Butterflies experience a "complete metamorphosis", before developing into an adult. There are four distinct stages in which this evolution takes place, each stage helps develop their existence, resulting in something beautiful. In "No Dumb Girls Allowed", you witness the "spiritual metamorphosis" of someone much like a butterfly. Unlike the butterfly, this person is already by age an adult, but not by maturity. This is an actual account of my butterfly-like transformation into something more beautiful.

Prepare for another journey to a place far away and long ago in this sequel to The Ray Hunters, a charming and captivating tale, rich with character and an absorbing plot. Three years have passed since Mila and Julieta were reunited and travelled to their new life on the island of Kerkyra. Having survived the horrors of the past, their simple lives with Trader and his new wife seems idyllic on their peaceful, secluded homestead away from the troubles of the outside world. But soon that idyll is under threat. Others from the past have learned of their whereabouts. And one person in particular has not forgotten...

With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today. When Marilyn Monroe stepped over a subway grating as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch and let a gust of wind catch the skirt of her pleated white dress, an icon was born. Before that, the actress was mainly known for a nude calendar and one-dimensional, albeit memorable, characters on the screen. Though she again played a "dumb blonde" in this film and was making headlines by revealing her enviable anatomy, the star was now every bit in control of her image, and ready for a personal revolution. Emboldened by her winning fight to land the role of The Girl, the making of The Seven Year Itch and the eighteen months that followed was the period of greatest confidence, liberation, and career success that Monroe lived in her tumultuous life. It was a time in which, among other things, she: Ended her marriage to Joe DiMaggio and later began a relationship with Arthur Miller; Legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, divorcing herself from the troubled past of Norma Jeane; Started her own production company; Studied in private lessons with Lee and Paula Strasberg of the Actors Studio and became a part of the acting revolution of the day The ripple effects her personal rebellion had on Hollywood, and in trailblazing the way for women that followed, will both surprise and inspire readers to see the Marilyn Monroe in an entirely new light.

With more than thirty years of experience, Dr. Arlene Drake writes a guide for those desperately in need of a way to break free from the pain of childhood abuse and reclaim their lives. When confronted with an abused child, our first impulse is to drop everything and provide comfort, get him or her out of danger, and find out what the hell is going on at home. It’s obvious that the child is helpless, in trouble, and needs protection. Parents or not, we instinctively know what to do: We take care of the child. But what if the child is you? Active and directive, Carefrontation is filled with exercises and the simple, effective tools Dr. Drake has used successfully with her own clients for more than three decades. It lays out a powerful way to repair the damage of childhood abuse and its lasting effects, by teaching you what your parents couldn’t: an invaluable set of skills and practices that will give you the resources to live as a healthy, happy adult. With the clear path this book provides, you can finally acknowledge that the suffering and the pain can stop. The destructive patterns can end. You can graduate, at last, into a life beyond “abuse victim” and for the first time take the power back from your abusers and finally be at peace.

Rhonna Moran, a small-town reporter, wants to make it as an environmental journalist, like Cal Conway, the man she fights falling in love with. She's a Promise Keeper, determined not to engage in premarital sex, the only kind Cal seems interested in. Contemporary environmental crises collide with spiritual commitments, creating a dilemma that can be solved only by faith on Cal's side and trust on Rhonna's.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Eerily plausible,” they said. “Too close to reality...” Originally published six years before the real 2019 coronavirus outbreak, The ChinaPandemic is USA Today best-selling author A.R. Shaw’s strikingly foreboding post-apocalyptic thriller novel, which plunges readers into an all-too-realistic alternate history doomsday event that occurs after a weaponized super-virus is unleashed from a lab in China and wipes out most of the world’s population. To limit exposure to infected victims of the virus, a kind and empathetic Seattle math professor with limited survival skills escapes deep into the forests of northern Washington State. In his last words to an infected and fading man, Graham promises his dad that he will forego his thoughts of giving up and try to survive, despite the hopelessness and despair that surrounds him. From Graham’s rustic family cabin in the woods, he starts drawing strong and determined survivors to him – an orphaned 4-year-old Korean American boy, a strong Native American woman named Tala, an elderly African American retired police officer with a gift for understanding people… and a group of gritty survivalists without immunity to the killer virus. The China Pandemic is the epic first volume of the imaginative and immersive ‘Graham’s Resolution’ apocalypse survival series, which features a terrifying virus pandemic, compelling and diverse and complex characters, and a powerful battle of good vs evil in a dystopian world of desperation and corruption. "This is a story of hope when humanity is at its worst. Post-apocalyptic fiction at its best!" – Amazon Review Page Up and Order Now.

First there's Denver Jones, the hotshot attorney working in L.A. and Carolyn Henderson - personal assistant to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. Then there's Annabelle Maestro - daughter of two movie stars - who has carved out a career for herself in New York as the madame of choice for discerning famous men. The three twenty-something women used to go to high school together in Beverly Hills and Denver and Carolyn have always kept in touch, but Annabelle is out on her own with her cocaine addicted boyfriend Frankie. Bobby is Frankie's best friend - Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, that is, Kennedy-esque son of Lucky Santangelo and deceased Greek shipping billionaire Dimitri Stanislopolous. Now he owns Mood, the hottest club in New York, but back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle, and hung out with all three of them. Which means that Bobby knows everyone's secrets - and he has some of his own, too.