The Wonder Within You

The Wonder Within You
Author: Carey Wickersham
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 162405143X

Many newly pregnant women believe mothering begins after the baby is born. As a result, their pregnancy is spent preparing the baby’s room, buying a crib, and even attending childbirth classes. All of these activities are valuable and help to prepare for this new life, but what about before the baby is born? The Wonder Within You takes you on a journey that weaves scientific studies, dozens of interviews with mothers, and storytelling into a fascinating account of life inside the womb. An obstetrician loads each chapter with advice. A sonographer gives incredible 3 and 4-D snapshots (available online) and stories from her 25 years of watching babies grow in utero. Each chapter includes week-by-week developmental information, findings from recent neonatal studies, and even nutritional advice all designed to nurture a healthy baby. The Wonder Within You also serves as a weekly journal for expectant mothers to chronicle her own baby’s journey to life outside the womb. It’s a keepsake baby book that begins before birth. The Wonder Within You will help moms meet the real needs of the growing pre-born baby. Sonograms, dietary and medical advice, and stories from experienced moms are combined to encourage 40 weeks of prenatal parenting designed with a joy for the journey in mind.

Odyssey

Odyssey
Author: Ron Culley
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1803814136

Following in the hallowed footsteps of Bryson, Fry and Palin, Ron Culley has produced a travel book that is at once fascinating, delightful and very funny. Whether writing about America's Route 66, the Arctic Circle, European rail journeys, Africa's Equator countries or points between, Culley entertains hugely. A must read!

Unexpected Odyssey: Danzig to Tennessee

Unexpected Odyssey: Danzig to Tennessee
Author: Klaus V. Luehning
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2014-07-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1312655046

A memoir of a life beginning 5 months after the onset of WW ll, escaping the Russian invasion, living out the war in Frankfurt and immigrating to America. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, being a pizza maker and then eventually graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as a ship's engineer. The years at sea evolved in teaching Marine Engineering at Texas A&M University as an Associate Professor, as the first professor hired and helped start the Texas Maritime Academy. Upon completion of the first training cruise of Texas Maritime Academy, and a graduate degree, then went on to being a sales engineering executive, then back to graduate school for a doctorate, and an intervening career as an Executive Chef for 16 years. The story concludes with reuniting with an old friend and moving to Tennessee to become a Senior Clinical substance abuse Counselor and anchoring in retirement.

The Idiot and the Odyssey

The Idiot and the Odyssey
Author: Joel Stratte-McClure
Publisher: The Idiot and the Odyssey
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0977586650

When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we're in for an exhilarating adventure. As a 30 year expatriate in France, he explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures - as well as his own mind - with compulsive vigour. Armed with a copy of Homer's Odyssey, he re-opens this great book for us as he ponders life, divorce, Buddhism, alcoholism, the art of trekking and a vast collection of weird, wicked, wonderful people along the way. This is a trip to get into!

The Odyssey

The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1903
Genre: Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN:

An Obama's Journey

An Obama's Journey
Author: Mark Obama Ndesandjo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493013912

In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about identity and multiculturalism. Rare family photos add to the book's personal nature as does the intense recounting of domestic violence in the home of Barack Obama Sr.’s and his third wife, Ruth Baker, Mark’s Jewish-American mother. The book also attempts to set the records straight on several points of the president’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father. In its connection to President Obama, Mark's story takes on an even greater significance because it becomes all the more directly, a story of American identity and a window into the complex figure of the father they share, Barack Obama Sr., their roots in Kenya, their multicultural identities, and their relationships with America.

The Antarean Odyssey

The Antarean Odyssey
Author: Inge Blanton
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147594005X

I am Sargon, Captain of the Antares, whom the prophet at my birth named the Even-Star of the House of the Descending Falcon, and the rising Morning Star of his people. What a confusing name to give to a small child. Now that I am at the end of my days, I think I can finally decipher the contradiction. I was heralded as the hope of the Astari, my people. The soothsayer told my great-grandfather, the last hope. This was the reason for the name Even-star. But, it was not to be. I'm also the last heir to the throne of Istranavu, my world. The assassination of the Emperor and my banishment was apparently the death-knell of my people. The Antares, my second home, will soon translate into the arms of Incal, the sun of my world. I have chosen death than have this ship used for their foul play, I will destroy the Antares. This is the end, the end of the joy and sorrows of a life I never in my wildest dreams could have envisioned. I was born two hundred years ago into the House of the Descending Falcon. My family was ancient even by the standards of my world. Both my parents were scientists. I think I inherited my inquisitiveness from them. Sirtis, my mother, was the granddaughter of the emperor which placed me high on the social and political ladder. When a civilization becomes ancient, it has the tendency to look back to a golden age. Everything hoary acquires a golden glow as Sabrina would have said. But there, I'm getting ahead of myself, so, I'd better start at the beginning.

The Making of an Apostle, Volume 2, "For People Like Me"

The Making of an Apostle, Volume 2,
Author: Apostle Sharon Loving Ruff
Publisher: The Making of anApostle, a Christian Work LLC
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0984918558

Apostle Sharon Loving Ruff unashamedly details her amazing true life odyssey as she evolves from dungeons of shame, rejection and depression to the birthing of a profound new reality of joy, peace, happiness and purpose in fulfilling God's chosen destiny. This book charts her remarkable supernatural survival after her mother aborted her, and her quest for acceptance and purpose after multiple sexual abuses before age five, suicidal attempts, rapes, teen pregnancy and being a high school dropout. These obstacles to success, as well as, two failed marriages and single parenting however did not prevent a forward movement toward her destiny. After reaching adulthood, she achieved a General Education Diploma certificate, graduated from American University and reached pinnacles of success she thought never possible for "someone like her." Then, by age 35, once again, her life was filled with depression and despair, and she decided to agree with the voices in her head suggesting suicide to end her pain. At that very moment, her choice threatened her divine destiny and instantly, she was propelled into an encounter with the Almighty God where she heard Him audibly pronounce, "I am your Heavenly Father and everything will be alright." Her life immediately took on new meaning and she was never the same. This book shares gold nuggets of truth from 27 years of intimacy with God, awesome experiences and supernatural encounters obtained while serving as an evangelist, teacher and prophet. Within these pages is a bountiful harvest of revelation knowledge, keys to unlock mysteries, strategies for spiritual growth and development, rules of engaging in spiritual warfare, and so much more.

Floating in My Mother's Palm

Floating in My Mother's Palm
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439144532

Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.