Author: Enid Futterman
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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A woman's journey across the world in search of sex and chocolates. She is Charlotte of New York whose amours leave her hungry for chocolates because "women crave chocolate when they fall in love with longing." The novel includes recipes for deserts and addresses of famous chocolatiers. A debut in fiction.

Author: Ruth Hegarty
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234149
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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A sequel to the award-winning memoir Is That You Ruthie?, which chronicled Ruth Hegarty's childhood story, this book begins with Ruth's courtship while she was an inmate of Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission, followed by her marriage and family life outside the mission and eventually in Brisbane.

Author: Mary Ann Figures
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 142697373X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Donnitta Figures (best known as Muggie) had big dreams. She dreamt of graduating from high school, buying a car, renting an apartment, and attending college. But before she realized most of those dreams, Muggie died. For years, she had suffered from an illness inherited from her father's side of the family, but her family thought the symptoms were being treated and managed by medicine. Muggie's death devastated her family, especially her mother, Mary Ann Figures, who felt the two were as close as sisters. In this memoir, Figures provides her personal testimony on how she dealt with her daughter's sudden death. " Bittersweet Journey " narrates how reading the Bible helped Figures deal with the gamut of emotions she experienced-grief, loneliness, fear, and guilt. Honest and emotional, " Bittersweet Journey " discusses the challenges one mother faced after the death of her child and how she overcame them and developed a closer relationship with God. It shows how she was able to reclaim her life and start living in the now.

Author: Nancy L.Martinez
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496938372
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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The journey from darkness to light has many different meanings for individuals. This book documents poetic sketches of feelings of myself from a very young age and portrays the human journey of finding light, truth, and peace through Jesus Christ. Although you may not have the same beliefs, Jesus Christ Himself is not a religion. He offers miracles and peace beyond imagination. This book is not intended to be an invitation to religion but rather a view of how the darkest of lives can be transformed into happiness and tranquility through Jesus. The transformation from darkness to light is obvious throughout the struggle described, and every poem has a scripture from the Holy Bible that provides insight and answers. If you read this book, you will see the transformation from deep despair to walking in the light of Christ.

Author: Shilpa Gupta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788129135148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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'I took the test and prayed for the colour of the lines on the strip to stay as they were. But they did not. The test was positive. I felt my entire world come crashing down around me.' Meet Ananya Sharma, not your regular, teenage girl-next-door. Sure, she loves hanging out with her friends and engaging in whispered confidences at sleepovers, but when it comes to boys, she has competition on her mind rather than romance. At school, she is passionate about math and the sciences, and completely focussed on cracking the IIT entrance exams. But when distraction enters her life in the form of the handsome and charming Rohit, Ananya discovers love, longing and betrayal, all at once. Finding herself pregnant at the age of seventeen, she learns that the world is a very different place once you are on its wrong side. The discovery of the fault lines in her parents' relationship-which until then had seemed perfect to her-further breaks her. Will Ananya be able to reverse the downward spiral that her life has plunged into and find meaning once again? In this wonderfully stark and honest portrayal of a teenager's life, Ananya: A Bittersweet Journey has managed to encapsulate an entire generation's struggle of growing up in today's often troubled times.

Author: Jane Gross
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307596680
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in A Bittersweet Season As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them. Avoid hospitals and emergency rooms, as well as multiple relocations from home to assisted living facility to nursing home, since all can cause dramatic declines in physical and cognitive well-being among the aged. Do not accept the canard that no decent child sends a parent to a nursing home. Good nursing home care, which supports the entire family, can be vastly superior to the pretty trappings but thin staffing of assisted living or the solitude of being at home, even with round-the-clock help. Important Facts Every state has its own laws, eligibility standards, and licensing requirements for financial, legal, residential, and other matters that affect the elderly, including qualification for Medicare. Assume anything you understand in the state where your parents once lived no longer applies if they move. Many doctors will not accept new Medicare patients, nor are they legally required to do so, especially significant if a parent is moving a long distance to be near family in old age. An adult child with power of attorney can use a parent’s money for legitimate expenses and thus hasten the spend-down to Medicaid eligibility. In other words, you are doing your parent no favor—assuming he or she is likely to exhaust personal financial resources—by paying rent, stocking the refrigerator, buying clothes, or taking him or her to the hairdresser or barber.

Author: Tsh Oxenreider
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736985530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Celebrate A Season of Renewal and Reflection The theme of bitterness runs through the Bible as a sour reminder of sin’s presence in our world—yet it’s because of this bitterness that Jesus’ grace is so sweet and satisfying. As we learn to turn from our vices and crave real beauty, goodness, and truth through the pursuit of virtues, we grow nearer to God and become more like who He made us to be. From Tsh Oxenreider, bestselling author of Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent, arrives a devotional to help you meditate and rejoice in the transcendent miracle of Easter. You will… uncover what it means to participate in the liturgical traditions of Lent, from fasting to almsgiving experience artwork and music that illuminate the impact—both personal and global—of Jesus’s death and resurrection contemplate the wonder of Christ’s redemption of all humankind, especially as this time of introspection reveals your human limitations Starting on Ash Wednesday and leading you all the way through Holy Week, Bitter and Sweet is an invitation to better understand Jesus’s sacrifice as you delight in His ultimate love for you.

Author: Carrie Bender
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781881545408
Category : Amish
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Annie and Steven Petersheim live on their farm in a young Amish settlement in Tennessee. They read together a story of Mennonite settlement in Ontario, Canada.

Author: Shauna Niequist
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0310328160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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A personal memoir explores the intertwined natures of happiness and sadness, discussing how bitter experiences balance out the sweetness in life and how change can be an opportunity for growth and a function of God's graciousness.

Author: Susan Cain
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780241300688
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Loss and impermanence are inescapable, part of the warp and weft of our lives. They are essential to love, to growth, and to art. And yet, too often, we do not acknowledge loss, let alone honour the experience of it. Illuminating, thoughtful, and deeply necessary, Susan Cain's new book will help us to name and value the experience of loss, pointing the way toward ways of being and rituals that help us to accept it rather than bury it. Blending memoir, reportage, and social science, it will reveal that joy and loss exist in equilibrium; that vulnerability, or even a melancholy temperament, can be a strength; and that embracing our inevitable losses makes us more human and more whole.