Modern Loss

Modern Loss
Author: Rebecca Soffer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 006249922X

Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics. At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it’s clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let’s face it: most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We’re awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit. Enter Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who can help us do better. Each having lost parents as young adults, they co-founded Modern Loss, responding to a need to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief. Now, in this wise and often funny book, they offer the insights of the Modern Loss community to help us cry, laugh, grieve, identify, and—above all—empathize. Soffer and Birkner, along with forty guest contributors including Lucy Kalanithi, singer Amanda Palmer, and CNN’s Brian Stelter, reveal their own stories on a wide range of topics including triggers, sex, secrets, and inheritance. Accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and witty "how to" cartoons, each contribution provides a unique perspective on loss as well as a remarkable life-affirming message. Brutally honest and inspiring, Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share. Beginners welcome.

Family Trust

Family Trust
Author: Ann Miller Hopkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 154627796X

Family Trust is Ann Miller Hopkins’s second novel set in Alabama and Florida. A large family bands together, pooling resources to elevate their golden years and live a far greater lifestyle together than any of the sisters and cousins could experience individually. An attorney and close companion of the extended family forms a family trust, which protects and enhances their last decades on this earth. The novel reveals love and companionship on a higher plane, one shared by the witty, fun-loving elderly. In Family Trust, a mixed bag of love, laughter, and arguments over whether their favorite dance is the Carolina shag or the Birmingham bop keeps the reader laughing out loud. A rehab suicide, a hurricane, and a justified murder at sea add suspense and danger to a thought-provoking plan for a beautiful old age. Grown children present problems that bring cousins together to stand in the gap and eventually prepare the stage for another generation of family trusts. Jealousy is always an element when beautiful women of any age are in the equation. A grocery store battle in the produce aisle and a volunteer dog-bathing job in a rescue shelter could have been written for Lucille Ball. Ray, a Nashville singer and songwriter, famous for Don’t Make Cadillacs Like They Used To, is the youngest cousin to commit to the family trust. In her sixties, she writes Dancin’ to Heaven to tell the world to dance and sing every day with the people they love. Surrounded by family who know each other better than anyone, the cousins and a few spouses enjoy a grand lifestyle via family pod living. Secure within the family, the aging cousins and siblings avoid dreaded assisted living and retirement homes. Instead, they enjoy luxurious in-home care. A sprawling Gulf-front beach house flanked by walled gardens of fragrant herbs and orange trees is the setting for renewal of childhood bonds, making the golden years golden.

PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly

PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2000
Genre: Military supplies
ISBN:

The Preventive Maintenance Monthly is an official publication of the Army, providing information for all soldiers assigned to combat and combat duties. The magazine covers issues concerning maintenance, maintenance procedures and supply problems.

Plucked Petals

Plucked Petals
Author: C. Sunrise
Publisher: Wolf Moon Publishing
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2021-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 177773732X

She wanted a simple life, and got werewolves instead. Meet Whoopsie, a somewhat sheltered young woman whose life was filled with love, laughter, and joy. She recently finished her university degree, got a job at the veterinarian’s office in her hometown, and moved into a comfy lakeside home with her best friend. Life was good. Simple. But that all changed on her twenty-fifth birthday. Her body was changing, and not in a normal, human way. Her hair and eyes had a mind of their own, and she was attracting a lot of attention from people with a strange glow to their eyes. She thought she was losing her mind, until her parents told her the truth about her family and the world around her. Shapeshifters were real, and now that she was twenty-five, the beasts were going to be coming for her. And they did… _____________ The Whoopsie Daisy series is a medium-burn paranormal romance / urban fantasy series where the main character may decide to pick more than one mate from a selection of love interests (reverse harem). It features a quirky main character who grows into her strength while surrounding herself with all sorts of shapeshifting creatures (werewolves, vampires, cat shifters, and more). ⚠️ This is not a series for children (contains content intended for mature audiences including coarse language, violence, and steamy scenes). Content notes are available on the copyright page and the authors website. This is a rewritten edition of the previously published book “Whoopsie Daisy” by C. Sunrise. ⚠️ _____________ C. Sunrise is a Canadian author who spends too much time in the great Canadian outdoors and takes way too many pictures of her dogs (and the beautiful scenery, of course). She hasn't spotted a werewolf, bear shifter, or sasquatch... yet. Until then, she'll keep adventuring and writing fictional stories about fantastical creatures. Keywords: paranormal romance, shifter romance, shape shifter romance, shape shifters, werewolf, reverse harem romance, why choose romance, strong female lead, alpha werewolf, paranormal suspense, paranormal thriller.

The World in a Nutshell

The World in a Nutshell
Author: Daniel Chase
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2010-10-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635088488

Leonard (Leonardo to his friends) is at loose ends after his house burns and his wife leaves him. Lucille, a lady he knew from college, invites him to the Aurban homestead@ she is starting. At the abandoned mill, Leonard meets >Cille and her motley crew of cats and her equally motley crew of people, including a lovable eccentric who acts like Abe Lincoln, a couple named Boris and Natasha, who seem to be spies, a retired teacher named Tom and his streetwise, young girlfriend Liv, and a loose cannon named Richard Corey and his boyfriend AJill@. Obviously, all isn=t as it seemsCor is it? Is Leonard behind all the strange happenings that only started when he showed up in this strange new world, or is Leonard just the catalyst, or an unwitting pawn in a game of intrigue?

Cleanup in Aisle 4: Grocery Store Don'ts

Cleanup in Aisle 4: Grocery Store Don'ts
Author: Shane Pacelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2013-02-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781482503012

Everyone has been grocery shopping before, right? As a shopper, you go into the grocery store, get your items, checkout, and then go home. Have you ever wondered what the cashiers and baggers go through while they check you out at the register? Did you do anything wrong during your shopping trip? Did you somehow aggravate the cashier? In Cleanup in Aisle 4: Grocery Store Don'ts, you will read about what thoughts go through an employees' head when you as a shopper, do something wrong. This candid account told by a 9-year grocery store employee will reveal a list of Don'ts that challenge his patience while he scans and bags your groceries. The true stories captured throughout the book are bound to leave you thinking, "Have I done that?" "Don't rip open a package and rip the barcode because then I can't scan it." After reading this book, you will know the proper etiquette for grocery shopping.

Say It Like It Is

Say It Like It Is
Author: Dave Sampson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1467828319

About Say It Like It Is. Over the course of the past fifty years, Political Correctness has morphed from a social nicety to a national enforcement of stupidity. Due to political correctness, common sense has become less important in our society than the need to be hypersensitive to each and every group of minorities within our borders. Liberals have worked slowly but steadily to promote and further the asinine concept of political correctness and have been successful in implementing it. We are so sensitive these days that the mere mention of a nationality or a particular behavior has people gasping and whispering words like bigot, hateful and intolerant. As a society, weve forgotten how to speak to one another in a truthful and direct manner. As a result, we have countless Interpretational breakdowns or Misunderstandings on a personal, professional and political basis every day. These Misunderstandings, as Liberals call them, are the result of our inability to actually convey our thoughts and intentions in a direct and non-politically correct manner. Sensitivity to the most mundane and insignificant aspects of life has turned Americans into a weak and litigious people who are neither respected nor respectable. Few people in our country actually have the inner fortitude to ignore the Liberals rules regarding speech and Appropriate topics, and actually, Say it like it is. I hope to point out how accustomed weve become to political correctness and how completely asinine the whole thing really is. Political correctness is the best example of what happens when Liberals work to gradually normalize and institute a concept that has had nothing but detrimental affects on our country. Where has political correctness led us? Its no longer acceptable to call the Chinese, Chinese. We cant refer to a Black man as a Black man. The word criminal should no longer be used to describe an individual who breaks the law. Pride in America is far less PC than an animosity toward it. No blame can be put on those who choose to act in an unacceptable manner. Weve been trained to think of wealthy people as bad individuals and poor people as victims. Armed conflict is no longer seen as the protection of our way of life as much as it is seen as an attempt on the part of our evil leaders to conquer and occupy foreign lands. Political correctness teaches us Tolerance and Diversity, and we can see where that has led us. The teaching of manners and discipline to our children are foreign concepts to todays parents. What used to be black and white is now a fuzzy shade of gray. Obvious facts are now extensively debated. And common sensejust take a look around. Our society is inundated with news stories of atrocious behavior. Rapes and murders and school shootings, molestation, terrorism and hatred toward our country by its own citizens are all crops were currently reaping. Its to be expected after sowing the seeds of political correctness for half a century. Take some time to think about what weve been conditioned to think and how weve been trained to talk. This is a perfect example of the implementation of liberalism on American society. Its not good. Its destroying our strength and our unity. Its very likely to destroy more than that. Its time to ignore political correctness and just say it like it is.

The Deception Artist

The Deception Artist
Author: Fayette Fox
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908434252

Who needs the truth? Eight-year-old Ivy has a vivid imagination and tells lies so that people will like her. With her brother, Brice, in hospital, life at home feels unsettled and things become even more strained after her father loses his job, along with his sense of purpose. Ivy's parents might divorce and her best friend hates her but, ever creative, she abandons her escapist fantasies and determines to uncover the truth. In this sharp and funny literary debut set in Northern California during the 1980s recession, Fayette Fox delves deep into the dark heart of an ordinary American family - and finds out that make-believe isn't just for kids.