The Unexpected Daughter
Title | The Unexpected Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Sheryl Parbhoo |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-11-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780998231006 |
Three people's lives intersect in a tumultuous yet redeeming way that none of them could have ever predicted. Jenny is a young professional from the South with an upbringing she wants to forget. She meets Roshan, an Indian immigrant who has moved to the United States with his mother, Esha, to escape family ghosts. With strong cultural tradition, Esha has devoted her entire life to her only child, both for his own good and for her personal protection from a painful past. Roshan understands his role as his mother's refuge, and from an early age, he commits himself to caring for her. But when Jenny and Roshan embark on a forbidden, intercultural relationship, all three get tangled into an inseparable web-betrayal, violence, and shame-leaving them forced to make choices about love and family they never wanted to make while finding peace where they never expected to look.
The Unexpected Everything
Title | The Unexpected Everything PDF eBook |
Author | Morgan Matson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1481404547 |
When a scandal surrounding her father upsets all her carefully laid plans for her future, Andie must learn to accept a new relationship with her father and to embrace a little chaos in her life.
Expect the Unexpected Or You Won't Find It
Title | Expect the Unexpected Or You Won't Find It PDF eBook |
Author | Roger von Oech |
Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2002-09-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781576752272 |
The bestselling author of ""A Whack on the Side of the Head"" now interprets the aphorisms of Heraclitus as springboards to creativity.
Living the Life Unexpected
Title | Living the Life Unexpected PDF eBook |
Author | Jody Day |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 150980904X |
‘The book to recommend to patients when they face coming to terms with unavoidable childlessness.' – British Medical Journal In Living the Life Unexpected, Jody Day addresses the experience of involuntary childlessness and provides a powerful, practical guide to help those negotiating a future without children come to terms with their grief; a grief that is only just beginning to be recognized by society. This friendly, practical, humorous and honest guide from one of the world’s most respected names in childless support offers compassion and understanding and shows how it’s possible to move towards a creative, happy, meaningful and fulfilling future – even if it’s not the one you had planned. Millions of people are now living a life without children, almost double that of a generation ago and the numbers are rising still. Although some are childfree by choice, many others are childless due to infertility or circumstance and are struggling to come to terms with their uncertain future. Although most people think that those without children either 'couldn't' or 'didn't want’ to be parents, the truth is much more complex. Jody Day was forty-four when she realized that her quest to be a mother was at an end. She presumed that she was through the toughest part, but over the next couple of years she was hit by waves of grief, despair and isolation. Eventually she found her way and in 2011 created Gateway Women, the global friendship and support network for childless women which has now helped almost two million people worldwide. This edition, previously titled Rocking the Life Unexpected, has been extensively revised and updated, with significant additional content and case studies from forty involuntarily childless people (mostly women) from around the world.
The Unexpected Spy
Title | The Unexpected Spy PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Walder |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250230993 |
A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs "Reads like the show bible for Homeland only her story is real." —Alison Stewart, WNYC "A thrilling tale...Walder’s fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America’s major intelligence agencies" —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she’d fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder and CIA Director George Tenet brought her donuts. She tracked chemical terrorists and searched the world for Weapons of Mass Destruction. She created a chemical terror chart that someone in the White House altered to convey information she did not have or believe, leading to the Iraq invasion. Driven to stop terrorism, Walder debriefed terrorists—men who swore they’d never speak to a woman—until they gave her leads. She followed trails through North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, shutting down multiple chemical attacks. Then Walder moved to the FBI, where she worked in counterintelligence. In a single year, she helped take down one of the most notorious foreign spies ever caught on American soil. Catching the bad guys wasn’t a problem in the FBI, but rampant sexism was. Walder left the FBI to teach young women, encouraging them to find a place in the FBI, CIA, State Department or the Senate—and thus change the world.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Expect...The Unexpected
Title | Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Expect...The Unexpected PDF eBook |
Author | Ripley's Believe It Or Not! |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2006-08 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
An encyclopedia of oddities features unexpected and unimaginable people, places, and creatures from around the world.
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
Title | The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected PDF eBook |
Author | Marcelo Gleiser |
Publisher | University Press of New England |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1611689406 |
Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to connect with nature in less theoretical ways. After seeing a fly-fishing class on the Dartmouth College green, he decided to learn to fly-fish, a hobby, he says, that teaches humility. In The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Gleiser travels the world to scientific conferences, fishing wherever he goes. At each stop, he ponders how in the myriad ways physics informs the act of fishing; how, in its turn, fishing serves as a lens into nature's inner workings; and how science engages with questions of meaning and spirituality, inspiring a sense of mystery and awe of the not yet known. Personal and engaging, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected is a scientist's tribute to nature, an affirmation of humanity's deep connection with and debt to Earth, and an exploration of the meaning of existence, from atom to trout to cosmos.