Cano es un hombre joven que vive sin preocupaciones. Tiene salud, amigos y un trabajo que le permite desentenderse de cualquier otro compromiso que no sea consigo mismo. Hasta que la casualidad lo empuja a conocer a Amanda y entonces su destino cambia definitivamente. Cano ve en Amanda un mundo nuevo que est por descubrir incluso para ella, el sentido a toda una existencia que ahora le parece destinada a un fin mucho m s alto. Atra do por una fuerza irresistible, se vuelca en su mundo, la colma de atenciones, dedica a Amanda cada minuto de su tiempo porque ya ninguna otra cosa importa. Pero un mal d a, tras una confesi n revelada con indiferencia, Amanda no aparece a la hora acostumbrada. Los ltimos acontecimientos, las sospechas de una deslealtad que para ella no es m s que el devenir natural de las cosas, le hacen temer el desastre: Amanda no va a volver. Y embriagado de dolor y de ginebra tratar de sobrevivir a su propia muerte.
Maybe it's because she wears wire bread ties in her hair to hold up her pigtails. Or maybe it's due to the fact that her best friend is a key collecting ferret named Lawrence. However, it just might be because she is able to play her clarinet - while it floats in the air untouched What is clear to all is that Amanda Sneed is different. Amanda just doesn't know why. That is, until something truly splendorific happens.It is upon meeting an enigma of a man and school janitor, Master Hemlock, that Amanda is given a magical gold coin, allowing her to make one wish. But her misinterpreted wish leaves Amanda in the mesmerizing dream world of Maldderan, where all of her dreams have come true, and her nightmares are very much real. While in Maldderan, Amanda not only discovers a mysterious diary that archives every dream she has ever had, but also the revelation as to why she is different. Amanda is a Dream Caster.
Amanda, while you grew up in Copenhagen I was busy living wherever life seduced my rootless ego. I began to see these opportunistic wanderings in a new light after I was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Morrie was right, when he said (on a Tuesday) that everyone knows they will die but nobody believes it. More than that, I realized, is if you don't accept it, you can't open your eyes to what you need to see. You, my daughter, thankfully have your health and your youth. Your arc of time bends beyond the horizon. Mine dips ever closer. Too early for white flowers though, so let's enjoy the time we still have together. As I walk my last stretch of road, I reflect on those many Sundays in Old Europe that we spent apart. And also the precious time we spent together: on the ski slopes, picking prized blueberries and nasty raspberries, exploring micro-cafes in Copenhagen, shopping in New York, hanging out at Penn in Philadelphia, and wandering the streets of Barcelona, Milano, Amsterdam, Paris, Tivoli, and the sandy beaches of R rvig. All our separations were painful but my biggest joy was reuniting with you, picking you up from school, hanging out at home, and sharing the simple laughs of Friends and the stories of How I met your mother. I have a lot more to say to you. Most of all, I want to share the insights I came upon when I was surrounded by darkness, wandering about in my shadow(s) without a doubt to whom I'd turn my thoughts and wishes. I have routinely found myself in exotic places in my travels, but it's always the observation of ordinary people doing ordinary things that most touches me; everyday events in everyday places. Normality - la vie quotidienne - is a moon-like magnet. Inexorably it pulls us into low ebb and high tide. We love to despise it, this relentless wave-break of repetition. Yet it will be life's banal repetitions that I regret leaving: the ordinary not the extraordinary. I will miss the cooking, the eating, parking, shopping, cleaning, reading, shouting, hugging, the waking up together, for sure. When I am gone to the great coffee bar in the sky, these reassuring repetitions will still be yours: Carpe every diem dear This book is a lamp post; a paternal beacon that I hope will continue to shine light when I fade out. These poems of experiences and thoughts, blended like caf and lait, are my ode to the ordinary, and my gift to you on the occasion of your 18th birthday.
Amanda's Dream - French editionIn this insightful children's picture book, you will meet Amanda, a young girl who had a lot to learn about hard work and how to make her dreams a reality. Join Amanda to her wonderful journey, and learn with her how to find your goal and make it come true. You will watch her face challenges but never give up along her path to achieving her goal. "Amanda's Dream" is a motivational book for children and their parents. This is the first book in a collection of short motivational kids' stories. This series will help your children develop the skills and principles to achieve a happy, fulfilling, and successful life.
Amanda's Dream - French editionIn this insightful children's picture book, you will meet Amanda, a young girl who had a lot to learn about hard work and how to make her dreams a reality. Join Amanda to her wonderful journey, and learn with her how to find your goal and make it come true. You will watch her face challenges but never give up along her path to achieving her goal. "Amanda's Dream" is a motivational book for children and their parents. This is the first book in a collection of short motivational kids' stories. This series will help your children develop the skills and principles to achieve a happy, fulfilling, and successful life.
German English bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or German as their second language.In this insightful children's picture book, you will meet Amanda, a young girl who had a lot to learn about hard work and how to make her dreams a reality. Join Amanda to her wonderful journey, and learn with her how to find your goal and make it come true. You will watch her face challenges but never give up along her path to achieving her goal. "Amanda's Dream" is a motivational book for children and their parents. This is the first book in a collection of short motivational kids' stories. This series will help your children develop the skills and principles to achieve a happy, fulfilling, and successful life.
German English bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or German as their second language.In this insightful children's picture book, you will meet Amanda, a young girl who had a lot to learn about hard work and how to make her dreams a reality. Join Amanda to her wonderful journey, and learn with her how to find your goal and make it come true. You will watch her face challenges but never give up along her path to achieving her goal. "Amanda's Dream" is a motivational book for children and their parents. This is the first book in a collection of short motivational kids' stories. This series will help your children develop the skills and principles to achieve a happy, fulfilling, and successful life.
Davion is the more mild mannered of the Ramirez kids. He's worked hard all his life to get to where he is and wants nothing more than a peaceful life and a woman that is his equal to stand by his side and he thought he found that in his ex-wife Layla but things didn't pan out the way he wanted and after a brief affair with his legal secretary Amanda, Davion suffers from a vicious attack at the hands of an old family nemesis. Unable to handle the life of a Ramirez Amanda flees back to North Carolina. Despondent Davion focuses on his career and meets Jaida. Davion and Jaida grow as a couple and plans to spend the rest of their lives together. It wasn't until a business trip to Chicago where he bumps into Amanda and they spend a passionate night together making love. Figuring he has Amanda out of his system he looks forward to his upcoming wedding with Jaida and the birth of their first child together. But when Amanda shows up on the front steps of the Ramirez family home with a surprise, everything that Jaida and Davion worked for is threatened
Sheikh Ra'id Ossamah Abdul Hasib has a charmed life. He comes from a loving family, he is the ruler of his country and is massively wealthy; but something is missing from his life-until the day he saw a beautiful pair of legs coming out of a construction van. Amanda Pearson had to work her way through college and graduated at the top of her engineering class. She put together a small crew of fellow students and opened her own construction company. They struggled for a few years until she saw an opportunity to bid on a job in the Middle East. Amanda isn't looking for a man and is working to build her business, and then she meets Ra'id. Something about the man made her look twice, and that is all they needed. Love is in the air, but so is obsession. Sabeera grew up with Ra'id and is determined to have him in her life. Nothing is going to stop her from having the man that she loves, and she is willing to play a dangerous game to get him.
Everything comes easy for Zach Johnston. Only 24 years old, he's got it all-- the girl, the high paying tech job, and the rent-controlled apartment in the Village. But when his best friend overdoses and his girlfriend leaves him, his inability to connect with other people overwhelms him. Desperate to hide his pain from Amanda, the ex who met "11 out of 13 criteria" on his friend's most important checklist, Zach plasters on a smile as he rejoins his single friends chasing girls at seedy bars and grungy apartments, hoping the emptiness inside him will disappear if he pretends it doesn't exist. As he descends into a haze of weed, booze, and hallucinogens, Zach recognizes his remaining friendships for what they are-- partnerships of convenience, forged long ago simply on the shared desire to get high and get laid, continuing to this day because the effort required to replace them is too great. He also turns his judgmental lens inwards and begins to understand the consequences of his one night stands and shameless flirting, and the perils of assuming everyone he meets is dumber than he is. At the peak of this crisis of confidence, Zach meets Zoey Mclemore, the beautiful, intelligent woman he has always told himself he could love and marry. Eating caramels sober with her is better than being drunk or high with anyone else. But when Zoey finds Zach drunk and alone with Amanda, he knows he must show Zoey he is ready to be an adult, or face never watching Spongebob with her again. Equal parts whimsical romantic comedy and cynical literary fiction, LOVE FROM AMANDA TO ZOEY is the story of a successful man who doesn't feel like he's successful or a man, and his struggle to understand the meanings of life and Zoey's latest text.
Believing anything is possible, magazine reporter Amanda Montgomery dreams about being a modern woman in a nineteenth century world, much like her exceptional stepmother. But society expects well-off young ladies to focus on finding a suitable husband and raising a family. And then Jack appears--with no past and unconventional ideas. Does he hold the key to another century as well as her heart, or is she destined to stay in her own time? Construction worker Jack Lawton wants to preserve an old home that's scheduled for demolition. But when he sneaks inside for a final look, a loose beam falls on his head, and upon waking, he finds himself in the arms of a beautiful woman. His only problem--he's no longer in the twenty-first century. Can he find his way back home? Does he really want to?
Sheikh Ra'id Ossamah Abdul Hasib has a charmed life. He comes from a loving family, he is the ruler of his country and is massively wealthy; but something is missing from his life-until the day he saw a beautiful pair of legs coming out of a construction van. Amanda Pearson had to work her way through college and graduated at the top of her engineering class. She put together a small crew of fellow students and opened her own construction company. They struggled for a few years until she saw an opportunity to bid on a job in the Middle East. Amanda isn't looking for a man and is working to build her business, and then she meets Ra'id. Something about the man made her look twice, and that is all they needed. Love is in the air, but so is obsession. Sabeera grew up with Ra'id and is determined to have him in her life. Nothing is going to stop her from having the man that she loves, and she is willing to play a dangerous game to get him.
