Author: Achut Deng
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374389713
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up. I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past.
Don't Look Back
Author: Achut Deng
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374389713
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up. I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374389713
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up. I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past.
Think Again
Author: Adam Grant
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753553902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER If you can change your mind you can do anything. Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our beliefs and our views? Why do we laugh at people using computers that are ten years old, but yet still cling to opinions we formed ten years ago? There's a new skill for the modern world that matters more than raw intelligence - the ability to change your mind. To have the edge we all need to develop the flexibility to unlearn old beliefs and adapt when the evidence and the world changes before us. Told through fascinating stories, informed by cutting-edge research and illustratedwith amazing insights from Adam Grant's conversations with people such as Elon Musk, Hilary Clinton's campaign team, top CEOs and leading scientists, this is the ultimate guide to keeping your thinking fresh, learning when to question your ideas and update your own opinions, and how to inspire those around you to do the same.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753553902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER If you can change your mind you can do anything. Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our beliefs and our views? Why do we laugh at people using computers that are ten years old, but yet still cling to opinions we formed ten years ago? There's a new skill for the modern world that matters more than raw intelligence - the ability to change your mind. To have the edge we all need to develop the flexibility to unlearn old beliefs and adapt when the evidence and the world changes before us. Told through fascinating stories, informed by cutting-edge research and illustratedwith amazing insights from Adam Grant's conversations with people such as Elon Musk, Hilary Clinton's campaign team, top CEOs and leading scientists, this is the ultimate guide to keeping your thinking fresh, learning when to question your ideas and update your own opinions, and how to inspire those around you to do the same.
Look Back to See Ahead
Author: B. G. Dyck
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1613798016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bernice G. Dyck has been a school teacher and a follower of Christ all the years of her life. She learned to serve others at a very young age. When she was in Kindergarten, she was already singled out as the person who was ready, willing, and able to help those who need it. She taught for more than 30 years in the public school system, and has done part-time teaching at Red River College and at the University of Winnipeg. While keeping busy and involved with the organizations that she worked for, she spent many years writing books in her spare time. She recently went back to the 'education system' as a student of theology, and has spent two years preparing to help churches that need a Lay Worship Leader for a period of time. During those experiences, some as long as several months, at the request of the congregation, her passion for Christ has continued to grow, and the novels and Christian books she has written should help us to know and understand our God, who made us with the potential to be an excellent servant, following in Jesus' footsteps. Now, with several books ready for publication, she is happy to share her passion for living with and for God. Whether you are a declared Christian or not, God has already been working in your life! This book should lead you to see how that has already happened as you Look Back over your life. It should also help to See Ahead and determine how God's work in the past will strongly influence your future, and how it will help you to share God's love with others! Retrospection can, and will change your life! Thanks be to God!
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1613798016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bernice G. Dyck has been a school teacher and a follower of Christ all the years of her life. She learned to serve others at a very young age. When she was in Kindergarten, she was already singled out as the person who was ready, willing, and able to help those who need it. She taught for more than 30 years in the public school system, and has done part-time teaching at Red River College and at the University of Winnipeg. While keeping busy and involved with the organizations that she worked for, she spent many years writing books in her spare time. She recently went back to the 'education system' as a student of theology, and has spent two years preparing to help churches that need a Lay Worship Leader for a period of time. During those experiences, some as long as several months, at the request of the congregation, her passion for Christ has continued to grow, and the novels and Christian books she has written should help us to know and understand our God, who made us with the potential to be an excellent servant, following in Jesus' footsteps. Now, with several books ready for publication, she is happy to share her passion for living with and for God. Whether you are a declared Christian or not, God has already been working in your life! This book should lead you to see how that has already happened as you Look Back over your life. It should also help to See Ahead and determine how God's work in the past will strongly influence your future, and how it will help you to share God's love with others! Retrospection can, and will change your life! Thanks be to God!
Never Look Back
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795339992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A Soviet agent has entered the United States—carrying a terrifying weapon—in this Cold War thriller by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author . . . Agent Andy Clayton has been inactive for eighteen months, kept under tight surveillance at his home in Washington D.C. Now he is needed—Leonid Borikowski, code name Dragonfly, has been seen entering the United States, and Clayton is the only man who may be able to find and stop him. For Clayton, it’s more than a routine assignment. He knows Dragonfly, has faced him before, and he wants him. His interest is as personal as it is professional: He wants revenge on the foreign agent who killed his twin brother. But there is much that Clayton doesn't know. He doesn't know that Borikowski is carrying perhaps the most important, and dangerous, biological discovery the world has ever known. He doesn't know that the microbe is in a suitcase armed with a device that will explode if Borikowski is harmed. And he doesn't know about the Soviet intelligence project code-named Bookends—a project that will not be complete until Andy meets the same fate as his brother. The chase will take him across the United States and Canada, putting himself, the woman he loves, and thousands of innocent people in jeopardy…
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795339992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A Soviet agent has entered the United States—carrying a terrifying weapon—in this Cold War thriller by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author . . . Agent Andy Clayton has been inactive for eighteen months, kept under tight surveillance at his home in Washington D.C. Now he is needed—Leonid Borikowski, code name Dragonfly, has been seen entering the United States, and Clayton is the only man who may be able to find and stop him. For Clayton, it’s more than a routine assignment. He knows Dragonfly, has faced him before, and he wants him. His interest is as personal as it is professional: He wants revenge on the foreign agent who killed his twin brother. But there is much that Clayton doesn't know. He doesn't know that Borikowski is carrying perhaps the most important, and dangerous, biological discovery the world has ever known. He doesn't know that the microbe is in a suitcase armed with a device that will explode if Borikowski is harmed. And he doesn't know about the Soviet intelligence project code-named Bookends—a project that will not be complete until Andy meets the same fate as his brother. The chase will take him across the United States and Canada, putting himself, the woman he loves, and thousands of innocent people in jeopardy…
Don't Look Back
Author: Faye Cyr
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1604771186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Thirteen- and 14-year-old Chester and Tyler Chantyman and their neighbor, Tonya, attempt to escape to the Kluskus Reserve, towing the boys' seriously ill grandmother on a toboggan through grizzly, wolf, and moose territory.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1604771186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Thirteen- and 14-year-old Chester and Tyler Chantyman and their neighbor, Tonya, attempt to escape to the Kluskus Reserve, towing the boys' seriously ill grandmother on a toboggan through grizzly, wolf, and moose territory.
Don't Look Back
Author: Christine Caine
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400226643
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Move forward with hope instead of dwelling on the past. There are times in life when we look back and feel desperate to make time stand still, especially when unexpected change happens and all we want is for things to go back to how they were. But we can't stop the flow of life, and we can't stop time. And looking back doesn't enable us to go back. It just makes us stuck. In a place. In a space. In a memory. In a mindset. In a habit. In Luke 17:32, Jesus drops three little words: "Remember Lot's wife." We don't know her name, history, or story. All we know is that when she was fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah, she was told not to look back, and she did the one thing she was asked not to do. She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. And out of the 170 women referred to in the Scriptures, she's the only one Jesus told us to remember. With a rallying cry to "Remember Lot's wife," Bible teacher, international speaker, activist, and bestselling author Christine Caine will motivate you to stop looking back, to get unstuck, and to keep moving forward into God's promises and purpose for your life. In Don't Look Back, Christine will help you to: Stop looking back and start looking to Jesus Invite Jesus in to help you get unstuck from the places and situations that keep you trapped Move on from where you are into all God's plans, purposes, and promises for your life Look forward to the future and keep moving toward it in faith--especially when your world is nothing like it once was Jesus is beckoning us onward into the newness of what lies ahead. Stop disqualifying yourself by getting stuck in the past. Don't Look Back will inspire you to move forward boldly.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400226643
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Move forward with hope instead of dwelling on the past. There are times in life when we look back and feel desperate to make time stand still, especially when unexpected change happens and all we want is for things to go back to how they were. But we can't stop the flow of life, and we can't stop time. And looking back doesn't enable us to go back. It just makes us stuck. In a place. In a space. In a memory. In a mindset. In a habit. In Luke 17:32, Jesus drops three little words: "Remember Lot's wife." We don't know her name, history, or story. All we know is that when she was fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah, she was told not to look back, and she did the one thing she was asked not to do. She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. And out of the 170 women referred to in the Scriptures, she's the only one Jesus told us to remember. With a rallying cry to "Remember Lot's wife," Bible teacher, international speaker, activist, and bestselling author Christine Caine will motivate you to stop looking back, to get unstuck, and to keep moving forward into God's promises and purpose for your life. In Don't Look Back, Christine will help you to: Stop looking back and start looking to Jesus Invite Jesus in to help you get unstuck from the places and situations that keep you trapped Move on from where you are into all God's plans, purposes, and promises for your life Look forward to the future and keep moving toward it in faith--especially when your world is nothing like it once was Jesus is beckoning us onward into the newness of what lies ahead. Stop disqualifying yourself by getting stuck in the past. Don't Look Back will inspire you to move forward boldly.
Look Back and Laugh
Author: John Schmidtke
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1635750881
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
In Look Back and Laugh, John Schmidtke laughs about the crazy things that happened in his family. The wonderful thing is that the longer ago it was and the worse it got, the funnier it gets. Is your life like that? We're talking about the silly stuff that usually ruins your day. The mistakes, misstatements, accidents, misfortunes, problems. Don't let them ruin your life! If bad things happened, it isn't because you're unlucky. It's because you're normal! Your past, the downs as well as the ups, can be a real blessing. It all depends on how you look at them. Laughter is the key. Whatever happened (ridiculous, riotous or ruinous) happened. If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. There is humor in everything. All you have to do is find it. Laughter is good medicine too. When you think back on even a bad event with laughter, it will bring a smile instead of tears or anger. It'll help you-and everyone around you-because happiness is catchy. Go ahead, friend. Buy this read! Find out why John says, "If life is taking you to the Funny Farm, you might as well laugh along the way!"
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1635750881
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
In Look Back and Laugh, John Schmidtke laughs about the crazy things that happened in his family. The wonderful thing is that the longer ago it was and the worse it got, the funnier it gets. Is your life like that? We're talking about the silly stuff that usually ruins your day. The mistakes, misstatements, accidents, misfortunes, problems. Don't let them ruin your life! If bad things happened, it isn't because you're unlucky. It's because you're normal! Your past, the downs as well as the ups, can be a real blessing. It all depends on how you look at them. Laughter is the key. Whatever happened (ridiculous, riotous or ruinous) happened. If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. There is humor in everything. All you have to do is find it. Laughter is good medicine too. When you think back on even a bad event with laughter, it will bring a smile instead of tears or anger. It'll help you-and everyone around you-because happiness is catchy. Go ahead, friend. Buy this read! Find out why John says, "If life is taking you to the Funny Farm, you might as well laugh along the way!"
... And I Did(n't) Look Back
Author: Hildegard Brothers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462869165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
An engaging narrative covering the period from 1949 to 2003, ... and I did(n’t) look back is a captivating memoir that offers a glimpse into the author’s journey through life. Here, she shares how a totally normal life went on in Germany right after World War II as she relates to her early memories, her growing up years, how she started her own life, her memorable adventures, various struggles, quest for success, faced different events, and how she finds hope after that period and begins a new journey with life.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462869165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
An engaging narrative covering the period from 1949 to 2003, ... and I did(n’t) look back is a captivating memoir that offers a glimpse into the author’s journey through life. Here, she shares how a totally normal life went on in Germany right after World War II as she relates to her early memories, her growing up years, how she started her own life, her memorable adventures, various struggles, quest for success, faced different events, and how she finds hope after that period and begins a new journey with life.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Don't Look Back!
Author: Vanessa Grossett
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161566128X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
So you say that you're a Christian. But what happens when things don't go according to plan? What happens when you pray and don't get the answer you want? Is your faith strong enough to pull you through, or will you falter, questioning your beliefs and the God you claim to trust? It is estimated that 90 percent of Christians backslide, giving into their sinful nature and allowing the devil to regain control. As a result, many of them end up worse than they were before they came to know Christ. Don't Look Back! The Harmful Consequences of Backsliding explores the dangers of turning your back on God. Author Vanessa Grossett tells the story of Esther, a pastor, successful businesswoman, and faithful Christian. But when God commands her to wait on an answer to prayer, Esther's patience runs out, leading her down a path of unrepentance and destruction. Through this illustration and other biblically-based teaching, readers will learn: bull; How a Christian can spot the signs of backsliding bull; Why a Christian might backslide bull; How God deals with backsliding
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 161566128X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
So you say that you're a Christian. But what happens when things don't go according to plan? What happens when you pray and don't get the answer you want? Is your faith strong enough to pull you through, or will you falter, questioning your beliefs and the God you claim to trust? It is estimated that 90 percent of Christians backslide, giving into their sinful nature and allowing the devil to regain control. As a result, many of them end up worse than they were before they came to know Christ. Don't Look Back! The Harmful Consequences of Backsliding explores the dangers of turning your back on God. Author Vanessa Grossett tells the story of Esther, a pastor, successful businesswoman, and faithful Christian. But when God commands her to wait on an answer to prayer, Esther's patience runs out, leading her down a path of unrepentance and destruction. Through this illustration and other biblically-based teaching, readers will learn: bull; How a Christian can spot the signs of backsliding bull; Why a Christian might backslide bull; How God deals with backsliding