Universe Full of Scars
Title | Universe Full of Scars PDF eBook |
Author | Krizzia Paolyn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2018-02-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781945796777 |
Universe Full of Scars is a reminder that it's okay to be human. It's okay to hurt, to fall and break apart just like how our Universe did. It exploded and hurled matter in all directions that formed the galaxies, stars, and planets. It healed itself and came out stronger, bolder and even more beautiful. So can you. Darling, so can you...
Universe Full of Scars
Title | Universe Full of Scars PDF eBook |
Author | Krizzia Paolyn |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2017-11-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781979895897 |
Universe Full of Scars is the book you wish you had read when you were young, so you would have known that sometimes love leaves without saying goodbye. That sometimes 11:11 don't tick on the clock the way you wanted it to sound; instead it sounds like all goodbyes said to you at once, heart breaking and soul wrecking. You would have known that not all the stars that fall from the sky are meant for the wish you keep on praying for; sometimes they just fall because they could. Just like how people leave, they leave because they can and you will heal. You will heal not because you should but because that is what you deserve. This book will remind you that even after our universe cooled and fell apart, something was formed out of it and now some of them are more than just rocks. They are galaxies where stars appear and planets that can carry life itself. Wait for it; this is how you break and how you will heal.
Dare to be Brave
Title | Dare to be Brave PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Palacios |
Publisher | Whitaker House |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2020-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1950604047 |
Bárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986, Miss Venezuela, and hailed by People en Español as one of the 25 most powerful and influential women of 2014, author and international speaker, opens her heart and shares memories and personal stories from her globe-trotting career as a public figure. Women want to know how to be a good mom, a good friend, a good wife, an excellent professional, and a woman of faith. The author fields questions about these roles all the time. Palacios uses each story as a stepping stone to teach about these topics. She also speaks to women about taboo subjects like domestic violence, facing failure, defending children from abortion, female leadership, and faith in God. The author chose the title of her book to tell women that they can and should dare to be brave and daring to defend values, principles, ethics, and virtues, and to unleash the potential of their talents. She also chose the title as a way of telling her reader, "Dare to discover who you are and be that woman, according to God's original design for you." Palacios wraps up the book by sharing the practices that have made her the woman she is, practices she hopes will help others. She addresses health, internal beauty, faith, and the leadership of entrepreneurial women. She closes the book by telling the story of founding her own organization, called Ser Mujer Líder y Emprendedora Está de Moda [Being a Female Entrepreneurial Leader Is in Vogue], and describing the conferences they have held since 2016 and that she hopes to take around the world soon. In this book, the author seeks to help women leave the past behind and focus on leaving their mark.
Scars Like Wings
Title | Scars Like Wings PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Stewart |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1984848844 |
Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction like Girl in Pieces and Every Last Word. Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl. Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her. A year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends--no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever. But when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone. Sarcastic and blunt, Piper isn't afraid to push Ava out of her comfort zone. Piper introduces Ava to Asad, a boy who loves theater just as much as she does, and slowly, Ava tries to create a life again. Yet Piper is fighting her own battle, and soon Ava must decide if she's going to fade back into her scars . . . or let the people by her side help her fly. "A heartfelt and unflinching look at the reality of being a burn survivor and at the scars we all carry. This book is for everyone, burned or not, who has ever searched for a light in the darkness." --Stephanie Nielson, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven Is Here and a burn survivor
The Scar
Title | The Scar PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Moundlic |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763653411 |
When his mother dies, a little boy is angry at his loss but does everything he can to hold onto the memory of her scent, her voice, and the special things she did for him, even as he tries to help his father and grandmother cope.
The Scar
Title | The Scar PDF eBook |
Author | China Miéville |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 2002-06-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0345454898 |
A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters and dazzling creations. Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon. For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave. Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada’s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters—terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . . . China Miéville is a writer for a new era—and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantly imagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Miéville’s Embassytown.
Hell Is a Very Small Place
Title | Hell Is a Very Small Place PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Casella |
Publisher | New Press, The |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2014-11-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1620971380 |
“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews