No Arm Around My Shoulder
No Arm Around My Shoulder

Author: Walter Fred Hamelrath

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-03

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1438962754

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Book review by Beverly Seaton Ingersoll Author: 4 Months of God's Mercy "No Arm Around My Shoulder" is a story of life long ago when survival was an everyday occurrence. A small child's only desire to be wanted and loved by his family, but in return must endure hostility and scorn for the first 18 years of his life. This story cannot help but touch the soul of everyone who reads it. I was heart-stricken by the pain and adversity this author endured as a child, but also inspired, because I know he is a warm, caring, honorable man today. The history Fred describes in Southern Idaho as he and his family moved from place to place just to put food on the table reminded me of times when life was much harder than today. I felt as though I was right there with him. The author is an inspiration to all of how strong a person's character is and that they can successfully overcome extremely difficult obstacles.

An Arm Around My Shoulder
An Arm Around My Shoulder

Author: Robert Dalton

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2014-05

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1452514542

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I believe if you can walk through this life having family and friends that will be there to put their arm around your shoulder in times of failure, loss, triumph and success, then I believe this life will be filled with an unconditional love that will give you the strength to endure and enjoy this amazing journey of life.

A Life With No End
A Life With No End

Author: Kassandra Duric

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1491706244

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When Rahneay turned down the throne of high Elder in Yamashiman Territory she moves to the Tamaharan Territories to try to live a some what normal life. Though when her past comes back to bite her, she has to choose to go back or stay where she is. Will she choose to stay, or face her problems? Jezebel and Raphiel have been banished from their first pack in the Nataru Territories, making their own pack with a couple Yamashimians. They thought they knew Rahneay only to find out she was hiding a big secret, one that could change all the territories forever. During their travel through Tamaharan Territory to Yamashimian Territory; Jezebel, Raphiel, Rahneay, Vaughn, and Collin run into trouble of all sorts with their past seems to be haunting them.

Truth Comes in Blows
Truth Comes in Blows

Author: Ted Solotaroff

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780393320503

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Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Truth Comes in Blows is renowned editor and critic Ted Solotaroff's prize-winning account of a coming of age at once quintessentially American and especially vexed.

She Taught Me
She Taught Me

Author: MS. L. Bond

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1480842761

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She Taught Me is gut wrenching, powerfully raw, and brilliantly infused with rich insights for every woman whose identity, passion, and spirit have been compromised. Lylas journey will facilitate your own transformational process of embracing pain to discover the true essence of your freedom. Teri Sica, LICSW Psychotherapist, WATD-FM Radio Show Host Based on true events, Lylas saga is provocative and revealing, captivating and demanding of empathy. A woman so twisted beyond her authentic self from violation and clandestine sex, she doesnt notice her soul slip away. Self reproach leads her choices into a life trajectory of circumstances plagued by undeserving crisis, as witnessed in her daughters tragic disabling injury. When her soul screams to return, only by embracing fortitude can she validate her pain and grasp the freedom that lay beyond. But the alchemy required to disrobe the cloak of shame shes enmeshed herself with thwarts her healing with its toxic visceral side effects. So many mirrors reflect the self loathing and secrets still hidden in the shadows and her strangled silence longs to be given a voice. Lyla seeks traditional and alternative methods to reinvent herself, eventually proving the indomitable courage of our spirit illuminates the path towards healing where one can create a future where potential becomes promise. Lylas poignant journey resolves giving you inspiration as she shows us how trauma can be turned into treasure.

No Place I'd Rather Be
No Place I'd Rather Be

Author: Cathy Lamb

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1496709810

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Two years ago, Olivia Martindale left behind her Montana hometown and her husband, Jace, certain it was the best decision for both of them. Back temporarily to protect her almost-adopted daughters from their biological mother, she discovers an old, handwritten cookbook in the attic. Its pages are stained and torn, their edges scorched by flame. Some have been smeared by water ... or tears. The recipes are written in different hands and in different languages. In between the pages are intriguing mementos, including a feather, a pressed rose, a charm, and unfamiliar photographs. Hoping the recipes will offer a window into her grandmother's closely guarded past, Olivia decides to make each dish, along with their favorite family cake recipes, and records her attempts. The result, like much of her life to date, involves a parade of near-disasters and chaotic appearances by her doctor mother, her blunt grandma, her short-tempered sister, and Olivia's two hilarious daughters. The project is messy, real--and an unintended hit with viewers. Even more surprising is the family history Olivia is uncovering, and her own reemerging ties to Montana, and to Jace.

No Handbook for the Homeless
No Handbook for the Homeless

Author: Joyce Trainor

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1632930609

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There is no Handbook for the Homeless. Nobody teaches seminars or gives guided tours that promise to give you the inside scoop on where to flop when you’re homeless. You have to figure it out as you go along. Few of us plan for it. Perhaps, in today’s cliché driven world, it means we planned to fail. But how much farther can you fall than sleeping in the cemetery, curled up on your son’s grave because it’s the only piece of real estate you own. At best, if you find yourself homeless, if you haven’t burned all your karma, you will find a spirit guide. More likely the guide will find you. In this first novel by Joyce Trainor, Aileen Roark’s middle class life is forever changed by a drunk driver. Overwhelmed by medical and legal debt, Aileen retreats to a tiny rundown apartment and tries desperately to rebuild her life with only her son’s enormous dog for companionship. But the downward spiral continues and Aileen stumbles into a world unknown to her, hidden from wealthy tourists and part time residents in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s a place where a night on the street can mean a death sentence or a ‘Go Straight to Jail’ card and change everything you believe about the ragged people standing on the corner. Street dwelling Wizard, a relic of the communes that dotted New Mexico in the 1960s and 70s; Father Rico, elderly priest to an impoverished parish; ex-boxer Cesar Jesus Chavez, now night manager at a cheap motel; and the quirky Billy James Dean, Esquire, defender of the almost guilty, help Aileen survive.

Seven Lies
Seven Lies

Author: Elizabeth Kay

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1984879723

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"Scalpel-sharp writing and a killer concept-dark, clever, compelling and utterly assured." —Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List, a Hello Sunshine x Reese's Book Club Pick Keep the lights on—you'll be turning pages deep into the night with this one." —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away It all started with just one little lie. But we all know that it never ends there. Because, of course, one lie leads to another. . . Growing up, Jane and Marnie shared everything. They knew the other’s deepest secrets. They wouldn't have had it any other way. But when Marnie falls in love, things begin to change. Because Jane has a secret: She loathes Marnie’s wealthy, priggish husband. So when Marnie asks if she likes him, Jane tells her first lie. After all, even best friends keep some things to themselves. If she had been honest, then perhaps her best friend's husband might still be alive today. . . Seven Lies is Jane’s confession of the truth—her truth. Compelling, sophisticated, chilling, it’s a seductive, hypnotic page-turner about the tangled, toxic friendships between women, the dark underbelly of obsession, and what we stand to lose in the name of love.

Loose Ends
Loose Ends

Author: Cee Hunt

Publisher: North Node

Published: 2019-12-08

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1734085703

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Life is a mystery. Certain aspects we can see and others we cannot. However, life wasn’t explained to Cee this way. Life was an organized set of rules erected and reinforced by authority figures who held the power, the answers, and the respect. Cee learned to go along with these systems until life forced her to wake up, revealing destruction she could no longer ignore: parents who had lied to her and needed help with money, and the obligation Cee felt as a college sophomore to help them put things back together again. But no matter how much she tried, she couldn’t because she herself was falling apart. The life she had learned to live by was not only vacuous but porous. The systems everyone was blindly participating in were broken. But why wasn’t anyone saying so? Because no one knew how. Loose Ends is Cee's inward journey through the hopeless, adult world battling depression, social pressure, and despair, that ultimately teaches her that suffering is a necessary portal through which we all must travel. There, we not only gain a greater understanding of the world around us, but, we become who we are meant to be.