student feedback.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886154
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-science professionals and general readers with little or no science background, the handbook is a user-friendly overview of our physical, biological and ecological environment that offers up-to-date coverage of the major scientific fields that in combination form the structure of geoscience. Students who are enrolled in a geoscience course or one of its many subdisciplines will find this book to be an invaluable resource and reference to supplement classroom instruction and provide greater insight into many of the topics usually discussed. The emphasis is on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations refined by over 35 years of experience of instruction and student feedback.
A Different Kind of Same
Author: Kelley Clink
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631529986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Two weeks before his college graduation, Kelley Clink’s younger brother died by suicide. Though he’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager and had attempted suicide once before, the news came as a shock—and it sent Kelley into a spiral of guilt and grief. After Matt’s death, a chasm opened between the brother Kelley had known and the brother she’d buried. She kept telling herself she couldn’t understand why he’d done it—but the truth was, she could. Several years before he’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she’d been diagnosed with depression. Several years before he first attempted suicide by overdose, she had attempted suicide by overdose. She’d blazed the trail he’d followed. If he couldn’t make it, what hope was there for her? A Different Kind of Same traces Kelley’s journey through grief, her investigation into the role her own depression played in her brother’s death, and, ultimately, her path toward acceptance, forgiveness, resilience, and love.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631529986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Two weeks before his college graduation, Kelley Clink’s younger brother died by suicide. Though he’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager and had attempted suicide once before, the news came as a shock—and it sent Kelley into a spiral of guilt and grief. After Matt’s death, a chasm opened between the brother Kelley had known and the brother she’d buried. She kept telling herself she couldn’t understand why he’d done it—but the truth was, she could. Several years before he’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she’d been diagnosed with depression. Several years before he first attempted suicide by overdose, she had attempted suicide by overdose. She’d blazed the trail he’d followed. If he couldn’t make it, what hope was there for her? A Different Kind of Same traces Kelley’s journey through grief, her investigation into the role her own depression played in her brother’s death, and, ultimately, her path toward acceptance, forgiveness, resilience, and love.
Insight into Emptiness
Author: Jampa Tegchok
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614290229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A former abbot of one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world, Khensur Jampa Tegchok has been teaching Westerners about Buddhism since the 1970s. With a deep respect for the intellectual capacity of his students, Khensur Tegchok here unpacks with great erudition Buddhism's animating philosophical principle - the emptiness of all appearances. Engagingly edited by bestselling author Thubten Chodron, emptiness is here approached from a host of angles far beyond most treatments of the subject, while never sacrificing its conversational approach.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1614290229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A former abbot of one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world, Khensur Jampa Tegchok has been teaching Westerners about Buddhism since the 1970s. With a deep respect for the intellectual capacity of his students, Khensur Tegchok here unpacks with great erudition Buddhism's animating philosophical principle - the emptiness of all appearances. Engagingly edited by bestselling author Thubten Chodron, emptiness is here approached from a host of angles far beyond most treatments of the subject, while never sacrificing its conversational approach.
Best Knickers Always
Author: Rebecca Perkins
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 140915016X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Have you ever caught a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and wondered who is that woman staring back? Could your relationship do with a revamp? Or are you coping wth divorce and wondering if you can ever face dating again? Do you wonder where your confidence went? Do you have a little voice that says, 'Oh I couldn't, I'm too old/ unfit/ overweight/ tired?' Rebecca Perkins's message is simple: women are living longer than ever. Midlife is now something to be embraced and celebrated, the beginning of a whole new era where you can start living the life you want. With advice on the issues we all face as milestone birthdays approach, be it 40, 50 or 60, Rebecca Perkins explains why midlife is a time of wisdom, reflection and celebration. With lessons like: Be Less Available; Don't Self-Sabotage; Have a Kitchen Disco Playlist; it's full of reminders about self-esteem, looking forward and being happier, either by changing your life or rediscovering what you lost sight of along the way. With 50 delightful lessons to empower and inspire, BEST KNICKERS ALWAYS is like a pep-talk from a best friend, telling you how to change your life one day at a time, one step at a time, by being kind to yourself. It's not just a celebration of life, it's a companion.
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 140915016X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Have you ever caught a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and wondered who is that woman staring back? Could your relationship do with a revamp? Or are you coping wth divorce and wondering if you can ever face dating again? Do you wonder where your confidence went? Do you have a little voice that says, 'Oh I couldn't, I'm too old/ unfit/ overweight/ tired?' Rebecca Perkins's message is simple: women are living longer than ever. Midlife is now something to be embraced and celebrated, the beginning of a whole new era where you can start living the life you want. With advice on the issues we all face as milestone birthdays approach, be it 40, 50 or 60, Rebecca Perkins explains why midlife is a time of wisdom, reflection and celebration. With lessons like: Be Less Available; Don't Self-Sabotage; Have a Kitchen Disco Playlist; it's full of reminders about self-esteem, looking forward and being happier, either by changing your life or rediscovering what you lost sight of along the way. With 50 delightful lessons to empower and inspire, BEST KNICKERS ALWAYS is like a pep-talk from a best friend, telling you how to change your life one day at a time, one step at a time, by being kind to yourself. It's not just a celebration of life, it's a companion.
The Better Life
Author: Claire Diaz-Ortiz
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802493092
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Little ways to be you at your best, right where you are. From the can-do entrepreneur Claire Diaz-Ortiz, The Better Life is a motivational memoir about little changes that make all the difference. In winsome style, Claire offers vignettes from her life to yours. A top-level Twitter employee, world traveler, author, non-profit founder, and mom, Claire tries to make the most of every moment. In The Better Life, she shares stories and insights about balance, productivity, self-care, and other essentials for rocking it at life every day. Take some advice from Claire: Say yes. Say no. Quit something. Take your mornings seriously. Make your weekends count. Write more. Worry less. Travel. Pray. Pause. Rest. Know your limits. Do Hatchi Patchi. Don’t beat yourself up. Be still. Be thankful. Be you, but your best. Read this book, and start living the better lifeyou’ve been meaning to.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802493092
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Little ways to be you at your best, right where you are. From the can-do entrepreneur Claire Diaz-Ortiz, The Better Life is a motivational memoir about little changes that make all the difference. In winsome style, Claire offers vignettes from her life to yours. A top-level Twitter employee, world traveler, author, non-profit founder, and mom, Claire tries to make the most of every moment. In The Better Life, she shares stories and insights about balance, productivity, self-care, and other essentials for rocking it at life every day. Take some advice from Claire: Say yes. Say no. Quit something. Take your mornings seriously. Make your weekends count. Write more. Worry less. Travel. Pray. Pause. Rest. Know your limits. Do Hatchi Patchi. Don’t beat yourself up. Be still. Be thankful. Be you, but your best. Read this book, and start living the better lifeyou’ve been meaning to.
The Third Turning of the Wheel
Author: Tenshin Reb Anderson
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1930485794
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the ultimate truth. In The Third Turning of the Wheel, he introduces us to the next stage of our journey by invoking the wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra. According to Anderson, the main purpose behind this enigmatic sutra is to reconcile the apparent contradictions between the original teachings of the historical Buddha and the later teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. Anderson reflects on the great metaphysical questions proposed in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra—the nature of ultimate reality, the structure of human consciousness, the characteristics of phenomena, the stages of meditation, and the essential qualities of a buddha—with the clarity of a scholar and the insight of a practitioner.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1930485794
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the ultimate truth. In The Third Turning of the Wheel, he introduces us to the next stage of our journey by invoking the wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra. According to Anderson, the main purpose behind this enigmatic sutra is to reconcile the apparent contradictions between the original teachings of the historical Buddha and the later teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. Anderson reflects on the great metaphysical questions proposed in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra—the nature of ultimate reality, the structure of human consciousness, the characteristics of phenomena, the stages of meditation, and the essential qualities of a buddha—with the clarity of a scholar and the insight of a practitioner.
The Keeper of Secret Things
Author: Jamie Campbell
Publisher: Jamie Campbell
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The biggest secret she keeps is her own. The residents of Lakeside have many secrets to tell. And they confide them all to Blossom Rae. Having just moved into town with her family, she quickly earns a reputation as the mute girl, the one who won’t tell your secrets. But it is the secret Blossom is keeping for herself that is the most important. Silenced by him after the Incident, she refuses to break the promise she made and place her family in immediate danger. Her lips will remain firmly closed. With him being spotted in Lakeside, Blossom decides to take the fight to him instead of always watching over her shoulder. Because some secrets just can’t remain secrets forever. In the second novel in the Keeper Series, discover what the teenagers of Lakeside are really capable of. You will rethink keeping all those secrets to yourself in the future. Also in the Keeper Series: The Keeper of Lost Things The Keeper of Secret Things The Keeper of Broken Things
Publisher: Jamie Campbell
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The biggest secret she keeps is her own. The residents of Lakeside have many secrets to tell. And they confide them all to Blossom Rae. Having just moved into town with her family, she quickly earns a reputation as the mute girl, the one who won’t tell your secrets. But it is the secret Blossom is keeping for herself that is the most important. Silenced by him after the Incident, she refuses to break the promise she made and place her family in immediate danger. Her lips will remain firmly closed. With him being spotted in Lakeside, Blossom decides to take the fight to him instead of always watching over her shoulder. Because some secrets just can’t remain secrets forever. In the second novel in the Keeper Series, discover what the teenagers of Lakeside are really capable of. You will rethink keeping all those secrets to yourself in the future. Also in the Keeper Series: The Keeper of Lost Things The Keeper of Secret Things The Keeper of Broken Things
Class and Campus Life
Author: Elizabeth M. Lee
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703897
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite campuses." What happens to academically talented but economically challenged "first-gen" students when they arrive on campus? Class markers aren't always visible from a distance, but socioeconomic differences permeate campus life—and the inner experiences of students—in real and sometimes unexpected ways. In Class and Campus Life, Elizabeth M. Lee shows how class differences are enacted and negotiated by students, faculty, and administrators at an elite liberal arts college for women located in the Northeast. Using material from two years of fieldwork and more than 140 interviews with students, faculty, administrators, and alumnae at the pseudonymous Linden College, Lee adds depth to our understanding of inequality in higher education. An essential part of her analysis is to illuminate the ways in which the students' and the college’s practices interact, rather than evaluating them separately, as seemingly unrelated spheres. She also analyzes underlying moral judgments brought to light through cultural connotations of merit, hard work by individuals, and making it on your own that permeate American higher education. Using students’ own descriptions and understandings of their experiences to illustrate the complexity of these issues, Lee shows how the lived experience of socioeconomic difference is often defined in moral, as well as economic, terms, and that tensions, often unspoken, undermine students’ senses of belonging.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703897
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite campuses." What happens to academically talented but economically challenged "first-gen" students when they arrive on campus? Class markers aren't always visible from a distance, but socioeconomic differences permeate campus life—and the inner experiences of students—in real and sometimes unexpected ways. In Class and Campus Life, Elizabeth M. Lee shows how class differences are enacted and negotiated by students, faculty, and administrators at an elite liberal arts college for women located in the Northeast. Using material from two years of fieldwork and more than 140 interviews with students, faculty, administrators, and alumnae at the pseudonymous Linden College, Lee adds depth to our understanding of inequality in higher education. An essential part of her analysis is to illuminate the ways in which the students' and the college’s practices interact, rather than evaluating them separately, as seemingly unrelated spheres. She also analyzes underlying moral judgments brought to light through cultural connotations of merit, hard work by individuals, and making it on your own that permeate American higher education. Using students’ own descriptions and understandings of their experiences to illustrate the complexity of these issues, Lee shows how the lived experience of socioeconomic difference is often defined in moral, as well as economic, terms, and that tensions, often unspoken, undermine students’ senses of belonging.