Walk To Beautiful

Author : Mr. Jimmy Wayne
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780718021856

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Walk to Beautiful by Mr. Jimmy Wayne Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn’t just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especially teenagers in foster care who are about to age out of the system. Walk to Beautiful is the powerfully emotive account of Jimmy’s horrendous childhood and the love he received from Russell and Bea Costner, the elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the chance to complete his education. Jimmy says of Bea, “She changed every cell in my body.” This moving memoir chronicles: Jimmy’s life as a foster child and homeless teenager His adoption by Russell and Bea Costner, an elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the opportunities for him to thrive His surprising rise to fame in the music industry His tireless advocacy for children in the foster care system through his Meet Me Halfway awareness campaign, a 1,700 mile walk halfway across America from Nashville to Phoenix Join Jimmy on his walk to beautiful and see how one person really can make a difference.

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780062092052

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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter Pdf

Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years. In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literary walking tours" through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafés of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flâneurs; the secluded "Little Luxembourg" gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxter's own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Author : Robert Lashley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387514625

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A Walk to Beautiful by Robert Lashley Pdf

The marines give structure and boundaries to Jack's wayward life. A serious injury, and the hydrocodone provided for pain, expose him to drug use again. The addiction hits hard. Kathy, two dogs, an eccentric street person, and a twelve-step group offer support. Will it be enough? Jack disappears and is implicated in a robbery. Has he relapsed?

Author : Catherine Hamlin,John Little
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857216892

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The Hospital by the River by Catherine Hamlin,John Little Pdf

Gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programmes in the world. The Hamlins dedicated their lives to women suffering the catastrophic effects of obstructed labour. The awful injuries that such labour produces are called fistulae, and until the Hamlins began their work in Ethiopia, fistula sufferers were neglected and forgotten - a vast group of women facing a lifetime of incapacity and degradation. Catherine and Reg, with their team of dedicated fistula surgeons, have successfully operated on over 25,000 women, and the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the hospital they opened in 1974, has become a major teaching institution for gynaecologists from all over Ethiopia and the developing world. Since Reg's death, Catherine and her team have continued the work.

Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547251271

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A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park Pdf

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

Author : Nicholas Sparks
Publisher : Little, Brown and Compagny Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Beaufort (N.C.)
ISBN : 0751551872

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A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks Pdf

Landon Carter never thought he would fall for Jamie Sullivan, the shy daughter of the town's Baptist minister who showed him the joy and pain of living.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pdf

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Author : Joyce Rupp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608330729

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Walk in a Relaxed Manner by Joyce Rupp Pdf

Experience the powerful prose and poetry of Joyce Rupp with the beautiful full-color art of Mary Southard.

Author : Maria Dek
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616896140

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A Walk in the Forest by Maria Dek Pdf

A Walk in the Forest is a stunning invitation to discover the woods as a place for both imaginative play and contemplation: collect pinecones, feathers, or stones; follow the tracks of a deer; or listen to the chirping of birds and the whisper of trees. Build a shelter and play hide-and-seek. Pretend the woods are a jungle, or shout out loud to stir up the birds! The forest comes alive in all its mysterious glory in Maria Dek's charming watercolor images and poetic text.

Author : Kerascoët
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524769574

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I Walk with Vanessa by Kerascoët Pdf

This simple yet powerful picture book--from a New York Times bestselling husband-and-wife team--tells the story of one girl who inspires a community to stand up to bullying. The perfect back-to-school read for every kid, family and classroom! Don't miss the companion book, I Forgive Alex, about the importance of compassion and forgiveness. Inspired by real events, I Walk with Vanessa explores the feelings of helplessness and anger that arise in the wake of seeing a classmate treated badly, and shows how a single act of kindness can lead to an entire community joining in to help. By choosing only pictures to tell their story, the creators underscore the idea that someone can be an ally without having to say a word. With themes of acceptance, kindness, and strength in numbers, this timeless and profound feel-good story will resonate with readers young and old. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year "This beautifully illustrated story shows young readers how to become caring and supportive upstanders. Love it!" --Trudy Ludwig, bestselling author of The Invisible Boy

Author : Jimmy Wayne
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781424554393

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Ruby the Foster Dog by Jimmy Wayne Pdf

Be a star that shines for others. Abandoned in an animal shelter, Ruby, an adorable mixed breed puppy with an underbite, wonders if a family will ever adopt her. When a goofy looking, scruffy-faced man stops by the shelter, he adopts Ruby. Mr. James is not the family she was expecting—but could he still be the answer to her prayers? Mr. James (known as Jimmy Wayne to his country music fans) is walking halfway across America to raise awareness for the thousands of foster children who desperately need our help. Ruby realizes that she’s not so very different from these kids: she’s scared and alone. If she doesn’t have help, she can’t have hope either. But Mr. James wants to change all that, for her and for every foster kid in the United States. On their adventure together, Mr. James teaches her about integrity, honesty, loyalty, faith, forgiveness, and trust, but mostly how love can rescue someone and forever change lives. As they walk along historic routes and locations throughout the Southeastern United States, Ruby quietly helps Mr. James overcome the issues he’s been struggling with too. By the time they get to Phoenix, both of their lives are changed for the better. But just when Ruby accepts Mr. James as her new family, an unexpected phone call challenges her to redefine family—and love—all over again. Ruby the Foster Dog will leave readers with a full heart, a desire to help foster dogs (and foster kids) find homes and forever families, and motivation to be a star that shines for others. Ruby’s story parallels the plight of the more than 400,000 children in foster care, the 30,000 who age-out annually at 18-years-young, and the 100,000+ children waiting to be adopted. To find out more, please visit Project Meet Me Halfway at ProjectMMH.org.

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184001754

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Author : Libby Walden
Publisher : Caterpillar Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 183891420X

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A Walk Through Nature by Libby Walden Pdf

Celebrate the wonders of the natural world with Clover Robin. Marvel at the migration of the swallows, run alongside the river and watch the flowers bloom in this stunning peek-through book of poetry.

Author : Kari-Lynn Winters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1896580610

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On My Walk by Kari-Lynn Winters Pdf

A mother and her toddler end up being caught in a summer rainstorm on their walk through Vancouver streets. Beautifully illustrated by Christina Leist, this simple story will be a fun bedtime read for everyone.

Author : Edwin Way Teale
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B5022358

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A Walk Through the Year by Edwin Way Teale Pdf