Author: Heather Grossman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781720128540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This is the riveting and inspirational true story of Heather Grossman, made a quadriplegic by her ex-husband who hired hit men to murder her--but who miraculously survived and battled back for justice, and who has become a vibrant national voice for victims of domestic violence.Written in her own unique voice, with remarkable clarity and recall of events, people and detail, Heather Grossman's harrowing memoir, PARALYZED IN PARADISE, is a testament to the power of the human will and spirit unlike anything else you will ever read. It is funny, shocking, horrible, compelling, inspiring, and.hard to put down. Now living a happy and productive life with her family--her parents and her children-- Heather has been a tireless speaker and consultant on domestic violence issues and a mentor and resource for many who suffer with catastrophic spinal injuries. She has produced a book of truth, real-life horror, and redemptive faith. The national news media has covered the dramatic incident of her near murder at the behest of a former husband: including an episode of CBS's 48 Hours/Mystery: The Puppet Master and the Oprah Winfrey Network's The Devil You Know: Evil in First Class. Focusing to a great degree on the aftermath of the brutal incident and the ex-husband's attempt to escape justice, the popular documentaries did not fully portray the intimate details of Heather's early and later experiences through two marriages and a life that was so nearly cut off when she was still a young woman with such a bright future ahead of her.
Paralyzed in Paradise
Author: Heather Grossman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781720128540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This is the riveting and inspirational true story of Heather Grossman, made a quadriplegic by her ex-husband who hired hit men to murder her--but who miraculously survived and battled back for justice, and who has become a vibrant national voice for victims of domestic violence.Written in her own unique voice, with remarkable clarity and recall of events, people and detail, Heather Grossman's harrowing memoir, PARALYZED IN PARADISE, is a testament to the power of the human will and spirit unlike anything else you will ever read. It is funny, shocking, horrible, compelling, inspiring, and.hard to put down. Now living a happy and productive life with her family--her parents and her children-- Heather has been a tireless speaker and consultant on domestic violence issues and a mentor and resource for many who suffer with catastrophic spinal injuries. She has produced a book of truth, real-life horror, and redemptive faith. The national news media has covered the dramatic incident of her near murder at the behest of a former husband: including an episode of CBS's 48 Hours/Mystery: The Puppet Master and the Oprah Winfrey Network's The Devil You Know: Evil in First Class. Focusing to a great degree on the aftermath of the brutal incident and the ex-husband's attempt to escape justice, the popular documentaries did not fully portray the intimate details of Heather's early and later experiences through two marriages and a life that was so nearly cut off when she was still a young woman with such a bright future ahead of her.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781720128540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This is the riveting and inspirational true story of Heather Grossman, made a quadriplegic by her ex-husband who hired hit men to murder her--but who miraculously survived and battled back for justice, and who has become a vibrant national voice for victims of domestic violence.Written in her own unique voice, with remarkable clarity and recall of events, people and detail, Heather Grossman's harrowing memoir, PARALYZED IN PARADISE, is a testament to the power of the human will and spirit unlike anything else you will ever read. It is funny, shocking, horrible, compelling, inspiring, and.hard to put down. Now living a happy and productive life with her family--her parents and her children-- Heather has been a tireless speaker and consultant on domestic violence issues and a mentor and resource for many who suffer with catastrophic spinal injuries. She has produced a book of truth, real-life horror, and redemptive faith. The national news media has covered the dramatic incident of her near murder at the behest of a former husband: including an episode of CBS's 48 Hours/Mystery: The Puppet Master and the Oprah Winfrey Network's The Devil You Know: Evil in First Class. Focusing to a great degree on the aftermath of the brutal incident and the ex-husband's attempt to escape justice, the popular documentaries did not fully portray the intimate details of Heather's early and later experiences through two marriages and a life that was so nearly cut off when she was still a young woman with such a bright future ahead of her.
Welcome to Paradise
Author: Mahi Binebine
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1935639285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Mahi Binebine's courageous novel delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation. Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants gather one night near the Strait of Gibraltar to wait for a signal from a trafficker that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold: Kacem Judi is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate and striking portrait of human desperation.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1935639285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Mahi Binebine's courageous novel delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate glimpse into the difficulties facing asylum seekers and a striking portrait of human desperation. Mahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be immigrants gather one night near the Strait of Gibraltar to wait for a signal from a trafficker that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold: Kacem Judi is an escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything. Welcome to Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news, delivering a compassionate and striking portrait of human desperation.
This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775414833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775414833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Can't You Get Along with Anyone?
Author: Allan C. Weisbecker
Publisher: Bandito Books, LTD.
ISBN: 0979711703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence ofIn Search of Captain Zero,most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering,Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise,Weisbecker chronicles the bizarre and convoluted circumstances that drove him from his adopted home in Costa Rica.
Publisher: Bandito Books, LTD.
ISBN: 0979711703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence ofIn Search of Captain Zero,most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering,Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise,Weisbecker chronicles the bizarre and convoluted circumstances that drove him from his adopted home in Costa Rica.
Godshot
Author: Chelsea Bieker
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
“Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women . . . Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed." —T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying for. Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mouse collection than her own granddaughter. As Lacey May endures the increasingly appalling acts of men who want to write all the rules and begins to uncover the full extent of Pastor Vern’s shocking plan to bring fertility back to the land, she decides she must go on a quest to find her mother no matter what it takes. With her only guidance coming from the romance novels she reads and the unlikely companionship of the women who knew her mother, she must find her own way through unthinkable circumstances. Possessed of an unstoppable plot and a brilliantly soulful voice, Godshot is a book of grit and humor and heart, a debut novel about female friendship and resilience, mother–loss and motherhood, and seeking salvation in unexpected places. It introduces a writer who gives Flannery O’Connor’s Gothic parables a Californian twist and who emerges with a miracle that is all her own. “[A] haunting debut . . . This is a harrowing tale, which Bieker smartly writes through the lens of a teenager on the cusp of understanding the often fraught relationship between religion and sexuality . . . It's a timely and disturbing portrait of how easily men can take advantage of vulnerable women—and the consequences sink in more deeply with each page."—Annabel Gutterman, Time “Drawn in brilliant, bizarre detail—baptism in warm soda, wisdom from romance novels—Lacey's twin crises of faith and femininity tangle powerfully. Fiercely written and endlessly readable, a novel like this is a godsend. A–.”—Mary Sollosi, Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
“Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women . . . Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed." —T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying for. Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mouse collection than her own granddaughter. As Lacey May endures the increasingly appalling acts of men who want to write all the rules and begins to uncover the full extent of Pastor Vern’s shocking plan to bring fertility back to the land, she decides she must go on a quest to find her mother no matter what it takes. With her only guidance coming from the romance novels she reads and the unlikely companionship of the women who knew her mother, she must find her own way through unthinkable circumstances. Possessed of an unstoppable plot and a brilliantly soulful voice, Godshot is a book of grit and humor and heart, a debut novel about female friendship and resilience, mother–loss and motherhood, and seeking salvation in unexpected places. It introduces a writer who gives Flannery O’Connor’s Gothic parables a Californian twist and who emerges with a miracle that is all her own. “[A] haunting debut . . . This is a harrowing tale, which Bieker smartly writes through the lens of a teenager on the cusp of understanding the often fraught relationship between religion and sexuality . . . It's a timely and disturbing portrait of how easily men can take advantage of vulnerable women—and the consequences sink in more deeply with each page."—Annabel Gutterman, Time “Drawn in brilliant, bizarre detail—baptism in warm soda, wisdom from romance novels—Lacey's twin crises of faith and femininity tangle powerfully. Fiercely written and endlessly readable, a novel like this is a godsend. A–.”—Mary Sollosi, Entertainment Weekly
Gates of Paradise
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439187762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Now a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone, and clinging to the frailest of dreams. Can Heaven’s daughter find the inner strength to survive? The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante…without the warm glow of Luke’s love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy’s cottage hidden in Farthinggale’s woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell…treacherous, powerful, and evil.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439187762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Now a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone, and clinging to the frailest of dreams. Can Heaven’s daughter find the inner strength to survive? The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante…without the warm glow of Luke’s love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy’s cottage hidden in Farthinggale’s woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell…treacherous, powerful, and evil.
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
Publication
If She Wakes
Author: Michael Koryta
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316293954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thriller writing (Stephen King). Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead -- but why? And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them? Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, Abby returned home after a disaster in Hollywood left an actor dead and her own reputation -- and nerves -- shattered. Despite the fog of trauma, she can tell that Tara's car crash was no accident. When she starts asking questions, things quickly spin out of control, leaving Abby on the run and a mysterious young hit man named Dax Blackwell hard on her heels. Full of pulse-pounding tension, If She Wakes is a searing, breakneck thriller from the genre's "best of the best" (Michael Connelly).
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316293954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thriller writing (Stephen King). Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead -- but why? And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them? Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, Abby returned home after a disaster in Hollywood left an actor dead and her own reputation -- and nerves -- shattered. Despite the fog of trauma, she can tell that Tara's car crash was no accident. When she starts asking questions, things quickly spin out of control, leaving Abby on the run and a mysterious young hit man named Dax Blackwell hard on her heels. Full of pulse-pounding tension, If She Wakes is a searing, breakneck thriller from the genre's "best of the best" (Michael Connelly).