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When reclusive artist Jill Moncrieff's childhood friend Cooper is falsely accused of a crime, she is forced to return to the stifling world of wealth and privilege she escaped years earlier, after the death of her husband. Cooper needs legal advice, and that counsel comes in the form of the best lawyer Jill can find. Hotshot attorney Peter Hathaway is big city, big name and big money--everything Jill rejected years ago. She knows she needs his help,...
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Have you ever gone through a traumatic experience that you mentally didn't know how to process what happened after it was over? Did the experience make you bitter or better? So many of us have remained broken on the inside from our traumatic experiences and it's time to change that by healing what's broken on the inside of us. You will need to forgive, exhale, acknowledge your feelings and emotions, learn to love yourself all over again from scratch...
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At 23 years old, a fresh-faced Danish girl, heads to London to become an au pair - with only a small suitcase and her dreams in hand. In mysterious ways she's guided headlong into the glamour and shadows of the pop music world. When her marriage crumbles, she finds herself at ground zero with her two young boys. Jette feels alone and lost. Can she reimagine her life? Is there a path to healing and wholeness?
Told with grace and style, sparkling with...
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Through My Eyes is a deeply personal, raw, and vulnerable book that shares depression's ruthless impact and how to find light amidst profound darkness. Author Lisa B shares her story in hopes that it will uplift, motivate, and inspire you to discover the strength you need to take your life back from mental illness and its painful grasp.
For Lisa B, writing this book was a challenge. It required her to explore pain, struggle, and plenty of demons....
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Half poetry in a variety of circumstances, half short stories from serious to funny, both true and fiction.
"To my Valentine,
The Lord directed me to you
At first I thought, how can this be!
But, over the years, I've found the truth
That part of you, was part of me".
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A collective account of trials and tribulations in my life. The sum of events I have seen and have been through. The time a span of several years of going through a rough time, to lose all that I had and the kind of people I encountered along this journey. Much of what I wrote are true feelings from what I had endured, which was not an easy road to be on; let alone find a way off this road. Most of the poetry is from a time in a dark place, but I...
10) Through My Eyes
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Very few combatants, also known as grunts, have been willing or able to share their view of the life-long memory that still keeps them wondering if the dreams and nightmares will ever end. This is an expensive story to write in terms of personal emotion; to walk through that year again so others can sense, feel and understand what it's like to be a soldier, in the field, taking orders along with his buddies and making every effort to get their deadly...
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A moving, fictional account of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing...
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Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and as a top prospect in the NFL. Now, in Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey, he shares the behind-the-scenes details...
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My name is Christian. Come and learn to ski together with me!
I promise you it will be great fun!
First of all, not all children are born in the city and not all children go on a ski vacation with their parents without knowing how to ski.
Some children are born in the mountains and for them it is like baby's milk. The little boy below, Alex, is only two years old. The little girl is even younger.
I was at the time living in the city of Salzburg...
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Live Through My Eyes is an inspirational poetry collection from the perspective of an African American woman striving for healing, growth and ultimately, transformation after personal tragedy. Expressed through themes of relationships and identity, Mishon Moore gives readers a glimpse of pain, emptiness and triumph experienced in overcoming the trials of life.
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We love many people in many ways. And, we never forget the trails we went through in finding love. Remember your first kiss? The passion and emotions that rippled through your body. Stirring emotions that words can't even begin to describe. Remember the heartache of losing that love? Then finding the strength to trust and love again.
Love through my eyes will take you on a ride of love, and then some.
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The subject of this book concerns the author's reflection on his life of over eighty years. From a humble beginning, mainly in a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, the author weaves an interesting story of a life guided by principles gleaned from both of his parents and his faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Growing from childhood to adulthood, the author outlines his experiences as he moves from school, to life as a teacher, to his tertiary...
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You might be wondering why this child is writing the story of her life down. There's nothing interesting in a little "farm girl's" life story or her view on how messed up the world is. You may be right. I'm not a big, wise person. However, I felt like I had a lot of things I needed to get off my chest, and also, when I was younger, I kind of wished I knew of someone similar to my age now, who was ready to speak about certain things with a freshly...
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This book begins with the story of a young boy, Rem Vandenberg, who was born in 1937 in the Netherlands just before the onslaught of the Second World War. His youth was a struggle to exist under the German occupation and in combating the depravation of poverty. Added to these hardships was the ongoing personal battle he fought daily in accepting the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church which were heavily imposed on him by the uncompromising adult...
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