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Author: Philip R. Mitchell Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1684092094 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 414
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On a warm August evening, Phil drove his '56 Chevy down Interstate 96 heading for home. He had completed the last of the coursework required for his college degree and as his headlights brightened the road ahead, he felt he was at a boundary separating stages of his life: college and work. Two emotions surfaced for him--appreciation and disgust. He thought about the education he was completing. From kindergarten through high school and college, he benefited from public education. He had worked hard to learn and earn for college expenses but still felt gratitude for the majority of the costs borne by the taxpaying citizens. He wanted to pay back with some form of community service. The advice of President Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country" gave him the direction he sought. He would apply to be a Peace Corps volunteer where his training as a math teacher surely would be needed. Now his thoughts turned to his dissatisfaction with his dating behavior. The sexually exploitive manner he had been treating girls and women since his high school days was dissonant with the image he portrayed to the public. A fresh start away from his home and country could provide the setting to engineer a wholesome and just manner to behave in a relationship. The phrase "Get thyself to a nunnery" popped into his head. So the Peace Corps would be his pathway to dealing with these twin goals. He was eager to talk to his parents and to set his plan into action. The murder that fall of President Kennedy saddened him and the nation to the core but renewed his resolve to go forward. Peace Corps training at UCLA was more rigorous than he'd imagined. It was like cramming a college education into four months. It was made even more difficult by his falling in love with his Spanish-speaking language assistant shortly after he began preparing to teach in Ecuador. Beatriz was just what he had visualized as a life companion. What follows is a pair of journeys over two years as these lovers try to find a way to maintain and enhance their desires over a distance of thirty-five hundred miles and countless cultural barriers that seemed to say "no" at every turn.
Author: Philip R. Mitchell Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1684092094 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 414
Book Description
On a warm August evening, Phil drove his '56 Chevy down Interstate 96 heading for home. He had completed the last of the coursework required for his college degree and as his headlights brightened the road ahead, he felt he was at a boundary separating stages of his life: college and work. Two emotions surfaced for him--appreciation and disgust. He thought about the education he was completing. From kindergarten through high school and college, he benefited from public education. He had worked hard to learn and earn for college expenses but still felt gratitude for the majority of the costs borne by the taxpaying citizens. He wanted to pay back with some form of community service. The advice of President Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country" gave him the direction he sought. He would apply to be a Peace Corps volunteer where his training as a math teacher surely would be needed. Now his thoughts turned to his dissatisfaction with his dating behavior. The sexually exploitive manner he had been treating girls and women since his high school days was dissonant with the image he portrayed to the public. A fresh start away from his home and country could provide the setting to engineer a wholesome and just manner to behave in a relationship. The phrase "Get thyself to a nunnery" popped into his head. So the Peace Corps would be his pathway to dealing with these twin goals. He was eager to talk to his parents and to set his plan into action. The murder that fall of President Kennedy saddened him and the nation to the core but renewed his resolve to go forward. Peace Corps training at UCLA was more rigorous than he'd imagined. It was like cramming a college education into four months. It was made even more difficult by his falling in love with his Spanish-speaking language assistant shortly after he began preparing to teach in Ecuador. Beatriz was just what he had visualized as a life companion. What follows is a pair of journeys over two years as these lovers try to find a way to maintain and enhance their desires over a distance of thirty-five hundred miles and countless cultural barriers that seemed to say "no" at every turn.
Author: Richard Williams Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1925030415 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 295
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The fascinating, revealing, and in-depth memoir of Richard Williams, a self-made businessman, tennis coach, and father to two of the greatest athletes of all time—Venus and Serena Williams. Richard Williams had a grand plan for his daughters long before either of them was born, and he went so far as to write a plan for his family’s future. His mind was set on raising two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis. Arguably, he executed his plan with laser-like precision. But the source of his vision and the method behind it have remained relatively unknown—until now. In this inspiring memoir, he reveals the full story of his stubborn determination to beat the odds and fulfill his dreams for his family. Born into poverty in Shreveport, Louisiana in the 1940s, Richard was blessed by a strong, caring mother who remained his lifelong hero, just as he became hero to Venus and Serena later on. From the beginning of his life, Richard’s mother taught him to live by the principles of courage, confidence, commitment, faith, and love. He passed the same qualities on to his daughters, who grew to love their father and value the lessons he taught them, contrary to public rumors. “I still feel really close to my father,” says Serena. “We have a great relationship. There is an appreciation. There is a closeness because of what we’ve been through together, and a respect.” A self-made man, Richard has walked a long, hard, exciting, and ultimately rewarding road for seventy years, surmounting the many challenges to raise a loving family and two of the greatest tennis players who ever lived. Black and White is the extraordinary story of that journey and the indomitable spirit that made it all possible.
Author: Deanna Lynette Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452023476 Category : Languages : en Pages : 318
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Who said growing up in a Christian family would be drama free? Apparently you've never met the Spencer family. Kennede, Summer, Brandi and Brianna are close cousins' dealing with numerous issues from rape to infidelity to abuse; and that's just the beginning. Kennede Johnson: the oldest and the first of the foursome to get married at the age of eighteen, along with having her first child a year later. But soon after Kennede turned 22 her seemingly "perfect life" was destroyed and she was newly divorced. Although her ex has moved on, she can't deny her feelings for him. Summer Parker: the naive one that also has very low self-esteem. Because of her poor self-image, Summer has been in an abusive relationship for six years; while everyone including her childhood friend tries to help her escape the dangerous hands of her violent boyfriend. Brandi and Brianna Wright are twin sisters that come from a broken dysfunctional home. Brandi is the outgoing and more open twin who was once a stripper that now helps her longtime drug dealing boyfriend raise his 4 year old son. But the pain from her days of stripping has now come back to haunt her as an adult. Finally there's Brianna who is the quiet and creative twin that keeps dating all the wrong men, that's until she meets Dr. Hamilton. Shortly after their first meeting, she falls deep in love with the "good doctor" despite the fact that he's almost 20 years her senior and married. When Brianna decides to break things off, she soon discovers she is pregnant and is now forced to make a critical decision. How will this group of young women deal with the changes that come along with each passing Season?
Author: Sam Horn Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1466824344 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 326
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“Draws on the Zen concept of mindfulness as a means to calm the frenzied mindset that often accompanies contemporary life.” —Publishers Weekly If you ever feel cluttered, scattered, distracted, unfocused, disorganized, preoccupied, overwhelmed, out of control, out of your mind . . . you can change your life. ConZentrate shows you how to master the art of paying attention, in thirty-five clear, practical, simple ways. Whether it’s how to focus on a tedious task when the office is buzzing around you, or how to stop procrastinating, or how to keep your home from being a place of overwhelming clutter—or even how to tackle the challenges of A.D.D.—Sam Horn’s user-friendly book will inspire you to learn how to conzentrate, and discover the key to peak performance. “Fascinating, thought-provoking, and motivating. I highly recommend this remarkable book on mind mastery.” —Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
Author: ARLEY PINO Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462847188 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 211
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Johnny Eagle, an Apache Indian and Charley a white boy, become best of friends at the age of eight. They survive the” Great Depression,” extreme prejudice because Johnny is an Indian, intimidation by an infl uential lawyer and his crooked sheriff, because they witness a murder that involved the lawyer. The boys and their families are threatened with harm if they mention to anyone what they have seen. Charley moves to California at the age of thirteen. Years later they meet again when Charley now in the military recruits Johnny for the military intelligence. Johnny becomes famous with other agents because of his skills. Disappointed in the people our government put in charge to replace the corrupt people we overthrew, both men leave the military in 1955. Charley marries and raises a fine family. Johnny returns to the mountains he loves and becomes almost a legend to the mountain people he helps.
Author: Luke Smith Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1394176945 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 405
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Be your own financial planner and create a winning strategy to achieve your money goals Do you want to learn and apply the strategies that experts use to grow and protect wealth? In Smart Money Strategy, popular financial planner Luke Smith comprehensively reveals the principles, methods and tactics that real financial planners use with their clients. Every person’s—and every family’s—financial journey is different. There’s no silver bullet or one-size-fits-all approach. But there are financial strategies that can be applied, no matter what stage you’re at in life, to get your money working harder for you with less stress. Smart Money Strategy will help you to define your priorities and create a personalised, actionable plan to achieve your goals. You’ll learn effective strategies to manage your income, reduce your debts, and maximise your investment, superannuation and retirement outcomes. Even better, you’ll learn how different strategies can be stacked together for maximum benefit. In other words, you’ll learn how you can stack the financial odds in your favour! You’ll discover: The basics: 5 truths about money and the 5 foundations you need to get started The actual strategies used by financial planners when it comes to cash flow, risk assessment, investing, protecting wealth, retirement, and estate planning How smart planning can minimise fees and taxes on your investments How to combine your money strategies and put together your own detailed financial plan From adopting a money mindset to protecting your assets, with Smart Money Strategy you’ll uncover the secrets to achieving your financial goals. Whether you want a hands-on DIY approach, or you’re looking for the essentials you need to talk more confidently with your own financial planner, this book will help you create a tailored plan for growing your wealth.
Author: Fiona Hodgkin Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1780882211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 393
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In The Tennis Player from Bermuda, Fiona Hodgkin tells the story of her short but spectacular career as an amateur tennis player in the early 1960s. Fiona met Claire Kershaw, the number one woman tennis player and twice a Wimbledon champion. Claire was an imp. To get Fiona into the qualifying round for Wimbledon, Claire makes a comical, tongue-in-cheek offer to the mysterious Committee that runs the Championships at Wimbledon. Fiona and Claire quickly become best friends - as well as rivals on the brilliant green grass tennis courts of Wimbledon. Against the backdrop of the London social season, the tennis competition at Wimbledon, and the tennis fashions designed by the irrepressible Teddy Tingling, Fiona has two love affairs, one of which Fiona ends forever - or perhaps she doesn't.
Author: Raewyn Caisley Publisher: Lothian Children's Books ISBN: 0734413777 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 61
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TENNIS STAR is the story of twelve-year-old Nathan Taylor, who everybody says looks like his hero Richard Krafter. After unexpected success at the District Final, Nathan begins to take himself a little too seriously. On and off court, Nathan’s attention-seeking and aggressiveness begins to alienate his friends and disappoint his family. Soon he must decide what the most important things are about tennis, and life – playing to succeed at any price, or playing for the love of the game and the friendship it fosters ... From Raewyn Caisley, the acclaimed and established author of TOP MARKS, IN UNION, HOT SHOT, QUEEN’S CUBBY, FREE STYLE and GREAT LEAD, comes another book in the popular Junior Sports Series.
Author: Philip R. Mitchell
Author: Philip R. Mitchell
Author: Richard Williams
Author: Deanna Lynette
Author: Sam Horn
Author: David W. Smith
Author: ARLEY PINO
Author: Luke Smith
Author: Fiona Hodgkin
Author: Simon Ramo
Author: Raewyn Caisley