You Have to Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother

You Have to Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother

Author: Stephanie Pierson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780743229180

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With a mix of wisdom, insight, empathy, humor, and practical advice, this book is a much-needed resource for mothers who are trying to help their daughters navigate the difficult teenage years.


The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.


I Am My Mother's Daughter!

I Am My Mother's Daughter!

Author: Saily Fuentes Santos

Publisher: Palibrio

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1463322992

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This book serves as a testimonial of the circumstances that surrounded the life of a family where the mother was the breadwinner, showing how she came to grow to support and educate their children. It narrates the process of the disease she had suffered and the Christian fundamentals that supported her self-surrender to God, from whom she received strength and joy in spite of her painful predicament. The author explains, in simple terms, the revelations she had received, and the manner she found Christ Jesus, source of her comfort and answer to her questions, despair, and fear. This book leads us to reflect, express love towards life, and show gratitude towards God. It offers help and spiritual guidance, as it conveys the importance and validity of love, faith, and eternal hope, revealing the path that leads to salvation.


Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors

Author: Julie Keppen

Publisher: Contemporary Authors

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780787667047

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Find biographical information on more than 115,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments and informative essays about their lives and work. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).


American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Author: Terrance Hayes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0525504966

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Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.


My Mother’s Truth

My Mother’s Truth

Author: Fe.l.alberts.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1664199578

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Janice Lynn Jamison a successful real estate agent and owner of her own company has been a faithful and dedicated wife to the love of her life ,her husband Steven Kale Jamison for the past 25 years. Meeting each other, experiencing love at first sight Janice confessed to having heightened sexual desires from her hurtful dating history. Promising her commitment Steven vow to provide the loving she requires whenever and where ever she wants and needs it. Blessed with a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters Janice lived an happy, fulfilled life until her life is turned upside down by her youngest daughter Nicki attempted suicide. Family therapy being a requirement for Nicki’s healing, during a session with her mother and sister Dessi, Nicki unveiling of her ugly truth of having a sexual addiction brings forth an unimaginable confession from her older sister Dessi. Reeling with disbelief Janice is left to wonder if her sexual desires stem from a deeper, sinister situation that has somehow affected her daughters as well. The nightmare of her past resurfacing and causing unrest Janice seeks private counselling from Nicki’s therapist on how to tell her daughters the truth about her past and pounders her chances of getting closure from the individuals who were supposed to love her the most. Come alone as Janice shares her story of lost love, pain and agony with her two daughters in hopes of freeing them from their demons to help them heal and live normal lives. Will she be able to maintaining the unconditional love and respect they hold for her and gain the closure she desperately needs.


Hand to Hold

Hand to Hold

Author: JJ Heller

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0593193253

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This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.