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Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780988667556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe painless way to write, design, and publish your memoir, autobiography, or family history book. How to Save Your Life-One Chapter at a Time will take you through the process of creating a life story book, step by step, from writing to photos to design and publishing, in a friendly and engaging way.
Author: Sara Zarr
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1409554872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJill's life lost all meaning when her dad died. Friends, boyfriend, college – nothing matters any more. Then her mom drops a bombshell: she's going to adopt a baby. Mandy is desperate for her life to change. Seventeen, pregnant and leaving home, she is sure of only one thing – her baby must never have a life like hers, whatever it takes. As their worlds change around them, Jill and Mandy must learn both how to hold on and how to let go, finding that nothing is as easy - or as difficult - as it seems. Heart-achingly beautiful, moving and funny, How to Save a Life has been named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2011 and an American Library Assocation 2012 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. "A rich tapestry of love and survival that will resonate with even the most cynical readers." - Booklist
Author: Michele Weldon
Publisher: Fastpencil Incorporated
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781607463863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing her background as a journalist, professor of journalism, author and storyteller, Michele Weldon masterfully outlines the steps for you to tell your own story. Whether you intend to write a memoir or essays for publication, or articulate your story for yourself, using the trademarked method of Scribotherapy, Weldon offers insights, lessons and examples of writing to forge a clear path to telling your story. The author of four nonfiction books and several book chapters, a columnist and popular keynote speaker, Weldon is the owner of her own Writing To Save Your Life memoir workshops. With this writing pedigree, Weldon is positioned to instruct and inspire anyone who wishes to embark on a personal writing journey or to polish skills already in practice.
Author: James Bird
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1250247748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for fans of Rain Reign, this middle-grade novel The Brave is about a boy with an undiagnosed anxiety issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biological mother. Collin can't help himself—he has a mental health condition that finds him counting every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies, and frustrates the adults around him, including his father. When Collin asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe, and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog, Seven, and quickly finds his mom and his new home to be warm, welcoming, and accepting of his disability. Collin’s quirk is matched by that of his neighbor, Orenda, a girl who lives mostly in her treehouse and believes she is turning into a butterfly. With Orenda’s help, Collin works hard to learn the best ways to manage his anxiety disorder. His real test comes when he must step up for his new friend and trust his new family.
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0812981561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
Author: A.M. Homes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-04-03
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780143038740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince her debut in 1989, A. M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding, has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. This Book Will Save Your Life is a vivid, uplifting, and revealing story about compassion, transformation, and what can happen if you are willing to lose yourself and open up to the world around you.
Author: Michael Gates Gill
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-12-29
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1101152133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including: ·Leap...With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim). ·Let Yourself...Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear. ·Look...with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path. ·Lose...Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness. Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, How to Save Your Own Life provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves. Watch a Video
Author: Michael McGirr
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1922459321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA profound, uplifting and accessible introduction to key philosophical ideas and their relevance to everyday life.
Author: Megan Stielstra
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0062429213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger From an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice. In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal as she grapples toward a better way to live. In her titular piece “The Wrong Way To Save Your Life,” she answers the question of what has value in our lives—a question no longer rhetorical when the apartment above her family’s goes up in flames. “Here is My Heart” sheds light on Megan’s close relationship with her father, whose continued insistence on climbing mountains despite a series of heart attacks leads the author to dissect deer hearts in a poetic attempt to interrogate her own feelings about mortality. Whether she's imagining the implications of open-carry laws on college campuses, recounting the story of going underwater on the mortgage of her first home, or revealing the unexpected pains and joys of marriage and motherhood, Stielstra's work informs, impels, enlightens, and embraces us all. The result is something beautiful—this story, her courage, and, potentially, our own. Intellectually fierce and viscerally intimate, Megan Stielstra's voice is witty, wise, warm, and above all, achingly human.
Author: Erica Jong
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-07-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1101076941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Erica/Isadora are the perfect literary and libidinous guides for those readers who want to learn about-or just be reminded of-the sheer hedonistic innocence of the time. How to Save Your Own Life was praised by People for being "shameless, sex-saturated and a joy," and hailed by Anthony Burgess as one of the ninety-nine best novels published in English since 1939.
