SHE WAS TRAPPED Marcia was trapped in a damaging relationship with Dick, a sex addict. Her emotional prison walls kept her locked in a world of lies. He was handsome, while she considered herself ordinary. She was thrilled about this new marriage…and in denial. SHE WAS DEFEATED She wanted him to change and she thought he would for her, if only she loved and cared for him enough. But he continued his sick escapades. She felt emotionally vulnerable toward him and his addiction. SHE WAS RESCUED She turned to a younger man, a promising member of a gang for help. She began to feel courageous and hopeful. She prayed for her life to change. With the help of Micah, she did see light at the end of a long tunnel of heartache.
Sara Burney, a young woman driven to the brink of despair by her abusive husband, decides to lose herself, take her destiny back into her own hands, and forge a new identity. Hopeing that he won't find her.
Blonde Broads is a sequel to the books Silver Sisters, Gray Girls and White Women. Lucy works part time. Mona and Cheryl are retired. Karen is deceased. These four women used to guide others in the areas of smoking cessation, exercise, weight loss, self-esteem, and absence of drug and alcohol usage. They have turned these tasks to others in the hospital. The women also pass knowledge and experience to their children and grandchildren. The families now number almost fifty members with strong individual qualities and characteristics. Their lives are interwoven to appear as one huge family. Joe, the hospital administrator, and Dr. Tony continue to represent hope of progress and healing. Blonde Broads loses another one of their team, this time to a fatality. Also with this book there is a focus upon seven blonds who are family and friends to the four original Silver Sisters. Rodger, Renee, and Powell, along with their teacher Babette and others, are new to the scene and take a ride down the path of drugs and alcohol. The drama unfolds as Babette learns to let go of her need to control her students.
Gus never imagined himself a parent at thirteen. But in the war-fraught summer of 1942, while living on his grandparents' Vermont farm, he adopts a clutch of orphaned duck eggs. Gus can relate to the foundlings, as he is apart from, and yearns for, his own family. One day Gus finds a young stranger standing over the incubating eggs. Gus doesn't know what to make of her, with her tattered clothing and strange accent, but soon the girl is helping to care for the newly hatched ducklings, and she and Gus become fast friends. Not everyone shares Gus's high opinion of Louise, whose poverty-stricken French-Canadian family is shunned by the townspeople. His attempt to help his friend and her family has some embarrassing consequences and he must make retribution if he is to keep Louise's friendship. Nancy Price Graff's fluid narrative and exceptional eye for detail follow Gus during a time of food rationing, Victory gardens, watching for enemy planes--and keeping his ducks from harm.
Don't Act Like Dad" is about Bipolar. Annie was much like her father and hated by her mother. All Annie ever wanted was to be loved and for her mother to stop saying "Don't Act Like Dad." Annie remembered many hateful things about her father. He was cruel to animals. He used to beat the cows for shitting in the barn. He would shock himself with the electrical fence. He had sex with other women and drank alcohol as often as possible He drove the pickup recklessly. Annie did start acting like her father. She had wild sex. She had lots of energy and got lots of work done. She went on shopping sprees. But other times she wanted to sleep more. She did not enjoy her hobbies. She would be argumentative and hateful to others she worked with in the laboratory. Annie needed professional help. She was hospitalized for suicidal idealization.
After moving to his mother's small hometown in Vermont, twelve-year-old Riley must reconsider his feelings about war and heroes when he meets a man who refused to fight in Vietnam and makes a discovery about one of his own relatives.
Perfect Dream is about friendships. Annie meets Vincent van Gogh, Clarence Mahan, Tommy C. Berry, and Eugene Wheeler. Each contribute to her life. Vincent and Clarence are ghosts. Eugene is also a ghost but in limbo and regressing in time. Annie is also planning to live in Oregon with Chuck. Annie loves irises. She also enjoys writing. She helps Tommy and Eugene with the Alcoholics Anonymous program of recovery. Annie bonds with Eugene the most. The two of them have a past to resolve. Tommy and Annie work together in a laboratory in Oregon. This is one more facet of her life. Vincent with flowers, especially iris, Clarence and his association with writing and irises, Tommy with A.A. and work, and Eugene with alcoholism and bipolar illness all unfold in this book.
The White Women is a sequel to the books Silver Sisters and Gray Girls. Lucy, Karen, Mona, and Cheryl continue their tasks set forth in the previous books. Karen has retired, Lucy and Cheryl work part time, Mona works primarily day shift. They used to guide others in the areas of smoking cessation, exercise, weight loss, self-esteem, and absence of drug and alcohol usage. They have turned part of the tasks to others in the hospital. The four women are now passing knowledge and experience to their children and grandchildren. The families now number almost thirty members with strong individual qualities and characteristics. Their lives are interwoven to appear as one huge family. Joe, the hospital administrator, and Dr. Tony continue to represent hope of progress and healing. The White Women must let go of one of their own and begin to relinquish their titles to those coming after them. Time has a way of destroying and remolding constitutions. It is the same for these four strong women. Kassie and Cathy become the shining stars in this episode. Don't miss the drama that unfolds as the White Women grow older and pass the baton to those with different destinations.
The New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping with the Enemy delivers a mesmerizing tale of madness, love and revenge. Mary Eliot actual ly wrote the novels that made her husband famous, and after his death, she feels free at last. But when she falls in love with a man who's only after her dead husband's life story, Mary vows to make him pay.
Diagnosis - ALL" is about childhood leukemia - Acute Lymphocyte Leukemia. Jennifer saw her father murdered in a grain bin. She thought Deedee had caused the death. Jennifer thought she contributed to the death by not stopping Deedee. She suffered guilt for years. Jennifer meets a mental health counselor who tries to help her with the guilt feeling by hypnotizing her and burning a letter addressed to her father. Jennifer also meets Pastor Littleton and his wife during her struggles in life. The two of them become emotionally bonded. She teaches him as much as he teaches her about love. Jennifer also meets another fourth grader in school by the name of Christopher. He falls in love with Jennifer immediately. Christopher's parents were custodial parents because Christopher lost both of his parents to death when he was a baby. Christopher grew up with an alcoholic father and a sex-crazed mother. This is a love story.
Newly pregnant with her second child, author Nancy D. Price contracts German Measles. Her doctor confirms there is a possibility the baby will be born with disabilities. On January 30, 1960, Nancy and her husband, Bob, welcome into the world their first son, Robert Kevin Price. After Nancy and the baby come home from the hospital, it gradually becomes apparent that his development is not normal. In Living With Robbie, Nancy shares Robbie's story as she and her husband learn to adjust to living with a child who suffers from multiple handicaps. It follows his development as he progresses through multiple programs, describes the problems the family faces in dealing with his special needs, and shows the profound effect he has, not only on his parents, but on his siblings.
Tammy Taylor was the daughter of Ralph and Mona Taylor. She was a cute six year old until her mother cut off her pony tails out of anger. That was not the first time nor the last time that Tammy was abused by her bipolar mother. She was also sexually abused by her father the age of eight until she ran away from home to live with teetotaler Auntie in May, 2016. Tammy became an alcoholic. She had gotten her third DUI and faced aggravated battery charges upon a police officer. Tammy finally joined Alcoholic Anonymous where her sponsor, Gertie, gave her assignments and visited with her weekly. Tammy had a ravenous sexual appetite and three boy friends in three months. She also has trouble at work with Serena, the boss' niece. Tammy was fired and sought other employment. Gertie finally got Tammy on the road to sobriety. She moved up the ranks to manager and then to branch supervisor. Later, her father became ill and came to live with her. They reconnect and amends are made by Tammy and by her father before his death.
A World War II-era Cinderella story with a twist. Orphaned at nine, Miranda Letty is taken in by her uncle's family in Cedar Falls, IA, where she is treated like hired help, especially by her Aunt Gertrude and cousin Betty. Then Conrad Beale comes to call. Con is a rich bachelor who runs his father's manufacturing company, and his courting confers upon 17-year-old Miranda unimaginable power in the eyes of her family and community. But in this version of the fairy tale, the poor girl loves not the rich prince-although she likes him and is dazzled by the prospect of marriage-but his poor cousin Robert Laird, the most handsome and popular boy in her class.
When author Nancy D. Price s son Robert Kevin Price was born with a congenital cataract and was profoundly deaf and severely retarded, she and her husband, Bob, began a journey through unchartered waters, trying to find help for their second child, their first-born son, Robbie. In Truly Blessed, Price begins her family s story where her first book, Living with Robbie, ended. She tells how she and her husband made the painful decision to place Robbie, then seven years old, in a state-run institution. They brought him home several times a year so their other four children would realize he was a part of the family. As the memoir continues, Robbie is an adult and his parents are aging. Price also faces her husband s slow decline due to Alzheimer s disease. The book tells of the effect that both her son s and her husband s limitations have had on her and on her other four children.
Based on a true story, this tribute to everyday heroism doubles as a lyrical primer on how landscapes evolve. Long Pond--clear, reflective, and bent in the middle like a crooked finger--has been a source of joy and nourishment to a Vermont village for many years. But when a sudden late-summer storm causes the pond to swell and burst its banks, endangering everyone in its path, only one person is fast enough to warn the villagers downstream. Spencer Chamberlain, the long-legged winner of countless foot races, sprints off to cries of "Run, Chamberlain, run!" All survive, thanks to his efforts. But after the storm the glassy pond is gone, leaving the village, and future generations, with something altogether different--and every bit as nourishing. In a gentle tall tale inspired by true events that are explored in the book's afterword, Vermont author Nancy Price Graff reveals the constantly evolving landscapes all around us, while Bagram Ibatoulline's glorious paintings speak to the beauty and inevitability of change.
Jacqueline and Jyllian were married for a few years and drinking alcohol with each other for all of their relationship. They loved to go to the bar to dance. It was the only normal life they knew. Jac was confronted by her boss at the laboratory and was told to go to therapy for help for her anger issues. She was reluctant, but made an appointment with Dr. McAfee. Jac's drinking was challenged. She loved her Peach Schnapps and beer. She drank to feel the ease and comfort that only alcohol gave to her. She was also drinking to get rid of the constant agitation within her body. The alcohol worked for this too. Jac had to give up her alcohol and her old way of living. Jac struggled with her monsters, one of which was her husband Jyl. Lane came into her life to help her find the light. Jac was diagnosed as an alcoholic and with another mental illness. Jac estranged herself from Jyl and alcohol. She still dances, but to a different drummer and with a different partner.
Describes the experiences of a family of Cambodian refugees as they learn to adjust to a different way of life in the United States while holding on to their ethnic heritage.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the principal measure of trends in consumer prices and inflation. The CPI affects Federal revenues and spending because automatic cost-of-living adjustments to Fed. tax brackets and many Federal benefit programs are calculated based on changes in the CPI. In Dec. 1996, the Boskin Comm. (BC) issued a report estimating that the CPI overstates changes in the cost of living by 1.1% points annually. This report identifies the changes made to the CPI since Dec. 1996, and presents the opinions of the 5 former BC members on how much of the bias in the CPI that the BC estimated in its report remains after recent changes to the CPI.
Joyce McGraw had enrolled in a theology class at the college. She was one of twelve students. The teacher was instructing the class about duality and non-duality religious orientations. The student's tasks were to write articles and make a presentation about dualism and non-dualism and share their beliefs. Another student, Martin, became infatuated with Joyce and a relationship began. It was touch and go between the two for many weeks. Joyce finally said she no longer wanted to take the risk of feeling lonely without him. Joyce began to have Out of Body Experiences (OBE). She trained herself through meditation to have these OBE without a crisis. Through her OBE she ran into a cocaine drug ring. She worked with the Chief of Police to capture the crooks. Joyce finally found solitude and shared with her boyfriend, Martin, that she would never feel loneliness again. She had accepted her feelings and could live life to its fullest by helping others who were lonely in the world.
Codependency defined is a set of maladaptive, compulsive behaviors learned by family members in order to survive in a family which is experiencing great emotional pain and stress. These behaviors are passed on from generation to generation whether alcoholism is present or not. Codependency is also defined as an emotional, psychological and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of a set of oppressive rules - rules which prevent the open expression of feelings as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems. In the book I Got You BABE, A Codependency Guide for Relationships, much information about Beliefs, Attitudes, Behaviors, Esteem, and Emotion is shared. Material about codependency and related illnesses has been collected over the years of reading about this illness, attending codependency classes, and working a twelve step program of recovery.
She found sobriety in Kansas and later moved to Oregon to live with a third husband. After his death, she contemplated moving back to Kansas to live out the rest of her life near her daughter, Leslie. Patti was bipolar and needed a psychiatrist to prescribe her medication. So she went to the Area Mental Health for help. She was assigned to Dr. Ramsey, who was in charge of a group meeting for bipolar patients and asked Patti to be her assistant. With counseling, Patti had to relive her childhood memories with Dr. Ramsey. She had to address the issue of the "Puppy Pail." Patti met Frank at the group meeting. He lived close by on a farm and offered Patti land where she could plant and tend to her iris hobby. Frank and Patti become very good friends. Patti began to sponsor several women for alcoholism, codependency, and bipolar disorder.
Misty is a retired Medical Technologist who enjoys reading, writing, and gardening as hobbies. She has been sober for over 20 years and attends Alcoholic Anonymous regularly. Her husband, Matthew, attends Al Anon. Together they enjoy gardening, watching football, and discussing spiritually related topics. Misty is beginning to be a sponsor after all of these years. She tries to help a newbie female alcoholic who needs guidance through the twelve steps and a long-timer alcoholic who needs to discover her other addictive behaviors - codependency, sexual addiction, or love addiction associated with excessive chemicals such as endorphins, PEA, and oxytocin. Several reference books are used to define codependency. Misty wants to attend the Body, Mind and Spirit Expo again. They attend annually. Misty is intrigued by two of the speakers and wants to do past-life regressions with a therapist. She tries to obtain a local hypnotist, but fails. Instead, she decides to use CDs and put herself into a trance. She also goes back through her life history in the current-life time. Misty explores her past-lives and how they relate to her current life. She is totally surprised of the outcomes and who shows up in her hypnotic states.
Isak and the Oranges, a work of historic fiction, is a carefully researched story about the plight of orphans and half-orphans in New York City at the turn of the last century. It is based on the author's father's experiences as an immigrant child. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum was real, as were the child-rearing practices common at the turn of the last century. Today they would be considered child abuse, but at that time were thought to be "for the child's own good." Although the children left the orphanage well prepared for their future, nothing could erase the terrors of their early life or the stigma of being orphans."--back cover
Life has many spiritual experiences called coincidences, ESP, deja vu, or synchronicity. Many of us are not aware or awake to appreciate these spiritual teachings. We also have helpers who are our spiritual companions. Many will have soul mates. All scenarios in our lives usually revolve around relationships, money, or health issues. We do not always know which of these three are affecting our current life. Lucy, Karen, Mona, and Cheryl are selected by Joe, the CEO of the hospital, to boost morale and govern major changes within a rural hospital. They are to guide others in the areas of smoking cessation, exercise, weight loss, self-esteem, and absence of drug and alcohol usage. The group is formed based upon their reputation of positive character and experience. The Sisters are apprehensive about their new assignment, but hopeful. Together these Silver Sisters bond to make improvements. There is no recipe for success. It is impossible to change another employee's behaviors. But the Sisters encourage each other as they launch into a new challenge. They support each other as they interact with many ill and dying people in the hospital and the community. They can also make the Silver Sister group work in the future through their faith.
One in a series of easy-to-use computer guides, this edition shows readers how to operate the most commonly used features and functions of Windows NT 4.0
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