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A Second Chance

Author : Jerome Rabow Ph.D.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532076657
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Second Chance written by Jerome Rabow Ph.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced murder mystery, Detective Joe Zuma returns from his vacation with his wife, Claudia, a landscape painter, and is met with the murder of two women, one of whom was a teacher at a private high school. Claudia lands a part-time job in the same school teaching art while continuing to paint landscapes of Santa Monica, a city adjacent to Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. A parent where Claudia teaches is eager to have her work with her child who is depressed because of the loss of her teacher (the victim) and her father. Zuma recognizes the parent as the suspect from an earlier crime whom Zuma believed had murdered her husband. Claudia’s painting interests are captured by the hobos who live on the bluffs in Santa Monica, an area adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. Her painting of a hobo is stolen, and its investigation leads to the uncovering of drug-selling connections between the hobo, his very rich and successful brother, the victim and her German-speaking parents, a principal and students, a homeless woman, as well as the murders of three of these characters. Interspersed between the solving of these murders is the romantic bantering of Claudia and the Bob Dylan–loving Zuma and their genuine love. The resolution to the previously unsolved murder involves the transformation of Zuma from a single-minded pursuit of justice to a delicate balancing of justice and mercy.

Trust First

Author : Bruce Deel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525538178
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Trust First written by Bruce Deel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we choose to trust unconditionally, how many lives could we change? When Pastor Bruce Deel took over the Mission Church in the 30314 zip code of Atlanta, he had orders to shut it down. The church was old and decrepit, and its neighborhood--known as "Better Leave, You Effing Fool," or "the Bluff," for short--had the highest rates of crime, homelessness, and incarceration in Georgia. Expecting his time there to only last six months, Deel was not prepared for what happened next. One Sunday, he was approached by a woman he didn't know. "I've been hooking and stripping for fourteen years," she said. "Can you help me?" Soon after, Bruce founded an organization called City of Refuge rooted in the principle of radical trust. Other nonprofits might drug test before offering housing, lock up valuables, or veto a program giving job skills and character references to felons as "a liability." But Bruce believed the best way to improve outcomes for the marginalized and impoverished was to extend them trust, even if that trust was violated multiple times--and even if someone didn't yet trust themselves. Since then, City of Refuge has helped over 20,000 people in Atlanta's toughest neighborhood escape the cycles of homelessness, joblessness, and drug abuse. Of course, trust alone can't overcome a broken system that perpetuates inequality. Presenting an unvarnished window into the lives of ex-cons, drug addicts, human trafficking survivors, and displaced souls who have come through City of Refuge, Trust First examines the context in which Bruce's Atlanta neighborhood went downhill--and what City of Refuge chose to do about it. They've become a one-stop-shop for transitional housing, on-site medical and mental health care, childcare, and vocational training, including accredited intensives in auto tech, culinary arts, and coding. While most social services focus on one pain point and leave the burden on the poor to find the crosstown bus that'll serve their other needs, Bruce argues that bringing someone out of homelessness requires treating all of their needs simultaneously. This model has proven so effective that a dozen new chapters of City of Refuge have opened in the US, including in California, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. More than a narrative about a single place in time, this radical primer for behavioral change belongs on every leader's shelf. Heartfelt, deeply personal, and inspiring, Trust First will break down your assumptions about whether anyone is ever truly a lost cause. Bruce will donate a portion of his proceeds from Trust First to the charitable organization City of Refuge.

Second Chance

Author : Mary E. Ghilani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598843591
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Second Chance written by Mary E. Ghilani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A certified career counselor provides practical tips and strategies to help midlife career changers identify the best career-change options, update their resumes, interview with confidence, and successfully find jobs. As the definition of work and retirement continues to evolve, those at midlife have more opportunity than ever to design the jobs they have always wanted. Second Chance: How Career Changers Can Find a Great Job shows how it's done. Starting with an overview of midlife, retirement trends, and the benefits of older employees, the book details both the issues involved in making a career change and the career options available to career changers. Expert career counselor Mary E. Ghilani helps readers analyze why they want to change their career, develop a change plan, and explore the best career options for their particular circumstances. Readers will discover how to find a new job using the latest technology, how to effectively market oneself to potential employers, how to upgrade a resume, and how to improve interviewing skills. Self-reflective exercises; tips on finding a job in a tight economy; and helpful career, educational, and employment resources round out this comprehensive guide.

The Garden of Second Chances

Author : Mona Alvarado Frazier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684632056
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Second Chances written by Mona Alvarado Frazier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Angie Thomas, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jenny Torres Sanchez Juana's life has taken a dark turn. Accused of her husband’s death, she's now a seventeen-year-old mother, alone and undocumented in a prison cell. No one believes her when she claims she's innocent, not even the prison staff or the gang leader in her block who torments her relentlessly. Her only solace is in her baby, but as Juana struggles to survive the dangers lurking in prison, the threat outside grows even more terrifying. Her husband's furious family wants to take the child away. With no hope in sight, Juana discovers a glimmer of light in a small patch of earth in the prison yard. As she nurtures the plants, memories of her mother's strength and resilience surface, pushing Juana to fight for her freedom and her daughter's future. This is a story of courage, hope, and determination in the face of impossible odds.

Second Chances

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300277296
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Second Chances written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that we try to reproduce it again and again. Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from Oedipus Rex to Hamlet, explore the realization or failure of second chances—outcomes that depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone. Through a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter. Both Shakespeare and Freud believed that we can narrate our life stories as tales of transformation, of momentous shifts, constrained by time and place but often still possible. Ranging from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter’s Tale, and from D. W. Winnicott to Marcel Proust, the authors challenge readers to imagine how, as Phillips writes, “it is the mending that matters.&rdquo

Second Chance

Author : Ruth Rosengarten
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800643772
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Second Chance written by Ruth Rosengarten and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays. Evocative objects reflect our attitudes to our own lives and how we seek to display ourselves to ourselves. They are therefore, closely linked to our memories, and how we filter, process and reconstruct them. Rosengarten explores the themes and associations invoked by her own evocative objects, which are frequently shabby things of no material value. They are, importantly, often objects that, in their materiality, bear traces of actions, of something-having-been. Through the associative pathways that these objects have paved, she discusses her experiences with the losses she has undergone, her family’s migrations, and what it means to be a childless woman. This leads her to address the question of what will become of her storied objects and the memories attached to them when she is no longer in existence. This memoir offers an interdisciplinary approach to collecting and compiling fragments of one’s life, paying close attention to the evocative objects that embody us. In doing so, these essays explore loss, memory, childlessness, longing, family history, literature and art theory through material entities which reveal the immaterial ‘things’ at the heart of this study. This book is sure to be of interest to anyone stimulated by memory work and the relationship between humans and their possessions

Second Chance SEAL

Author : Sharon Hamilton
Publisher : Frog Haven Press
ISBN 13 : 1945020792
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Second Chance SEAL written by Sharon Hamilton and published by Frog Haven Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navy SEAL Damon Hamblin’s life is in turmoil after he’s served with divorce papers during his last deployment. He crashes into a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town to drown his sorrows and just fade into the background, where no one knows him and he can drink, surf and lay out on the beach until his insides heal. The last thing he wants is to rebound into another relationship. Martel Long came to Sunset Beach five years ago to visit a friend, and never left. She’s tried to forget the man who broke her heart back home, and had been doing a good job of it, until she comes face to face with him at a Bachelorette party for her best friend at a local beach bar. As sparks fly and old wounds are torn open, the sands at Sunset Beach help to heal a beautiful love story that could have been, and will be again.

The Lost Art of True Beauty

Author : Leslie Ludy
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736937102
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of True Beauty written by Leslie Ludy and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensuality equals beauty—that’s what today’s young women are learning from our sex-obsessed society. Millions of 20somethings are caught up in trying to look like fashion models, movie stars, or the hottest new pop singer and end up plagued by insecurity, eating disorders, and sexual promiscuity. Bestselling author and speaker Leslie Ludy (Set-Apart Femininity and Authentic Beauty) shares a different vision for feminine loveliness as God intended it to be—the breathtaking radiance of a young woman who has been transformed by Christ from the inside out. With candid personal stories, practical advice, and inspiration, Leslie leads young women on a life-changing journey to become women of feminine grace, beauty, and enduring style. Leslie inspires girls toward inner changes but also talks about practical social grace and manners, how to dress beautifully, and even how to create a warm and lovely environment in the home. Clearly, true beauty is more than skin deep.

The Glass Hotel

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525521151
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Hotel written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. “The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Love's True Second Chance

Author : Jeff Dawson
Publisher : Jeff Dawson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's True Second Chance written by Jeff Dawson and published by Jeff Dawson. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Debbie and I for the love of a lifetime. From the halls of high school, to the joys of her accepting my class ring. Journey farther through a terrible break-up and the chance encounters in college where the wounds from the past still haven't healed. And finally, after thirty years, a reunification that will embark on the most intense love affair I could have ever imagined and the lessons in life, I had all but forgotten. In the end, is “true love” worth a Second Chance even if it means a tragic end? The answer is an emphatic YES! Get your copy today and join us as we journey down memory lane.

No Second Chances

Author : Kate Graham
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772602191
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book No Second Chances written by Kate Graham and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As of September 2021, only thirteen women had reached Canada’s top political posts: elected or appointed provincial premier or prime minister. They have represented three major political parties and served across provinces and territories from coast to coast to coast. But, as professor and provincial candidate Kate Graham discovered, there are concerning similarities in their stories: women tend to reach the top only in challenging political circumstances; they last in the top job for about half as long as men do; and, when they run for re-election, they lose. No Second Chances shares the stories of the rise and fall of women in Canada’s most senior political roles and examines the obstacles that prevent more women from reaching for and achieving these goals. Based on interviews conducted for the Canada 2020 No Second Chances podcast, Graham provides readers with a rare glimpse into the lives of female political leaders, from the perspectives of the women who know this story best.

Second Chance

Author : Christy Reece
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345517768
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Second Chance written by Christy Reece and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Working for Last Chance Rescue, Cole Mathison has been to hell and back. But being responsible for the death of an innocent man is a hell like no other. Longing for redemption, Cole finds himself embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of Keeley Fairchild’s young children. Rescuing the children is his mission—but falling in love with the widow of the man he inadvertently killed was never in the plans. When Keeley’s life is threatened, Cole’s demons must take a backseat to the most important mission of his life. He might never know the heaven of Keeley’s arms, but he’ll never survive the hell of failing to save her.

Stay With Me

Author : Campbell Linden
Publisher : Campbell Linden LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stay With Me written by Campbell Linden and published by Campbell Linden LLC. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sexy, Stranded Together, Second Chance, Starting Over, Later In Life, Standalone Romance from Author Campbell Linden. He's a successful true-crime writer and single dad. She's a public relations guru, recently divorced mother of two adult children. A forgetful mistake leads to a bumpy meet-cute and instant attraction. Now they want to live happily ever after...if only their families will get on board. Evelyn ("Evie") Randall Marron has always gone after what she wanted in life and business. Now that she's recently divorced, she's ready to start over and is excited to see where life takes her. Right now, it's taking her on a yoga retreat in Italy with her best friend. What she didn't expect was to meet the most gorgeous and charismatic man she's ever known after crashing into his very expensive car. Widower and single dad Ford Alcott is a successful true-crime writer and sometime movie script doctor, who is raising his 10-year-old son in an Italian villa outside of Rome. Ever since his wife died, his focus has been on their son, leaving little time for dating. But when Evie crashes into his life the instant attraction leads to a relationship that crosses continents and time zones, and he's willing to put in the work for this once-in-a-lifetime love. When family disapproval of their intense love comes to a head, do Ford and Evie have what it takes to show that love conquers all? Can they find a way to stay?

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Author : Menna van Praag
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749021055
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Letter Writing written by Menna van Praag and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a forgotten nook of Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite pens wait for the next person who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the love, despair and desire they feel to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. Clara knows better thanmost the power a letter can have to turn a person's life around, so when she discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of on a profound journey of her own.

The Networking Playbook

Author : Darryl L. Howes
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1637421907
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Networking Playbook written by Darryl L. Howes and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your career headed where it needs to go? Don’t sit back and wait for things to happen! Design your career and deliver your life! People networking must be an essential element of any professional and personal development program. Your success proceeds from building valuable relationships that advance your life project and supercharge the achievement of your goals. This book will give you the confidence to succeed and the tools, frameworks, and expert tips to deliver on your career objectives: Why your direction of travel matters and how to develop a values-based route map to get there. How to structure your networking to maximize success. How to craft and deliver your key messages to hit home every time. Why building mentor and advocate networks is important and how to engage supporters in your project. Whether you are a first-time or experienced networker The Networking Playbook will provide the skills required for success, allowing you to plan and control your future. Introducing valuable insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology, it’s the one career advice book that puts you in charge of successful networking!

Second Chance

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307566803
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Second Chance written by Danielle Steel and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As editor-in-chief of New York’s leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan and Europe—until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office. A widower with two daughters, John was as conservative as Fiona was freewheeling, both amused and appalled by her world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, Fendi-stuffed closets, and Sir Winston, her snoring bulldog. But after Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, she let him into her heart. And within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston—and Fiona was making room in her closets. It didn’t take long for the dominoes to start falling. First, John introduced Fiona to his hostile daughters and their bloodthirsty Pekingese and snarling housekeeper. Then, after a disastrous dinner party with John’s biggest client, Fiona and John’s relationship began to unravel with alarming speed. What happens next will set Fiona on a journey filled with pain, revelation, and awakening. When she risks everything and returns to Paris alone, an extraordinary series of events begins to unfold. And as the snow falls on the city of light, the curtain will rise on a second act Fiona never saw coming. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships, Danielle Steel captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change—and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again.