Personal Short Stories

In King Maker, you'll find 101 bite-sized stories, thought-provoking essays, and powerful insights designed to sharpen your communication skills in every aspect of life. Whether you're delivering a speech, telling a story, or simply making conversation, this book will help you connect, persuade, and leave a lasting impression.

While anger is a normal emotion that everyone experiences, including kids, the trick is to help them express their anger in healthier ways. Instead of suppressing anger and bottling everything up inside, working with them to accept and understand their anger leads to lifetime emotional well-being and healthy relationships. This guide uses simple language for you and your kid to listen to and discuss together, while building a strong bond and having fun doing it.

This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is essential for our well-being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a minute or two away.

Sheriff Jones Fontana loves his city more than anything… But with a looming empire on the border, promising complete subjugation, Estegrad’s freedom may not last long. Jones faces an impossible choice. Risk the survival of his city. Or its freedom. Will Estegrad survive? And will it ever be the same? The City at the Edge of Progress is a dystopian short story where freedom must be fought for, where underdogs rise against their oppressors, and honour and loyalty work hand in hand with a desire for liberty. A must-read for fans of dystopian speculative fiction and stories of resistance.

As we age, memories can fade, affecting not only recall but also connections with loved ones. Engaging in brain-stimulating activities like reading can slow cognitive decline, as noted by the American Academy of Neurology. This book offers an enjoyable way to exercise your memory and bring details back into focus. With short stories set in familiar outdoor settings, you’ll be transported into the great outdoors from the first chapter.

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

The power of religion can accurately be described as second only to the power of God in the lives of the multitudes. Once called the Opium of the People, Religion serves many purposes, presents many faces, in order to meet the needs of billions seeking solace from the threats of life. Nonfiction Personal Short Story Narrated by Sara Niles When I was a little girl, I was saved by an ancient old man who taught me to love God, to revere his word, but to know the difference between the words of men and the words of God. I became a Jehovah's Witness when I was a young girl, and remained a ...

In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved. In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her home town of Eatonville, Florida, to collect and record the oral histories, songs, and sermons, many dating back to slavery times, that she remembered hearing as a child. These highly metaphorical folktales, "big old lies", and powerful songs helped her to recover her history, and preserve an important part of American culture.

I wanted to get in good shape so I could land a girlfriend. How did I end up drooling over my personal trainer? I never expected myself to be attracted to another guy, let alone a guy in his 40s. But my new personal trainer Henry is so incredibly hot, muscled and enthusiastic, I can't take my eyes off him—and not just to make sure my form is good. I need to keep it together and focus on the workout. I didn't come here to get all worked up over an older guy! How can I concentrate when I can't stop fantasizing about Henry? And how am I going to keep this little crush a secret? -------------...

La historia personal, la creación literaria, observaciones sobre la naturaleza humana y apreciaciones estéticas conforman este atractivo abanico de reflexiones que comparte Paulo Coelho, mientras muestra que las lecciones vitales más importantes se extraen de experiencias aparentemente insignificantes.

One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan, one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, laying out his vision for America and the world.

Jimmy Dunne is America’s new positive, inspiring voice—reminding us all of the absolute wonder right in our own backyards. Jimmy Dunne Says is a collection of author Jimmy Dunne’s best bite-sized stories that Americans everywhere are spreading and sharing. These stories are heartfelt, smart, and thought-provoking, and some will have you absolutely belly-laughing. Some stories about navigating everyday life today, some that take you right back to your childhood days.

Tales, metaphors, parables, meditations, anecdotes and reflections for our spiritual growth and personal development. Stories that help us transcend in body, mind and soul. Self help for our personal power. Tales to wake up. - How did you do that which was impossible to do? - I didn't know it was impossible. 'Tales for the Hidden Mind' is a series of more than 100 short stories, based on classic parables. Each story is accompanied by an interpretation. They are metaphors to raise our consciousness and give us tools to improve our life and that of our world. In this book the author Leandro ...

Are you too busy for long, drawn-out self-help books? Humorous short stories Laughing at life (Mark Lyons Roaring through Life Series Book 1) for you to reflect upon and transform your life! Listen in Under 2 Hours....Designed for people who want quick, engaging, and impactful life lessons—without the fluff! Each story is drawn from real-life experiences, packed with humor, adventure, and wisdom, and wrapped up with a powerful takeaway. Listen to it in under 2 hours. Apply it for a lifetime!!

You are a multitude of stories. Every joy and heartbreak, every disappointment and dizzying high, has the makings of an unforgettable story. Whether your goal is to deliver the perfect wedding toast, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview or simply connect more deeply to those around you, The Moth is here to help. In this book, the Moth team reveal the secrets of their time-honed process and use examples from beloved storytellers like Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nikesh Shukla, Sarfraz Manzoor and more.

This book is a compilation of short stories and metaphors: mind-changing short stories and metaphors and about moving forward. They are available as separate publications, but have now been brought together in one book to offer greater value. The stories are set out alphabetically by their titles. Metaphors have long given insights into the difficulties of people and have shown the ways in which we can escape or improve.

Echoes of the Forgotten: A Short Story Collection In Echoes of the Forgotten, five gripping tales unfold, each exploring the fragility of memory, the unspoken darkness lurking in everyday lives, and the harrowing choices that define us. The collection opens with "Echoes of the Forgotten," where Avery wakes in a sterile room with a family she doesn’t remember. As she unraveled the truth behind her accident, she discovered a terrifying conspiracy that threatens to erase her past and her future. In "The Golem’s Heart," Grim, a golem brought to life to protect a village from monstrous raids...

You may have listened to other collections of short stories, but the contents of this audiobook are specifically designed to put you at the advantage when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep regularly. Follow the most effective routine for great sleep and experience true restfulness. Never suffer from sleeplessness or more extreme complications of exhaustion ever again with these stories.

¿Qué tal si la hora de dormir dejara de ser una pesadilla? Diseñado para ser escuchado, este libro contiene 9 historias relajantes para antes de ir a dormir que te ayudarán a dormir con un profundo, relajante y natural sueño. Una selección de palabras calmantes que pueden funcionar como un auxiliar del sueño sin m edicamentos, para conseguir la máxima relajación y pasividad.

Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive." Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis's gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades.