In the Land of Second Chances

Author: George Shaffner
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565124405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Calvin Millet struggles to cope with a series of disasters--his wife leaves him, his daughter is terminally ill, his store faces bankruptcy, and his house is destroyed by a tornado--but the arrival of a mysterious stranger, traveling salesman Vernon L. Moore, who arrives in town to sell games of chance to the store and possesses an uncanny talent for asking life-altering questions, helps Calvin and the other inhabitants of Ebb, Nebraska, rediscover hope and second chances. A first novel.

Second Chances

Author: Dean D ’ Adamo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462090419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
A van loaded with explosives is minutes away from causing the total destruction of a downtown office building. But the tragedy is averted. This chance encounter transforms a young man into an instant hero. Reluctantly, he agrees to address the people who worked in and around the office building and tells them that this close call was more than just luck. He believes that it is a Second Chance from their creator, an opportunity to reflect on what they have, a chance to change their lives. The simple, spontaneous speech profoundly impacts the audience and quickly gains momentum as the message spreads. The calm is short lived however. Within days, Chris finds himself the target of a maniacal killer. Who is trying to kill him, and why? Who placed the bomb? Why was it placed at that particular location? Second Chances propels you into a pulse-pounding journey as Chris Maggio, strengthened by his faith in God, runs a desperate race to solve the mystery before his time runs out.

The God of Second Chances

Author: Jess Green
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524683434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
In this book, the author encourages readers to have faith and look to the God of second chances in everything they do. She takes readers through the journey of her own life and shows that with faith in God one can triumph over great adversities. She shares her shameful conception and challenging childhood. Her two near death experiences and an unexplained event that to this day still plays on her mind. She shares her highs as a young married woman in love and her lows as a single mother raising two children in a foreign land with no relatives to look to. She also highlighted strongly that is not where one starts in life but where they finish that will feature strongly in the story of their lives and the legacy that they will leave for the next generation. The author reassures readers that no matter how long they have to wait God have a plan for their lives and no matter how bad things get He will deliver them. He is a God that keeps His promises for a thousand generation.

Hip and Broke A Songwriter's Journey

Author: Katherine Rouse
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557107792
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Drama swirls around songwriter, KD Rouse, whilst she pays her dues. Photos, Artwork, Musings, Tales of Band Life, Song Lyrics chronical KD's adventures in the world of music on the way up.

Second Chances

Author: Alice Adams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671028499
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A wonderful portrait of friends who have shared their lives together for over 30 years, helping each other through all of life's ups and downs and testing the limitations of the heart.

Second Chances

Author: J. C. Carr
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450057780
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
JC Carr was born into a large family in Saint Louis, Missouri. After completing her history degree at Framingham State College in Massachusetts, her career took her from Boston back to her hometown. Through a variety of jobs in nonprofit organizations and the automotive industry, and now teaching English as a Second Language, she followed a path of serving and helping people. Sparked by her love for reading and writing JC began writing poetry in the midnineties. Her current writing projects include a screenplay and song lyrics that are being recorded with the collaboration of friends. A novel is planned for the future. JC resides in Saint Louis where she enjoys her twenty nieces and nephews.

Second Chance Act of 2005

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

A Culture of Second Chances

Author: David M. Newman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498553990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of redemption is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers the costs and constraints of second chances, paying particular attention to the factors that affect judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.

Second Chances

Author: Lynne M. Caulkett
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581125526
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The love of animals can touch our lives. Often we learn life's most valuable lessons from our four-legged friends. But sometimes that love is met with ruthless abuse, neglect and mistreatment. In this collection of uplifting stories for all ages, you will meet some remarkable horses who have lived through unthinkable pain and suffering, but because of some special "angels" who weren't afraid to get involved, have triumphed over the pain they endured to be given a "Second Chance". You will feel their pain and then celebrate their joy as they journey from abuse to the safety of loving hands and hearts. Their stories are nothing less than miracles, and their spirits are inspiring.

Second Chances

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children and adults
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description