Where Am I Now?

Author: Mara Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143128221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads" “Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly A former child actor best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer “cute” enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. They also illuminate universal struggles, like navigating love and loss, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Candid, insightful, moving, and hilarious, Where Am I Now? introduces Mara Wilson as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up female.

Where Am I Now?

Author: Mara Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698407016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Now That I Am Dead

Author: Enrique A Cordero
Publisher: Enrique A. Cordero
ISBN: 1704725232
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Unlike the author’s first book, It’s Hard to Die! “Do I Hold On or Do I Let Go?” which focuses on the practical and clinical aspects of the dying process—this book presents the subject from a metaphysical and transcendental approach. It addresses issues that impact the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the dying person, their family, and friends. It is difficult to step outside our comfort zone—our place of refuge, that little corner in our minds that offers solitude and protection from the unfamiliar. Our comfort zone is our reality, and we protect it from intrusion—especially when it comes to thoughts of death and dying. If you or a loved one are facing end-of-life issues, this book may help to alleviate the uncertainties and anguish felt during this most heart-rending time. As distressing questions and situations arise you may be forced to make difficult decisions regarding some various issues: Am I playing God? | Letting go or hanging on | What happens during the dying process? | Fear of dying | Grief and bereavement | Funeral? Burial? Cremation? | Being at peace with your religious and spiritual beliefs | What happens after death? Perhaps embracing new ideas will open our minds and hearts to myriad possibilities. A deeper understanding of the viewpoints of other religions, cultures, and ethnicities will help us become more understanding, compassionate, and respectful of the needs and wishes of the dying person. Are you ready to journey beyond your comfort zone?

I have betrayed. Now what?

Author: Sinelia Peixoto
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1071587722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
What can you do when you see that your marriage has irretreivably broken down? After ten years of marriage, Paul realises that he no longer loves his wife, that they live like brother and sister, and that libido and sex are no longer present in their relationship. They are living a sham marriage. Paul decides to seek a lover, because, for society, his marriage is perfect and divorce would not be a reasonable option, as Paul is selfish and does not like being left alone. Shall he manage to betray his wife? Shall she find out? And what would happen should he fall in love? What will happen to this couple, and how shall they manage to cope with betrayals, quarrels, lies, intrigue, doubts and fears? Shall they manage to overcome all this and stay together? A story of love, doubts, uncertainty, neuroses, and struggle.

I Am Amidst You Now

Author: Penny Mc Coy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468507028
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
In this book you will find prophetic messages, exposition, expression and illustrations depicting God's heart as our Father. They represent the incredible, amazing, grace-filled, loving and faithful beauty of his love to our hearts as his children. I believe these messages will encourage your soul, uplift your eyes, challenge your heart, nurture your mind, soothe your wounds, offer truth, contend for your freedom and offer hope for your destiny. These words are the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. They demand respectful attention and renew hope for healing, deliverance, wholeness and freedom. They will repeatedly confirm that God himself is Amidst You Now generously providing his healing truth to this lost and dying world - His truth is, he is not dead, he's alive and risen He has ears that hear, eyes that see, a voice that speaks and all authority and power to make the nations tremble. This book gives an image of this period in history where we will be faced with relentless deception. The darkness will be distinguished from The Light as the east is from the west. As the darkness grows expeditiously, The Light will burn brighter on the horizon of God's prophetic vision for the world at large. I believe this book will tug on your heartstrings and question your resolve.

Now That I Have Cancer, I Am Whole

Author: John Robert McFarland
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740787152
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Those of all religious persuasions and of none can appreciate the issues of human meaning and identity the book raises. Highly recommended." --Library Journal * This is not just another cancer journal or first-person survivor account. At equal turns poetic and profound, John McFarland offers hope and honesty, practicality and spirituality, calm and understanding, along with a heightened appreciation of life's meaning and purpose. The Centers for Disease Control reports that more than 20 million people in the United States are currently diagnosed with cancer, and 1.4 million people will be diagnosed in the coming year. At some point in their lives, virtually everyone is touched by this disease, and every patient, survivor, family member, and friend will find hope, strength, and comfort in Now That I Have Cancer, I Am Whole. Throughout this moving account, survivor John McFarland shares his Everyman approach to everyday life with cancer in brief meditations full of unflinching honesty, humor, and optimism. This revised edition also shares McFarland's continued relationship with cancer, seeing it through his eyes as a grandfather to one-year-old Joey, who struggles to fight a rare and ravaging form of the disease.

I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling

Author: Amanda Holmes
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1783333227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Opening in 1969 in New England, I KNOW WHERE I AM WHEN I'M FALLING is as rich in relationships as the colours and textures of the time. Ruby Lambert, is the eldest daughter in the eccentric Lambert family who get caught up in the life of Angus Aleshire, a charming, smart and athletic boy who they try to help and who shares Ruby's unconventional bent and love of the piano. Ruby and Angus fall in love but Angus has a dark side. His boyish charms start to wear thin losing him family and friends along the way and when his clever schemes and misbehavior get him in trouble, culminating with an art heist, he tries even Ruby’s love for him. The story spans thirteen years, and poses uncomfortable questions about the blindness of love, nurture versus nature and life through rose tinted glasses. Ruby struggles to square her vision of Angus’s potential with the unsettling and mounting reality.

Where Am I Now - when I Need Me?

Author: George Axelrod
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

I Was a Man and Then a Dog and Am Now a Gorilla

Author: Paul Briger
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480808199
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Book Description
Narrated by a gorilla, this is the life of Bernie Simon.For fifty-five years, his mother made him a veritable Eunuch, to provide her with companionship and care in old age. Upon her death, he makes up for lost time. However, after gaining an ample measure of sexual fulfillment, he opts for true love, but must kill to obtain that love. Bernie sacrifices his life for the life of another creature, which earns himreincarnation as a dog instead of a lowly mosquite. In his new body, he is known as Felix-a pathetic dachshund. Again, love is in the air, but this time, poor Felix of a broken heart. Bernie's soul is transferred to yet another body: that of a literate gorilla. As a gorilla, Bernie becomes a celebrated author. Through his acquaintance with an elderly woman, he realizes that he had true love before-- in a past incarnation--prior to becoming Bernie Simon. He becomes hopeful that in a future life, love will find him, surround him, and last a lifetime --or maybe several, whether as a human being or otherwise.

We have now begun our descent

Author: Justice Malala
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1868426807
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
"I am angry. I am furious. Because I never thought it would happen to us. Not us, the rainbow nation that defied doomsayers and suckled and nurtured a fragile democracy into life for its children. I never thought it would happen to us, this relentless decline, the flirtation with a leap over the cliff." In a searing, honest paean to his country, renowned political journalist and commentator Justice Malala forces South Africa to come face to face with the country it has become: corrupt, crime-ridden, compromised, its institutions captured by a selfish political elite bent on enriching itself at the expense of everyone else. In this deeply personal reflection, Malala's diagnosis is devastating: South Africa is on the brink of ruin. He does not stop there. Malala believes that we have the wherewithal to turn things around: our lauded Constitution, the wealth of talent that exists, our history of activism and a democratic trajectory can all be used to stop the rot. But he has a warning: South Africans of all walks of life need to wake up and act, or else they will soon find their country has been stolen.