The story of man who confronted home foreclosure, depression and addiction by living in his car for 9 months at a truck stop. After hearing an retired Orthodox minister talk about giving gratitude for the good and bad things in life he decided he would try it. That first night in his car he gave thanks for the roof over his head, even though it was a sun roof. From there he tells of experiences and frustrations while learning to be thankful for all that life has to offer, good and bad.
The must-have Australian guide to sleeping settling establishing routines for your baby 'As an accomplished businesswoman, I thought: how hard can this baby thing be? When my world turned upside down, I felt almost embarrassed asking for help. If only I had met Jo Ryan sooner. Not only did she help me have a happier baby but I also became a blissfully happy mum.' - Donna Hay Is your household suffering sleep deprivation? Are you feeling daunted by the prospect of becoming a new parent? Jo Ryan - paediatric nurse, nanny extraordinaire and considered by many as 'the Baby Whisperer' - has spent her life, reassuring and empowering new and stressed-out parents and soothing their young babies. In her much anticipated book, Babybliss, she gives you practical and gentle advice on your baby's: . sleeping patterns . feeding routines . crawling, walking and playing . personality and development and how YOU can become a confident parent. Jo also answers new parents' frequently asked questions, and shares tips and techniques on all issues relating to your baby's health and happiness, so you can create a better experience for your young family.
"Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.
Everyone involved with AD/HD will find the information in this book invaluable, especially people with AD/HD and couples therapists, who often mistake AD/HD for communication problems or personality differences. Meticulously researched and presented with empathy and humor, _Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?_ offers the latest information from top experts, who explain the science and proven protocols for reducing AD/HD's most challenging symptoms. Real-life details come from the partners themselves, who share their stories with touching candor yet plenty of humor.
An Amazon Best History Book of 2019 "A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people." —Ryan Cooper, Washington Monthly Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come about? In Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explains the United States’—and the world’s—great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and helped create their eras. Adolf Berle, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chief theorist of the economy, imagined a society dominated by large corporations, which a newly powerful federal government had forced to become benign and stable institutions, contributing to the public good by offering stable employment and generous pensions. By the 1970s, the corporations’ large stockholders grew restive under this regime, and their chief theoretician, Harvard Business School’s Michael Jensen, insisted that firms should maximize shareholder value, whatever the consequences. Today, Silicon Valley titans such as the LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman hope “networks” can reknit our social fabric. Lemann interweaves these fresh and vivid profiles with a history of the Morgan Stanley investment bank from the 1930s through the financial crisis of 2008, while also tracking the rise and fall of a working-class Chicago neighborhood and the family-run car dealerships at its heart. Incisive and sweeping, Transaction Man is the definitive account of the reengineering of America and the enormous impact it has had on us all.
You have reached a milestone in your life when the fire department is on standby as you blow out your birthday candles. If you have pondered going to heaven but without dying, this book is for you! As Father Ralph Pfau said, “You can’t be a good egg all your life. You either have to hatch or go bad.” Adventure into one courageous woman’s journey through later life as seen through her daughter’s eyes. Unique in every way, this woman operated completely without filter, remained in denial about her cancer diagnosis, and challenged the prognosis and thoughts of doctors, nurses, family, and friends. Written from the heart, Ann Marie Hancock shares her experiences in loving and caring for her mother through the heartaches and the joys and the times of laughter and sadness.
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Sarah sees herself as a plain jane, a quiet girl with little self esteem, never feeling quite good enough. As Sarah spends time at her family's cabin, her life takes many twists and turns that help her to become a beautiful young lady in love. As her love grows for James she can't get him out of her mind, longing to see him again, to talk to him and to feel his touch. James loves Sarah and is fighting his American Indian heritage and a marriage arranged by his father. This is a love story that is filled with a supernatural twist and will have you on the edge of your seat with anticipation. "This book was awesome. I couldn't put it down. I've read it at least 3 times. The characters, James and Sarah, love each other with such intensity and have all these obstacles to overcome. I can't wait for the second book to come out." Alice Robinson Forever Yours had me captivated from the very beginning and found myself not wanting to put it down. I wanted to know what was going to happen next to Sara and who she would end up if anyone at the end of the book. I am waiting for the next one to come out. Missy Kranz A realistic story of young love. Anonymous This book will have you relieving the feelings we all had when we were young and in love. Amy Hienen
Kris Ellis’ debut novel follows Matt Pearce, OCD sufferer, low-achiever, film fanatic and Jack Kerouac enthusiast, who reaches an existential crossroads. He finds himself looking back on a life thus far of dead-end jobs, binge drinking, encounters with aggressive locals, sessions with therapists, and failed relationships with alluring but ‘head-doing’ young teenage girls. When one of these relationships, with an abused teenager called S., goes badly wrong, Matt flees the country and undertakes a Greyhound bus journey across the USA, partly to escape from S., partly as a pilgrimage to Kerouac’s final resting place, partly to pitch his draft indie movie script to an unsuspecting Hollywood, but mostly to find himself. Matt's journey takes him from New York to Los Angeles via stopovers in Boston, Lowell, Chicago and Las Vegas. He travels across a variegated geographical and mental landscape which provides him with edgy encounters and glimpses of an existential NOW amidst flashbacks from his childhood, adolescence in Freetown, formative relationships with Mona, Alice and S., Socratic dialogues with his ‘head doctor’, movie-making ambitions and struggling attempts to write his own life script. temporoparietal is a candid, semi-documentary teenage beat novel, told through the hand-held camera-pen of its young adult narrator. The story is written in an experimental colloquial style resembling a philosophical, vigorously delivered stand-up comedy routine about being alive and young in the modern world. Author Kris Ellis describes his protagonist’s state of consciousness as existing somewhere between Holden Caulfield and Bill Hicks. Influenced by J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac and Michel Houellebecq, temporoparietal will appeal to readers looking for an edgy, thought-provoking contemporary novel exploring modern youth in search of its soul.
