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Author : DeVon Franklin
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 483/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wait by : DeVon Franklin
Download or read book The Wait written by DeVon Franklin. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss the circumstances that brought them together and their decision to abstain from sex until marriage.
Author : Frank Partnoy
Release : 2012-06-26
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 059/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wait by : Frank Partnoy
Download or read book Wait written by Frank Partnoy. This book was released on 2012-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line? In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision-making that runs counter to our brutally fast-paced world. Even as technology exerts new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we make -- unconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to years -- benefit profoundly from delay. As this winning and provocative book reveals, taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of life -- even when time seems to be of the essence. The procrastinator in all of us will delight in Partnoy's accounts of celebrity "delay specialists," from Warren Buffett to Chris Evert to Steve Kroft, underscoring the myriad ways in which delaying our reactions to everyday choices -- large and small -- can improve the quality of our lives.
Author : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Waiting by : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Download or read book The Waiting written by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It’s not an uncommon story—the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother’s story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn’t come. The young family—now four—fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then 70 years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can’t stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother. Expertly translated from Korean by award-winning Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim’s Grass, which won the Krause Essay Prize, the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Harvey Award, and appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.
Author : Andrée Linnell
Release : 2021-10-13
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 109/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Worth the Wait by : Andrée Linnell
Download or read book Worth the Wait written by Andrée Linnell. This book was released on 2021-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, life doesn’t play out like a nursery rhyme. Sometimes, we have to walk through thunderstorms before we get to our rainbows. Worth the Wait is about the long, difficult road some mothers must travel on the way to the birth of a healthy baby. That journey is sometimes interrupted by loss. Miscarriages can feel isolating, and mothers are often left with little support. Andrée Linnell captures this feeling, honouring mothers’ experiences and infusing hope, love, and strength into the hearts of her readers. Worth the Wait is about helping mothers celebrate pregnancies while remembering their angels. The journey toward a baby isn’t always easy. But that rainbow baby, when he or she arrives, will be worth the wait.
Author : Jamie Beck
Release : 2015
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 445/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Worth the Wait by : Jamie Beck
Download or read book Worth the Wait written by Jamie Beck. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen years ago Vivi LeBrun first met and fell for her friend's brother, David St. James. Since then his family rescued her from a lonely, tumultuous childhood, but after his mother's death David distanced himself from his family. As she travels to Block Island, Rhode Island to vacation with the St. James siblings, Vivi hopes he'll see her as his soul mate. Now, though, he's brought a girlfriend along-- who's pushing for a serious commitment. Will David's secrets cost Vivi the only real family she's ever known?
