Friesenpress jun 2018 (6 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We live in a society that seems designed to challenge our feeling of self-worth, and tarnish our self-image to the point where we can hardly stand the sight of ourselves. This has to stop. It is upon the foundation of our self-image that everything else in our life is built-our relationships, our work, our financial position, and even our mental, emotional, and physical well-being.With beautifully expressed inspirations and insights into visualization-and its constructive impact on change-this book will teach you how to take responsibility for your own emotions, confront your fears and weakness, and make meaningful and positive changes to your subconscious mind. This is a book about change, and the time for change has come.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'THE GHETTO GIRLS have somehow won a free trip to Marsay, France, to perform our play 'Ghetto Girls Rule'. Rose couldn't come because she is too little. So, it was me and my other sister Evelyn. Our mama said we could go if Robin Ann took responsibility for us. And since our mama hardly ever home, she wouldn't miss us anyway. Robin Ann said it would be a good chance to get away from her brothers and house responsibilities and them girls up the way.' When a senseless shooting ends the life of a dear friend in front of their very eyes, the Ghetto Girls struggle to come to terms with the grief-and fear-that remains. They need to get away from it all (by any means necessary), so when the opportunity to go on an all expenses paid trip to Marseilles, France, comes about, the choice is simple for the twelve friends. And if the invitation wasn't exactly intended for them, well, no one need be the wiser.None of them-not gum-poppin', tough-talkin' Beretta, not aspiring lawyer Deen, not even Leona with her fur coat and smattering of French-are prepared for what lies ahead. Will the young and hopeful Ghetto Girls return home triumphant, or will everything just continue to fall apart By turns funny, tense, and deeply moving, this novel's grounding in Black inner-city teen culture rings all the more true when the girls find themselves in the strange and picturesque French city, where they will have to depend on each other if they are to survive the adventure of a lifetime.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a young woman living in Toronto, she finds herself drawn to the country of her birth and returns to Prague, along the way finding love, danger, heartbreak, and her family's legacy.Helen Notzl's poignant memoir takes readers on a voyage between two starkly different and conflicting worlds - from affluence and fulfillment in Canada to passion and revolution in Prague. Must she choose between the two With intense drama, vivid narration, and brilliant detail, Long Journey Home tells the story of a woman's quest for those things that truly matter to all of us: love, family, identity and homeland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Ryan wakes up from a coma and can't remember the love of his life, Steph must face a future alone. With their lives torn apart, Steph escapes to the Isle of Skye in Scotland to mend her broken heart. There, she meets the powerfully handsome Donald, a Scot in a kilt. But ashadow lays over her adventure; someone is watching her every move. Will Ryan's memory come back before it's too late Can Steph resist the charms of an exotic stranger Is her life in possible danger The second book in the trilogy, Chance brings back the well-loved charactersfrom Fate, published in 2015. In a romantic story that sweeps across the rolling fields of American farm country to the rugged landscape of Scotland, Chance explores the notion that it's never too late for a second chance at love.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On his return from Vietnam, John Clarkson goes badly astray in his life for a while. But all that changes when he's on a job in South America and receives a nearly lethal bite from a spider. That's when he meets a Chilean mystic who not only saves his life; he helps John develop unsuspected abilities that transform him from a going-to-seed, middle-aged guy, to a magnetic, powerful figure, whose life becomes a thrilling action-adventure. On his return from Chile, John finds himself flying high-tech planes, romancing beautiful women, travelling the world, and building a financial portfolio that brings him untold riches. But nothing comes without a price, and John's fortune soon attracts the interest of a range of dirty-dealers, who would like nothing better than to get their hands on his money and see him dead. Fast-paced, humorous, and jam-packed with surprising adventures, Venom Flight explores what happens when a man discovers astonishing talents in himself and makes the very most of them.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thriving, book two of Corinne Jeffery's Understanding Ursula series, continues the storyof the challenges of the intriguing and contentious Werners, a family of German Lutheranhomesteaders on the Saskatchewan prairie. Become reacquainted with their dynamic livesas they try to keep pace with the flourishing new decade and later discover innovative waysto endure the hardships of the Great Depression.With the return of prosperity to the Canadian prairies, Gustav Werner resumes his insatiablequest to acquire more prime farmland. Still, no one is more surprised than he when hishand is forced and his future reshaped by increasing drama and secrets. He wonders whyhe is persistently entangled in compromising family relationships, and then tragedy, untilhe begins to doubt his faith. When Mother Nature, in which he has always found peaceand solace, too becomes his enemy-sending drought, grasshoppers, hail, and fierce windsthat lift the rich topsoil off his land-he starts to despair. Steadily, though, his sorrow anddespondency give way to a deepening awareness of his inner strengths and a heightening ofhis resolve to push onward for all those who count on him.…