Briana's Gift

Briana's Gift

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0375846581

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Thirteen-year-old Casey's mother always said that Casey's sixteen-year-old sister marched to the beat of a different drummer. But it isn't until Briana runs away with an older boy that Casey begins to understand what her mother meant. When Briana returns home alone and pregnant, Casey and her mother try to help Briana come to terms with her options. It was already complicated to think about Briana's choices and then things change suddenly again. When Briana is in a serious accident, Casey's mother sees things one way. Although Casey understands her mother's reaction, she feels she must try to convince her mother to make a different decision. Casey needs to grow up fast and do what she can to maintain Briana's legacy. Will she be able to make her mother understand that there is only one way to accept Briana's gift?


Briana's Gift

Briana's Gift

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0440238692

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When a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl is hospitalized and in a coma, her younger sister faces several difficult choices while dealing with loss, love, and life at Christmastime. Reprint.


The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene

Author: Rosemary Freeman

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0520369351

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.


My Beautiful Daughter

My Beautiful Daughter

Author: Tasha K Douglas

Publisher: Zonderkidz

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0310726441

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Every girl wants to know that she's loved and cherished. Now, in a new addition to the Faithgirlz line, debut author Tasha Douglas shows tween girls what it means to be a daughter of God. Using fictional stories, quizzes, and short biographies of women who have stood up for God, Sistershout will encourage girls to grow in their faith and in their commitment. Douglas also addresses the epidemic of fatherlessness in our world today, ensuring girls that in spite of the painful circumstances of death, divorce, and abandonment, they have a father, they have a family, and they have a future.


Cards for Brianna

Cards for Brianna

Author: Heather McManamy

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1492642142

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Though the end of your life may be near, it doesn't mean you have to stop living After being diagnosed in her early thirties with terminal breast cancer, Heather McManamy felt like her life was crumbling. Her "normal" vanished—and was replaced with multiple surgeries and dozens of chemo treatments that could briefly extend her life, but would not prevent her inevitable death. With an effervescent spirit and a new perspective, Heather started to live each day as if it were her last. She learned to soak in the moment, appreciate the beauty around her, and celebrate her blessings. She also pondered her daughter's future journey without her mother—and gracefully prepared for it. Heather began to write greeting cards to Brianna. Cards for her first day of school, her sixteenth birthday, her wedding day. Cards for when things were going right and when they were going wrong. Cards for when Brianna would need her mother—whether in five years or in fifty years—and Heather wouldn't be able to be there for her. Cards for Brianna is the story of one mother's powerful love for her young daughter and Heather's unmatched experiences, laced with laughter and charm, are a reminder to never take a single day for granted.


Managing a Nonprofit Organization

Managing a Nonprofit Organization

Author: Thomas Wolf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-07-19

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1982158972

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The revised and updated edition of the go-to guide that has been an essential resource for nonprofit administrators, managers, and business professors since 1984--retooled to address the challenges presented by today's world. Managing a Nonprofit Organization is a classic in its field. But much has changed since it was last updated in 1999, as the United States reels from political, economic, and demographic shifts, all of which impact nonprofit organizations every day. In the current economy, nonprofits are trying to make ends meet. They are responding to technological innovation in the age of social media and viral marketing. Nonprofit administrators, trustees, and volunteers need Thomas Wolf's solid advice now more than ever. So do the many college and university students preparing for work in the nonprofit arena. Dr. Wolf's update of Managing a Nonprofit Organization includes material that tackles the demands and challenges faced by nonprofit managers as a result of the legislative and policy changes enacted after 9/11 and in the wake of the economic collapse of 2008. Highlighting the generational issues facing many nonprofits, as current management ages and a younger generation prepares to take the reins, Dr. Wolf suggests ways for organizations to best manage these transitions and adapt to a rapidly changing world. In easy-to-understand language and with study questions at the end of each chapter, Dr. Wolf explains how to cope with all the changes, giving you everything you need to know to be a highly successful nonprofit leader.


Toxic Wealth

Toxic Wealth

Author: Orla Cashman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-07-08

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 031335992X

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This volume spotlights the unique problems that often accompany a high-income lifestyle and offers guidelines that can help individuals avoid the pitfalls wealth may bring. Two therapists show how the culture of affluence in America creates unique problems for wealthy adults and children, often resulting in poor psycho-social adjustment, anxiety, low self-esteem, and the inability to have fun. The affluent are under tremendous pressure to achieve. They are subject to a myriad of negative stereotypes that make it difficult for them to have a normal social life. They are taken advantage of, preyed upon, and ridiculed. When they seek professional help for their problems, they may receive little sympathy. This book is a sage and insightful primer aimed at all readers who have some wealth, whether inherited or amassed through personal effort. The consciousness-raising here includes vignettes from the treatment rooms of the authors, who have helped many wealthy individuals and families deal with the fallout from the myths with which our culture burdens them. Specific guidelines on how to deal with problems are presented.


Ceremony

Ceremony

Author: Brianna Wiest

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781949759334

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Spenser: The Faerie Queene

Spenser: The Faerie Queene

Author: A. C. Hamilton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 2078

ISBN-13: 1317865634

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The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.


The Girl's Guide to Homelessness

The Girl's Guide to Homelessness

Author: Brianna Karp

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1459201671

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Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream became reality. Karp loved her job as an executive assistant and signed the lease on a tiny cottage near the beach. And then the Great Recession hit. Karp, like millions of others, lost her job. In the six months between the day she was laid off and the day she was forced out onto the street, Karp scrambled for temp work and filed hundreds of job applications, only to find all doors closed. When she inherited a thirty-foot travel trailer after her father's suicide, Karp parked it in a Walmart parking lot and began to blog about her search for work and a way back.