Close Enough to Perfect

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Publisher : L.L. Press
ISBN 13 : 0999843230
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Close Enough to Perfect by : Dan Williams

Download or read book Close Enough to Perfect written by Dan Williams and published by L.L. Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Harmond moves from his small hometown, where he worked on his father’s ranch, to a bigger city for college. In his cowboy boots and hat, he immediately feels out of place but he refuses to let his reluctance get the better of him - he’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime! He’s been given a full-ride scholarship thanks to his affinity for math. One of the stipulations to receive the scholarship is that he join his college’s Gamma Sigma Gamma fraternity chapter. They’re not the kind of people he would usually be around, but he needs the scholarship - farming can’t pay his tuition. He endures the ribbing given by his fellow pledges and the frat brothers, and he also befriends a sorority sister, Rosanna, a popular cheerleader. Rick also meets Rosanna’s roommate: Lorraine, whose double-leg amputation has confined her to a wheelchair. Lorraine, a former cheerleader in high school, has become withdrawn, even standoffish, since her accident. And she has good reason to be defensive: Every day she gets looks of pity, looks of disgust, and hears people talking behind her back, thanking God they’re not in her position. Rick is intrigued by her and finds an opportunity to get to know her: He can help her with her algebra assignments, and she can help him with his English assignments. But soon word of his friendship with Lorraine gets back to the leaders of Gamma Sigma Gamma and a meeting is called: Rick, as well as his fellow pledges, are told they are not to associate with undesirable people because it reflects badly on Gamma Sigma Gamma. Rick then finds himself in an impossible situation - he doesn’t want to stop seeing Lorraine but the consequences set his world on fire. How can he remain Lorraine’s friend but also afford to stay in college?

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"Close Enough to Perfect by Dan Williams is the story of anyone who has ever been outside of the 'In' crowd for any reason. Williams has created strong characters which will resonate with our own struggles about staying true to ourselves; our values; and how we interact with others along the way. I found myself cheering on Rick Harmond as he steps out of his comfort zone and into a culture that is too self-absorbed to even notice its bad manners (or even flat-out rudeness). During this tumultuous upheaval, he has to make extremely hard choices and finds almost too late what is most important to him."
-Jeff Dillard, Amazon customer, 5-star review
"(Williams) has taken the subjects of disability and difference and written about them so that anyone could see themselves in the place of the character. He then evolves the characters to be more than they thought they could be. It is an engaging story with likable characters which also happen to be real. A great read."
-Di Davis, Amazon customer, 5-star review
"I liked the very accurate portrayal of a young woman going through experiences in high school and college as an amputee. The brutal honesty of how the public deals with her new body and how she deals with it herself...Great work, descriptions and dialogue."
-Deborah, Amazon customer, 5-star review

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

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Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0593193539
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die by : Sarah J. Robinson

Download or read book I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Holding On

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Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625161115
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Book Synopsis Holding On by : Jo Evans Lynn

Download or read book Holding On written by Jo Evans Lynn and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in rural South Carolina and urban North Carolina, in the novel Holding On: A Parable of Faith and Strength, we watch Sister Fullmore emerge through a very untypical childhood to become a very untypical woman. The book begins on her first day of school, where we see hints of the smart, sassy young woman she becomes. From a father who drinks his family into a life of poverty, to brothers who leave her to fend for herself, Sister's expectations for the male population are pretty low. Somehow, it seems the men in her life live "down" to those expectations. Her Grandma Hester tells her, "Pick your man, don't let a man pick you. That way you know what you're getting." Her mother's advises, "Don't fall in love with a man just because of his looks unless he has enough money to buy you a house." In all her sixteen years of living, Sister hasn't met one man who tempted her to forget that advice. Then she meets a fine piece of chocolate manhood named Joe Ervin Evans... A liquor house wasn't a place where a man figured on meeting the woman of his dreams, and finding a wife was the last thing on Joe's mind that night. Until he meets Sister, his smile has never failed to make a woman's heart melt. Undaunted by her seeming lack of interest in him, he sets out to convince this pretty little woman that she is going to be his.

In the Rearview Mirror

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463468229
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Rearview Mirror by : Jerry W. "Slats" Jackson

Download or read book In the Rearview Mirror written by Jerry W. "Slats" Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hearts of the people depicted in this book are for the most part as pure and white as the drivcn snow. Well, most of the time anyway. There is little malice in their blunderland, you might say (but probably wouldnt). Take, for example, my friend Jack Weldons well-meaning but flawed odyssey when he guided much like Moses his innocent Lubbock High Schoo classmates on their senior trip to Sligo, Texas, a host town that turned out to be sort of a ghost town. The school board members, you see, had mandated that it be a day trip no longer than a certain number of miles from Lubbock because, in their wisdom, they reasoned that an overnighter would surely result in half the class returning home as mothers-to-be. So Jack simply took a compass with a pointy end that he placed on Lubbock, calibrated how far he could go with the circles outer extremity to conform to the school boards edict, and settled on Sligo. It turned out to be a disaster, despite Jacks having tried his best to avert such an outcome. But you nevertheless must admire him for trying. There are certain other anticdotes that came along in Lubbock and elsewhere that are described in somewhat sordid detail in this collection of newspaper columns that I hope will evoke a tear or two not in sadness but hopefully in joy as I delve into occasional supercilious silliness while exploring some of lifes foibles that have cropped up along the way. And as you, dear reader, travel lifes byways, please always be cognizant of my old Uncle Bens deeply thought-out truism which is, to wit, that it takes a mighty big dog to weigh a ton. -- Jerry W. Slats Jackson

Progression of Sight

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468551167
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Book Synopsis Progression of Sight by : Naphtali “D’Cre” Anderson

Download or read book Progression of Sight written by Naphtali “D’Cre” Anderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progression Of Sight is a poetic journey. It is the walk though the growth and life of a man, but written in a way that all can relate to it. Though the story is truly captured if read from start to finish, each poem stands strong in their own right. The journey starts out with a brief introduction to who your traveling partner is and then right into the jungle. Progression Of Sight takes you first inside the heart of a defeated struggling soul. Soon you will feel and see the strength and faith begin to build as you continue forward. You will then arrive to the soul of an overcoming warrior ready to face all challenges. The journey is finished off with a hard look at the world we live in today, and the challenges we all face. Progression Of Sight has poetry that touches a great variety of emotions from hate to love, disbelief to conviction, fear to confidence. The journey is truly a roller coaster for the soul. I hope you have your bags packs because it will be an ride like no other.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One Edition

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One Edition by : Mark Twain

Download or read book The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One Edition written by Mark Twain and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 15298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Introduction The Last American Frontier – History of the 'Far West', of the Pioneers & Trailblazers Story of the Cowboy Story of the Outlaw Novels & Stories Riders of the Purple Sage Saga (Zane Grey) Ohio River Trilogy Dan Barry Series (Max Brand) The Virginian (Owen Wister) Lin McLean Leatherstocking Series (James F. Cooper) Flying U Series (B. M. Bower) Cabin Fever Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) Bucky O'Connor (William M. Raine) Breckinridge Elkins Series (Robert E. Howard) In a Hollow of the Hills (Bret Harte) Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood) Gold Hunters Last of the Plainsmen Border Legion Smoke Bellew Country Beyond Lone Star Ranger Ronicky Doone Trilogy Riders of the Silences Three Partners Man of the Forest Lure of the Dim Trails Tennessee's Partner Covered Wagon (Emerson Hough) Luck of Roaring Camp Rustlers of Pecos County Pike Bearfield Series Hopalong Cassidy (Clarence E. Mulford) O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) My Ántonia Roughing It (Mark Twain) Outcasts of Poker Flat Call of the Wild (Jack London) Heart of the West (O. Henry) White Fang Log of a Cowboy (Andy Adams) Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer) Short Cut (Jackson Gregory) Astoria (Washington Irving) Ungava (R.M. Ballantyne) Valley of Silent Men Black Jack Bull Hunter "Drag" Harlan (Charles Alden Seltzer) Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West Sheriff's Son Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman) A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo) Boss of the Lazy Y Trail Horde Rider of Golden Bar (William P. White) Buck Peters, Ranchman Tangled Trail Golden Dream (Ballantyne) Gun-Brand (James B. Hendryx) Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane) Long Shadow Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) Hidden Children (Robert W. Chambers) Where the Trail Divides Iron Trail (Rex Beach) Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge)...

Farmer's Advocate and Home Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Impostures

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479810568
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Impostures written by al-Ḥarīrī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation. An English-only edition.

Pacific Rural Press

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Work Your Mind and Not Your Behind

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465347321
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis Work Your Mind and Not Your Behind by : Kevin Johnson

Download or read book Work Your Mind and Not Your Behind written by Kevin Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly is a young girl who is growing up in a single family home. Despite her mother being a dancer, she has a purpose for life. She s a typical young girl growing up in Washington DC trying not to let mundane things distract her while trying to be a positive influence on her friend Trina.

Youth's Companion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Woman's Home Companion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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The Youth's Companion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Youth's Companion by : Nathaniel Willis

Download or read book The Youth's Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

New Peterson Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book New Peterson Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trumpocalypse

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244301654
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis Trumpocalypse by : Horrified Press

Download or read book Trumpocalypse written by Horrified Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has never seen a phenomenon like President Donald J. Trump. How a trashy billionaire with no government experience pushed his way into the most powerful job on earth is a question nobody can really answer. The authors of Trumpocalypse propose some reasons he walks among us-is he really a berserk android? They prophesy what terrors may await-lifestyle cannibalism? A new spate of witch burnings? Worse? Trumpocalypse is a time capsule packed with care by Horrified Press. Pray we can retrieve it later and laugh about how bad we thought it would be. Pray hard.

Stumbling Blocks

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820364959
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Stumbling Blocks by : Delores Phillips

Download or read book Stumbling Blocks written by Delores Phillips and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Born in Cartersville, Georgia in 1950, Delores Faye Phillips spent much of her childhood in Georgia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio. Best known for her 2004 novel The Darkest Child, which follows the Quinn family as they attempt to survive and escape racism, lynchings, and poverty in Jim Crow Georgia during the 1950s, Phillips wrote much more than that. While the novel was met with critical acclaim (won Black Caucus of the ALA Award and was a nominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Phillips), little is known about Phillips herself or about her other writings. In fact, in the 2018 reissue of The Darkest Child, Tayari Jones remarks in the introduction that when she heard Phillips had passed away in 2014, she was "weighted down with longing for the other books that she would never write." This volume, then, corrects the misconception that The Darkest Child was Phillips's only published work. Rather, it establishes her as an experienced and prolific writer who created multi-genre literature throughout her life. It paints a broader picture of Phillips, who was not just a novelist, but also a poet and short story writer as well. Much like Alice Walker's recovery work on Zora Neale Hurston in the 1970s was critical to a revival and appreciation of Hurston as "a genius of the South," Stumbling Blocks expands the legacy and illuminates an under-represented writer who is uniquely situated at the intersections of multiple identities including race, gender, disability, and region. In addition to the sequel to The Darkest Child, this collection also includes an unfinished third novel (No Ordinary Rain), ten poems, seven short stories, contextualizing essays, and an in-depth biography of Phillips. It is also bookended by a foreword from Phillips sister, Linda Miller, and an afterword from Trudier Harris"--

Outlook and Independent

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlook and Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: