Etched In Sand

Author : Regina Calcaterra
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062218840
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Etched in Sand written by Regina Calcaterra and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina’s rising above her past, while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together through it all. Beautifully written, with heartbreaking honesty, Etched in Sand is an unforgettable reminder that regardless of social status, the American Dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.

Author : Mr. Jimmy Wayne
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718021851
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walk to Beautiful written by Mr. Jimmy Wayne and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn’t just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especially teenagers in foster care who are about to age out of the system. Walk to Beautiful is the powerfully emotive account of Jimmy’s horrendous childhood and the love he received from Russell and Bea Costner, the elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the chance to complete his education. Jimmy says of Bea, “She changed every cell in my body.” This moving memoir chronicles: Jimmy’s life as a foster child and homeless teenager His adoption by Russell and Bea Costner, an elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the opportunities for him to thrive His surprising rise to fame in the music industry His tireless advocacy for children in the foster care system through his Meet Me Halfway awareness campaign, a 1,700 mile walk halfway across America from Nashville to Phoenix Join Jimmy on his walk to beautiful and see how one person really can make a difference.

Author : K.J. Bishop
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553900838
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Etched City written by K.J. Bishop and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Combine equal parts of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Chine Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you’ll get some idea of this disturbing, decadent first novel.”—Publishers Weekly Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just—and lost—causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselves immersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles begin to bloom . . . “The plot, with its stories-within-stories and its offhand descriptions of wonders and prodigies, brings to mind the works of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.”—Locus

Author : Susan Blackaby
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580893503
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nest, Nook & Cranny written by Susan Blackaby and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tongue-in-cheek sonnets to lyrical free verse, this collection of poems explores the many kinds of home animals make for themselves. Readers will meet better-known animal dwellings like the spiderweb and the bird's nest as well as the more unusual: a fawn's thicket bed, a hare's bowl-shaped ground nest, and a sea anemone's ever-changing tide pool home. Readers experience different habitats—desert, grasslands, shoreline, wetland, and woodland—and the animals that build their dwellings there. Jamie Hogan's expressive line art complements this clever anthology. Back matter provides more information on the highlighted habitats, poetic forms, and the writing process.

Author : Karuna Riazi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481486985
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gauntlet written by Karuna Riazi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that’s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair. Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet… It didn’t look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked…elegant. It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images—a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider—and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand. The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.

Author : Denise A. Hines
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483315509
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Violence in the United States written by Denise A. Hines and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in scholarly references and case materials, Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse, Second Edition by Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison is a thought-provoking book that encourages students to question assumptions, evaluate information, formulate hypotheses, and design solutions to problems of family violence in the United States. Using an ecological framework, the authors provide an informative discussion of not only of the most well-recognized forms of maltreatment in families, but also of less understood and more controversial issues such as husband abuse, parent abuse, and gay/lesbian abuse. It reviews and evaluates major efforts at intervention and prevention.

Author : Diane Chamberlain
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 0369719735
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lies We Told written by Diane Chamberlain and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain. Risks and rewards. Sisters and secrets. A riveting tale of family gone wrong. Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that’s where the sisters’ similarities end. After a devastating hurricane hits the coast of North Carolina, Rebecca urges Maya to join her in the relief effort. It turns out to be just what Maya needs—but then her helicopter crashes into raging floodwaters, there appear to be no survivors. Forced to accept her sister is gone, Rebecca turns to Maya’s husband Adam—first for comfort, then in passion. Unaware that, miles from civilization, Maya is injured and trapped with strangers she’s not certain she can trust. Now Maya must find the courage to save herself—unaware that the life she left has changed forever. Previously published.

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451635818
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Lines written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek Oliver's freedom.

Author : Karen Hamilton
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488034974
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Wife written by Karen Hamilton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this domestic thriller by the author of The Perfect Girlfriend, a woman fulfills her late friend’s last wish only to uncover a terrifying web of lies. Nina and Marie were best friends—until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her final wishes. But her mistake was in thinking Marie was someone she could trust. What Nina didn’t know was that Marie always wanted her beautiful life, and that Marie has an agenda of her own. She’ll do anything to get what she wants. Marie thinks she can keep her promise to her friend’s family on her own terms. But what she doesn’t know is that Nina was hiding explosive secrets of her own . . . “[A] gripping thriller . . . Everybody has a nasty side, but that’s just one of the pleasures of this cunning whodunit. A devious plot is another. Hamilton knows how to keep the pages turning.” —Publishers Weekly “If there ever was a story about being careful what you wish for, this is it. A phenomenal read!” —Hannah Mary McKinnon, international bestselling author of Sister Dear “I could not tear myself away as Marie claimed the life of her dead friend Nina with devastating consequences. This is a five-star, one-sitting read.” —Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of Rattle

Author : Lynnette Bonner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942982050
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Written in the Sand written by Lynnette Bonner and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years ago, a fist not only tore away the last tattered threads of Riley Ross's ability to trust another human being with her heart, but also stole any chance she would ever have of carrying another child. Since she wouldn't ask any man to walk through that grim reality with her, she's made a decision not to start any relationships. So when she arrives to pick up her younger brother from his soccer practice and sees that Jalen Rivera is his new coach, she knows she's in for a battle. Because if ever there was a man who could tempt her to forget her vow, it was Jalen. She'd managed to resist him once, could she find the selflessness to do so again? Jalen can't believe his good fortune when he learns that Riley still isn't seeing anyone. But convincing her to give them a chance might be more difficult than he anticipated. Can he prove to her that true love is not written in the sand, but is etched into a foundation stone that is bigger than either of them?