When It Rains It Pours

When Elle Shane was a child, she had no idea what was in store for the rest of her life. That’s what being human is all about. Things happen, and people change. You learn to make the best of it. In When it Rains, it Pours, Shane offers a collection of stories and memories of a girl that focus on adolescent, teen, and young adult life. This memoir gives an overview of her life growing up in Florida and Oklahoma, explaining the hardships of growing up in a broken home among the first of many, many misfortunes to take place. Shane addresses mature topics such as alcohol, sexual assault, drugs, and domestic abuse as they all played a role in her life. While these references may be disturbing, she hopes to give a voice to other young men and women who may share similar experiences, and she seeks to end stigmas around these issues. We all have different stories, and this is Shane’s.

Carla Mae Long wanted to be the perfect mother, but the course of her life would prevent that. Growing up with a harsh mother and troublesome siblings made Carla's life difficult from the beginning. Enduring blow after blow, she fights to keep her head held high throughout every struggle. Will she ever become the wife and mother she always wanted to be? This whirlwind story follows Carla's difficulties and the adventures of her four children: Darren-the strong one Melvin-smart and sensitive Shonda-the lone female Derrick-young and temperamental This is the story of a family born and raised in the streets of Cleveland. As you follow their saga you'll soon discover-behind every problem there are always a hundred more. When It Rains It Pours!

The Unlikely Adventures of Nogi & Monjo wants to be the most reasonable guide to survive unreasonable situations! Raising children is not easy. Raising GOOD children is not easy. But one thing parents sometimes forget, growing up is equally hard. Maybe harder. Today we live in such a complex world, with so many conflicting values and ideas. It can be very confusing for little souls who can't even decide who's scarier: the monster under their bed or the school bully. We believe some values are gold. Values like honesty, perseverance, open-mindedness, self-discipline, personal responsibility and caring. And we believe no child is too young to learn these. Not when they're introduced with beautiful pictures and moving stories about an adorable little dragon and his princess-astronaut-pastry chef companion.

A memoir of a minority woman growing up in the ghettos of New York City shows how anyone can become someone successful. Although, Mirian's struggles started from birth she firmly believed in many things such as castles, knights in shining armor, and a big house with a picket fence. It was those dreams that kept her spirit alive when life became too horrendously painful. Mirian Detres was not only born disabled, but she has been mentally, physically, and sexually abused. Her memoirs include being locked in a closet at the age of 9 for a year, hospitalized in a mental institution as an adult for approx. 2 years and received shock treatments, been beaten as a wife, a druggy and living in the streets as a homeless woman with her babies. It was the love she had for her children that caused her to go through a metamorphosis in life. The change was so drastic, that not even her own family recognized her. Mirian Detres's memoirs not only takes you into a world of poverty, abuse, and neglect but it plunges the reader into a dark rabbit hole of struggles with drugs and crime only to come out on the other side as an educational scholar with two masters, doctorate of philosophy, spokes person for battered women, and a successful mother of five children. This is a true story of a woman without any role models became one herself.

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The Upside-Down Magic kids are back in another topsy-turvy adventure in the next installment of this New York Times bestselling series, now a Disney Channel Original Movie! When Willa's upside-down magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Nory and the kids in Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class always have umbrellas nearby, just in case. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. And yet the more she rains, the worse she feels . . . and the worse she feels, the more she rains. Nory, meanwhile, can't wait to celebrate her first Bing Day -- her town's magical holiday. There's even a parade! Too bad she's stuck doing her Bing Day class project with drippy Willa. To make things worse, Elliott seems to be taking Willa's side on everything. All the storminess is threatening to flood the UDM friendships. Will they drown in misery? Or can they use their magic to make the storm clouds disappear?

In the small town of Port Simpson in British Columbia, where Helen Meilleur grew up in the 1920s, she witnessed such exciting events as Indian attacks, gold prospecting, missionary efforts, and visits from royalty. She also traveled by steamship to her one-room school on an Indian reservation. Her personal stories, written when she was 70 years old and combined with painstaking research and dozens of photographs, bring forth a remarkable history of this coastal community.

Don Kelly was no stranger to misfortune, but could he withstand the repeated disasters he was to encounter during high school? The family motto, "When it rains, everyone gets wet," seems to soak only him. Would he overcome his tragedies or fall beneath them?