"A "second chance shop" can be as simple as a thrift store where you pick up a hand-me-down t-shirt. But life may offer us second chances of a different type: a chance to try something new, correct a mistake, change course, expand our understanding, find a friend, chase a dream, or fall in love. This collection includes stories about baseball, ghosts, zinnias, a bracelet, an IBM punch card machine, a farm pond, fortunetelling, housesitting, swimming, a high school, a diner, a shop in Brooklyn in 1902, the Nevada desert in 1958, and a cat on a Chicago fire escape in 1962. The Second Chance Shop explores what people do when they're presented with-or seek out-a second chance"--
Give Fear a Chance.A twin-tale of isolation and terror, INTERNAL EXILE explores the abyss through the eyes of a nine-year-old sleep-paralysis sufferer Lucy Wren. On the eve of her first family reunion, she is once again tormented by the same three shadowy figures who have made a habit of haunting her. However, tonight there is a fourth and things are getting worse. Intent on keeping her awake during their flight, Lucy's razor-witted mother trades her candy in exchange for a story about their 17th century ancestor, Merrill O'Sullivan. Will his harrowing account of the unseen world convince Lucy to reconcile her nature with her longing or leave her lost in the darkness?
Alex McEwan, a young man growing up in New England at the beginning of World War II, desperately wants to join his friends and enlist in a branch of the service, any branch. But he can't. Alex is deaf, and his dream of being a part of something bigger than himself goes down in flames. Instead, with his family's encouragement and support, he attends the only deaf college in the world, Gallaudet. At Gallaudet, Alex discovers not only his mathematical gifts, but also a deeper understanding of himself.Securing a prestigious job in Boston, he continues his search for love, happiness, and acceptance in a world that doesn't always want him.Just when he thinks he's figured it out, Alex learns how far he still has to go.
Following the death of their husband and father, Logan, Carol Ainsley and her 12-year old daughter, Jill, help a horse desperately in need of someone to love him. When they do, they have no idea how much he will rescue them from their grief and help rebuild their lives. From the moment Official Business, Biz for short, wins their hearts, to the day Carol and Jill bring him home, their path is fraught with twists and turns. Biz's homecoming would not have been possible without the efforts of some special women and one beloved man, who move mountains to make it happen. Follow them on their journey and embrace the possibility that when loved ones die, their spirits remain close. Logan built a barn so Jill could have a horse waiting in the paddock when she comes home from school. He dreamed of a horse that looks just like Biz. Does Logan bring Biz to them from the other side? As Biz reveals his life story, we learn that owning a horse is not just about winning ribbons. It takes love and kindness, the building blocks of trust, to foster the partnership that leads to the true magic of horse ownership. Biz's Journey Home is about life and death, grief, and families. Sometimes, the best family is not the one we are born into. Now and again, it is instead the family we create from those who love and lift us.
Horses escaping a wildfire. A pig trapped in a bomb cyclone. A donkey at a live-stock auction. An abandoned dog. These are just some of the gripping animal adventures Mel, her daughter Lennon, and their dog Mojo take the reader on in Second Chances: Moonlight Mile Ranch. While Second Chances shares the amazing stories of each animal rescued, it also reveals the grit two families experience while building a horse ranch. Slick and his daughter June become the ranch hands at Moonlight Mile after losing their home in a California wildfire. June and Lennon bond instantly, demonstrating that family can be chosen. Compassionate and inspirational, Second Chances: Moonlight Mile Ranch demonstrates the importance of human and animal connection, the power of love, friendship and trust.
Born into a world devoid of fossil fuels, Jason Ryder survives his mother's death, then journeys in search of his missing father. His quest takes him hundreds of kilometers from his home, following a trail that is years cold, in a world slowly returning to its once wild splendor. Even though there are unexpected dangers and new lessons he must learn, Jason's greatest obstacle is one man's greed. Can he overcome all, find his father and fulfill his hope of rediscovering the one thing he cherishes above all else ... family?
This book portrays Sufic message of Hazrat Inayat Khan's journey to America, Russia and Europe in his own words as he wrote. "The message of love, harmony and beauty is like a divine stream of spiritual evolution flowing onward throughout our daily lives. And this awakening to purity and wisdom is the true essence of all that is understood by the term Sufi. I was transported by destiny from the world of lyric and poetry to the world of industry and commerce, on September 13, 1910. I bade farewell to my motherland, the soil of India, the land of the sun, for America the land of my future, wanderings: Perhaps I shall return some day, and yet I did not know how long it would be before I should return. The ocean that I had to cross seemed to me a gulf between the life that was passed and the life which was to begin. I spent my moments on the ship looking at the rising and falling of the waves and realizing in this rise and fall the picture of life reflected, the life of individuals, of nations, of races, and of the world. I tried to think where I was going, why I was going, what I was going to do, what was in store for me. How shall I set to work? Will the people be favorable or unfavorable to the Message which I am taking from one end of the world to the other? It seemed my mind moved curiously on these questions, but my heart refused to ponder upon them even for a moment, answering apart one constant voice I always heard coming from within, urging me constantly onward to my task, saying: Thou art sent on Our service, and it is We Who will make thy way clear. This alone was my consolation." Hazrat Inayat Khan
Emmitt at Love is a 21st century Fitzgerald-esque take on love, loss, repentance, and redemption, as experienced by Emmitt Raines, a writer, in the last quarter of the 20th Century. Emmitt's journey begins on the banks of the New River, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and from there outward to the rocky coasts of the New England Maritime, the lights of Paris, the smoother waters of the Cote D'Azur, and finally to the far western Pacific shores of California. Over the course of time, and his travels, Emmitt Raines finally learns what it takes, and means, to love another person. Not only that, but he learns how to love his long dead father, a man he never knew, as well as how to love himself.
In this modern love story, Mariah, a young woman enamored with the Earth, meets Max, a widowed wind scientist. As the seasons unfold, Max deals with grief asMariah continues to cope with losses of her own. When Howard, representing a public relations firm for the fossil fuel industry, harasses Max and his fellow climate scientist Buck, Max leaves town. COVID strikes shortly after Max returns. Mariah and Max grapple with new love during the pandemic. Then Howard returns, bringing COVID along. An unexpected pregnancy, an inheritance, and a near-death climate experience lead the characters into a space of hope for the future.
If it's true, as I suspect, that most of us have only the most vague notions of the time when the French were exploring and exploiting the interior of North America, and perhaps have no realistic notion at all of the Native peoples with whom they would interact, then I think this brilliantly researched and imagined historical novel will bring us one giant step closer to clarity in our thinking of that time and place. That we may also gain some clarity in our thinking of cultural and familial relationships is a bonus. Told in the voice of its very uncertain boy-becoming-man (non)hero, Ogima, Davis' story leads his reader, in an entertaining and mythic manner, through the woods and over the waters of real-world places - villages, islands, and a peninsula - and also through a belief system in large part erased since the time portrayed, which is the very dawning of recorded history in this part of the world, although the oral tradition reaches back to time immemorial, and is the basis for much of what we learn here. Ralph Murre (Door County, Wisconsin poet laureate, 2015-2017), Editor, and Publisher Set in a time of great turmoil and with a framework of crucial historical events, Prophecy of the Wolf, a gripping tale, is primarily about a young Neshnabek man, Ogima, who doubts his own abilities. Following our protagonist, we plunge deep into cultures just beginning to feel the clash between Europeans, represented by French fur traders in the novel, and American Indian tribes that will soon grip the entire North American continent. Set in the mid 1600s, this adventure, set on the Door Peninsula and Washington Island in Wisconsin, involves some of the earliest known historical figures on the Great Lakes.Thomas Davis, the well-known author of In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, is a master of taking a few stray threads of elusive history and weaving from them a masterful tapestry. His works are full of historical and cultural gems, but, above all, deep personal insights into interesting and compelling individuals. The connections become more significant the more you know about early French and Potawatomi history in Wisconsin but will pull you in on whatever level you embark on this amazing tale! David Lea, local Door County historian
Desperate to keep her undocumented single mom from being deported, Yolanda enlists the help of her classmates-many of whom are facing their own fears-in a race against time to keep her small world from coming apart. Told from multiple viewpoints, this contemporary YA novel follows a diverse group of high school students during their senior year. As they help Yolanda combat anti-immigrant rhetoric, the teens experience fear and prejudice themselves. Amari worries about racial profiling and living while Black. Sahar is called a terrorist when she wears hijab. Josh faces antisemitism. Kayah tries to hide her homelessness. Brad wears his red political cap as a shield against all of them. Opinions clash, secrets are revealed, friendships are formed-and tested-and romantic feelings develop as the classmates organize fundraisers, petitions, and a protest march. If the students' efforts to stop the deportation are not successful, Yolanda, a U.S. citizen herself, will have to make the hardest decision of her life: move to Mexico with her mother, or stay in the U.S. where she has no family. Reflective of actual headlines, the experiences of Yolanda and her classmates underscore the need for hope despite feeling afraid, unwanted, or unequal. Through Every Dark Night is a testament to the power of family, in all its forms, and unity in the face of intolerance and injustice.
Humanity is reaching its breaking point, and something must be done. Four long years have passed since Constance Neethe, the heir to the throne of Men, nearly got her friends and herself killed because of her debilitating drug addiction. Since then, the young princess sought solitude from the growing insurrection headed by her Curae counterpart, Prince Ewan Inathius, heir to the throne of the immortal Curae race. But the time of hiding and preparing is drawing to a close. As the evil King Ischis grows in power daily and finds new horrifying ways to torment the enslaved humans, Ewan and Constance's former guardian, the Cura Anastasia Terthsemane, form a plan to send Anastasia undercover into the heart of Ischis's realm so as to learn the power of the enemy. Moreover, the arrival of ghosts from the past force Constance to make a choice. Can she keep her eyes closed to the problems of the world forever? Or has the time finally come for her to embrace her role as Princess Constance Nicolette Neethe, ruler of Men?
Five strangers, two men and three women, share a Back Bay Boston apartment like a multi-generational family. High-tech high jinks, vengeful jealousy, and violent death combine to complicate lives and loves.
What an extraordinary story Deng has to tell! It is not just about South Sudan; it is a universal story about survival and determination - how a child can face the most difficult of situations and find a way through them. It is a privilege to introduce you to Deng Atem and his moving memoir, Jumping Over the Ram. Anderson Cooper, CNN Anchor"When people have called us "Lost Boys" many of us have been angered by the term. We knew that we had not been lost. We knew who we were and from where we had come. What had been lost, however, was that connection with our identities". This book is part of that reconstruction that I feel privileged to have followed. I trust other readers will have a similar experience.Jesper StrudsholmThe author of these memoirs, Deng Atem, is one of the highly resilient young South Sudanese who has endured every hardship of South Sudan's final war of liberation under the Sudan liberation army (SPLA). Like much of his generation, he survived all the ordeals of the last South Sudan war of independence.Since this manuscript is his account of his life and soldier as a child of South Sudan's long war of liberation, as one of his elders in the community we both come from_Twic Mayardit community of Warrap state of the Republic of South Sudan, it gives me privileges and honor to attest with these few orders, to the accuracy of what's contained in this manuscript.Bona Malwal Madut Ring>
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