Picking Wings Off Butterflies

Author : Scott R. Stahlecker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532026201

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Picking Wings off Butterflies by Scott R. Stahlecker Pdf

David Stahlecker was six years old when his life changed forever. He was walking home from school one afternoon when he was struck by a speeding car and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In Picking Wings Off Butterflies, David's father recalls that dreadful day and the years that followed, revealing a relationship that is as tumultuous as it is endearing. Both of them seek to move past the tragedy to live meaningful lives, but just as everything seems to be heading in the right direction, they're derailed by the American justice system. Humorous and brutally honest, this memoir celebrates the sacred relationship between a father and son. Ultimately, their search for meaning leads one of them to find God and the other to lose his faith. Be prepared to delve deep into the darkest motives of the human heartand paradoxicallyto be nourished by the tenacity of the human spirit with Picking Wings Off Butterflies.

Author : Harold Gildston,Phyllis Gildston
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595820425

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And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign by Harold Gildston,Phyllis Gildston Pdf

"Gordon floated out of the commander's office. He sensed his fortunes had turned 180 degrees. On the pinnacle of a phenomenal high, incandescing like lights on Broadway, he now believed that the backbreaking labor he had performed for his father on the roofs of Brooklyn had a larger purpose. His feet carried him to where his prayer book lay open to the well-worn page containing the sentence" and the Lord shall raise an ensign " "And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign" is a World War II male Cinderella story of sorts-with seductive and serendipitous twists. Charles Gordon, a handsome, well-spoken Jew from a poor working-class Yankee family, enters a naval officer's program along with almost exclusively southern classmates. With some fairy-godmother luck and remarkable feats of derring-do, accomplished despite the erection of malicious and prejudicial obstacles, Gordon eventually becomes an oddball hero among awestruck peers and admiring superiors. After earning the rank of ensign, an unexpected sequence of events ends with the virgin officer serving brilliantly as the Navy's youngest lead fighter director on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific war zone. Unforeseen and unjust consequences of dangerous liaisons, however, threaten to destroy him completely.

Author : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442446427

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Starting with Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Pdf

After she, her older brother, and their father move from Chicago to Maryland, Alice has trouble fitting into her new third grade class, but with the help of some new friends and her own unique outlook, she survives.

Author : Billie Cantrell McNabb Maguire
Publisher : Author House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781463445065

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A Time to Love by Billie Cantrell McNabb Maguire Pdf

It was an age of innocence and sometimes ignorance. I want to memorialize what a wonderful era it was in which to be a child and to grow old. It began as a chronological biography, but that was not the way life is lived. Stuff happens and rehappens, appears and disappears, changes and remains the same. Thus my memories and emotions became a haphazard collection of short sketches and stories. Early on the decision was made to mainly include the good "stuff." We begin this saga with my grandmother Jenny's story. the matriarch of the clan. "Jenny Cantrell was born October 29, 1858, in a farmhouse near Red Sulphur Springs. She is one-half of a set of twin daughters born to James and Elizabeth Ratliff. Mrs. Cantrell grew up on a farm in Mercer County near Littlesburg. One year a young Charlestonian, James M. Cantrell came to Mercer County "to take an interest in the mines." They fell in love and at 16 years of age, Jenny Ratliff became his bride."

Author : Christopher Belshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317490036

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Environmental Philosophy by Christopher Belshaw Pdf

This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it. The subject is examined from a determinedly analytic philosophical perspective, focusing on questions of value, but taking in attendant issues in epistemology and metaphysics as well. The book begins by considering the nature, extent and origin of the environmental problems with which we need to be concerned. Chapters go on to consider familiar strategies for dealing with environmental problems, and then consider what sort of things are of direct moral concern, examining in turn at animals, non-sentient life-forms, natural but non-living things and deep ecology. The final part of the book investigates notions of value, natural beauty and the place of human beings in the scheme of things.

Author : Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Animals
ISBN : UOM:39015064583555

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The Colours of Animals by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Lennox,Noelle Adams,Leslie North,Lizabeth Scott,Gloria Silk
Publisher : Elizabeth Lennox Books, LLC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944078447

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Billionaires on the Beach by Elizabeth Lennox,Noelle Adams,Leslie North,Lizabeth Scott,Gloria Silk Pdf

Author : Tina Packer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307745347

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Women of Will by Tina Packer Pdf

Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.

Author : Camilla Isley
Publisher : Pink Bloom Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788887269833

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My Billionaire Grump by Camilla Isley Pdf

When Lucy planned a summer trip to Florence, she didn’t expect to have to go single. Or for the hotel manager to cheat her out of her river-view room. And especially not for a broody, handsome stranger to offer to swap rooms with her. Offer is a euphemism. The mysterious George Emerson sort of brutalizes her into accepting the exchange. His gesture is as kind as the tone in which he poses it is barbaric, leaving Lucy rightfully confused. What is it about this man that makes her heart race while simultaneously making her want to punch him in the face? Only an unforgettable vacation under the Tuscan sun will unravel Lucy’s true feelings. An enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine rom-com.

Author : LJ Bourne
Publisher : Waterside Dreams Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789619646120

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The Forgotten Girl by LJ Bourne Pdf

An FBI Special Agent's violent past collides with the present in LJ Bourne's new blood-chilling thriller of murder, rage and dark secrets. A dead girl in the woods. A well-known suspect. Twenty-year-old secrets coming to light. Special Agent Lynn Rivers is sent to investigate a nightmare of a case. The mutilated body of her closest friend’s daughter has been found at a campsite. Lynn has known the victim all her life. From the outset it’s clear this will be one of the hardest cases she’s ever worked on. But she is determined to see it through, no matter what she finds. That promise gets harder and harder to keep as suspects are thin on the ground and the main one is a man Lynn once knew well. A man who was the prime suspect in the death of another of Lynn’s friends twenty years ago—a cold case that still haunts her. The two murders are different, yet eerily similar. To find the killer, Lynn will have to face all the dark ghosts of her past. And this time, she might not survive it. The Forgotten Girl is the first book in a brand-new mystery series by LJ Bourne – Lynn Rivers Mysteries. If you enjoy psychological thrillers full of dark twists and turns this book is for you! A must read for fans of Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardener and Karin Slaughter.

Author : Shobhaa De
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184754216

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Socialite Evenings by Shobhaa De Pdf

A divorce and a succession of sordid affairs have left prominent Bombay socialite Karuna feeling battered, empty and melancholic. She looks back upon her life and the friends and enemies who surround her—neurotic, man-hungry Anjali; gorgeous, vivacious Ritu; high-profile editor Varun, with a penchant for young boys; Krish, the pretentious adman, whose wife actively helps him in his extramarital affairs. Scandalous, astute and utterly riveting, Shobhaa Dé’s first novel, Socialite Evenings, laid bare the world of high-society India and changed the face of the Indian novel forever.

Author : Jeanne Denault
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781846946929

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Sucking Up Yellow Jackets by Jeanne Denault Pdf

Not being able to grasp what other people are thinking wreaks havoc on a kind child and people around him. ,

Author : Michael Grossman
Publisher : I Michael Grossman
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571431288

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Shrinkwrapped by Michael Grossman Pdf

In a bible belt midwestern town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, Michael Grossman's teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 7 -- the first in a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Sitting beside the author on a succession of "shrink's" couches the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others. Untangling the complex, sometimes abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally uncovers fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation. By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.

Author : Milly Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471140471

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Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café by Milly Johnson Pdf

The heartwarming and feel-good read from the Sunday Times bestselling author ‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie Johnson When Connie discovers that Jimmy Diamond, her husband of more than twenty years, is planning to leave her for his office junior, her world is turned upside down. Determined to salvage her pride, she resolves to get her own back. Along with Della, Jimmy's right-hand woman at his cleaning firm, Diamond Shine, and the cleaners who meet at the Sunflower Café, she'll make him wish he had never underestimated her. Then Connie meets the charming Brandon Locke, a master chocolatier, whose kindness starts to melt her soul. Can the ladies of the Sunflower Cafe help Connie scrub away the hurt? And can Brandon make her trust again? Praise for Milly Johnson: 'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold' heat 'A glorious, heartfelt novel' Rowan Coleman ‘Absolutely loved it. Milly's writing is like getting a big hug with just the right amount of bite underneath. I was rooting for Bonnie from the start' Jane Fallon ‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre’ Jill Mansell ‘Warm, optimistic and romantic’ Katie Fforde

Author : Neville Conway
Publisher : Neville Conway
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780954384845

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Man To Mann by Neville Conway Pdf