Beauty Story

Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Disney Books and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Belle's father is captured, she takes his place as the fearsome Beast's prisoner. But life in the enchanted castle isn't as terrible as Belle imagines. She makes friends and sees a kinder side of the Beast. In order to break the spell, the Beast must learn to love another and be loved in return. But can this be done before the last rose petal falls? This storybook includes beautiful full-color art in the style of the beloved film, Beauty and the Beast.

Download or read book The Beauty of Broken written by Elisa Morgan and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find beauty and hope by facing and dealing with the messiness of family life. The family is an imperfect institution. Broken people become broken parents who make broken families. But actually, broken is normal and exactly where God wants us. In The Beauty of Broken, Elisa Morgan, one of today’s most respected female Christian leaders, for the first time shares her very personal story of brokenness—from her first family of origin to the second, represented by her husband and two grown children. Over the years, Elisa’s family struggled privately with issues many parents must face, including: alcoholism and drug addiction infertility and adoption teen pregnancy and abortion divorce, homosexuality, and death Each story layers onto the next to reveal the brokenness that comes into our lives without invitation. “We’ve bought into the myth of the perfect family,” says Elisa. “Formulaic promises about the family may have originated in well-meaning intentions, but such thinking isn’t realistic. It’s not helpful. It’s not even kind.” Instead she offers hope in the form of “broken family values” that allow parents to grow and thrive with God. Values such as commitment, humility, relinquishment, and respect carry us to new places of understanding. Owning our brokenness shapes us into God’s best idea for us and enables us to discover the beauty in ourselves and each member of our family.

Download or read book Beauty written by Robin McKinley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. . . . My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to him for further information when I first discovered that our names meant something besides you-come-here. He succeeded in explaining grace and hope, but he had some difficulty trying to make the concept of honour understandable to a five-year-old. . . . I said: ‘Huh! I’d rather be Beauty.’ . . . By the time it was evident that I was going to let the family down by being plain, I’d been called Beauty for over six years. . . . I wasn’t really very fond of my given name, Honour, either . . . as if ‘honourable’ were the best that could be said of me. The sisters’ wealthy father loses all his money when his merchant fleet is drowned in a storm, and the family moves to a village far away. Then the old merchant hears what proves to be a false report that one of his ships had made it safe to harbor at last, and on his sad, disappointed way home again he becomes lost deep in the forest and has a terrifying encounter with a fierce Beast, who walks like a man and lives in a castle. The merchant’s life is forfeit, says the Beast, for trespass and the theft of a rose—but he will spare the old man’s life if he sends one of his daughters: “Your daughter would take no harm from me, nor from anything that lives in my lands.” When Beauty hears this story—for her father had picked the rose to bring to her—her sense of honor demands that she take up the Beast’s offer, for “cannot a Beast be tamed?” This “splendid story” by the Newbery Medal–winning author of The Hero and the Crown has been named an ALA Notable Book and a Phoenix Award Honor Book (Publishers Weekly).

Download or read book The Beauty Within written by Gussie Bryan and published by Dorrance Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her memoir, The Beauty Within: A Love Story, Gussie Bryan presents readers with an honest coming-of-age story starting in high school, through her first few years in New York City and into her late twenties. As she tells of her past experiences with mental health issues, eating disorders, and addiction, she ultimately works to present a story of hope, grace and redemption. Join her as she realizes her own happily ever after - the beginning of a true love story. About the Author Gussie Bryan was born in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from the University of Virginia in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in English. She currently resides in Brooklyn where she runs her own in-home bakery, Le Papillon Bakery, LLC.

Download or read book The Story of Black Beauty: For tablet devices written by Susanna Davidson and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Sewell's classic tale of one horse's journey from the rolling hills of the English countryside to the dark, cobbled streets of London retold through simple read-aloud text and beautiful watercolour illustrations. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet.

Download or read book Reading Beauty written by Deborah Underwood and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a fairy's curse—a deathlike sleep via paper cut—threatens to make her kingdom barren of books, it's up to space princess Lex to break the spell and bring books back to her people. Set in the universe of the acclaimed Interstellar Cinderella, this irrepressible fairy tale retelling will charm young readers with its brave heroine, its star-studded setting, and its hilarious, heartwarming happy ending.

Download or read book Disney Princess: My Side of the Story - Sleeping Beauty/Maleficent - Book #4 written by Kiki Thorpe and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And that story about Maleficent putting a dreadful curse on baby Aurora? Maleficent insists that as CEO of E.V.I.L. enterprises, she was only trying to offer the little princess an internship at her textile mill. Maleficent knew the little princess wouldn't get by on the gifts of beauty and song. A good work ethic-now, that's priceless! Who's telling the truth? You decide!