Amanda: 621 books

Stress Management for Busy Women - How to get from 'Stress Mess' to 'Stress Less' for today’s busy woman.There are plenty of stress therapists and stress management books that advise you to slow down and take it easy if you want to reduce the stress in your life – Yeah,...

Short story (or character sketch) about Sam, from my novel, Syzygy. Nice little story even if you didn't read Syzygy, especially if you're Catholic. :) Takes place after Syzygy. Sam is a deacon on his way to becoming a priest. With Sam's too casual manner and messy appearance, Father O'Malley worries...

Millions of us are unhappy in our relationships and just can’t seem to understand why. Why is this person so unkind or disrespectful? Why do I never seem to get anything out of it? Why is it all about them, and so little about me? Why is it all so complicated when it could be so easy?Well,...

She turned me into a criminal…She corrupted my practical line of thinking by being uncommonly beautiful and so much more interesting than I expected. It’s too bad she wasn’t just someone else—someone who wasn’t swimming with brilliance. She had the uncanny talent to make me feel—well,...

I should have known I couldn’t change him.Maybe I was even wrong for trying, but I really thought Sebastian Scott had something redeemable about him (other than his body anyway), something I could bring out if I cared about him enough.I was wrong.But even though I’m not his intern anymore, I can’t...

“Sex and the City” meets the Midwest in this tale of one woman’s passionate and problematic path to happiness. Fate delivers a punch to the gut when 33-year-old Taylor Andrews is downsized out of her dream job and dumped by Mike Sheehan, the man she hoped to marry. When her best friend invites...

The Dinosaur Picture Book             This report covers several topics from basic knowledge about dinosaurs through their eventual extinction 65 million years ago. In addition to the nine knowledge and fun fact based topics, there are...

Spread the message of gratitude and kindness with these inspirational quotes for Thanksgiving. Your heartfelt words can inspire your loved ones to make Thanksgiving a festival of generosity and love. Change people forever with these inspiring words.

Cuando sueñas, cada imagen y cada sentimiento es una memoria de ti mismo. "Recuerdos" es una colección de recuerdos, directamente de mis diarios de los años 1997 – 2007. Por supuesto, cada recuerdo cambia de año a año tal como aumentamos nuestra propia sabiduría. Con suerte, cada recuerdo hablara de una belleza verdadera y trascendental. Los recuerdos son el arte del alma.

No one likes F-ing Freddy Fisher. Not even his teachers. Coach Carlson is irritated with him for not showing up for basketball tryouts. Mrs. Foster can’t say his name without spitting it out like venom. Freddy annoys and terrorizes teachers and students alike. Only his next-door neighbor Olivia...

Valley’s whole existence is in turmoil as all of her friends decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives. It seems like everyone except Valley is finding his or her own way in this fast-changing future world that has been struck so hard by the honeybee famines. Liam and Junior both...

Can you ever really know the man you're marrying until you've really gotten to know him? Vicki is beginning to learn just what kind of man she has married. Is the honeymoon over so quickly? It may be 73 degrees and sunny in Hawaii, but it always rains at 3:00. This is a short story of about 6,800 words.

For her entire life, Karissa and her sisters have been serving Omatha. Unlike her sisters, Karissa is always being forced to take on impossible missions across the galaxy (which have brought her closer to death more times than she cares to think about). Years of living under Omatha’s rules has taught...

Stories, poems, dreams and journal entries written between 1997-2007 but covering a wider space of time. Its sole purpose: to elevate words to mental images that defined us at different periods of our lives. The use of the royal we here is not conceit but evidence that with every entry a different person can be identified, because we all grow and develop into different people as we mature.