The Struggle Behind The Smile

Author : Sharonda Muse
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle Behind the Smile written by Sharonda Muse and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Struggle Behind the Smile is my autobiography. After 30 years of secrets weighing me down, I was lead to unleash them all on paper. I speak on the mental, physical, sexual, alcohol, and drug abused that I suffered from. I turned to everybody and everything to save me from the pain, when all alone the help that I needed was with me my entire journey.

Author : Anja Christoffersen
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504314603
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Smile written by Anja Christoffersen and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anja Christoffersen learned early on that you can never judge a book by its cover. Born with a congenital disability that deformed her digestive, skeletal, reproductive, circulatory, urinary and respiratory systems; she had her first surgery at five hours old. Despite a grim diagnosis, from the outside you would be unable to tell she was any different. You would never have known that at birth, the medical fraternity warned that she would never live a normal life. Once Anja grew to an age where she could understand her medical differences, she made the decision that she did not want an ordinary life anyway - she wanted an extraordinary one. As soon as Anja realised happiness is a choice, she made the decision she would be happy despite her circumstances. From surgical theatres to chasing her dreams led her to a career as an international fashion model. Join Anja as she walks the catwalks of Australia and Europe with her hidden medical condition, overcomes challenges and discovers how to keep smiling no matter what.

Author : Raina Telgemeier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545780012
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smile: A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Author : Bobby Herrera
Publisher : Bard Press
ISBN 13 : 1885167881
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Struggle written by Bobby Herrera and published by Bard Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Herrera has a simple leadership philosophy: -We all struggle. -Inside every struggle is a gift. -Leaders share their gifts with others. In The Gift of Struggle, Bobby Herrera, cofounder and CEO of Populus Group, lives that philosophy by telling the stories of his struggles, identifying the gifts he found, and sharing those gifts with you.

Author : Ritah Nalumansi
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 374876586X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE STRUGGLE written by Ritah Nalumansi and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lost her mother as a child, she now faces the pain of losing a father, and the torturing brought to her by her step mother. Wicked as she was, Pearl's step mother was unwilling to be a parent to her and her sister. At a young age she was exposed to the ruthlessness of the world. Choose this story to find out the twists and turns in Pearl's life as she struggled to protect herself and her sister, and how she fought to over come all obstucles in life to achieve her father's long lasting wish for her. In the end, justice prevails, and love conquers all.

Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812997484
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune Smiles written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Jeffrey J. Lange
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820326221
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smile when You Call Me a Hillbilly written by Jeffrey J. Lange and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in the South and was perceived by many Americans as “hillbilly music.” In Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly, Jeffrey J. Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music’s transformation from a rural, southern folk art form to a national phenomenon. In his meticulous analysis of changing performance styles and alterations in the lifestyles of listeners, Lange illuminates the acculturation of country music and its audience into the American mainstream. Dividing country music into six subgenres (progressive country, western swing, postwar traditional, honky-tonk, country pop, and country blues), Lange discusses the music’s expanding appeal. As he analyzes the recordings and comments of each of the subgenre’s most significant artists, including Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and Red Foley, he traces the many paths the musical form took on its road to respectability. Lange shows how along the way the music and its audience became more sophisticated, how the subgenres blended with one another and with American popular music, and how Nashville emerged as the country music hub. By 1954, the transformation from “hillbilly” music to country music was complete, precipitated by the modernizing forces of World War II and realized by the efforts of promoters, producers, and performers.

Author : Serife Yesilkaya
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479709379
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth Behind the Smile written by Serife Yesilkaya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on real-life story. This is a documentation of the life of a Kurdish girl, which reflects the struggle she faced and the people who were around her. This book is an example how one person with the will to live can overcome all obstacles.When death,rape,and poverty can´t stop your will to live,What will you do Although it seems greater than they are, it is filled with heartbreaking, thrilling, and sometimes impossible situations; it is a book that reveals the hidden secrets of many years of one's life struggle, through a roller coaster of emotions and spirituality. It will affect those that are in the story and compels the ones who read it, Read this book however you want, from the end or the beginning. You can go anywhere with this book or get one for someone special; it will give inspirations. To those who are going through a hard time, there will be several chapters that will relate to your life in some shape or form, or you might have some special interest in love, relationships, family, and friends, anything that you can think of in your life; perhaps you might be going through a rough time and overcoming a loved one's death. Feel free to go there first. Let this story help you grow and develop your mind, and it might help you with your future dreams by associating yourself with the relevant situations in your life. You might be able to make better decisions; for example, take a look at others who make better choices, people that can teach us the greater things about life and direct us to the right path so we can choose our lifestyle wisely. This book is my life. I am so grateful to write the stories of my life to be able help people in hard, crazy times. I am certain that this book will be your best friend; it will carry you through the weakest moments you feel.

Author : Monique La'Lerae Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524602741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind Every Smile written by Monique La'Lerae Davis and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to an individual some can be define as a statistics while others are made to stand out backing up the definition of unique. statistics says I should have died, statistics says i was supposed to suffer from down syndrome. Statistics says i wouldn't be able to walk or talk, statistics told my mom to prepare to bury a child but our GOD said otherwise. Every statistics that was thrown at me never prospered instead, the exact opposite happened and what the doctors didn't expect to happen had fortunately actually happened. However i struggled with a disability but not how others assumed I'd struggle for it was more of a mental struggle then a physical struggle. although I'm labeled as a disabled person my appearance may, will, shall fool you and throughout this book (and more to come) it will tell you why you should never judge a book by its cover regardless of who or what a person may appear to be for looks can, will be deceiving.

Author : Raina Telgemeier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545852536
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guts: A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face -- and conquer -- her fears.