The Bad Karma Diaries

Author : Bridget Hourican
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781847174130

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The Bad Karma Diaries by Bridget Hourican Pdf

This is the story of an eventful term: 2nd years Anna and Denise want to make money and have adventures to write up on the blog they're creating. They set up an above-board business running children's parties and a covert vigilante business - meting out other people's revenge (e.g. hiding gymbags, spoiling homework). They defend their actions by claiming that they're fighting injustice. Both explore the other sex - Anna is practical and sets herself up with boyfriends, Denise is romantic and dreams about boys. They are self-absorbed and wrapped up in each other and don't notice the real injustice under their noses: Denise is ignoring her younger sister, Justine, who is suffering. The book relates how they finally use their undoubted ingenuity for a good cause - saving Justine - and how they lose some of their self-absorption and widen their friendship to include others.

Author : Nitin Mishra
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781638066583

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The Diary of a Yogi by Nitin Mishra Pdf

‘The Diary of a Yogi’ is the first-ever book that can relate the new age concepts of the law of attraction and energy, vibrations, and frequencies with the ancient theory of karma. In the entire history of humankind, the wisest lineage considered by science is the lineage of yogis found in ancient India. This book offers you practical ways discovered in ancient India through which a person can change his thought process and make the law of attraction work for him. This book shows you practical ways found in ancient India through which a person can bring a positive change in life. This book will explain how your thoughts and actions affect your life and how to create a future based on what we want. Along with that, when you read this book, many doubts that people usually have like who is responsible for creating destiny, who is God, and about the various dimensions of the universe will be cleared. A better version of yourself, the yogi inside you, will be awakened. This book mainly comprises of: The law of attraction The theory of energy, vibrations, and frequency The theory of karma and reincarnation

Author : Carole Raphaelle Davis
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780740789069

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The Diary of Jinky by Carole Raphaelle Davis Pdf

My mom used to be somebody, but she doesn't want to remember who that was. She was in movies, on TV, she made records, and was an underwear model. My dad is a writer--or at least he sleeps at the computer a lot." Jinky's "mom" and "dad" might be complainers, but Jinky is just happy to be alive. He enjoys every minute and he can't understand why his lucky, pampered Hollywood parents and their show business friends are such miserable whiners. After all, Jinky's life started badly: My life began in a cage in San Pedro, California. Some creepy guy bought me for his stupid wife and she didn't want me. . . . One night, the guy took me to the pound. They threw me into a cold, wet crate and slammed the gate. . . . I was scheduled to be 'put down' or, as I like to say, murdered. But I got lucky." Now Jinky lives in a beautiful house in the Hollywood Hills. He has a pool and a Jacuzzi and sports cars and a fat blond terrier girlfriend named Finley who loves to lick his ears. Jinky went from an unloved and abandoned pet to sleeping in bed with his mom (a former Pet herself, in Penthouse--she looks good) and eating delicious food off his dad's plate (his mom cooks good, too). Jinky knows what's important in life, and he wishes his mom and dad could stop worrying about their status in Hollywood and enjoy life as much as he does. He can't understand why show business people are always so unhappy, especially the funny ones. Every "pitch" meeting Jinky overhears, every Hollywood dinner he eavesdrops on, every Hollywood barbecue, lunch, and casual encounter in coffee shops is another chance for these people to bitch and moan about "the business." But Jinky's "tail" is not just about his hilariously self-obsessed parents and their friends. And his message is not just that happiness is not about how much we have, but how we love. His is a tale about how hope, perseverance, and even one small act of kindness can change a life.

Author : J. Q. Gagliastro
Publisher : J.Q. Gagliastro
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798218254834

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The Diary of a Sugarbaby by J. Q. Gagliastro Pdf

“I was a sugarbaby, I admit. I am not proud of it, though others seem to sensationalize the lifestyle. They see glitz and glamor, never food or a place to sleep. Film and literature have only shown one side of a sugarbaby’s life. They villainize us and make us out to be either sluts or golddiggers or airheads. And well, they’re right. I am no saint. I am a whore—a selfish, greedy, ageist whore who is worth nothing except in bed. Life was no fairytale as a sugarbaby. But it was one grotesque, unlawful act after another. Yet somehow, that life pales in comparison to my life as a Minor. While sugaring and Minority have similarities, no one could’ve prepared me for what the Divided did to us.” In J. Q. Gagliastro’s dystopian future, the aging patriarchy and rising hate crimes have led to a mass genocide of queer Americans. Oppression has killed what was left of the United and sired what has now become the Divided, a world where human trafficking is legal, the youth are sexualized, and heteronormativity is enforced. Dime—a former sugarbaby—chronicles his experiences as the nation around him embraces gerontocracy, and he himself becomes the property of an Elder. Deprived of his freedoms, his family, and even music, Dime clings to his memories all the while grappling with the concepts of family, home, and depth in love. A scathing satire, a cautionary tale, and a reflection of its time!

Author : Manoj Arora
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781647836498

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A Father’s Diary by Manoj Arora Pdf

This masterpiece takes us on a beautiful evolutionary journey as parents, and helps sculpture our children into strong and wonderful human beings. ~ Dr. (Mrs.) Namita Sharma Principal, Queens Valley School, New Delhi. Every conversation between the parent and child is so real and grounded, yet teaches potentially life elevating lessons - both for parents - and children. ~ Dr. Anil Kumar Parashar Jt. Registrar (Rtd.), National Human Rights Commission The children of today’s generation are street smart and worldly-wise. Perhaps the only area where they lack are the softer aspects of life. The good news is that they will easily imbibe all essential life skills if we, as parents, can just find time to interact with them every day. This book is no 'gyan' on parenting. It is a diary of my real-life interactions with my fairies during their growing years. In each of the 28 father-daughter interactions presented in the book, there are 57 life elevating lessons for our children and for us well.

Author : Jane Hamilton-Merritt
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780285640726

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A Meditator's Diary by Jane Hamilton-Merritt Pdf

It is rare for a foreign woman to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self, the expansion of her consciousness. In a personal account of her struggles, her fears and her experiences - some euphoric, some terrifying, some beautiful in the form of psychedelic visions and some that were genuinely threatening. A Meditator's Diary is an intellectually disciplined attempt to understand what Buddhist meditation techniques have to offer us, those in the Western world caught up in a cycle of destruction that we cannot control, and shows how to access its secrets. Jane Hamilton-Merritt describes her own dawning understanding of 'compassion without attachment', her eventual arrival at a state of peace and reconciliation and the sense of living flow with the whole of the universe that has transformed her life. Encouraging her readers to try meditation she describes how we can take the first steps on the long road to tranquillity for ourselves.

Author : Oris Oris
Publisher : https://orisoris.com/
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Book 12. «The Transmutation Diary. Part 1» by Oris Oris Pdf

Tells about the events that took place from 07.07.1999 to 19.07.1999.

Author : Shelley D. Lane
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450240529

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A Stirling Diary by Shelley D. Lane Pdf

She peered into the steaming crater of Mt. Aetna, slid up an icy mountain in Bavaria, and was marched to a shabby police station in Tunisia. She also had some important decisions to make while she spent her junior year abroad as an exchange student at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Should she remain dependent on her noncommittal boyfriend or should she risk loneliness and abandon her dreams of their future? Should she focus on marriage, attend graduate school, or should she begin a career? What should she do with her life? The rousing narrative in A Stirling Diary chronicles humorous encounters with Brit-speak, rollicking adventures in Europe and Africa, and the appreciation of and affection for the Scottish people. Shelley shares honest and occasionally raw descriptions of her struggles to adapt not only to various cultures but also to discover her own self-worth in the process. A Stirling Diary is not just a fascinating travel journal; its also an inspiring personal story that illustrates the transformation of an insecure young girl to an empowered young woman who looks inward to survive betrayal and depression.

Author : Colomba Joulin-Batejat
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387925803

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COLOMBA'S INDIA DIARY by Colomba Joulin-Batejat Pdf

Author : Dina Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510727557

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A Travel Junkie's Diary by Dina Bennett Pdf

Dina Bennett’s on the road again—and she can’t stop! Having completed the 7,800-mile Peking to Paris Classic Car Challenge while braving carsickness and patching rocky marital relations, she’s once more in over her head, enduring 100,000 miles of road trips through the world’s out-of-the-way places. Drawn to strange foods and intriguing views into the kaleidoscope of local life, and with a knack for getting into—and out of—awkward situations, Dina gives you the world in all its glory. She’s a born storyteller, uncovering the curious and unusual in the ordinary, bringing you along on vivid experiences in laugh-out-loud style. Neither particularly brave nor wild, she opens her diary of personal triumphs and embarrassments, suspense and discovery, in places most will never get to. Join her as she stands knee-to-knee with a Tajik border guard in his bedroom, hunts down camel pad meat in the street markets of China, and seeks out the source of mare’s milk in Kyrgyzstan. Whether stranded on a sandbar in Myanmar’s Chindwin River or sharing barley beer with an ex-Black Panther in Ethiopia, Dina’s observations are half prying neighbor, half best friend gossiping together on the crooked path to enlightenment. The tales in A Travel Junkie’s Diary plunge the reader right into the midst of exhilarating travel experiences, with all the smells, sounds, sensations and emotions of being right there. They are by turns fascinating and frightening, endearing and bittersweet, humorous, humiliating, and always engrossing.

Author : R. Michael Hoy
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412227902

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The Diary by R. Michael Hoy Pdf

Dr. Geoffrey Fuller, a well known psychiatrist heads the Psychiatric Centre in Boston. He and his wife Elizabeth, who is a radio talk show host in Boston, live in a seaside home south of the city. During one of his daily walks on the beach, he discovers a diary whose owner he cannot identify. Although he is quite busy managing his psychiatric center in the city, especially with a young patient who has somehow lost his ability to speak, and with whom Dr. Fuller has developed a special interest and concern, he is fascinated by the contents of the diary which he has perused in an attempt to discover its author. Through this discovery process the diary seems to harbor a mysterious secret with which he and Elizabeth progressively become entangled and find themselves helplessly drawn into unraveling its secret.

Author : Murasaki Shikibu
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141907659

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The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu Pdf

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with sharp criticism of Murasaki's fellow ladies-in-waiting and drunken courtiers, and telling remarks about the timid Empress and her powerful father, Michinaga. The Diary is also a work of great subtlety and intense personal reflection, as Murasaki makes penetrating insights into human psychology - her pragmatic observations always balanced by an exquisite and pensive melancholy.

Author : Paul Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0578579103

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Bad Karma by Paul Wilson Pdf

In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware their ultimate destination lies in the heart of drug cartel country. Having no earthly idea of where he'll get the money to pay his share, and determined to prove his mettle, he does the only thing he can think of: He robs a supermarket. And, if karma didn't already have enough reason to doom the trip, he soon learns one of his companions is a convicted killer on the run, and the other an unscrupulous cad. Mishap and misfortune rule the days, and mere survival takes precedence over surfing. Original photographs (including pre-kingpin El Chapo), and Wilson's strong narrative style, combine to make this true story personal--in the tradition of Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, and Barbarian Days, A Surfing Life by William Finnegan--except this tale had to wait for the statute of limitations to expire before it could be told.

Author : Sharman Apt Russell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781504082990

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Diary of a Citizen Scientist by Sharman Apt Russell Pdf

A critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest. Award-winning nature writer Sharman Apt Russell felt pressed by the current environmental crisis to pick up her pen yet again. Encouraged by the phenomenon of citizen science, she decided to turn her attention to the Western red-bellied tiger beetle, an insect found widely around the world and near her home in the Gila River Valley of New Mexico. In a lyrical, often humorous voice, Russell shares her journey across a wild, rural landscape tracking this little-known species, an insect she calls “charismatic,” “elegant,” and “fierce.” What she finds is renewed optimism in mysteries still left to be explored, that despite the challenges of climate change, there is a growing diversity of ways ordinary people can contribute to the research needs of scientists today in the name of environmental activism. Offering readers a glimpse into the pioneering field of citizen science, Diary of a Citizen Scientist documents one woman’s transformation from a feeling of powerlessness to engaged hopefulness. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal and the WILLA Literary Award for Best Creative Nonfiction Named one of the top ten best nature books of 2014 by GrrlScientist in The Guardian

Author : Ilene Springer
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781782341253

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The Diary of an American Expatriate by Ilene Springer Pdf

Have you ever thought of chucking everything and starting life over in a new country? This is the true story of Ilene Springer who tells you what it's like to leave the US at the age of 55 to start a new life in another country, while reluctantly leaving two grown daughters behind who claim she is abandoning them. It tells all the good, bad and funny about being an expatriate--and there's a lot of all three. A divorced freelance writer who suffers from panic attacks, Ilene becomes desperate when her American health insurance bill skyrockets to over $900 a month. When it becomes a choice between paying the rent or going to the doctor, Ilene chooses a third, terrifying option: moving to the Mediterranean island of Malta where she can possibly train to become an English teacher and get into the country's national healthcare system. Armed with only her wits, a cat and her British-German boyfriend who she has recently met on the Web, Ilene makes the move, ironically on the eve of the election of Barack Obama. But despite being a so-called English-speaking country, Malta is not easy to get used to, Americans are not welcomed as employees and her partner is much harder to live with than she thought. And yet the gorgeous Maltese sun, sea and fascinating foreigners lead Ilene to a zany adventure of a lifetime. Based on the popular blog An American in Malta, Ilene's confessions warn anyone who ever thought of starting over somewhere new the raw, hard truth and often the hilarious things that await them.