Cindy's Story

Cindy's Story
Author: Duane L. Martin
Publisher: Duane L. Martin
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After her temper led her to walk out on yet another convenience store job, Cindy needed to find herself a new job fast, otherwise she'd end up broke and living on the streets. After discussing the situation with her apartment manager, he informs her that he has a brother who's been looking to hire an assistant. The only problem is that he's a private investigator, which is a career field that she has no experience in whatsoever. Still, she was pretty much ready to jump at any opportunity. It was a chance at not only quick employment, but possibly a whole new career that would get her out of the convenience store business once and for all. As it turns out, being a private detective isn't as glamorous as they make it look on television. It comes with certain indignities and moral issues that she'd never really considered before. Not only that, but her new boss, Frank, seems to delight in going out of his way to piss her off. The only thing he seems to enjoy more than pissing her off, is complaining about how horrible her coffee is. Still, for some reason that she can't seem to figure out, he also goes out of his way to help her succeed in any way he possibly can. While Frank can be terribly passive aggressive, he's nothing compared to his sister Kayla. She's like a nightmare on wheels, with no empathy, and no filter whatsoever. You never know what's going to come out of her mouth next, but it's a safe bet that it'll be something infuriating. When your temper is already the stuff of legends, having to deal with someone like her, without the encounter ending in a murder rap, requires a tremendous amount of willpower. The one thing that Cindy has going for her is that she's got a super high aptitude for the job. All she needs to do in order to succeed is to work hard, learn how to control that legendary temper of hers, and most importantly, learn how to make a decent cup of coffee. The first two are relatively simple. The third...not so much.

Cindy's Story

Cindy's Story
Author: CK Demps
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2008-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1465328645

Book Summary This book was written with the hope it will touch and help someone that has gone through and struggled with similar situations. Whether you have gone through them personally or know someone who has, this book should give you an inside view of the feelings of hurt and betrayal. This is a story that covers everything from growing up with parents that abused drugs to being a single mother/parent in my adult life. It is the memories of a small child growing up in a home filled with chaos, along with feeling scared and alone. From start to finish I have had issues to deal with like losing someone to suicide at a young age to being homeless after graduation. I hope this book is encouraging to you no matter what has happened in your life. I will try and give some advice that has helped me cope along with comfort and direction to guide you to the right path. I hope I can help many of you, but if I reach out to just one, then this book is a success. From childhood to my adult life, I have dealt with a lot of circumstances. You Are Not Alone! I want to share my life with you and help you through tough times.

Parenting Forward

Parenting Forward
Author: Cindy Wang Brandt
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1467452513

A progressive Christian parenting book with a social-justice orientation How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness. In Parenting Forward Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their children. “By becoming aware of the complex ways we participate in systems of inequal­ity or hierarchy,” she says, “we begin to resist systemic injustice ourselves, empower our children, and change our communities.”

In the Neighborhood of Normal

In the Neighborhood of Normal
Author: Cindy Maddox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646030736

Eighty-two-year-old Mish Atkinson from Fair Valley, West Virginia, is determined she's going to make something of the time she has left on this earth. When a text message on her new smart phone leads to an encounter with a woman she believes is Jesus, Mish is eager to obey the woman's instructions to follow the love. She knows that Jeff, the gay pastor at her church, think she's lost her marbles, but now that her husband is gone, she's not going to let anyone put a damper on her sunshine. And when a pregnant teen needs her help, it doesn't matter that she doesn't know the difference between STDs and DVDs, she follows the love--in for a penny, in for a dollar, as she always says. Following the love is exciting and meaningful... until it costs much more than dollars and cents.

Cindy Ellen

Cindy Ellen
Author: Susan Lowell
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001-12-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064438643

Once upon a time, there was a sweet cowgirl named Cindy Ellen, who lived with the orneriest stepmother west of the Mississippi and two stepsisters who were so nasty, they made rattlesnakes look nice! But when a fast-talkin' fairy godmother teaches Cindy Ellen a little lesson about gumption, Cindy lassos first place at the rodeo and the heart of Joe Prince.... You may think you've heard the story before-but you'll get a side-splittin' bellyache after you're through with this hilarious rendition told Wild West-style!

When the Heart Cries

When the Heart Cries
Author: Cindy Woodsmall
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2008-05-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307446271

When Hannah dares to love across the boundaries of tradition, will she lose everything? Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She’s been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her marriage will change her relationship with her family forever. On the evening of their engagement, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcome encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is destroyed. As she finds herself entangled in questions that the Old Ways of her people cannot answer, Hannah faces the possibility of losing her place in her family, in her community– and in the heart of the man she loves. When the Heart Cries is book one in the Sisters of the Quilt series.

Two Many Birds

Two Many Birds
Author: Cindy Derby
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250815266

Filled with heart, humor, and relevance, this side-splitting picture book, Two Many Birds, by author/illustrator Cindy Derby, opens minds and entertains all at once. As birds line up to perch on a tree, a monitor shouts rules at them: No fluffin' feathers! No pooping on the ground! No nudity! Eventually, the tree fills to capactiy (100 birds), but what happens when two more are accidentally born among the branches?

How To Walk An Ant

How To Walk An Ant
Author: Cindy Derby
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250253349

There are nine steps to becoming an ant walker, and Amariyah, the expert ant walker, is here to show you how it’s done. This irreverent and quirky picture book, How to Walk an Ant, follows a young girl as she goes through the process of walking ants, from polite introductions to tragic leash entanglements. In the end, this unique book from author-illustrator Cindy Derby shows that as long as you’re doing what you’re best at, you may find a like-minded friend to tag along. *Zero ants were harmed in the making of this book. **Oops, 7 ants were harmed in the making of this book.

Cindy Moo

Cindy Moo
Author: Lori Mortensen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780062043931

One night on the farm, the cows overhear a fantastic tale. “Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon!” Inspired by this classic rhyme, a plucky cow named Cindy Moo sets out to prove that cows really can leap over the moon. The other cows laugh at her, but that doesn’t stop Cindy from trying—and failing—night after night . . . until a trick of nature shows Cindy a way to triumph. As delightfully silly as the original nursery rhyme, this hilarious picture book will have readers of all stripes (and spots) cheering for its determined heroine.

Telling Stories

Telling Stories
Author: Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1589016742

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and history. In Telling Stories leading scholars illustrate how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture; and they investigate various settings such as therapeutic and medical encounters, educational environments, politics, media, marketing, and public relations. They analyze a variety of topics from the narrative construction of self and identity to the telling of stories in different media and the roles that small and big life stories play in everyday social interactions and institutions. These new reflections on the theory and analysis of narrative offer the latest tools to researchers in the fields of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.