The Hidden Cries Behind Her Smile

The Hidden Cries Behind Her Smile is a book filled with journal entries from one woman’s journey of discovering that she was living in an emotionally, mentally and verbally abusive marriage. In this book you will find some of her deepest and rawest emotions as she began to unpack all of the pain that this abuse had left on her mind and her heart. This type of abuse is one that is not talked about a lot because you cannot see the marks that it leaves on one’s body. In the pages of this book the writer paints a picture of the wounds and the scars that emotional, mental and verbal abuse does to a person’s heart and mind. You can almost hear her cries as you read through her journal entries, the cries that were hidden behind her smile for so long.

You never know what people endure behind closed doors and that exactly describes 17year-old Melanie Acuff’s life. The girl must deal with she and her alcoholic mother’s strained, toxic relationship while also being bullied in school and abused by her boyfriend in the process. Despite her personal problems, she still flashes the same bright smile to the same horrible people every day. Soon, she won’t be able to keep up the act any longer as everything begins to crumble beneath her. When Melanie meets the new student Nick they quickly become friends, but the idea of Melanie and Nick being friends doesn’t set well with her boyfriend Robert. Now with Robert’s anger and jealousy even more intensified, she must soon learn how to stand up and fight for hersel. This story tells of how a young girl turns from a fearful, depressed and powerless victim to a bold, happy and powerful young lady. Come take a peek into Melanie’s journey and The Life Behind Her Smile.

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

I used to think that time is so long, the everlasting days are old, and the seas are dry and the rocks are rotten. However, until now, I understand that no matter how long it takes, it can't stand the vicissitudes of life, nor can it cross the boundary between life and death.

Lisa was only a young little girl who was raised without her biological parents and lived her fear behind her smile. From molestation and staying with different family members to wanting to be loved, it all developed into a mental shutdown. Searching for love in the wrong places, she finally grows and accepts her past and learns that what she had been through will not define who she has become as an adult. Lisa learns that her past life has made her stronger and wiser and begins to put all that love, time, and her past pain into her intelligent son, who brings her back to reality from giving up on her own sanity. No one would have ever known and believed the things Lisa was faced as a child from her hiding behind her smile.

The Interview: Aaron Poochigian by A.M. Juster, Five Poems by Aaron Poochigian. Featured Poems: Josh Medsker, Jack D. Harvey, Michael Fraley. Free Verse: Simon Perchik, Steve Denehan, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Ingrid Bruck, Jennifer Davis, and more. Haiku: Kevin McLaughlin, Shan Spradlin, Bob Whitmire, Paula Keane, Kayode Afolabi, Edmund Conti, Dianne Moritz and more. Formal Poetry: Jared Carter, Richard Wakefield, Tom Merrill, R.S. (Sam) Gwynn, Claudia Gary, Gayle Compton, & more. Diane Elayne Dees, & A. Elizabeth Herting. Poetry Translations: Brooke Clark, Niels Hav, Michael R. Burch, & S. Ye Laird. International Poetry: Amirah Al Wassif, Anna Teresa Slater, Annu Punia, and more. African Poetry: Paschal Amuta, Michael Kang?a, and Uedum Bianu Yorkuri. Experimental & Prose Poetry: Pamelyn Casto, Eva Kerins, & more. Sentimental Poetry: Ralph La Rosa, Thomas Jardine, & more. Poetry Book Review. Fiction: Josh Greenfield. Flash Fiction: Paul Kindlon & Ernesto Reyes. Better Than Fiction!: Evan Guilford-Blake.

DIVDIVIn an ancient time of icy splendor at the top of the world, can two people whose spirits belong to each other overcome the senseless violence between their tribes?/divDIV A wise storyteller and powerful hunter, Chakliux has one weakness: the beautiful Aqamdax, who has been promised to a cruel tribesman she does not love. But there can be no future for Chakliux and Aqamdax until a curse upon their peoples has been lifted. As they travel a dangerous path, they encounter greater challenges than the harsh terrain and the long season of ice. K’os, the woman who saved Chakliux’s life when he was an infant, is now enslaved by the leader of the enemy tribe against whom she has sworn vengeance. To carry out her justice she will destroy anyone who gets in her way, even the storyteller she raised as her own son./divDIV /divDIVCry of the Wind is the second book of the Storyteller Trilogy, which also includes Song of the River and Call Down the Stars./div/div

Solariad of Surazeus - Guidance of Solaria presents 114,920 lines of verse in 1,660 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2006 to 2011.