Author: Mary Manning
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847177514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
'Over and over again he warned me he would kill me if I told anyone. I was completely isolated. He made sure of that.' Mary was ten years old when she first met her stepfather, Sean McDarby. From the very beginning he seemed to pay her special attention; his praise and compliments quickly won her trust. Then he started touching her in ways she didn't like. When she was twelve, he raped her. The next twenty years were filled with harrowing abuse as McDarby continued to rape Mary, leading to the birth of five of her children. Finally, after years of abuse – years when justice was denied at every turn – Mary found the strength and courage to break free. Against the odds she created a safe place for her children and reclaimed her life. This is Mary's inspirational story of courage and survival.
Raising Good Children
Author: Thomas Lickona
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055337429X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values. Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each stage: • Seven caring ways to discipline “terrible twos” • Why your preschooler “lies” and how to handle it • What to do about a four-year-old’s back talk • How to handle your seven-year-old’s endless negotiations about what’s “fair” • Why teens have trouble with peer pressure—and how to help them • How to talk to your child about drugs, drinking, and sex • How to help children of any age reason more clearly about what’s right and wrong PLUS . . . A list of more than one hundred children’s books that teach moral values, and much more. “An excellent book on a vastly neglected aspect of raising children.”—Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, author How to Parent, How to Father “We have been waiting for a book like this for a long time—a readable work that translates a moral development into parents’ language and experience.”—Dolores Curran, author of Traits of a Healthy Family “Truly integrates a moral development theory into a consistent approach to childrearing. . . Word-of-mouth recommendations from parent to parent may lift it to the level of popularity once held by Dr. Spock’s book on child care.”—Moral Education Forum
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055337429X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values. Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each stage: • Seven caring ways to discipline “terrible twos” • Why your preschooler “lies” and how to handle it • What to do about a four-year-old’s back talk • How to handle your seven-year-old’s endless negotiations about what’s “fair” • Why teens have trouble with peer pressure—and how to help them • How to talk to your child about drugs, drinking, and sex • How to help children of any age reason more clearly about what’s right and wrong PLUS . . . A list of more than one hundred children’s books that teach moral values, and much more. “An excellent book on a vastly neglected aspect of raising children.”—Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, author How to Parent, How to Father “We have been waiting for a book like this for a long time—a readable work that translates a moral development into parents’ language and experience.”—Dolores Curran, author of Traits of a Healthy Family “Truly integrates a moral development theory into a consistent approach to childrearing. . . Word-of-mouth recommendations from parent to parent may lift it to the level of popularity once held by Dr. Spock’s book on child care.”—Moral Education Forum
The Inventor of Nothing
Author: Thejendra Sreenivas
Publisher: Thejendra Sreenivas
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Have you ever blamed or criticized God for something bad that happened to you? Do you feel like confronting and taking Him to task for all the rubbish that's happening around you? Are you baffled by the collective silence of our benevolent gods from all the rival religions? If yes, then don’t waste time seeking answers from any Religious Experts, Enlightened Professors, Top Economists, Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize Winners, Eloquent Politicians, or by reading their superb bestsellers. All the answers you need are available right here in this awesome book. Enlighten yourself with the Technical, Political, and Business justifications of our Creator for the existence of saints, savages, atheists, wars, diseases, religious headaches, corruption, natural calamities, business failures, media maniacs, ethnic cleansing, recessions, silent gods, terrorism, racism, crime, politics, lies, and 1001 other problems you see worldwide daily. Become a Buddha and discover the mysterious secret behind his supreme serenity. Never blame poor God again!!!
Publisher: Thejendra Sreenivas
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Have you ever blamed or criticized God for something bad that happened to you? Do you feel like confronting and taking Him to task for all the rubbish that's happening around you? Are you baffled by the collective silence of our benevolent gods from all the rival religions? If yes, then don’t waste time seeking answers from any Religious Experts, Enlightened Professors, Top Economists, Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize Winners, Eloquent Politicians, or by reading their superb bestsellers. All the answers you need are available right here in this awesome book. Enlighten yourself with the Technical, Political, and Business justifications of our Creator for the existence of saints, savages, atheists, wars, diseases, religious headaches, corruption, natural calamities, business failures, media maniacs, ethnic cleansing, recessions, silent gods, terrorism, racism, crime, politics, lies, and 1001 other problems you see worldwide daily. Become a Buddha and discover the mysterious secret behind his supreme serenity. Never blame poor God again!!!
That Old Scoundrel Death
Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250165636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Beloved Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back with his final murder case in That Old Scoundrel Death. When a man is run off the road by a thug with a snake tattooed around his neck, Sheriff Dan Rhodes knows it's his duty to stop and help out. The grateful victim gives his name as Cal Stinson, on his way to the nearby town of Thurston to take a look at the old school building before the city tears it down. The next day, Cal Stinson turns up again. Only this time, he's dead. His body is found in the dilapidated school that's about to be razed, and the woman who let Cal onto the premises claims he gave his name as Bruce Wayne. Whoever is he is, he was shot in the back of the head, and a piece of chalk lies inches away from his hand, under a lone line on the chalkboard, his last words unfinished. Between not-so-bright hoodlums who can't seem to stay on the right side of the law, powerful families in town who are ready to go to battle over whether the old school should come down, and trying futilely to get private detective Seepy Benton to stop making mountains of mole hills, Sheriff Rhodes is beginning to wonder if retirement might be as good as it sounds.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250165636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Beloved Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back with his final murder case in That Old Scoundrel Death. When a man is run off the road by a thug with a snake tattooed around his neck, Sheriff Dan Rhodes knows it's his duty to stop and help out. The grateful victim gives his name as Cal Stinson, on his way to the nearby town of Thurston to take a look at the old school building before the city tears it down. The next day, Cal Stinson turns up again. Only this time, he's dead. His body is found in the dilapidated school that's about to be razed, and the woman who let Cal onto the premises claims he gave his name as Bruce Wayne. Whoever is he is, he was shot in the back of the head, and a piece of chalk lies inches away from his hand, under a lone line on the chalkboard, his last words unfinished. Between not-so-bright hoodlums who can't seem to stay on the right side of the law, powerful families in town who are ready to go to battle over whether the old school should come down, and trying futilely to get private detective Seepy Benton to stop making mountains of mole hills, Sheriff Rhodes is beginning to wonder if retirement might be as good as it sounds.
Hard Choices
Author: Ranbir Singh
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482874067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Sunny, a management graduate, is ambitious, witty, and impulsive. He is delighted on getting a job in a London-based trade finance company in Bombay. In the office at first sight, he fell in love with pretty office manager Sandra. Their love, passion, and chemistry are undeniable. He works diligently and gets quick promotions, unaware his job is on the other side of the law. Soon he gets embroiled in criminal cases that he never committed. He gets more convoluted with passing of days. And when he finds himself in a situation where no breakthrough is possible, he revolts and fights the odds in his own way. And its his formidable will and passion that steers him through misfortune and tragedy. And at the threshold of life and death, he has to make a hard choice. It has to be worth a try.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482874067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Sunny, a management graduate, is ambitious, witty, and impulsive. He is delighted on getting a job in a London-based trade finance company in Bombay. In the office at first sight, he fell in love with pretty office manager Sandra. Their love, passion, and chemistry are undeniable. He works diligently and gets quick promotions, unaware his job is on the other side of the law. Soon he gets embroiled in criminal cases that he never committed. He gets more convoluted with passing of days. And when he finds himself in a situation where no breakthrough is possible, he revolts and fights the odds in his own way. And its his formidable will and passion that steers him through misfortune and tragedy. And at the threshold of life and death, he has to make a hard choice. It has to be worth a try.
The Daffodil Blonde
Author: Frances Crane
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504075390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
During a stay in Kentucky horse country, a husband-and-wife detective team race to find a killer . . . PI Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are vacationing in Kentucky horse country and visiting Pat’s old friend Rob Murray, who lives there with his sister and daughter. But when Rob’s trainer is found dead, Pat is willing to bet it’s murder despite the local doctor’s verdict of suicide. The quest to find the truth will involve a fainting blonde at the Abbotts’ hotel and some of the more colorful citizens of Lexington in this suspenseful Golden Age classic featuring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective). Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries “Lively and exciting.” —The New York Times “[A] well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review “Nasty characters and clues pointing off in all directions—quite good.” —The Miami News
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504075390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
During a stay in Kentucky horse country, a husband-and-wife detective team race to find a killer . . . PI Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are vacationing in Kentucky horse country and visiting Pat’s old friend Rob Murray, who lives there with his sister and daughter. But when Rob’s trainer is found dead, Pat is willing to bet it’s murder despite the local doctor’s verdict of suicide. The quest to find the truth will involve a fainting blonde at the Abbotts’ hotel and some of the more colorful citizens of Lexington in this suspenseful Golden Age classic featuring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective). Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries “Lively and exciting.” —The New York Times “[A] well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review “Nasty characters and clues pointing off in all directions—quite good.” —The Miami News
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
Author: Jody Gehrman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440630690
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Geena can't wait to spend summer vacation at the Triple Shot Betty coffee shop with her best friend, Amber, and her cousin, Hero. But Amber and Hero hate each other on sight, and Geena's dreams of a girl-bonding summer fly out the window - then vanish entirely when a few cute (okay, drop-dead gorgeous) guys enter the picture. All is not what it seems, though, and in a story of mistaken identities, summer high jinks, and just enough romance, Geena and her friends learn that when Bettys unite, they can take on the most powerful force in their world: a hot guy.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440630690
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Geena can't wait to spend summer vacation at the Triple Shot Betty coffee shop with her best friend, Amber, and her cousin, Hero. But Amber and Hero hate each other on sight, and Geena's dreams of a girl-bonding summer fly out the window - then vanish entirely when a few cute (okay, drop-dead gorgeous) guys enter the picture. All is not what it seems, though, and in a story of mistaken identities, summer high jinks, and just enough romance, Geena and her friends learn that when Bettys unite, they can take on the most powerful force in their world: a hot guy.
The Study of Philosophy
Author: S. Morris Engel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780939693566
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Study of Philosophy provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the history of philosophy in the West. S. Morris Engel walks the reader through the story of philosophy, starting with its nature and origins; progressing to the central questions emerging from its four main branches of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; and culminating in an overview of modern and contemporary movements, most notably the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the existentialism of Kirkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Carefully crafted supplements enhance the volume, demonstrating for students the relevance of philosophy to the world and to themselves. A Collegiate Press Book
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780939693566
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Study of Philosophy provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the history of philosophy in the West. S. Morris Engel walks the reader through the story of philosophy, starting with its nature and origins; progressing to the central questions emerging from its four main branches of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; and culminating in an overview of modern and contemporary movements, most notably the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the existentialism of Kirkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Carefully crafted supplements enhance the volume, demonstrating for students the relevance of philosophy to the world and to themselves. A Collegiate Press Book