Author: Martine Murray
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0399550445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
When Joey, a loner whose life consists of home, school, and the hill where he plays guitar, meets Marsh, she opens his eyes to a new world.
My Pain Is My Legacy
Author: Alexandria Nolan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 149181215X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Growing up in a fast, dysfunctional world was normal for Alex. Everywhere she went, she was subject to abuse. She would catch the public bus at the age of eight years old in the rough city streets of DC. In the 1980s, watching drunks and drug addicts crowd the bus stop was everyday life. Forced to become street smart after being a ward of the courts for eight years, Alex thought things could not get any worse. Not surprisingly, they did. After trusting someone that she thought had her best interests at heart, she soon finds herself married and pregnant at the age of fifteen, and now a domestic violence victim. Determined not to let her present dictate her future, she began to reach out to God, with writing as her key to all her misery. With faith and strong determination, she changed her life path from being an abused child sexually and physically. As you read this book, you will learn to allow the inner child in you to speak and brighten your path while you discover that until you release your past, you too are still a child within.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 149181215X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Growing up in a fast, dysfunctional world was normal for Alex. Everywhere she went, she was subject to abuse. She would catch the public bus at the age of eight years old in the rough city streets of DC. In the 1980s, watching drunks and drug addicts crowd the bus stop was everyday life. Forced to become street smart after being a ward of the courts for eight years, Alex thought things could not get any worse. Not surprisingly, they did. After trusting someone that she thought had her best interests at heart, she soon finds herself married and pregnant at the age of fifteen, and now a domestic violence victim. Determined not to let her present dictate her future, she began to reach out to God, with writing as her key to all her misery. With faith and strong determination, she changed her life path from being an abused child sexually and physically. As you read this book, you will learn to allow the inner child in you to speak and brighten your path while you discover that until you release your past, you too are still a child within.
The Lie That I Am
Author: Mary Beth Smith
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 168537204X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Lie That I Am: A Journey Back to Spirit By: Mary Beth Smith What if ... what we were told as children about ourselves was a lie? What if ... we then looked around for proof to support these lies? What if … we took those lies on as our belief of who we are still today? No matter what lies you may have believed because of the family dynamics you were born into, all those lies that have so deeply impacted your life can be unraveled until you can move beyond them to live instead from a place of peace. The Lie That I Am takes you on the journey of Mary Beth Smith’s life. A life filled with doubt, pain, depression, suicide, sexual abuse, obesity, illness, and almost dying. As she learned to connect to Spirit more and more, Spirit connected with her. Together they transcended the lies she believed into the truths of who she has become. It’s time to stop believing our lies, and start living our truths.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 168537204X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Lie That I Am: A Journey Back to Spirit By: Mary Beth Smith What if ... what we were told as children about ourselves was a lie? What if ... we then looked around for proof to support these lies? What if … we took those lies on as our belief of who we are still today? No matter what lies you may have believed because of the family dynamics you were born into, all those lies that have so deeply impacted your life can be unraveled until you can move beyond them to live instead from a place of peace. The Lie That I Am takes you on the journey of Mary Beth Smith’s life. A life filled with doubt, pain, depression, suicide, sexual abuse, obesity, illness, and almost dying. As she learned to connect to Spirit more and more, Spirit connected with her. Together they transcended the lies she believed into the truths of who she has become. It’s time to stop believing our lies, and start living our truths.
Call Me Sergeant Rock
Author: Dan Rodgers
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 162516842X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Author Dan Rodgers was in college taking pre-med, had a possible professional baseball career in the offing, and was driving race cars hoping to get on the NASCAR circuit when he received his dreaded draft notice. Two days before he married his lovely wife, Sue, Dan was drafted into the Army. The author and a few friends were sent to Vietnam on the adventure of a lifetime. Dan was a squad leader and sergeant in the Vietnam War and was directly involved in the Tet Offensive in 1968. At one point during Tet, his company lost 126 men in less than two hours. Dan earned the Silver Star when he and a comrade rescued five soldiers trapped in an armored tank. He was wounded twice and received two Purple Hearts. At one point, Dan was asked to become a war correspondent and carry a mini camera. He kept notes on whatever paper he could find to write on, but writing the names of dead comrades was tough. Dan lives with the pain of losing his personal friends. His wife is a testament to his nightly torment, as he still suffers with nightmares and flashbacks of the war. Writing this book started as an exercise to relieve stress. Dan would present his writings to doctors, who in turn suggested that he form a chronological order of events. The book Call Me Sergeant Rock was born.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 162516842X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Author Dan Rodgers was in college taking pre-med, had a possible professional baseball career in the offing, and was driving race cars hoping to get on the NASCAR circuit when he received his dreaded draft notice. Two days before he married his lovely wife, Sue, Dan was drafted into the Army. The author and a few friends were sent to Vietnam on the adventure of a lifetime. Dan was a squad leader and sergeant in the Vietnam War and was directly involved in the Tet Offensive in 1968. At one point during Tet, his company lost 126 men in less than two hours. Dan earned the Silver Star when he and a comrade rescued five soldiers trapped in an armored tank. He was wounded twice and received two Purple Hearts. At one point, Dan was asked to become a war correspondent and carry a mini camera. He kept notes on whatever paper he could find to write on, but writing the names of dead comrades was tough. Dan lives with the pain of losing his personal friends. His wife is a testament to his nightly torment, as he still suffers with nightmares and flashbacks of the war. Writing this book started as an exercise to relieve stress. Dan would present his writings to doctors, who in turn suggested that he form a chronological order of events. The book Call Me Sergeant Rock was born.
Unbridled
Author: D. Jackson Leigh
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1635558484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
After a hard-fought battle to take control of her personal and professional life, mystery writer Lauren Everhart’s star is finally rising. She vows never to give up control of anything in her life until she meets her niece’s sexy horseback-riding instructor and signs up for her own private lessons, and more. Riding top horses on the show jumping circuit and igniting a woman’s desire are simply games of power, and Marsh Langston is a master player. Only this time, the flame she fans with Lauren Everhart burns too hot and so quickly it threatens to sear through Marsh’s impenetrable control.
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1635558484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
After a hard-fought battle to take control of her personal and professional life, mystery writer Lauren Everhart’s star is finally rising. She vows never to give up control of anything in her life until she meets her niece’s sexy horseback-riding instructor and signs up for her own private lessons, and more. Riding top horses on the show jumping circuit and igniting a woman’s desire are simply games of power, and Marsh Langston is a master player. Only this time, the flame she fans with Lauren Everhart burns too hot and so quickly it threatens to sear through Marsh’s impenetrable control.