You Better Be Lightning

You Better Be Lightning
Author: Andrea Gibson
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1638340161
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2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

Dear Daughter/Dear Son

Dear Daughter/Dear Son
Author: Desiree Andrews
Publisher: Inspiredbyvanessa
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735178806
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We are living in an age where technology has taken over to the point we can do everything with our phones talking on the phone, responding to a text, and even replying to an email. But sometimes, it would be amazing to sit down and have a face-to-face conversation with our children without the interruption of their phones or a beep notification.Many parents sometimes struggle with finding the right words to express things to their children, so they would find ways to leave letters around their deepest thoughts something the children will be able to find. And we hope it will not have faded lines just to read our stories, memories, and so much more.In this book, you will find stories from parents who share their deepest, heartfelt thoughts that are formed into letters for their children to hold onto while offering sentiments to other parents who might be experiencing the same with their children.This book gives hope to those who feel hopeless. It brings value and integrity in knowing that there is no perfect way of raising our children. Providing them with life lessons something they can always refer to is priceless.We hope you enjoy our letters to our daughters and sons and share it with your loved ones.

A Poem for Peter

A Poem for Peter
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 042528770X
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A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats’s obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra’s dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA and Marvel comics. But it was many years before Keats’s greatest dream was realized and he had the opportunity to write and illustrate his own book. For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keats’s hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child. It was also the first of many books featuring Peter and the children of his — and Keats’s — neighborhood. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s lyrical narrative tells the inspiring story of a boy who pursued a dream, and who, in turn, inspired generations of other dreamers.

Letters for My Sisters

Letters for My Sisters
Author: Andrea James
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781499342031
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LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly. Brave, boldly vulnerable and revealing, this collection adds to a growing body of literature where trans people tell their own stories as they lived them. Each writer addresses one simple question: If you could write just one letter to someone beginning transition, or to your younger pre-transition self, what would you say? Would you reassure or warn them, or lay your life out in vivid detail for them to draw their own conclusions? Would you have a secret to tell, a hard-won truth or an unexpected triumph to share? LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly.

Love Letters

Love Letters
Author: Grace Yount
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1438918623
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It's a Girl

It's a Girl
Author: Andrea J. Buchanan
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-03-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0786746335
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The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked — aside from "When are you due?" — has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan was pregnant with her daughter, she was thrilled to be expecting a girl. Some people were happy for her; visions of flouncy pink dresses and promises of mother-daughter bonding were the predictable responses. Other people, though, were concerned: "Is your husband OK with that?" "You can try again." "Girls are tough." This mixed message led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience. As she did in It's a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, Buchanan and her contributors take on what it's really like to raise a child-in this case, a girl-from babyhood to adulthood. It's a Girl, is a wide-ranging, often humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of the mother-daughter bond, taking on topics like "princess power" ("Shining, Shimmering, Splendid"), adding a girl to a brood of boys ("Confessions of a Tomboy Mom"), dealing with a daughter's eating disorder ("The Food Rules"), and mothering "hardcore mini-feminists" ("Tough Girls").

The Blue Ridge Project

The Blue Ridge Project
Author: Neil Rochford
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1326698214
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Detective Andrea Nox is investigating a bizarre and violent murder-suicide with far-reaching consequences, both for Beacon City and the people who run it. But all she has to show for her efforts so far are nonsensical clues and dead ends. Then, there's another murder. Journalist Robert Duncan is visiting home after a personal crisis when the unthinkable happens and he unearths long-kept secrets about his family and his place within it. Before long, he is going back over an old story that implicates powerful people in horrible crimes, drawing him deeper into a dangerous and widespread conspiracy. Frank Mortimer, disturbed son of a wealthy and influential family, has no interest in conspiracies. He only wants to take part in an experimental program that promises to make him 'better.' However, with the shadowy and powerful group known only as The Project pulling the strings, what he is getting better at could prove disastrous for everyone else, as a dangerous power is being unlocked inside him...

Andrea's Secret

Andrea's Secret
Author: John Bernard Kelly
Publisher: Aquinine books
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0646452606
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How to Nanny a Billionaire's Baby

How to Nanny a Billionaire's Baby
Author: Laura Burton
Publisher: Laura Burton
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-09-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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A Nanny/Billionaire romance - with all of the feels! When British Billionaire Benjamin flew to Los Angeles to take care of his baby niece, he had no idea how to be a parent. He was drowning in paperwork and grief after losing his brother and sister-in-law. Enter free-spirited Krista, a crystal-loving American girl who offers to be his temporary nanny. Benjamin thinks it’s just a temporary arrangement, but Krista has other plans. As Krista helps Benjamin take care of the baby, she discovers his tragic past and the heart of gold he hides behind his stiff upper lip. And as he opens up to her, she finds herself falling for him. Despite his initial reservations, Benjamin realizes that Krista might just be the answer to his prayers. With her help, he starts to come to terms with his loss and finds himself imagining a future in Los Angeles. This sweet romance is packed with all the feels, from heartbreak to hope, and will leave you swooning for more. Fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes will love this emotional journey of healing and love. KW: hot single dad romance, nanny billionaire romance, opposites attract, BBW romance, british billionaire romance, Nanny romance, Billionaire romance, British Billionaire, Los Angeles, Baby, Grief and overcoming loss, Crystal-loving, American girl, Heart of gold, Tragic past, Stiff upper lip, Healing, Nicholas Sparks, Jojo Moyes, Emotional journey, Love, Hope, Temporary arrangement, Parenting, boss/employee romance, forbidden romance, medding mother in law, heartwarming romance, all the feels, heartthrob, relatable heroine, swoony book boyfriend, Loss, Future, Swooning, Sweet romance, Romantic feelings, Forbidden love, Multicultural romance, Family saga, Second chances, Healing journey.

A Cold, Hard Prayer

A Cold, Hard Prayer
Author: John Smolens
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2023-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609177479
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In 1924, an orphan train passes through the Midwest, and two teenagers, seeking a new life, find nothing but hardship when taken in to live on a farm in Michigan. Mercy, a teenage girl of mixed race, and a boy nicknamed Rope, who lost fingers in a factory accident, become virtual prisoners of Harlan and Estelle Nau, whose children died during the Spanish flu epidemic. After facing abuse, Mercy and Rope flee, making an arduous journey into sparsely populated northern Michigan, where Mercy believes she will find her aunt. After Harlan is found murdered on his farm, police captain Jim Kincaid pursues Mercy and Rope to the cold, barren villages on the Mackinac Straits, but his efforts are complicated by the reemergent Ku Klux Klan, which has formed a coalition with the police deputy Milt Waters and the Dingley brothers, who run a local bootleg operation. Resolute and intrepid, Mercy and Rope develop a bond of mutual trust that helps them navigate a stark American landscape shaped by prejudice, hypocrisy, and fear.