Lola's friends tease and laugh at her when she tells them that her parents call her by such nicknames as Babycake, Sweetie Pie, and Fairy Princess. She doesn't understand why they're laughing; doesn't everyone have a silly little name? Still, when Lola gets home from school, she finds that she can't enjoy her parents' loving names for her anymore. That is, until her friend Lulu makes a surprising confession. In this heartwarming tale of generosity and tenderness, Lola discovers that nicknames are made to be shared! "From the Hardcover edition.
Sweetie Pie Song Bird is an abstract poetry collection that focuses on the charming side of nature. Through the usage of descriptive narration, the reader will meet characters that experience colorful sights and sounds of settings that magically come to life. Views of the author are connected throughout the poems, bringing the reader on a little journey from dawn to night. The poems in Sweetie Pie Song Bird focus on the celebration of life. The stories conveyed in each poem are light and whimsical and yet surprisingly thought provoking. Themes of friendship and joy depict a special sound of laughter throughout each page. In sounding out the sweeter things in life, the title character, Song Bird, tells of some unique tales one can experience in nature that might just have been overlooked. Sweetie Pie Song Bird enhances a picture of nature through the use of rhyming words, leaving a vivid picture of a serene place or an imagined far-off land.
A young Scottish doctor looks back on the unforgettable characters who became his patients in East Texas. Qualified as a doctor only 18 months before, he leaves the security of his medical school, his hospital and his heritage to start a single-handed rural practice in the wilds of Texas—his only resources: his ex-flight attendant, pregnant wife and their year-old baby. They exchanged their city sophistication for a rustic life, their temperate climate for the appalling heat and humidity of Texas, and their culture and language for a behavior and speech based on one of America's last frontiers. Deceived by those who invited them to American and left briefly penniless; befriended by a nearby village without medical help and miles from a hospital, they cared for their new patients, covering, in an old Ford with a hole in the floor, a house-call area larger than New Hampshire and Rhode Island combined. Like their patients, they survived. Because they had each other.
Patients bring many bits and pieces to their doctors' visits. Health issues. Things they've noticed. Worries about specific symptoms. Concerns that need reassurance. They also bring their personal stories though in the present high-tech assessment of patients' health, these are easily missed, and we are all the less for that loss today. Yesterday's doctors had the time to visit with their patients. We took delight in hearing what had been special in our patients' lives. We learned about the particular events that made some patients so different from any others, made them what they are. Some intrigued us. Some charmed us. Some amused us. Some worried us. And some scared the pants off us. None bored us. Such personal knowledge of our patients helped to make us see them as individuals. Indeed, patients might be surprised to find how much we recall of those times they came to see us. This book, a collection of stories from patients' lives, may show we remember them fondly.
In this hilarious, heartfelt book, Brian Leaf tackles parenting with a unique blend of research and humor. He explores Attachment Parenting, as well as Playful, Unconditional, Simplicity, and good old Dr. Spock parenting. He tries cloth diapers, no diapers, cosleeping, and no sleeping. Join him on his rollicking journey in this one-of-a-kind parenting guide.
About the Book Ever since his father went missing six years ago, Caleb has lived alone with his mother in the small town of Powen, California. Out in a rainstorm in search of his missing cat, Caleb stumbles upon his father’s secret lab hidden in a cave system under their woodland property. Reading through his father’s journal, he is astounded at the discovery his dad had made and why he disappeared all those years ago. Interdimensional travel. Ember, a young woman raised by a military commander and his wife, has been drafted into the military by her own father against her will. Determined to beat her father at his own game, Ember plays along for a season but quickly finds herself in a deadly situation outside of her control. Caleb and Ember are thrown together in the midst of their individual troubles. Will they beat the odds stacked against them or will the universe demand their utter destruction? About the Author Jackson Cosby is a 22-year-old man who grew up in a small town near Yosemite National Park. Having been raised in a rural environment, sources of traditional entertainment were few and far between forcing him to develop an active imagination. While attending college, Jackson was inspired with the idea for this story. This book is the result of that inspiration. Jackson still lives near Yosemite, with his cat, Scooter.
In September 1981, a four-seater aircraft mounted into a scorched sky from an African desert track carrying two brothers to freedom. So ended the fifty-five year saga of the Fanouris family in Ethiopia. As Lukas Fanouris looked down and saw patches of gold in the receding landscape, he realized that the Meskel flower was in bloom everywhere. He wept, for the carpet of Meskel around Addis Ababa had been the first sight to meet his father's eyes when he had arrived in 1926 from his Greek island with his wife and infant son to seek his fortune among the descendants of Solomon and Sheba.Manoli Fanouris began his new life by opening a restaurant but soon realized that Ethiopia's hungers did not stem from the stomach but the mind. Soon he began selling newspapers, gradually adding magazines and books and thereby laid the foundations for what was to become one of the largest book and press agency in Ethiopia. Because of Emperor Haile Selasie's efforts to modernize his country and eradicate illiteray, close bonds had developed between the Fanouris enterprise and the Palace. Nevertheless, the rising expectations generated by modernization outstripped the will and power of the Emperor. In 1974 creeping dissension was whipped into military revolution by a hushed famine, deposing the old and frail ruler. While the new dictatorship proclaimed that the Emperor was under house arrest at the Menelik Palace, members of his family and his ministers were thrown into the cells of common criminals. deprived of the bare necessities of life. Sixty princes, ministers and high government officials were executed en masseand flung into an unmarked trench. The wives and mothers of men detained and tortured without charges were imprisoned, others forced to sell what little remained to them to pay for the bullets that had killed their loved ones."Meskel" is the true and poignant saga of a Greek family who lived to witness and record the devastating destruction of a beautiful country which was turned into a living hell by the tyrant, Mengistu Haile Mariam.
In the latest mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Give Up the Ghost, it will take a beacon of ghostly intervention to guide contractor Mel Turner to the truth... Dangerous tides ahead... When her friend Alicia hires Turner Construction to renovate a historic lighthouse in the San Francisco Bay, Mel Turner can’t wait to get her hands dirty. Alicia plans to transform the island property into a welcoming inn, and while Mel has never attempted a project so ambitious—or so tall—before, she’s definitely up for the challenge. But trouble soon arises when Alicia’s abusive ex-husband shows up to threaten both her and Mel, and later turns up dead at the base of the lighthouse stairs. With no other suspects in sight, things start looking choppy for Alicia. Now, if Mel wants to clear her friend’s name, she’ll need the help of the lighthouse’s resident ghosts to shine a light on the real culprit...
"A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy" is a delightfully insightful, bittersweet coming-of-age romp, in which love is far from platonic and the mind-body predicament becomes a pressing reality.
