Too Tough To Cry

Author : Paul Powers
Publisher : Harpercollins Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780006386612
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Tough to Cry written by Paul Powers and published by Harpercollins Pub Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seven, Paul (then known as LaVern) Powers lost the two most important things in his life: his mother and his puppy. What he didn't realize was that he had also lost something just as precious and irretrievable -- his childhood. Beaten by his father for crying over the death of his mother. LaVern vowed he would never cry again. For the next 13 years, despite an abusive and poverty-stricken family life which culminated in his murdering a woman for $500, the young man kept his promise, suppressing the fierce pain that welled from within. Too Tough to Cry is the remarkable story of how this bitter adolescent, a murderer and a petty thief, became Paul Powers, a successful children's evangelist, loving father and husband of Margaret Fishback Powers, creator of the famous Footprints poem and author of several bestselling Footprints books. This is a deeply transforming book the account of a man who, in an epiphany, discovered Jesus and a new way of living. Paul Powers tells his story with candor and courage, from his pain-filled childhood to his teenage years spent in reform schools and bars, to his difficult search for a true calling, finally encountering love, forgiveness and fulfillment in an innovative children's ministry and an understanding and supportive wife and family. A story that will deeply touch anyone who reads it, Too Tough to Cry is another powerful chapter in the Footprints story -- a phenomenon that continues to bring joy, hope and inspiration to people all over the globe.

Author : Paul Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863717694
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Tough to Cry written by Paul Powers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seven, Paul (then LaVern) Powers lost what was most important to him: his mother and his puppy. Beaten by his father for crying over his mother′s death, LaVern vowed he would never cry again. For the next 13 years, despite an abusive and poverty-stricken family life that bred violence in him and culminated in his murdering a woman for $500, the young man kept his promise, suppressing the fierce pain that welled within him. Too Touch to Cry is the remarkable story of how this bitter adolescent, murderer and petty thief discovered Jesus Christ and a life of love, forgiveness and commitment. He is now a successful children′s evangelist, loving father and the husband of Margaret Fishback Powers, creator of the famous Footprints poem and author of several bestselling books that have brought joy, hope and inspiration to people around the world.

Author : Irving Shulman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595144853
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cry Tough written by Irving Shulman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being released from the Elmira reformatory Mitch (the central character of Cry Tough) has two ways to go. He could return to his family who loved him dearly, find a job and marry the girl who loved him. His other choice is the flashy, dangerous life as a hood with big risks and big rewards- cars, women, rich food and fancy apartments. Would he settle for the security of a job and family or would he take the road from which there was no turning back? In a classic story, Irving Shulman presents the struggle of one man. The allure of his life in the underworld, the sobering reality of his home life, what he really loves, what he really wants and how each element in his fragmented reality draws on him.

Author : Jerry Falwell
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1939348455
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When It Hurts Too Much To Cry written by Jerry Falwell and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know the what of suffering, but we don’t always understand the why. Regardless of our age, ability, or attitude, we wonder what purpose it accomplishes. Is pain a part of some immutable law of the universe as is the law of gravity? Has it always existed? Will it continue to hound our steps as long as we live? Does it serve any good purpose? Some partial answers to these very basic questions will be attempted in the pages to follow—partial, I say, because the full reason for pain and suffering remains a dark, undeclared secret, locked in the bosom of God, to be revealed only on the other side of eternity. This book deals with the suffering experienced by the child of God. Such horrors as the Nazi holocaust, the starvation of millions of innocent children in the world, the horrors of war, or other tragedies demand their own explanations. Right now, let us limit ourselves to a discussion of pain and sorrow in the lives of believers

Author : Paul Hemphill
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Old to Cry written by Paul Hemphill and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1981 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaks of coming of age at mid-life; of chasing down fading rainbows; of reckonings and renewal, and, always, of hope.

Author : Shel Silverstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061965103
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Giving Tree written by Shel Silverstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

Author : Ali Cobby Eckermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921325243
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Afraid to Cry written by Ali Cobby Eckermann and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too Afraid to Cry is a memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. It is the story of a people profoundly wronged, told through the frank eyes of a child, and the troubled mind of that child as an adult, whose life was irretrievably changed by being tricked away from her family and adopted into a German Lutheran family. What makes this book sing is not only Ali Cobby Eckermann's strong and unique narrative voice and her ability to cut to the essence of things in her poetry, but also the astounding courage with which she leads the reader through the complex account of a life in free-fall and a journey to wholeness through reconnection with her birth family and its ageless culture and wisdom. This is a brave book, written by a woman who has faced her demons, transformed her suffering into a work of art, and found her true sitting place in the world.

Author : J F Scott
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 148364460X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yes, Little Boys Cry Too written by J F Scott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most autobiographies are about famous people. The difference between these people and myself is that my lifes story is a way to explain and share how two little boys lived a life of childhood abuse and the scars this abuse left behind. I did not write this book to feel sorry for myself but to inform others that, Yes, little boys cry too!!! Not enough information is documented on how many little boys and young men have been abused, which I find quite disturbing. However, every time I read a new statistic on the number of boys that have been and will be abused, the percentages keep going up and up. You must remember that in the past, we as boys, were taught never to cry and or to show emotions. Most of us hid the abuse and many still will not reveal what happened to them. Young girls and young ladies are by far the largest group of victims. However, I refuse to be swept under a rug about a situation past and present that leaves scars on all the victims. Yes, today, I can finally come out and say that my brother and I were both victims of verbal, psychological, the severest of physical abuse and yes, sexual abuse. I somehow survived these abuses but sadly my brother did not. He ended up committing suicide at a young age. Three days before his death he telephoned me to admit he was afraid of turning out like our abuser --our mother!. He was afraid he was becoming like her and did not want that life for the wonderful woman he had married and his 10 month old daughter. If one person reads this book and sees the signs of abuse and helps just one child, then I shall die happy knowing that this one child was spared. Also, this book has a meaning other than you feeling sorry for me, as I dont need nor want pity. Neither is this book where I want to air out my famililies faults and failures. To this day, I have never told a person about my young life. I chose to wait until all the people who had made my life a living hell had passed away. What inspired me to open up was an experience that happened to me about 5 years ago, I was living with my former partner in Buenos Aires, Argentina and one day he happened to pick up a folder of old pictures. In the folder were school photographs of me from around the age of first through 6th grade. I saw that he had the pictures spread over the dining room table and had this confused look on his face. Finally he spoke and said, Jim I need to ask you a question, Why in all these pictures do you have marks on your face? He went on pointing out that in each picture I had either a busted lip, scratches and even a black eye. I suddenly went into a panic mode. Somebody saw what I had kept hidden over 25 years and something I wanted to forget. I sat there for at least 2 hours and told him everything that had happened to me from starting my life in an orphanage until I was almost 3 years old and up to the present. The torture in my life did not end the day my Mother put me out of the house at 15/16 years old. My life still had more obstacles for me to face. I was then fighting my own sexuality, I didnt understand what was happening and sadly had not one person I could trust. I needed help and back in the late 60s and 70s there were no organizations available to help. An alternative life style in those days were not accepted anywhere! I was an outcast from what the world called normal and there was no alternatives. I remember boys getting the hell knocked out of them if they were even considered just a little too effeminate. I had my share of two such bullies has a kid and I didnt need that experience again. I realize that times have changed and through this wonderful thing called the media, my heroes in life have showed the public just the tip of the iceberg. Please dont fall in the trap of believing that since times have changed; people have. Today we have people like Oprah, Ricky Martin, and Ellen Degeneres who have brought this fact to the publics attention as w

Author : Lenore Terr
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786725710
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Scared To Cry written by Lenore Terr and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

Author : Paul Powers
Publisher : Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 9780842372862
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Tough to Cry written by Paul Powers and published by Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House. This book was released on 1990 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seven, Paul (then known as LaVern) Powers lost the two most important things in his life: his mother and his puppy. What he didn't realize was that he had also lost something just as precious and irretrievable -- his childhood. Beaten by his father for crying over the death of his mother. LaVern vowed he would never cry again. For the next 13 years, despite an abusive and poverty-stricken family life which culminated in his murdering a woman for $500, the young man kept his promise, suppressing the fierce pain that welled from within.