Life is Too Short for Linoleum

Life is Too Short for Linoleum
Connie E. Sokol (Author)
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Ready for another Life is Too Short series boost?

If you've enjoyed the other two books in the Life is Too Short collection, continue your humorous yet helpful journey with this final book in the series, Life is Too Short for Linoleum.

Get even more tips on happily balancing being a woman, wife, and mother. Laugh as you read real "mother moments" and how to resolve them. Learn how to deal with difficult teens and tender topics with husbands. Find great suggestions on how to feel more daily joy, improve relationships, and delight in your role as a mother.

For those who have loved the series, look for the entire collection as an all-in-one gift book titled The Life is Too Short Collection. The perfect gift for every mother, sister, neighbor, or friend!

“As with the other books in her 'Too Short' series, Connie Sokol continues to inspire us as Women, Wives, and Mothers through personal stories and insights, always encouraging us to make little changes that bring significant rewards.”
Peggy Urry, President-elect, American Night Writers Association

"Wonderful! I love how Connie puts all the 'I-know-I'm-supposed-to-be-doing-these-things' into a meaningful context that triggers my memory in the moment. Because that's when they're important and necessary; in real-life living, not just in principle. Great book!" Rhonda Miller

• Rank: #2093 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-02-18
• Released on: 2013-02-18
• Format: Kindle eBook
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Overcome: Burned, Blinded, and Blessed

Overcome: Burned, Blinded, and Blessed
Carmen Blandin Tarleton (Author)
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On June 10, 2007, Carmen Blandin Tarleton’s estranged husband broke into her rural Vermont home, beat her with a baseball bat, and doused her with industrial-strength lye. Doctors called it “THE MOST HORRIFIC INJURY A HUMAN BEING COULD SUFFER.”

Tarleton spent the next three and a half months in a medically induced coma, and when she awoke, it was to an unimaginable reality: she was blind and permanently disfigured, with burns covering more than eighty percent of her body. Her recovery would include months of painful rehab, dozens of surgeries, and total dependence on family, friends, and strangers for physical and financial care. With so much taken away, no one could have anticipated what Tarleton would gain from her experience: an awakening. A purpose. Joy. By sharing her struggles and ultimate victory over catastrophic loss, Tarleton proves that life is a choice—and, in the process, offers a rare glimpse into the best and worst corners of the human heart.

“CARMEN IS SO UNFLINCHINGLY HONEST, SO TRANSPARENT . . . Overcome: Burned, Blinded, and Blessed is an opportunity to bask, for just for a little while, in the rays of her exceptional spirit.”
—JONI BUSBY
SUPERVISING PRODUCER, THE DOCTORS

“Carmen’s story is one of tragedy and triumph. She is truly an example of the strength and beauty of the human spirit. Carmen went from victim to survivor and teaches us all that we can overcome the unimaginable and create the lives we would like to live.”
a_JENNIFER RADICS, MBA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION

“Carmen Tarleton's story is a riveting account of a courageous woman who teaches us all the power of fighting suffering with relentless hope and tenacity.”
a_SAMIR MELKI, MD, PHD FOUNDER, BOST ON EYE GROUP

“Carmen tells her inspiring story with remarkable clarity and honesty. She has endured a journey many might be unable to endure and arrived to provide the reader with wisdom, compassion, and inspiration. As heavy as the price was for Carmen, Overcome is a wonderful gift to those of us who take the time to read it. Her story is, at heart, one of a profound and courageous journey, and she has arrived with great treasures to offer us all.”
a_DAVID VOGEL
PRESIDENT, BURN SURVIVORS OF NEW ENGLAND

“Told with sincerity and grace, Overcome powerfully illustrates the unlimited resilience of the human spirit. Carmen's heart-thumping journey is at times harrowing, yet always keenly illuminating. Overcome is a bracing triumph of the soul.”
a_MICHAEL PAUL MASON
AUTHOR OF HEAD CASES: STORIES OF BRAIN INJURY AND ITS AFTERMATH

• Rank: #2018 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-02-19
• Released on: 2013-02-19
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• Number of items: 1

Back To U (An Empty Nest Romance)

Back To U (An Empty Nest Romance)
Kathy Dunnehoff (Author)
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Don't miss this latest book from Amazon Best Selling Author of The Do-Over, Kathy Dunnehoff.

An Overview of "Back To You"

When Gwen hits the big 4-0, her husband leaves and her daughter takes off with a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band. Taking her daughter's place at the university seems like a good idea until she runs into the reason she dropped out twenty years before... and he's also found his way Back To U.

:: What readers are saying about the Contemporary Romances of Kathy Dunnehoff ::

"Kathy's writing is filled with energy and promise and it feels as if every other paragraph there's an 'I've been there.'"
Dennis Foley, Author of "A Requiem for Crows"

"I thought that I could get away with maybe sneaking in a chapter before bed and being able to settle with reading the story over the course of the week... DANG IT!!! It was just too stinkin' good to 'casually' read! I ended up zipping right through it and reading in every free moment I had."
Amanda Schaffer, Book Reviewer

"Her laugh-out-loud humor, the characters I came to love, the message and gentle delivery... Ms. Dunnehoff has found a voice that all women dipping a toe into the muddy waters of mid-life crisis can understand and learn from."
"Judy", Book Reviewer

• Rank: #459 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-02-12
• Released on: 2012-02-12
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Secrets of Happy Families: Surprising New Ideas to Bring More Togetherness, Less Chaos, and Greater Joy

The Secrets of Happy Families: Surprising New Ideas to Bring More Togetherness, Less Chaos, and Greater Joy
by Bruce Feiler (Author, Narrator)
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Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Pamela Druckerman (Author)
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The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children.

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special.

Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play.

Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There's no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy.

Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are- by design-toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace.

With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman-a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal-sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

While finding her own firm non, Druckerman discovers that children-including her own-are capable of feats she'd never imagined.

• Rank: #358 in Books
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Published on: 2012-02-07
• Released on: 2012-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.02" h x 6.29" w x 9.30" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

The Tree of Everlasting Knowledge

The Tree of Everlasting Knowledge
Christine Nolfi (Author)
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A savage rape on hallowed ground. Secrets buried for decades by the town’s most influential family.

Now Ourania D’Andre will learn the Great Oak’s secrets as construction begins at the Fagan mansion. She can’t afford to turn down a job that promises to stir up the long-buried guilt—and the passion—she shares with powerful Troy Fagan.

She’s already juggling the most important job of her career with her new responsibilities as a foster mother for young Walt and Emma Korchek. And there’s a hard, older man on the construction crew with eyes void of emotion—cold and killing. The secrets of his brutal past will pose a grave threat to the children in her care. Will she find the courage to face him?

• Rank: #188 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-03-08
• Released on: 2012-03-08
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) (Maranatha Novels)

Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) (Maranatha Novels)
Foster Cline (Author), Jim Fay (Author), Eugene H. Peterson (Author)
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This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character.

Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.

• Rank: #473 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-15
• Released on: 2006-04-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.33" h x 1.02" w x 6.14" l, 1.14 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life

The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life
Patrick Lencioni (Author)
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In this unique and groundbreaking book, business consultant and New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni turns his sights on the most important organization in our lives—the family. As a husband and the father of four young boys, Lencioni realized the discrepancy between the time and energy his clients put into running their organizations and the reactive way most people run their personal lives. Having experienced the stress of a frantic family firsthand, he and his wife began applying some of the tools he uses with Fortune 500 companies at home, and with surprising results.

• Rank: #673 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .83" w x 5.51" l, .86 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Summary: The Five Love Languages by Gary D Chapman

Summary: The Five Love Languages by Gary D Chapman
Brainy Book Summaries (Author)
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The Five Love languages

From the millions of love and marriage books out there, Gary Chapman’s “The Five Love Languages” stands out as one of the most helpful and profoundly insightful books that have helped bring countless marriages back on track and rekindle romance. This summary highlights all the key aspects behind the book so that readers can quickly and efficiently digest the key idea behind this world-famous book.

The key idea behind the Five Love Languages is simple: people have a fundamental need to love and feel loved. When our love tanks are empty, life seems bleak and intrapersonal conflict becomes inevitable. When our love tanks are full, our outlook is bright and we solve any problem with our other halves, making our relationships succeed.

There are five different languages that people use to express their affection: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Most people have one language that makes them feel loved and appreciated. This book examines the five languages and how they affect couples in marriage. Each chapter of the Five Love Languages highlights true stories of love about couples with different love languages that learned to speak each other’s language and managed to thrive in love and marriage.

Written for those who wish to improve their marriage and learn to speak their spouse’s love language, the Five Love Languages Summary offers couples a surefire way to look into the hearts and minds of those whom they love most in a tightly-packed summary of Gary Chapman’s bestseller.

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Designed for smart people whose desire to improve their businesses and themselves exceeds the available time they have to do so, Brainy Book Summaries gives readers an efficient way to quickly go through and digest famous and well-loved titles.

Offering easy-to-read and comprehensive synopses of every chapter of bestselling books, each Brainy Book Summary highlights the key ideas behind critically acclaimed titles, helping readers swiftly get the most out of a book.

Today, with hundreds of millions of different books in the market, time-efficiency is more important than ever for those who want to get the most out of their reading; Brainy Book Summaries helps you do just that by giving you all the value from a bestselling book without the total time investment it would have taken you to read the whole book.

• Rank: #7962 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-02-04
• Released on: 2013-02-04
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community

Where Did Our Love Go: Love and Relationships in the African-American Community
Gil L. Robertson IV (Editor)
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Where Did Our Love Go?, an anthology of essays written by many major public figures and celebrities, will explore the substantive issues related to marital problem in the African-American community. From the "my baby's mama" syndrome to the more serious implications of what a generation of single-parent households will mean to future generations, this comprehensive collection will provide an in-depth discourse on the trends and issues that have caused the problematic behaviors within African-American relationships to persist with little sign of relief. The book will consist of a total of 40 essays divided equally into 4 lifestyle categories (single, married, divorced, and widowed), to present a wide cross section of perspectives on this subject.

Marriage plays an essential role in maintaining the vitality and character of a community, so it is deeply unsettling for many African Americans to find that the value of this institution has lost its allure. While marriage among African Americans has always fallen below the average of other population segments, the gap today has grown so pronounced that the subject has sparked an intense national dialogue.

A 2006 Washington Post article, AIs Marriage for White People,” created waves of controversy on the issue. In 2010, Nightline dedicated an entire broadcast to this growing crisis. The marriage gap in Black America has become such an open secret that it’s now the source of endless bad jokes and prime time reality shows. The statistics even back this up, as according to the U.S. Census, 43.3% of black men and 41.9% of black women in America have never been married, and the rate of decline is nearly twice the national average.

Marriage is a rite of passage that is fundamental to every culture, which underscores the tremendous need for an active dialogue to take place that will lay a foundation for discovery. With essays from 50 Cent, Viola Davis, Jabari Asim, Darnell Williams, Faith Evans, Mara Brock Akil, and more, Where Did Our Love Go? will ignite the fight for that conversation to begin.

• Rank: #5988 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x .79" w x 5.91" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
Bruce Feiler (Author)
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  Don't worry about family dinner.


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  Let your kids pick their punishments.


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  Ditch the sex talk.


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  Cancel date night.

These are just a few of the surprising innovations in this bold first-of-its-kind playbook for today's families. Bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler found himself squeezed between caring for aging parents and raising his children. So he set out on a three-year journey to find the smartest solutions and the most cutting-edge research about families. Instead of the usual family "experts," he sought out the most creative minds—from Silicon Valley to the set of Modern Family, from the country's top negotiators to the Green Berets—and asked them what team-building exercises and problem-solving techniques they use with their families. Feiler then tested these ideas with his wife and kids. The result is a fun, original look at how families can draw closer together, complete with two hundred never-before-seen best practices.

Feiler's life-changing discoveries include a radical plan to reshape your family in twenty minutes a week, Warren Buffett's guide for setting an allowance, and the Harvard handbook for resolving conflict. The Secrets of Happy Families is a timely, counterintuitive book that answers the questions countless parents are asking: How do we manage the chaos of our lives? How do we teach our kids values? How do we make our family happier?

Written in a charming, accessible style, The Secrets of Happy Families is smart, funny, and fresh, and will forever change how your family lives every day.

• Rank: #12379 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-02-19
• Released on: 2013-02-19
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Just Sisters: You Mess with Her, You Mess with Me

Just Sisters: You Mess with Her, You Mess with Me
Bonnie Louise Kuchler (Author)
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Sisters are wonderful, and sisters are terrible. Depending on the day, the mood, the weather, or the time of day, a sister can be a companion, an adversary, an enemy, or a soulmate. But no matter what, a sister is always a best friend, and the combination of animal photos and quotes in this delightful gift book celebrate the unique duality of sisterhood.

• Rank: #6821 in Books
• Brand: Willow Creek Press
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .49" h x 5.92" w x 5.76" l, .45 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

With or Without You: A Memoir

With or Without You: A Memoir
Domenica Ruta (Author)
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A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice
 
Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, and whose highbrow taste was at odds with her hardscrabble life. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter a love of stories. Kathi frequently kept Domenica home from school to watch such classics as the Godfather movies and everything by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, telling her, “This is more important. I promise. You’ll thank me later.” And despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by.
 
With or Without You is the story of Domenica Ruta’s unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ’90s youth and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. In a brilliant stylistic feat, Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.
 
Praise for With or Without You
 
“In the world of memoir, Mary Karr’s and Geoffrey Wolff’s exceptional books burn and brighten, like actual stars among strings of tinsel. With or Without You is like that. I will read whatever Domenica Ruta writes.”—Amy Bloom
 
“ ‘Make it new,’ Ezra Pound directed, and Domenica Ruta has. Difficult childhoods are plentiful, the talent to transform adversity into art in short supply. Unflinching in its regard, forgiving in its humor, With or Without You is that rare thing, a story you think you know transformed into one you have to read to the end.”—Kathryn Harrison
 
“Freakishly brilliant, brilliantly freakish, this is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Domenica Ruta has done something every artist with a failed family must do: She has created herself.”—Gary Shteyngart


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• Rank: #10509 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-02-26
• Released on: 2013-02-26
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Power Moves: Livin' the American Dream, USA Style

Power Moves: Livin' the American Dream, USA Style
Karl Welzein (Author)

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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff (Author)
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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic.
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.

• Rank: #8 in eBooks
• Published on: 2009-01-06
• Released on: 2009-01-06
• Format: Kindle eBook
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Shallow Grave: a HORRIFIC story of a child abused

Shallow Grave: a HORRIFIC story of a child abused
J. G. Porter (Author), Oceans Edge Editing (Editor), Classical Productions .99 cent eBooks (Introduction)
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...WARNING...

This story about Austin’s short life is written about actual accounts. None of the story is fabricated.

• Rank: #10239 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-02-02
• Released on: 2013-02-02
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family

Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family
Cathy Glass (Author)
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