My Godawful Life

Author : Sunny McCreary
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780752265599
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Godawful Life written by Sunny McCreary and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kept in a bird-coop by his parents, Sunny McCreary endured a childhood of neglect, abuse and being bullied by pigeons, only to find it was all downhill from there. In the course of the most painful life ever, he survived tragedy and maiming, a savage convent school education, being pimped out in pink-satin hot pants, a degrading addiction to helium, and having a baboon's arse grafted onto his face. Then things got really bad. More horrible than A Child Called It, more heartrending than Ugly, more repulsive than the Alastair Campbell diaries, My Godawful Life is the misery memoir to end all misery memoirs and the feel-bad book of the year. "At last, a book to satirise the endless parade of misery memoirs. I seized upon this like manna from Heaven ... A glorious overload of dysfunction." Sue Baker, Publishing News

Author : Bruce Duffy
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307742865
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disaster Was My God written by Bruce Duffy and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Rimbaud burst onto the literary scene in 1871 with a startling new voice, transforming himself from an anonymous country boy into the sensation of Paris. His explosive life included a passionate affair with the older (and married) poet Paul Verlaine, and a prosperous career as a trader and arms dealer in Ethiopia. A cancerous leg forced him to return to France, where he died at the age of thirty-seven. Bruce Duffy takes these astonishing facts and brings them to vivid life in a story rich with humor, exquisite writing, and alarming parallels to our own contemporary moment. Disaster Was My God vividly conveys, as few works ever have, the inner turmoil of this calculating genius, and helps us understand why Rimbaud’s work and life continue to influence protean rock legends, from Bob Dylan to Patti Smith.

Author : Rev. Johnnie Moore
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718011198
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life? written by Rev. Johnnie Moore and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Johnnie is an author whose writing has personally touched my life.” —Willie Robertson, CEO of Duck Commander “What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?” It’s a question we’ve all asked and if it isn’t hard enough it seems that our desires for our life and God’s are diametrically opposed, continually at odds. But what if the question wasn’t so difficult? What if finding God’s will was easier than you thought, and what if living it brought you more joy than you ever imagined? Highly acclaimed author and speaker, Johnnie Moore, helps you find the simple answer to one of life’s most persistent and difficult questions, “What are you supposed to do with your life?” Herein is the great secret of the will of God: The will of God is more about who you are than where you are or what you do. You don’t find it, you become it. So it’s time to stop making excuses, and to start turning the particular dials of history that are yours to turn. We need you. God has given you a dream that could change the world. It’s your choice whether you will give it a whirl.

Author : Amy Suardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Beautiful Terrible Pandemic Life written by Amy Suardi and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poetic diary recounts one mother's struggle to contend with the pandemic's losses and accept its gifts. When the coronavirus threatened to take away everything, Amy Suardi began to record a life that suddenly felt more precious. Amidst the distress of lockdown and the trials of finding herself running a school with her five children, it was often the ordinary domestic moments that were the most poignant. Suardi's journal-keeping, in the form of micro-memoirs, poems, and short essays, turned into a discovery of hidden beauty and how even the smallest things can be openings into deeper, larger worlds. Originally published on her webpage Painting with Words, these pieces bring together the first seven months of the pandemic and include Suardi's experience of marching for racial justice, witnessing high school end for her daughter without prom, graduation, or even hugs, and dropping her off at a hollowed-out Covid-era college campus. Sometimes light-hearted, sometimes meditative, Suardi's writing has been noted for its "gentleness intertwined with intensity of emotion" and its "keen perception of the moment observed." Whether the works are read individually or together, this genre-defying collection creates a pointillist portrait of one woman's experience of what was lost in the pandemic, and perhaps most of all, what was found.

Author : Mike Donehey
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0525652817
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding God's Life for My Will written by Mike Donehey and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA BESTSELLER • The lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for award-winning contemporary Christian band Tenth Avenue North shows readers that by seeking God first and focusing on serving Him, we can live daily in His will. "Perhaps God isn't giving me the plan because He wants to be the plan." This was the aha moment for Mike Donehey after years of wrestling with his obsession to know God's specific plans for his life. He came to the realization that waiting for absolute certainty from God before making decisions may seem uberspiritual, but it can lead to a life of intense stress, paralyzing fear, and crushing regret--just the opposite of the freedom granted to those living a Christ-filled life. "This is my story...how I gave up begging to know God's will and began to ask His life to come and change my will." With his signature humor and relentless hunger for God, Mike will show you that discovering the Father's purpose and plan for our lives is not the shell game that we all too often make it out to be. If you're unsure what to do next, take heart and accept the ultimate invitation: learn to see God as the plan, not simply the formula to the plan.

Author : Alexandra Kuykendall
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493404970
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving My Actual Life written by Alexandra Kuykendall and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel Satisfied with Who and Where You Are In a world of comparison and discontent, it can feel impossible to be happy with life as we know it. Other people seem to have it all together, to be finding success, to be having more fun. But we weren't meant for a life characterized by dissatisfaction. In this entertaining and relatable book, Alexandra Kuykendall chronicles her nine-month experiment to rekindle her love of her ordinary "actual" life. After wiping her calendar as clean as a mother of four can, Kuykendall focuses on one aspect of her life each month, searching for ways to more fully enjoy her current season. By intentionally adding one thing each month that will make her jump for joy, she provides a practical challenge women can easily replicate. With humor, poignancy, and plenty of personal stories, Kuykendall weaves together spiritual themes and practical application into a holy self-awareness, showing women how a few small changes in their routines can improve their enjoyment of this crazy-busy life. Endorsement "If you ever get the chance to read anything written by Alexandra Kuykendall, take it. She is a gentle, trustworthy storyteller who lives the words she writes about."--Emily P. Freeman, author of Simply Tuesday

Author : Jocelyn Zichterman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250026261
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Fired God written by Jocelyn Zichterman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling memoir and investigation into the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse. With written documentation and sources, Zichterman exposes the IFB with new revelations.

Author : Michael Youssef
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780785271031
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If God is in Control, why is My Life Such a Mess? written by Michael Youssef and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encouraging look at why bad things happen to good people and God's compassion for the spiritually exhausted.

Author : Eric Fischl
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770435572
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Boy written by Eric Fischl and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all that Fischl had achieved. In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses the impact of his dysfunctional family on his art—his mother, an imaginative and tragic woman, was an alcoholic who ultimately took her own life. Following his years as a student at Cal Arts and teaching in Nova Scotia, he describes his early years in New York with the artist April Gornik, just as Wall Street money begins to encroach on the old gallery system and change the economics of the art world. Fischl rebelled against the conceptual and minimalist art that was in fashion at the time to paint compelling portraits of everyday people that captured the unspoken tensions in their lives. Still in his thirties, Eric became the subject of a major Vanity Fair interview, his canvases sold for as much as a million dollars, and The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of his paintings. Bad Boy follows Fischl’s maturation both as an artist and sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his legacy and place among museums and collectors. Beautifully written, and as courageously revealing as his most provocative paintings, Bad Boy takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been seen before.

Author : Myha Luong
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781723128400
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Lovely Life written by Myha Luong and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myha Luong partners up with National Bestselling Author Angela Stanton to give a raw, riveting account of what it takes to survive. Reality Television Star "Lovely MiMi" from Love and Hip Hop Atlanta Season 6 gives us a look into her personal life, the good, the bad, and the ugly on how she made her claim to fame. Her story begins in a refugee camp located in the Philippines after that horrific ordeal her family safely escapes to America where Myha spends most of her teenage years partying, drinking, making terrible decisions, and living in group homes and detention centers. Myha opens her life for public view as she illustrates the guts that it takes to survive on the streets of Silver Springs, Maryland. "Lovely MiMi" is an amazing free-spirited woman married to "Remytheboss" and mother to Juice and Jay. Myha and her husband Remy are the proud owners of ultraviolet Hair and Nail Salon in Atlanta, GA where they reside with their two children.