Sitting on Top of the World

Sitting on Top of the World
Author: Cheryl King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781955631075

Fourteen-year-old June Baker never in a million years thought she'd be dressing like a boy, sneaking into a hobo camp, and jumping onto a moving freight train to travel across the state of Tennessee. But that's what she has to do to find work so her family's farm can survive. It's what she has to do to fulfill her brother's dying wish. It's 1933, and the Great Depression is tightening its chokehold on working America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world with her beloved brother Joseph (June calls him Josy), now she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Once she was picking fruit from the pawpaw trees, and now she's picking up the pieces of a family torn apart. Once she was climbing and falling from trees, and now she's falling for a boy she should be running from.They were counting on Josy. Now her family's counting on her: daddy, who's grieving losses no father should have to grieve; mama, who's suffering tuberculosis; and even her best friend, Margaret Ann, whose own father was a victim of railroad bulls. June knows she has no choice but to ride the rails, and she knows she'll find work. What she doesn't know is that the railroad bull she falls in love with has a devastating secret that will change the course of her life.Journey with June in this young-adult historical fiction tale about friendship, love, and loss, Sitting on Top of the World.

You Sitting on Top of the World—Instead of the World Sitting on Top of You!

You Sitting on Top of the World—Instead of the World Sitting on Top of You!
Author: Dr. Patricia Susan Slaughter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1465361081

You Sitting on Top of the WorldInstead of the World Sitting on Top of You! offers readers the jump-start they need to get the career or dream job they want. Youve probably heard lots of advice, but this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to navigate the fast-track toward a promising career. You will learn new insights that no one has ever condensed into an easy-to-read format. My practical and solid insights are based on experience and research, and they will help shape your career or land that job. This book starts a movement called yourexclusivesuccess. Once you read it, you will change what youve been doing wrong, and youll learn to reclaim the success you deserve. This book prepares you for a "career jungle. Youll want to refer to it often as you move along, and the advice it offers will last a lifetime.

Deskbound

Deskbound
Author: Kelly Starrett
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1628601116

Sitting can wreak havoc on your health, and not just in the form of minor aches and pains. Recent studies show that too much sitting contributes to a host of diseases—from obesity and diabetes to cancer and depression. The typical seated office worker suffers from more musculoskeletal injuries than those workers who do daily manual labor. It turns out that sitting is as much an occupational risk as is lifting heavy weights on the job. The facts are in: sitting literally shortens your life. Your chair is your enemy, and it is murdering your body. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Kelly Starrett—renowned physical therapist and author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Becoming a Supple Leopard—unveils a detailed battle plan for surviving our chair-centric society. Deskbound provides creative solutions for reducing the amount of time you spend perched on your backside, as well as strategies for transforming your desk into a dynamic, active workstation that can improve your life. You will learn how to: • Easily identify and fix toxic body positions • Eradicate back, neck, and shoulder pain • Mitigate carpel tunnel syndrome forever • Organize and stabilize your spine and trunk • Walk, hinge, squat, and carry with peak skill • Perform daily body maintenance work using fourteen mobility templates for resolving pain and increasing range of motion Whether your goal is to maximize your performance in or out of the workplace, lose weight, or simply live pain-free, Deskbound will work for you. It is a revolutionary cure for death-by-desk.

Getting Good at Being You

Getting Good at Being You
Author: Lauren Alaina
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400226767

With a little bit of country, a whole lot of faith, and a healthy dose of sass, award-winning singer-songwriter Lauren Alaina's debut book, Getting Good at Being You, invites you to take the road less traveled as you step right up to who God calls you to be. After years in the spotlight on American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, country music star Lauren Alaina has learned a thing or two about fighting self-doubt and feeling at home in her own skin. In Getting Good at Being You, Lauren shares stories about everything from lost loves to getting a nose ring to battling an eating disorder to grieving a loved one’s death. Each story leads to practical tips, take-it-on-the-road strategies, and encouragement for your own personal and spiritual growth. In this book, you will be inspired to: speak to yourself with kindness and compassion chase the dreams that light your spirit on fire cultivate rich relationships with family and friends identify self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors offer forgiveness for yourself and others Throughout the book, you will find: behind-the-scenes photos from Lauren's career in country music. lists, tips, and strategies to boost your self-confidence. prompts to help you dream big and run toward who you are. This beautiful book is a perfect gift for women who celebrate other women birthday celebrations or career promotions high school and college graduations fans who want to know more about country music stardom Each of us deserves head-over-heels, can't-get-enough, shout-it-from-the-mountaintops self-love. By the final page of Getting Good at Being You, that's just the kind of confidence you'll have. As Lauren discovered, maybe life is getting good after all.

Sitting on the Job

Sitting on the Job
Author: Scott W. Donkin
Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781591200130

No longer does the sedantry worker have to suffer from tingling or aching hands, neck or back pain, headaches or fatigue that can be so debilitating. The author details in this book the many variables that must be considered so that workers who sit for many hours a day can function effectively in a supportive and healthy work environment. Dr Donkin discusses all the possible physical ailments and conditions that can arise form poor working conditions and then offers ways to cure or prevent them.

Sitting on Top of the World

Sitting on Top of the World
Author: Robert John Jarrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2017-07-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780992398811

A full life and a keen interest in people, animals and nature have fuelled Bob Jarrad's verses. He is an astute observer and recorder of poignant moments, as well as a positive Aussie with a delightful sense of humour. In this collection of poetry, Jarrad plants seeds of hope, as he captures life's simple pleasures and what it is like to be human, to be humble and grateful for the things all around us - things that have us sitting on top of the world.

Encyclopedia of the Blues

Encyclopedia of the Blues
Author: Gérard Herzhaft
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781557282521

The popular Encyclopedia of the Blues, first published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1992 and reprinted six times, has become an indispensable reference source for all involved with or intrigued by the music. The work alphabetizes hundreds of biographical entries, presenting detailed examinations of the performers and of the instruments, trends, recordings, and producers who have created and popularized this truly American art form.

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar

The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
Author: Martin Windrow
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374228469

The author reflects on his fifteen-year relationship with a tawny owl, an unlikely companionship marked by their incredulous neighbors, books, and unique care challenges.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own

100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own
Author: Edward Komara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-02-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810889226

Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t among the hundreds—sometimes thousands—of books on the music you so love? In the Best Music Books series, readers finally have a quick-and-ready list of the most important works published on modern major music genres by leading experts. In 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own, Edward Komara, former Blues Archivist of the University of Mississippi, and his successor Greg Johnson select those histories, biographies, surveys, transcriptions and studies from the many hundreds of works that have been published about this vital American musical genre. Komara and Johnson provide a short description of the contents and the achievement of each title selected for their “Blues 100.” Entries include full bibliographic citations, prices of copies in print, and even descriptions of specific editions for book collectors. 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own also includes suggested blues recordings to accompany each recommended work, as well as a concluding section on key reference titles—or as Komara and Johnson phrase it: “The Books behind the Blues 100.” 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own serves as a guide for any blues fan looking for a road map through the history of—and even history of the scholarship on—the blues. Here Komara and Johnson answer the question of not only what is a “blues” book, but which ones are worth owning.