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From the Heart
Author: Gail P. Winters
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2007-11-16
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1452038082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSomewhere upon these pages you will find a piece of your own life. There are poems that will touch your heart, make you laugh, and make you cry. This is a book of inspirational and spiritual poetry, including several inspirational short stories that are written to touch the heart. The 92 poems are based on the journey through life, which includes everything from love to growth, to very soul touching expressions which possibly everyone encounters along the way through the journey of life. The poems are written on love, on family, on finding oneself, and some humor to ease the way of life, also included are Christmas poems that are sure to touch the heart. The 5 short stories are based on personal experience, to the fantasy of what may have been. The imagination and inspiration hopefully will lead one down a path of discovery to understanding. My motto is 'to make people think', which has led me from iinspiration to poetry, to bring hope and faith to those, who like me, are searching for answers to life's questions. To touch one life so deeply that transformations occurs along the way is the greatest success one can attain. To me, a poem is not a poem unless it can convey a message to the reader, a message so heartfelt that it touches a heart almost immediately.
Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
Author: Ann Pancake
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2015-02-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1619025108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnn Pancake's 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow–up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land––sometimes through love, sometimes through hate––and who experience brokenness and loss, redemption and revelation, often through their relationships to places under siege. Retired strip miners find themselves victimized by the industry that supported them; a family breaks down along generation lines over a fracking lease; children transcend addict parents and adult suicide; an urban woman must confront her skepticism about worlds behind this one when she finds bones through a mysterious force she can't name. Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley explores poverty, class, environmental breakdown and social collapse while also affirming the world's sacredness. Ann Pancake's ear for the Appalachian dialect is both pitch–perfect and respectful, that of one who writes from the heart of this world. Her firsthand knowledge of her rural place and her exquisite depictions of the intricacies of families may remind one of Alice Munro.
Listen to Your Bread
Author: Ann Haut
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-05-10
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1725290057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tough town like Olean offers a guy only so many job options: sweat in the stench of oil refinery crude, like his immigrant father does, suffer boredom in a factory job, or apprentice in a trade. Icky Haut chooses the latter and works his way up, one crumb at a time, in a commercial bread bakery. Haut loves everything about baking bread: the smell and taste of yeast, the softness of flour rubbed between fingertips, the intense heat of ovens, the anticipation of a loaf’s rise, and the comfort of its promise of sustenance. But after his second child is born, he realizes he’s been mixing, proofing, shaping, scoring, and baking dough half his life. Is this it? Maybe not . . . but then his great idea to expand the bakery jams him up with his boss, and he’s toast. How Haut relies on family and faith to start his own bakery is the center of this real-life, local-guy-makes-good story set in the 1930s and 40s. Haut’s boss calls bread the “staff of life” feeding his bottom line; the Hauts are nourished by their faith, and that shift in perspective recasts the story to hope in the “Bread of Life.”
Full Hands, Full Heart, Full Circle
Author: Cathy Carmode Lim
Publisher: Ann McDermott Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 0976688840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne woman's account of her own roller-coaster ride into motherhood. Cathy Carode Lim finds herself overwhelmed, full of doubts and frustration, as she learns by trial and plenty of error how to raise two little girls. But even as she struggles, she also gradually becomes full of appreciation - not just for the tender moments with her own children, but also for the mother who, twenty-five years earlier, weathered the ups and downs and savored those same sweet moments with the little girl named Cathy.
Carolina Bays
Author: Tom Poland
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2019-12-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1643360574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful. How did these odd geomorphological features come to be formed in the landscape in the first place, with their uniform shapes and matching elliptical orientations scattered across the Carolinas? There are many hypotheses but no definitive answers. Why are these inland phenomena even called "bays?" There is no clear answer to that either. The best definition of these features are "temporary, isolated freshwater wetlands," variously described as "high or flatwater ponds, wet weather lakes, or vernal pools," often identified more accurately as "pocosins," and they are ecological wonders, full of all manner of amphibians and reptiles, insects and birds, wildlife and plants—many of them exotic and rare. What also defines them is their uncommon beauty. Featuring more than one hundred-fifty color images, Carolina Bays takes you from an aerial perspective of these unusual bays to an on-the-ground safari, from frogs that croak and bark and boom to skinks that skim across the water as if on skis, and on to squawking herons to black-and-yellow polka-dotted caterpillars. There are growling alligators and four hundred-year-old trees and delicate yellow-fringed orchids. Life is found in astounding abundance. These wetlands are unique and almost immeasurably ancient; as is to be expected in the modern world, they are threatened by human intervention. Such diverse habitats and their rich, unmatched biodiversity call out for preservation and restoration. The bays are not only visited and documented by the authors; they make an impassioned case for respecting how important these singular formations are for the health of the planet. You could not find more able guides.
One Woman and Four Others
Author: Mireya Robles
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2009-12-02
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1426980124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne Woman and Four Others describes, in the first person, the childhood, the adolescence and the young adulthood of a woman born in Cuba in the middle thirties, who subsequently emigrates to the United States. The first part of the novel depicts the joyous wonder of an emotionally and artistically sensitive child discovering the world that surrounds her in an accurate portrayal of a particular geography and of a well-defined epoch. Yet, the real subjects of One Woman and Four Others are the passage of time and its impact on the growth of a human being, and the sensation of transitoriness of life that impels us to cling to the memories of our past. In this sense Robles’s novel can be compared to Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu – In Search of Lost Time. The figure of the mother dominates the whole book. For Proust and for Robles the persistent presence of the mother during the entire life of the protagonists is, evidently, related to the search for lost time. Among the four women loved by the narrator of One Woman and Four Others the most important is Marisol, whose influence can be felt throughout the novel and who affects all the other love relationships of the protagonist. Anna Diegel, Translator and Literary Critic
Learning Together with Young Children
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1605541737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany curriculum books treat teaching as something teachers do to or for children. Deb Curtis and Margie Carter, best-selling authors in the early learning field, believe teaching is a collaborative process in which teachers reexamine their own philosophies and practices while facilitating children’s learning. Each chapter in this curriculum framework includes a conceptual overview followed by classroom stories and photographs to illustrate the concepts. The book helps teachers create materials and a classroom culture reflective of their values: Teach through observation, reflection, inquiry, and action, and encourage children to represent their learning in multiple ways, including songs, stories, and drama.
My Confection
Author: Lisa Kotin
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0807069264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA funny, candid, and original coming-of-age story told through sugar addiction She doesn’t drink or do drugs, but like millions of other Americans, Lisa Kotin has a substance abuse problem. Kotin is addicted to sugar. My Confection is a darkly funny and candid memoir of where sugar took this teenage mime when she left her San Francisco Bay Area home in pursuit of artistic greatness. From the strict macrobiotic house where she is kicked out for smuggling Snickers, to her early days of Overeaters Anonymous meetings where she is bewildered by the idea of submitting to a higher power, to the stylish shrink who suggests she figure out how many minutes of tennis equal the calories in one jelly donut, to the men she unwraps and consumes like cheap chocolate bars, Kotin careens from romantic disasters to caloric catastrophes. Original and surprisingly affecting, this portrait of a sugar addict has nothing to do with losing weight or getting fit but rather with coming out of the (sugar) closet, finding allies who understand, and learning how to live healthfully, in spite of her compulsion.
Paleo Takeout
Author: Russ Crandall
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Published: 2015-06-23
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 1628600896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven though we know full well that most restaurant foods are made using ingredients laden with chemicals and additives, most of us can’t seem to shake the desire for even just a taste. Not to mention that nothing is easier than picking up takeout, hitting the drive-thru, or ordering delivery—but at what cost? Paleo Takeout: Restaurant Favorites Without the Junk delivers much healthier but equally satisfying alternatives, offering delectable recipes that mimic the flavors of our drive-thru and delivery favorites—Paleo style! Russ Crandall teaches you step-by-step how to prepare meals in less than an hour—leaving no sacrifice of taste or time. Our modern lives are hectic: We all face the challenge of creating meals at home that are as quick and flavorful as those from our neighborhood takeout restaurants. It’s hard to beat the convenience of restaurant food, even when we know full well that it’s seldom a healthy choice. In Paleo Takeout: Restaurant Favorites Without the Junk, celebrated author Russ Crandall re-creates everyone’s favorite takeout meals, made in record time using wholesome ingredients, giving you all of the gratification and none of the regret! Inspired by beloved restaurant experiences, Paleo Takeout features more than 200 recipes expertly culled from Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Greek, and American cuisines. Inside, you’ll find everything from Chow Mein to Moo Shu Pork, and Thai Red Curry to Buffalo Wings, all with a focus of “fridge to face” in less than an hour. Also featured is an indispensible meal-planning guide to help you put everything together for a doable, lasting approach to cooking and health. Paleo Takeout: Restaurant Favorites Without the Junk proves that eating right in a way that satisfies even the choosiest of healthy eaters is not only possible but also a lot of fun
