A refreshing spiritual memoir from Sarah Cunningham is this afternoon’s latest addition to our Free Book Alert listings….
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In this animated, curious and haunting tale, set in Mexico City and environs, Hernando, the greatest matador of La Fiesta Brava, confronts Carlos, the impossibly large bull. Their series d ‘The Spectacle Without End’, draws them together through an endless series of stalemates. Bound by fate in a never-ending corrida, Hernando seeks only redemption, while Carlos seeks only his elusive querencia. In turns comic and tragic, that which ties these adversaries together grows ever faster, as each lives to fight another day, and another, and another.
Carlos:
“Once, outside of Ulysses, Kansas, by the banks of One Hundred Mile Creek, near the source of the Pequot River, in a slanted sunflower field laid low by grazing cattle, a bull calf was born to the cow Esmerelda. The calf was large, much larger than one might expect from its humble lineage. Later, as the legend grew, they would say the bull calf was born with six-inch horns to the clanging of the nearby church bells. Or that it emerged smoldering from a ribbon of dry heat lightning. Or even that this was no bull at all, but the offspring of Indian elephant and Jersey dairy cow. These types of apocryphals will attach themselves to budding legends and gather details like a tumbleweed of untruth. But here now are the true and simple facts of this taurine tale.”
Hernando:
“Hernando’s bloodline was spilled in the sand by a long family history of middling matadors. His great-grandfather, who was called El Gaucho, was known for his luck and recklessness until he was gored nearly to death by the bull Ozomatzin and became a shoemaker in Aguascalientes. His grandfather El Zapatero was killed by the blue roan Zorrito, which his father Juan then had beheaded and mounted above the television in the family home where it stared down over Hernando’s truculent youth like a mounted Siren calling the boy to the bulls. Juan, who went by El Pescador, fought for fifteen years, first as a picador, then in ferias in the south, then in the bloodless fights for the cruise ship tourists in Baja, before retiring to the guava orchards of Ronda.”
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Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds ~ Sarah Cunningham
Spiritual Memoir
Spiritual Memoir
4.7 out of 5 stars (43 customer reviews) Zondervan eBooks Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Sarah Cunningham, a moderate middle-class white girl who grew up in the Michigan countryside, speaks about God with humor and honesty more characteristic of liberal west-coast writers in Picking Dandelions
. In this warm and witty memoir, she describes finding and keeping a personal faith in the quirky settings of her ultra-Christian childhood. Whether recounting living next to a cemetery, teaching at-risk high schoolers, or listening to her grandmother’s stories about being a British ‘war bride,’ the author weaves faith into down-to-earth metaphors of growth and renewal, planting and reaping, greenery and weeds. In the end, Cunningham succeeds in sifting through the dysfunctions and flaws of human life and discovering pockets of God’s original Eden goodness for both herself and for you. Picking Dandelions is a candid and personal account of outgrowing laissez-faire Christianity, moving into mature faith, and realizing that a God-following person is a changing person … and you just might follow suit.
. In this warm and witty memoir, she describes finding and keeping a personal faith in the quirky settings of her ultra-Christian childhood. Whether recounting living next to a cemetery, teaching at-risk high schoolers, or listening to her grandmother’s stories about being a British ‘war bride,’ the author weaves faith into down-to-earth metaphors of growth and renewal, planting and reaping, greenery and weeds. In the end, Cunningham succeeds in sifting through the dysfunctions and flaws of human life and discovering pockets of God’s original Eden goodness for both herself and for you. Picking Dandelions is a candid and personal account of outgrowing laissez-faire Christianity, moving into mature faith, and realizing that a God-following person is a changing person … and you just might follow suit.
Does Cunningham have anything to offer in this crowded [memoir] genre? Absolutely. For one thing, great writing. I read a lot of books, and a very few are characterized by the quality of writing in this book. A few pages into this memoir and I relaxed. It’s the same feeling you get (I imagine) when you’re being chauffeured by someone who really knows how to drive. -Daryl Dash
Sarah describes herself as a moderate middle-class white girl who grew up in the Michigan countryside, but speaks about God with humor and honesty more characteristic of liberal west-coast writers. Anne Lamott is one of her faves. Susanisaacs.net
It’s sort of refreshing that Sarah, raised in the right wing, can weave elements of faith into a spiritual memoir too because it suggests that there are valid, messy spiritual discoveries for all of us, no matter what corner of the earth or political landscape we grow up on. -Anne Jackson, Flowerdust.net
In Sarah Cunningham, I find all of the the raw, unembellished honesty, the fervent hope, and handcrafted needlework of poetic prose that made me fall in love with Anne Lamott. -Ian Scott Patterson Cunningham’s writing is crisp and entertaining, and her humor gently self-deprecating. She gleans her spiritual insights from the most mundane moments, but that doesn’t make them mundane insights. -Marilyn Matevia
15 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Now (Collection)
Business & Investing, Business
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts-now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
Practical Tools to Jumpstart Your Career, Transform Your Future, and Achieve Your Full Potential-Both Personally and Financially.
Fifteen powerfully useful mini-guides help you get ahead where you are or move on-find your next great job, negotiate great compensation, and start with confidence-smoothly handle nonstop change, negative emotions, and whatever else comes your way!
From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Dr. Gregory Shea, Robert Gunther, Martha I. Finney, and more.
Included in this collection:
- Mastering the Roll: Succeeding Amidst Change Means Trying New Things, Failing, and Trying More (Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther)
- Taking Advantage of Social Networking to Land Your Perfect Job (Martha I. Finney)
- How to Use Social Networking for Your Job Search (Martha I. Finney)
- Embracing Risk in Your Career: A Story of How to Make More and Worry Less (Wes Moss)
- How to Evaluate the Job You’ve Been Offered (Martha I. Finney)
- Keep Active While Out of Work! (Martha I. Finney)
- How to Control Your Finances After You Are Laid Off (Martha I. Finney)
- In Turbulent Times, You Can’t Expect Others To Save You: How to Keep Yourself Prepared for Any Economy (Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther)
- Should You Take a Job with a Company That’s Laying People Off? (Martha I. Finney)
- Start Your New Job with Confidence: Ideas for Success in Your First 100 Days (Martha I. Finney)
- Making Sure Your Finances Are in Order Before Being Laid Off (Martha I. Finney)
- Make Sure You Have a Plan for Your Exit Before You are Laid Off (Martha I. Finney)
- You-ve Been Laid Off: Now, Make a Plan! (Martha I. Finney)
- Dealing with a Lay Off: What to Expect When You Are No Longer Expected (Martha I. Finney)
- Managing Emotions to Learn from Failure (Dean A. Shepherd)
Don’t Blink
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By James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Kindle Price: $0.00 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
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The good: New York’s Lombardo’s Steak House is famous for three reasons–the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police’s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit.
The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas–on both sides of the law.
And the dead: Back off–or die–is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.
Compromising Positions
by Jenna Bayley-Burke
by Jenna Bayley-Burke 4.7 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
“With sensual love scenes, flirty repartee, and a man and woman clearly meant to be together, you get everything you could ever want in a romance novel. Overall, I have to say that Compromising Positions is a must read!” ~ Long and Short Reviews
“Compromising Positions would have to be one of the best contemporary romance novels I have read in a long time. Jenna Bayley-Burke delivers it all, romance, humor, and great chemistry between her hero and heroine. It is so well written. The pace is great, and the story line fantastic.” ~ Fallen Angel Reviews Warning: The Kama Sutra isn’t for the prudish or faint of heart, and neither is this story.
The Big 5-OH!
by Sandra D Bricker
by Sandra D Bricker 4.5 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Olivia Wallace has a birthday curse . . . or so she thinks. It was a broken heart on her 16th, a car accident on her 21st, pneumonia on her 30th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38th, 39th, and 40th; and six days before her 45th, she lost the love of her life to a heart attack. Numbing grief stole that birthday and a couple more to follow and, on the morning of her 48thbirthday, she received the call she’d dreaded ever since losing her mom so many years ago…she was diagnosed with stage-3 ovarian cancer. The doctors didn’t hold out a lot of hope, but Liv survived and maintained her faith. Months of surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation treatments followed.
But now, as her 50th birthday creeps up the icy Ohio path toward her, her hair has grown back, her energy level is up, and she is officially cancer free. It makes her nervous. After everything she’s gone through, Liv hates the idea of driving on icy roads and returning to work as an O.R. nurse in a local Cincinnati hospital.
Her best friend Hallie knows just the thing to break Liv out of the winter doldrums, while providing a safe haven of warmth, sunshine, and a time to regroup: a holiday in the Florida sunshine!
by Juliette Powell
“Juliette Powell has provided a timely crash course on how to leverage your business’s online presence. A must-read for any aspiring entrepreneur, activist, brand manager, or c-level executive.”
—Jeffrey Stewart, Serial Technology Entrepreneur; Founder, Mimeo, Urgent Career, and Monitor110
“Reading Juliette Powell’s book is like perusing the secret trade documents of the most connected social butterfly. Upon first meeting Juliette, she immediately grabbed me by the arm and introduced me to the most important person in the room. When you pick up her book, it’s the same experience. She reaches through the pages and gives the reader entry to the halls of power through online networking.”
—Amy Shuster, Editorial Producer, MSNBC
“Juliette knows her way around a social network; she regales us with tales and practical advice from the plastic porous mediascape of today.”
—David Thorpe, Global Director of Innovation, Ogilvy & Mather
“If you are in business or starting one, and wonder what the heck all this talk about social networking is about, this book is the best quick guide I’ve seen. It’s full of juicy stories, backed up by sound social science, lucidly explained.”
—Howard Rheingold, Author, Smartmobs; Professor, Stanford and Berkeley
“The exciting new world of online social networking is demonstrating the profound power of these truths to change the very fabric of society as we know it. Our interactions, relationships, and values are changing faster than most of us can comprehend. For some, the pace of this change is alarming. For others it is empowering. In 33 Million People in the Room Juliette Powell takes us on a funfilled tour of this rapidly changing hypo-manic digital ecosystem simultaneously providing both practical advice and an insightful commentary on the increasing importance of authenticity in modern culture. Along the way we meet a hilarious cast of characters and gain a behind-the-scenes glimpse into real social networking success stories showing how to leverage the power of this modern phenomenon to achieve meaningful social and economic results for you and your business.”
—Michael Spencer, CTO, ASMALLWORLD
“Juliette Powell has captured the strength, excitement, and opportunity of social networks in this compelling work. Opening with an arresting saga about Chris Anderson’s debut as the new TED owner, she deftly sketches vignette after vignette that will have you thinking—why not me? Social networking power is awesome for those who have experienced it—but most people remain skeptical, guarded, and untrusting. Give up control? All control? Well, as she explains—YES! I’ve tried it, using six hundred fifty ‘coauthors’ to write a book—a book no one could have written, but to which ‘everyone’ could contribute. It was hard, very hard at first, to relinquish control, just as Powell describes. But the benefits she outlines are real. Try it—you’ll see!”
—Chuck House, Executive Director, Media X, Stanford University
“Digital society is all about expanding and energizing connections between people and ideas in ways we are just starting to understand. 33 Million People in the Room shares the perspective of an insider and shows…
Edge of Apocalypse
by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall (Zondervan eBooks)
by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall (Zondervan eBooks)3.9 out of 5 stars (48 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Buddha: With Bonus Material
by Deepak Chopra (HarperCollins Publishers)
by Deepak Chopra (HarperCollins Publishers) No customer reviews yet. Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Catwalk
by Melody Carlson ( Zondervan eBooks) 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
by Melody Carlson ( Zondervan eBooks) 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)Kindle Price: 0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
The Dangerous Dimension
by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press LLC)
by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press LLC)4.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled (May 1, 2010)
Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)
by Paramhansa Yogananda
by Paramhansa Yogananda 4.5 out of 5 stars (81 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book
by Nancy Rue (Zondervan)
by Nancy Rue (Zondervan)4.6 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled