Author: Jeanette Lukowski Publisher: ISBN: 9780878396559 Category : Internet and teenagers Languages : en Pages : 0
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In April of 2009, Jeanette's fifteen-year-old ran away from home--to meet a man she met online. Jeanette recounts the events of that terrifying weekend, the subsequent police investigation, and the periodic anxieties of single-parenting.
Author: Publisher: Virago ISBN: 9781844082254 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
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Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example, that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and that the view of 'the women at home', ignorant and idealistic, was quite false. Many of these poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare, or the pain of lovers, brothers, sons lost. Poets include: Nancy Cunard, Rose Macaulay, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Edith Nesbit, Edith Sitwell, Marie Stopes, Katharine Tynan. Here, as elsewhere, 'the poetry is in the pity' - a moving record of women's experience of war.
Author: Erin Stewart Publisher: Delacorte Press ISBN: 1984848844 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction like Girl in Pieces and Every Last Word. Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl. Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her. A year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends--no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever. But when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone. Sarcastic and blunt, Piper isn't afraid to push Ava out of her comfort zone. Piper introduces Ava to Asad, a boy who loves theater just as much as she does, and slowly, Ava tries to create a life again. Yet Piper is fighting her own battle, and soon Ava must decide if she's going to fade back into her scars . . . or let the people by her side help her fly. "A heartfelt and unflinching look at the reality of being a burn survivor and at the scars we all carry. This book is for everyone, burned or not, who has ever searched for a light in the darkness." --Stephanie Nielson, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven Is Here and a burn survivor
Author: Lynn Rhys Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 246
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For my entire life, my weight and looks have been a hot topic of conversation with my family. I've never felt perfect, never felt like I was enough or even worthy of love. That all changed when I met my husband, Scott. I finally had someone that saw me for who I was, not a number on a scale. Or so I thought. But then my husband left me for someone more beautiful, someone skinnier. It broke me. Newly divorced and ready to find myself, I venture out into my single life. And everything was fine. Until, I met Dr. Nathaniel Bennett . Of course I was attracted to him, but he would never see anything in me. I was the big girl. I had flaws. Nothing could ever happen between us. I would never be pretty enough, skinny enough, to love. Trope content can be found on the authors website or in the prologue.
Author: Clement Tyav Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 250
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Life is full of unanswered puzzles. Keeping pace with it is a gamble no one wins all the time. We envision a better time but we don't normally get what we think we deserve. In spite of the numerous unanswered puzzles, you can decide where you want to be or decide to quit, its all up to you. The Scars of a Broken Heart is a real life romantic love story of a young man who found love he cherish and wish to adorn it with his own colors but never really gets what he wish he would have gotten. This is a story when you start to read, you'll never want to stop. It is erotic and on the edge seat graphic capture of events that gives you a clear real pictures of what you are reading.
Author: Haider Warraich Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1541675290 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 339
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A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t. He weaves a provocative history from the Renaissance, when pain transformed into a medical issue, through the racial legacy of pain tolerance, to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The conclusion is clear: only by reckoning with both pain’s complicated history and its biology can today’s doctors adequately treat their patients’ suffering. Trenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body.
Author: Tenisha Javon Peek Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
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During this powerful sensitive journey, no one is experiencing their scars alone. Whether they're uncovered or hidden, we're all searching for the light at the end of the tunnel. The Wounds from a Healing Heart will encourage and broaden your mind. Each passage can give you a different point of view. Allow this book to help you with any obstacle of life.
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