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Author: Amy Wallen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780452288959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSetting out in a Winnebago after seeing her runaway daughter in a television commercial, Ruby Kincaid engages in a madcap road trip from the dusty flats of Texas to the glitter of Hollywood, accompanied by two friends and a pair of unruly grandchildren. A first novel. Reprint.
Author: Amy Wallen
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780786294374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSetting out in a Winnebago after seeing her runaway daughter in a television commercial, Ruby Kincaid engages in a road trip from the dusty flats of Texas to the glitter of Hollywood, accompanied by two friends and a pair of unruly grandchildren.
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Published: 2006-12
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.
Author: Judy Reeves
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1577319362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published a decade ago, A Writer's Book of Days has become the ideal writing coach for thousands of writers. Newly revised, with new prompts, up-to-date Web resources, and more useful information than ever, this invaluable guide offers something for everyone looking to put pen to paper -- a treasure trove of practical suggestions, expert advice, and powerful inspiration. Judy Reeves meets you wherever you may be on a given day with: * get-going prompts and exercises * insight into writing blocks * tips and techniques for finding time and creating space * ways to find images and inspiration * advice on working in writing groups * suggestions, quips, and trivia from accomplished practitioners Reeves's holistic approach addresses every aspect of what makes creativity possible (and joyful) -- the physical, emotional, and spiritual. And like a smart, empathetic inner mentor, she will help you make every day a writing day. Named one of the five hottest writing books by Writer's Digest
Author: Amy E. Wallen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1496205383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author's mother posits, "hideous people?" Or is Wallen's memory out of focus? In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.
Author: Kathy Patrick
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-01-02
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0446511188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen licensed cosmetologist turned publisher's rep Kathy Patrick lost her job due to industry cutbacks, she wasn't deterred. One year later, she opened Beauty and the Book, the world's only combination beauty salon/bookstore. Soon after, she founded The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas -- a reading group that dared to ask the question, "Does a book club have to be snobby to be serious?" The idea spread like wildfire. Now there are about 70 chapters nationwide. The overriding rule -- aside from wearing the club's official tiara, hot pink, and leopard print outfits -- is that the groups must have fun. The club's mission: To get America reading. THE PULPWOOD QUEENS' TIARA-WEARING, BOOK- SHARING GUIDE TO LIFE celebrates female friendship, sisterhood, and the transformative power of reading. It includes life principles and motivational anecdotes, hilarious and heart-warming stories of friendships among the Queens, and stories from Kathy about the books that have inspired her throughout her life, complete with personalized suggested book lists.
Author: Erica Johnson Debeljak
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2009-04-07
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781556437403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[A] sunny, can-do look at intense culture shock. Debeljak makes a humorous, self-effacing guide to her own story and the only complaint I have is that I wish she’d told us more. I hope someday she gives us a sequel."—Christian Science Monitor • "Witty and warm."—Kirkus Reviews Forbidden Bread is an unusual love story that covers great territory, both geographically and emotionally. The author leaves behind a successful career as an American financial analyst to pursue Ales Debeljak, a womanizing Slovenian poet who catches her attention at a cocktail party. The story begins in New York City, but quickly migrates, along with the author, to Slovenia. As she struggles to forge an identity in her new home, Slovenia itself undergoes the transformation from a communist to a capitalist society. A complicated language, politically incorrect ethnic jokes, and old-fashioned sexism are just a few of the challenges Debeljak faces on her journey. Happily, she marries her poet and comes to love her new husband's family as well as the fast-disappearing rural traditions of this beautiful country. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Slovenian Ten Day War and the much longer Yugoslav wars of succession, Forbidden Bread shows a worldly and courageous woman coming to grips with her new life and family situation in a rapidly changing European landscape.
Author: Craig Duswalt
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Published: 2021-05-21
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1948181681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s the end of an era. I have produced high-energy, content-rich RockStar Marketing BootCamps for the past twelve years. At my first BootCamp I was blessed to have approximately 250 people in the audience. Over the years it continued to grow, and at my April 2019 event, we had more than 700 attendees.
Author: K.L. Smith
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1098060261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe One Who's Not with Us is a fictional novel that tells the love story of a teenage couple. It was 1965. The Vietnam War was in full swing. Enola and Shane dated for a couple of months before he received his orders for Vietnam. They were deeply in love. The couple spent Shane's last night in town together. They let their passion for one another get out of control. By the pond under the stars and a full moon, they came together for the first time. That one time connected them forever. The couple wrote to one another. When Enola found herself pregnant, she had nowhere to turn. Her parents followed a strict religion, and Enola knew they would not accept her pregnancy. In 1965, an unwed mother was looked upon with disdain by most of society. She thought about telling Shane but decided against it. He was in a war zone, and she felt that he was dealing with enough stress without her adding any more concerns to his life. After all, the couple made no commitments or promises to one another before Shane left. Enola's son was adopted to a good couple in a loving home. She closed her heart to love and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a fresh start in life. Enola severed all ties with her family and quit writing to Shane. She closed the door to her past and moved forward in life. Ten years later, Enola is serving her second enlistment as an army nurse. She thought she had carefully buried her past until she came face-to-face with Shane. Enola confessed the past to Shane. The story tells how the couple deals with the guilt, regret, emptiness, and loss. They learn to trust in God's plan for their lives and accept his many blessings as they are granted.
