To anyone who comes into contact with a parent of a child who has a disability, please say as many of these choice phrases in public as many times as you like! They are sooooo gorgeous! He is sooooo beautiful! He is sooooo handsome! He is such a wonderful baby! He is sooooo strong! You have such great genes; look how handsome he is! He has your eyes! He is sooooo smart! Hi! How are you? It is nice to see you. He s doing fine!
The main character of the story begins her story at age three and goes to the present day. She has lived through, devastation, molestation, brutality, but applys humor to most of her greif, misery, tradgedy, hopelesness, perversion. Faith and Hope are the end result. All of the experiences in the Book are true as she remembers.The Book offers hope, for someone who might think life is to harsh or has been hopeless. She goes through many stages of her life and adds a flash of humor all through the Book and remains an optomist to the end, with a few detours in between!
A PRECOCIOUS YOUNG LADY WITH A DISTURBING PAST Ariel Holmes is unlike other girls. As a college junior, she dedicates her life to a dismal existance filled with books, hard work, and a determination to forget her past. Her only outlet comes from her love of managing college basketball, and the man who coaches, in more ways than one. AN ENCHANTING GENTLEMAN WITH EYES ONLY FOR HER From the first moment Dane Everett laid eyes on her, he knew he'd never be the same. But it wasn't until she revealed her buried secret one wild night, that he knew she would only be his.
Minnie Talbot is positive that her boyfriend Dom is about to spring a surprise proposal on her, so she has a surprise up her sleeve for him too. Only things didn’t quite work out the way she planned it. When poor Minnie discovers her day has turned into the crappiest one she has ever had and so much for it being the best. This story follows the hilarious antics of a modern working woman whilst finding out how she copes with disappointment. Only to take on a few favours and projects just to please other people, even if they don’t always appreciate her efforts. Until Minnie finally realises that the one person she can always rely on, is herself. So stay strong, tits out and carry on no matter what becomes her motto. If you enjoy a British comedy novel filled with plenty of cringe worthy laugh-out-loud scenes and the odd F-bomb thrown in for good measure, then this is the book for you.
Two teens who have nothing in common work together at a record store in All Our Worst Ideas, a powerful and voice-driven YA novel from Vicky Skinner. When Amy, on her way to becoming valedictorian of her graduating class and getting accepted to her dream school, gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend, she takes a job at a record store to ease the pain. She needs a distraction, badly. Oliver, Amy’s record store co-worker, isn’t so sure about Amy—his complete opposite—but what he is sure of is his decision not to go to college. He just can’t figure out how to tell his mother. As they work late-night shifts at the record store, Amy and Oliver become friends and then confidantes and then something more, but when Amy has a hard time letting go of what she thought was her perfect future with her ex, she risks losing the future she didn’t even know she wanted with Oliver.
Thirty years ago, when I began writing this as my very first book, I thought long and hard about the interviews I would need to conduct to get the story across to readers. What I didn’t realize is that no interviews would be necessary. God would provide enough material in my own life for my story. Good, bad, indifferent…didn’t matter. There are so many good things in life that happen to each of us. However, life is not designed for good things only. Hardships and heartaches also happen. Why? They must; otherwise we are not living life to its full potential. And suffering, as hard as it is, brings us closer to God…always.
"The book is to show that the aim of thinking about what to do, of practical reason, is to find, not what we ought to do, but what is a good thing to do for us under the circumstances. So it argues, first, that neither under prudence nor under morality there are things we ought to do. There is no warrant for the idea of our being required, by natural law perhaps or by our rationality, to do either what helps us attain our ends or what is right for moral reasons. While common moral understanding is committed to there being things we ought to do and to our being guilty and deserving blame if we fail to do them, we can lay aside these notions without loss, indeed with benefit. Second, it explains what it is for something to be good for somebody to do under the circumstances and argues for understanding practical reason in these terms. What is good for somebody to do we find by experience: from what we go through we learn what helps and what hinders and figure out on this basis both what is prudentially useful and what is morally right to do - although in the end this difference itself gives way, and morality turns out to be a part of prudence"--
