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Author: Janie Webster
Publisher: Shaw Books
Published: 2001-08-21
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0877882533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1990, the author and her six-year-old daughter began a five-year pilgrimage across the world to escape the child's sexually abusive father, finding guidance from God and a deep spiritual fulfillment along the way.
Author: Janie Webster
Publisher: Shaw Books
Published: 2010-06-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0307553299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFingernail Moon, the true story of a mother and daughter’s courageous journey. An inspiring story of Janie Webster’s daring quest to save her daughter’s life. When Webster discovered that her husband had sexually abused their daughter, her seemingly content life changed forever. She began divorce proceedings, but the court allowed unsupervised visits between father and daughter. Then her husband was diagnosed with AIDS. Terrified that he could further abuse and even infect their daughter, Janie Webster knew that she had to flee. Mother and daughter embarked on a five-year journey around the world. Although often discouraged, they found within their physical journey a deep spiritual meaning. With God’s guidance, they established and reestablished new lives in the countries where they stayed, finding people they could trust who provided them with friendship and assistance. Despite the threat of deportation and imprisonment hanging over them, they sensed the hand of God engineering their safe passage.
Author: Clifford Swartz
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0801881641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom an award-winning teacher, “a delightful and instructive accessory to an introductory physics course” (Physics World). Physicists use “back-of-the-envelope” estimates to check whether or not an idea could possibly be right. In many cases, the approximate solution is all that is needed. This compilation of 101 examples of back-of-the-envelope calculations celebrates a quantitative approach to solving physics problems. Drawing on a lifetime of physics research and nearly three decades as the editor of The Physics Teacher, Clifford Swartz—a winner of two awards from the American Association of Physics Teachers—provides simple, approximate solutions to physics problems that span a broad range of topics. What note do you get when you blow across the top of a Coke bottle? Could you lose weight on a diet of ice cubes? How can a fakir lie on a bed of nails without getting hurt? Does draining water in the northern hemisphere really swirl in a different direction than its counterpart below the equator? In each case, only a few lines of arithmetic and a few natural constants solve a problem to within a few percent. Covering such subjects as astronomy, magnetism, optics, sound, heat, mechanics, waves, and electricity, this book provides a rich source of material for teachers and anyone interested in the physics of everyday life. “This is a book that will help make the study of physics fun and relevant.” —Mark P. Silverman, author of Waves and Grains: Reflections on Light and Learning
Author: Jennifer Lauck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1451644302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. The house on Mary Street was home to Jennifer; her older brother B.J.; their hardworking father, who smelled like aftershave and read her Snow White; and their mother, who called her little daughter Sunshine and embraced Jackie Kennedy's sense of style. Through a child's eyes, the skies of Carson City were forever blue, and life was perfect -- a world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with hairspray, powder, and a kiss on the cheek....But soon, everything Jennifer has come to love and rely on begins to crumble, sending her on a roller coaster of loss and loneliness. In a world unhinged by tragedy, where beautiful mothers die and families are warped by more than they can bear, a young girl must transcend a landscape of pain and mistreatment to discover her richest resource: her own unshakable will to survive.
Author: Ada Ihenachor
Publisher: Ada Ihenachor
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1733484108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKo·yi·bo (ōˈyiˈbō) - noun or adjective - Nigerian slang for a person who is fair skinned, mixed race, a foreigner, or white. Written in lyrical and deeply moving prose that evokes the literary tradition of contemporary Nigerian novelists like Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie, Ada Ihenachor introduces a haunting protagonist and deftly weaves a mythic coming of age story that will remain with you long after you’ve turned the last page. In 1976, prodigal daughter Songoli returns to her mother’s home in a remote south eastern Nigerian village—with a wailing toddler on her hip. Not long after, Songoli vanishes again, leaving the fair-skinned and dreadlocked child, Adesua, and unanswered questions behind. Fiercely devoted grandmother, Geraldine raises Adesua and is determined to shield the child from Songoli’s reckless absence. However, beyond the sheltered confines of their home, Adesua’s pale skin, head full of taboo dreadlocks, and indeterminate parentage raises questions throughout the village and invites dangerous scorn—which Geraldine stands up to. When Adesua comes of age, Geraldine sends her away to boarding school to distance her from the villagers’ persecution. Yet, even at the school, Adesua is shunned by her peers for her appearance and is forced to exist on the periphery, a risky place to which she becomes reluctantly accustomed. But after a tragedy occurs, Adesua is forced to flee and embarks on a poignant journey spanning Lagos, New York, and Heaven—and encounters vibrant characters including an ethereal moon, a teen who smokes expired cigarettes, an absent mother who subsists on a diet of Valium and talk shows, and a watchful gateman who spends his days vigilantly tuning a radio—in a desperate quest for answers and a place to belong. Narrated in Adesua's stirring voice, OYIBO is an unflinching novel, a powerful meditation on motherhood that illuminates the fragility of home, the hunger for redemption, and the cosmic boundaries of love.
Author: Lee Bragan
Publisher: Lee Bragan
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 0989826309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer detective Joe Robinson's six year old daughter has been kidnapped by a coven of witches intent on sacrificing her on the next full moon. A series of grisly child sacrificial murders have occurred in Alabama. Now, former Mobile detective Joe Robinson's 6 year old daughter has been taken and appears to be the next victim of a coven of witches sacrificing children in hopes of resurrecting an ancient witch. Robinson has 3 weeks until the next full moon to find the coven and save his child. He enlists the aid of a man facing execution for killing a member of the coven months before in an attempt to find the coven's whereabouts. The man, whose son was killed by the coven years before agrees to help Robinson and, with the aid of Robinson's friends and allies a three week search to find them begins. Each time it looks as if Robinson may finally catch a break another obstruction blocks his path. Can he save his child and defeat the witch and her coven in time?
Author: Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield
Publisher: Kepler Press
Published: 2010-06-12
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ISBN-13: 0971377014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 014312756X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSupernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018 In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and their love endures, but at a gruesome price. A geisha prolongs her life by turning into a cherry tree. A journalist, haunted by the half-forgotten killing of a Bosnian couple, watches their story, and his own wartime tragedy, slip away from him. A dying American romances the ghost of his high school sweetheart while a homeless salaryman in Tokyo animates paper cutouts of ancient heroes. Are ghosts memories, fantasies, or monsters? Is there life in death? Vollmann has always operated in the shadowy borderland between categories, and these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death. Vollmann’s stories will transport readers to a fantastical world where love and lust make anything possible.
Author: Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 1224
ISBN-13: 140719495X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. Now, in time for the film debut, the critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet is repackaged in a boxset with fantastic and eye-catching covers featuring new artwork.
Author: Kirsten Weiss
Publisher: misterio press
Published: 2020-07-24
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0985510331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorst. Proposal. Ever. Riga’s midlife magic might be malfunctioning, but at least her love life’s getting a do-over… Until an FBI raid interrupts Donovan’s marriage proposal. Is the fairytale over? This no-nonsense metaphysical detective is determined to find the truth. But the supernatural has other plans for her time, and Riga is forced to protect a shaman stalked by a clever killer. And as the mysteries of Donovan and the shaman become entangled, Riga must choose between facts and faith. Just how far is she willing to go for love…? If you love talking gargoyles, smart mysteries, and mature heroines with complicated lives, you’ll love this midlife mystery series. Pick up this page-turning paranormal women’s fiction today! Because this complicated, Gen-X detective isn’t like the others... The Shamanic Detective is book 2 in the Riga Hayworth Paranormal Mystery series. Start reading now!
