Glory is an eleven-year-old orphan who has a beautiful heart that never allows hate and anger to step in. Her adoptive mother, Myrtle Willis, died when she was six. Glory lives in painful conditions with her adoptive father who keeps himself drown in liquor all the time, and with his cruel son who never misses a chance to torture her. In these painful conditions, she has a mysterious companion—a tiny dragon-faced, red snake that has bat-like wings and green pointed horns. It appears from nowhere on her palm and absorbs all her pain whenever she mourns. And one day, she finds another mysterious companion who leads her to the hidden worlds…. This is a legend of war between Gods and Ill Dwellers to control the greatest power of the hidden worlds, the Heart of Universe. This is a legend of ambitions and conspiracies. This is a legend of those whose hearts are filled with sacred feelings. This is a legend of hope.
SHADY RATCHETNESS TO GLORY BY ROSLYN O’FLAHERTY IS STORIES THAT ARE MY INTENSE FICTION IMAGINATION OF NATURAL LIFE. WRITTEN TO SHARE AND TEACH INFORMATION THAT IS NOT MEANT TO DISCRIMINATE AS TO WHAT AN INDIVIDUAL MAY EXPERIENCED IN LIFE. LEAVING A DRAMATIZED OUTLOOK AND NEGATIVE OBJECTIONS. HOPING THE ENEVITABLE BRINGS INDIVIDUALS TO THERE FULL PROTENTIAL OF THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS TO REACH FORTH TO RIGHTOUSNESS WRITTEN IN HOPES TO OPEN ONES MINDS AND HEART SO WE DON’T DESTROY UNCERTAINTIES. IT IS NOT THE INTENTION TO INCORROUAGE TRAMA OR TO BE DISRESPECTFUL TO ANYONE. WARNING ANY NEGATIVE DRAMATAZATION GIVEN SHOULD NOT BE COPYED IN REAL LIFE. IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO GIVE WISDOM AND POSITIVE DIRECTION IN LIFE. MANY OF US LIVE A STRESSFUL LIFE WITH LOW SELF ESTEEM. YET WE ARE READY TO ALWAYS BETTER OURSELVES. DON’T LET YOUR CONVICTIONS BE A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL AND HIS DICTATORSHIP. SOME FOLKS HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED HARD TIMES. SOME PEOPLE NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DENTRAMENTAL TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS. BECAUSE THEY FEEL OFFENDED AND DISHONOR FROM OTHERS JUDGING THEM BY THEIR PAST REPUTATIONS. THAT IS KNOW LONGER ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE IN EXSISTENCE AS A BELIEF. THIS BOOK IS NOT MENT TO BELITTLE ANYONE. OUR CIVILATION IS DECLINING IN ABSTRACT TRUTHS. ALONG WITH SOME INDIVIUALS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THIS EARTH DECLINING. IT IS TIME TO GO OUT AND SAVE SOULS. MIND INSPIRATIONAL WORDS FROM THE HEART WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE SOUL...
This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she’s never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is.” Beginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism . . . challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. Couric talks candidly about adjusting to sudden fame after her astonishing rise to co-anchor of the TODAY show, and guides us through the most momentous events and news stories of the era, to which she had a front-row seat: Rodney King, Anita Hill, Columbine, the death of Princess Diana, 9/11, the Iraq War . . . In every instance, she relentlessly pursued the facts, ruffling more than a few feathers along the way. She also recalls in vivid and sometimes lurid detail the intense pressure on female anchors to snag the latest “get”—often sensational tabloid stories like Jon Benet Ramsey, Tonya Harding, and OJ Simpson. Couric’s position as one of the leading lights of her profession was shadowed by the shock and trauma of losing her husband to stage 4 colon cancer when he was just 42, leaving her a widow and single mom to two daughters, 6 and 2. The death of her sister Emily, just three years later, brought yet more trauma—and an unwavering commitment to cancer awareness and research, one of her proudest accomplishments. Couric is unsparing in the details of her historic move to the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News—a world rife with sexism and misogyny. Her “welcome” was even more hostile at 60 Minutes, an unrepentant boys club that engaged in outright hazing of even the most established women. In the wake of the MeToo movement, Couric shares her clear-eyed reckoning with gender inequality and predatory behavior in the workplace, and downfall of Matt Lauer—a colleague she had trusted and respected for more than a decade. Couric also talks about the challenge of finding love again, with all the hilarity, false-starts, and drama that search entailed, before finding her midlife Mr. Right. Something she has never discussed publicly—why her second marriage almost didn’t happen. If you thought you knew Katie Couric, think again. Going There is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom. In these pages, you will find a friend, a confidante, a role model, a survivor whose lessons about life will enrich your own.
Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
