When Tears Turn to Rain

When Tears Turn to Rain
Author: IdnAc
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1489706313

When Tears Turn to Rain tells the personal story of a woman who, at forty, made a vow to herself to give up drinking, to pursue sobriety, and to save her own life. Based upon her journal entries, where she recorded her reflections along the way, she has crafted a sparse, unblinking, and straightforward account of her struggles and achievements along the path to living a sober life. When Tears Turn to Rain focuses on the turn toward living and away from dying that the author made. As she writes, At the age of forty, I realized that my journey was coming to an end. By this time, I was sick and shook so badly that I should have been hospitalized. But still determined to reach my destination of Skid Row, I pedaled all the harder. In December 2012, one block before I reached Skid Row, I noticed a beautiful sign that was lit up with sunshine. Its two words were the most beautiful I had ever seen: Sobriety Place. This is the story of what happens when she heads toward that beautiful place. This memoir reveals the details of an individuals journey into sobriety, showing how one woman faced her addiction and changed the direction of her life.

The Smell of Rain on Dust

The Smell of Rain on Dust
Author: Martín Prechtel
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1583949402

"Beautifully written and wise … [Martin Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply."—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martín Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture--how the inability that many of us have to grieve and weep properly for the dead is deeply linked with the inability to give praise for living. In modern society, grief is something that we usually experience in private, alone, and without the support of a community. Yet, as Prechtel says, "Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses." Prechtel explains that the unexpressed grief prevalent in our society today is the reason for many of the social, cultural, and individual maladies that we are currently experiencing. According to Prechtel, "When you have two centuries of people who have not properly grieved the things that they have lost, the grief shows up as ghosts that inhabit their grandchildren." These "ghosts," he says, can also manifest as disease in the form of tumors, which the Maya refer to as "solidified tears," or in the form of behavioral issues and depression. He goes on to show how this collective, unexpressed energy is the long-held grief of our ancestors manifesting itself, and the work that can be done to liberate this energy so we can heal from the trauma of loss, war, and suffering. At base, this "little book," as the author calls it, can be seen as a companion of encouragement, a little extra light for those deep and noble parts in all of us.

Loves Sparrow

Loves Sparrow
Author: Marcquis E Copper
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2017-06-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1365731502

This book ultimately describes what it feels like. To pick someone that you know in the back of your mind is just there to pass the time, yet your heart is blinded by a common emotional tendency called the illusion of the heart. This very thing can seem like love but as time goes on you see that your heart was deceived by what the eyes see, what the hands and lips touch, and what the body feels. Hence the theme "lust's heartbreak drove me to search, to look in places where love seems to lurk."

The Road

The Road
Author: John Edwards
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2017-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1640792333

The Road: A Journey Into the Mind of a Believer is a collection of thoughts inspired by the Holy Spirit along with the author's experiences connecting each chapter with the inspired songs or poems, however, perceived by the reader, as he walks you through the ebbs and tides of his journey.

Fifty Words for Rain

Fifty Words for Rain
Author: Asha Lemmie
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524746371

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond—a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it—a battle that just might cost her everything. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.

Poetry of Divine Infinity

Poetry of Divine Infinity
Author: Cindy H Clark
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1546228381

Poetry of Divine Infinity offers spiritual awakening. Many are based on spiritual enlightenment and spiritual encounters, gifts, and teachings. Poetry of Divine Infinity holds life testimonies as well as encouragements, prayers, and love.

Combined

Combined
Author: Lara Volski
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465347240

An average high-school student, Meghan Weller is blind to the truths she carries. And she is perfectly content with that, until she is unwillingly thrust into the secret nation of Angelics. Meghan is quick to learn that she too is an angel, a child of the Sun, who only through admirable deeds can earn wings. Yet with this newfound knowledge comes an enemy, fallen Angelics known as the Negatives, who will go to any lengths to put an end to those who oppose them. Can Meghan and her friends stop them before its too late?

Outstanding in the Rain

Outstanding in the Rain
Author:
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316381691

New from the creator of New York Times Best-Illustrated book Along a Long Road and A Long Way Away Includes Read-Aloud/Read-to-Me functionality where available. Book Description:Picture book master Frank Viva does it again, this time with astounding book that transform both words and pictures in delightful ways, while telling the story of a young boy spending his birthday at Coney Island, in search of his heart's desire.

Soft Rain

Soft Rain
Author: Cornelia Cornelissen
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2009-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307568253

It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for the next harvest but soon thereafter, soldiers arrive to take nine-year-old, Soft Rain, and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her family behind. Because Soft Rain knows some of the white man's language, she soon learns that they must travel across rivers, valleys, and mountains. On the journey, she is forced to eat the white man's food and sees many of her people die. Her courage and hope are restored when she is reunited with her father, a leader on the Trail, chosen to bring her people safely to their new land. Praise for Soft Rain: "An eye-opening introduction to this painful period of American history."--Publisher's Weekly "The characters themselves transform a sorrowful story of adversity into a tale of human resilience."--Kirkus Reviews "This gentle child's-eye view will move readers enormously."--Jane Yolen