A personal, candid description of the author's life experience before, approaching and during the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, enabling readers to better understand people with dementia.
From working in a toothbrush factory and learning to always sterilize your brush to being a "stand-in" for Ms. Lara Flynn Boyle of Men in Black fame and figuring out very quickly that sitting around for 16 hours is way too boring even with craft services and a few famous people, the lessons we learn in life are somewhat universal. This mishmash collection of writing includes memoir-style stories, poems, songs and short scenes and plays. Jeanne’s first book, “Tell Our Story, I Will” chronicled she and her son’s challenges and triumphs navigating his diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome/high-functioning autism (available on Amazon) while this collection is a hodge-podge of her everyday life.
Carrie Marshall must decide whether to freeze to death in her dead car or climb into an 18Wheeler with a stranger. What she decides will change her life forever. But then, after the death of her husband and a forced retirement, Carrie has learned that there are no guarantees in life. It changes you whether you like it or not. Carrie must now stand up to what life deals her or be broken by it. After years of hauling, John Graham knows the life on an 18Wheeler offers many adventures. While escaping back to The Road after the death of his wife, this one...this cute seatcover sitting in his rig manages to shift his gears as they have never been before. He certainly hadn't counted on Carrie flipping his world sunny side up. While dealing with families 'approval, an unexpected career change, and a new attraction they never expected, John and Carrie's lives will never be the same. So the question remains, Is love sweeter on an 18Wheeler?
Described as "a business book for everybody," this business-based guide to identifying organizational leadership is written in the style of a children's fairy tale--a unique twist to serious discussions on communication and team building.
How does a nerdy girl who likes Martha Stewart, Bob Ross and Dr. Who supposed to smile and think good thoughts? Vivie Bumble is working on life and attempting to stay positive. Between journaling, making lists and working out her angsts by traveling to different scenarios in her imagination, she is finding her way in this wacky world. Vivie is TRYING. She tries to join a club, audition for a play and eventually finds a friend and a place to belong.
After her father dies, a young Chinese woman struggles to survive and finds she has much in common with an old hunchbacked woman known for the bitter-melon and shrimp dumplings she brings to market each day.
A colorful introduction to Buddhist fables A monkey, caught in a monsoon, finds shelter in a cave amid the rubble of a temple. The monkey is not alone. A lion, a jackal, a turtle, and a dove bicker in the cramped space, until a statue of Buddha comes to life. "Hush, children, hush." Buddha says. "I will tell you a story to pass the time." From the tale of the clever monkey outwitting a hungry crocodile to that of a bird and turtle rescuing a friend, the six amusing parables told by the Buddha will introduce young readers to the famous cycle of fables in Buddhist literature known as the Jatakas, or birth stories, which Buddha originally told to his disciples to illustrate his teachings. Joined with stunning linocut illustrations, Jeanne M. Lee's I Once Was a Monkey form a book notable for both its beauty and its wisdom.
The good memories, the great memories, and a few bad memories depicted on the pages of this book span several decades of my life, with music and music makers being the central themes. The names I drop in the book are not only superstars but also personal friends. Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Nancy “Mrs. George” Jones, Bill Anderson, Don Williams, Ronnie Milsap, Rhonda Vincent, and dozens more are my country music idols, and they’ve all played a great part in my life. Now that I’m aging in place (I’m retired), I find that the great lyrics in good country songs mean more to me than ever before. The love and friendships of my music friends, the love of my worldwide fans, and the love of everyday people are the fabrics that hold my life together.
From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.... As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter’s life. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920s Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee’s magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Will Nora’s reunion with Lee give them a chance to forgive past betrayals…and break years of silence to forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and the worst that life can offer? A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional women. Readers Guide Included
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