Bag Lady

Author : Alexandra Penney
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 140139499X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady Papers written by Alexandra Penney and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2008, my worst nightmare came true . . . How do you pick yourself up after the one thing you most feared happens to you? Alexandra Penney's revealing, spirited, and ultimately redemptive true story shows us how. Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to therapy in an attempt to alleviate the worry that all she had worked for could crumble. And then, one day, that's exactly what happened. Penney had taken a friend's advice and invested nearly everything she had ever earned--all of her savings--with Bernie Madoff. One day she was successful and wealthy; the next she had almost nothing. Suddenly, at an age when many Americans retire, Penney saw her worst nightmares coming true. Based on her popular blog posts on The Daily Beast, this memoir chronicles Penney's struggle to cope with the devastating financial and emotional fallout of being cheated out of her life savings and illuminates her journey back to sanity, solvency, and security. "I will work harder than I ever have before--which was pretty hard indeed--and see what happens. I have the feeling something good will come of it: tough, challenging work and laserlike focus have always paid off for me. . . . Was it better to have it and then lose it? Yes, yes, yes! Even though I lived with horrible bag lady fears of losing it all, now that those financial fears have materialized, I'm in pretty good shape and looking to what's next. Experiences -- good and bad, exciting and boring, tragic and absurd -- make up a life. Not to have lived to the fullest is the saddest, most irresponsible life I can think of." --- from The Bag Lady Papers

Author : Carol Leonard SeCoy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450220568
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady War written by Carol Leonard SeCoy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of fending off street thugs and worried about the day they can no longer take care of themselves, three elderly widows, Josie, Mabel and Mil, concoct the perfect plan for ensuring their safety, which will also guarantee them free room and board for life. As grocery bag-covered bodies begin turning up in Southern California, police and the media are stumped. Detectives assigned to the case, Paige Turner and Mark Wisneski, wonder what weird new serial killer is on the loose. The victims are mostly drug addicts and small-time crooks, but why the grocery bags? The bodies pile up until the widows invite Turner and Wisneski to tea, where they tell all. What they reveal shocks the world and could lead to the widows' master plan seriously backfiring. Life on the streets and in prison will never be the same.

Author : Phd Mdiv Cpc Sandra Jenkins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557591007
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After Hell: Reflections of a Bag Lady written by Phd Mdiv Cpc Sandra Jenkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a real life transformational process, using a variety of techniques, including psychology, spirituality and life's experiences. That is, any transformed grief-stricken life possesses meaning and usefulness, and can be a powerful approach to positive psychology, vision and leadership.

Author : Liela Fuller
Publisher : Jadora's Child Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780996128995
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bag Lady written by Liela Fuller and published by Jadora's Child Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a reason they are where they are. Everyone has a story and this is the story of Bag Lady, a successful woman eager to enter into the next dimension of life holding onto the baggage she picked up along the way. The question is how will she ever make it to the next dimension carrying the weight of so much and so many? Bag Lady is a short story written by author and journal creator Liela Marie Fuller.

Author : Marie James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphan Girl written by Marie James and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shopping-bag Lady written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children laugh at the lady who pokes into all the trash around until the day they find out why.

Author : Miranda Paul
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
ISBN 13 : 1541596617
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Plastic Bag written by Miranda Paul and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! The inspiring true story of how one African woman began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her community. Plastic bags are cheap and easy to use. But what happens when a bag breaks or is no longer needed? In Njau, Gambia, people simply dropped the bags and went on their way. One plastic bag became two. Then ten. Then a hundred. The bags accumulated in ugly heaps alongside roads. Water pooled in them, bringing mosquitoes and disease. Some bags were burned, leaving behind a terrible smell. Some were buried, but they strangled gardens. They killed livestock that tried to eat them. Something had to change. Isatou Ceesay was that change. She found a way to recycle the bags and transform her community. This inspirational true story shows how one person's actions really can make a difference in our world.

Author : Sandra Benítez
Publisher : Benitez Books
ISBN 13 : 0977484807
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bag Lady written by Sandra Benítez and published by Benitez Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa D. Foster
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803411678
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bag Lady written by Lisa D. Foster and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billion plastic bags a day. That’s how many bags Americans were throwing away in 2005 when Lisa D. Foster first switched to reusable bags. The impacts of all those bags on our environment and our taxes kept her up at night. It was wrong. Morally wrong. She believed that if American shoppers knew what she knew, they would switch to reusable bags too. So, she did what any good English teacher would do. She took the facts about bags and turned them into a story. Over the next 12 years, that story transformed Lisa into the Bag Lady, an eco-entrepreneur on a mission to save the world one reusable bag at a time. Because she was driven by purpose, she did a lot of things right. She sold a quarter of a million reusable bags her first year, 2 million her second year, and 8 million her third year. Each reusable bag had the potential to replace a thousand single-use bags, collectively eliminating billions of plastic bags. Lisa also did a lot of things wrong. One out of ten startups fail, and odds are worse for people like her with no business experience or training. In the end, she built a thriving company, disrupted the plastic bag industry and changed the way America shops. It was a wild ride.

Author : Yolanda Taylor Bonner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449095143
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady written by Yolanda Taylor Bonner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety of issues of each character keeps you captivated. Janet Coates-King Could not wait to read the next chapter to see what would happen....sign of a great read. Erica Roberson Stay Strong my Sisters Recognize the God in yourself-treat yourself with Respect. "Bag Lady I am your salvation; trust in me and do not be afraid. I am your strength and your song. (Isaiah 12:2)