Биографии и Мемуары
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In this emotional memoir, Brent Blonigan recounts his lifelong battle with depression. Through self-reflection and personal anecdotes, he examines the impact his family, culture, religion, and society have had on his life. He is bold, honest, and forthcoming as he presents his experiences and evaluates their impact on who he is today. There Are No Silver Bullets: My Family, My Depression sheds light on one man’s depression, along with his experience of the medical system’s shortcomings in...
| Автор | Brent Blonigan |
American Book Fest’s Best Book Awards Winner for Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 Military Writers Society of America Multiple Award-Winner: Founder’s Award for Standout Book of 2019 Gold Medal Award for Memoir category For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle , a moving new memoir about survival, family, and a humanizing insight into the individuals who fight the nation’s wars. As a child, he was raised in an unstable and violent home by a mother struggling with mental...
| Автор | Lt. Col. Bill Riley (Ret.) |
“Always remember today’s date,” her grandmother said to Irma. “El diez de Mayo”—the tenth of May. After World War II, Peter, a handsome German pilot, met Irma, a beautiful Texan woman of Hispanic descent. It was love at first sight. Their meeting had been prophesized—for Irma by her grandmother and for Peter by a Gypsy—and together the couple would create an extraordinary life. Irma’s Story: American by Birth, Hispanic by Choice chronicles Irma’s life and the experiences of the “Texan Gawendas”...
| Автор | Peter Bodo Gawenda |
A breast cancer diagnosis at age thirty-two left Maimah Karmo’s world shattered. She was the survivor of civil unrest in Liberia, a college-educated corporate professional, and a dedicated mother to her young daughter—breast cancer was not part of the plan. How could this happen? With the help of family and friends, Maimah uncovered her own strength, rediscovered her faith in God, and navigated a completely foreign medical world. Through this struggle to reclaim her body and her soul, she...
| Автор | Maimah S. Karmo |
Helping families grow is what Dorette Noorhasan, MD, does best. As a board-certified ob-gyn and fertility specialist, Dr. Noorhasan pours her energy and care into educating, encouraging, advising, and supporting people who want to bring a new life into the world. But ironically, one of the most notable fertility doctors was not destined for an easy pregnancy herself. In this raw, honest, and emotional narrative, Dr. Noorhasan shares her life story, from her childhood in Antigua to her...
| Автор | Dorette Noorhasan, MD |
A dog. A man. A miracle. In Bailey’s Remarkable Plan, David R. Hardiman shares his poignant story of struggle, prejudice, and pain. But this is also a story of perseverance, triumph, and love. Hardiman discovers that his four-footed companion, delivered to him by chance, is more than his best friend. Bailey is also his service dog, a shih tzu with an extraordinary gift—part of God’s “remarkable plan”—that allows her to assist, to protect, and to love. Bailey’s Remarkable Plan will inspire you,...
| Автор | David Hardiman |
Peter and his brothers saw the war not as military or national history, but as the adventure of everyday living. They experienced bombs dropping, soldiers occupying their home, and prisoners of war marching through the streets-all of which seemed like mere intrusions to their childhood existence. They not only survived, but thrived, during The Children's War. The strength of family ties carried the Gawenda boys through the War and shaped the author's perspective, making The...
| Автор | Peter Bodo Gawenda |
In <i>The Feeling of Greatness,</i> second edition, golf coach Tim O’Connor updates his previous biography of the late great, Canadian golfer Moe Norman, who was famous for introducing the single plane golf swing. This edition includes new anecdotes about Moe both on and off the course by golfers, journalists, friends, and family, and offers a more in-depth portrait of the man and golfer, especially in the last years of his life. O’Connor shares with readers his personal and...
| Автор | Tim O'Connor |
In the early colonies, this country was on the precipice of becoming an autocratic theocracy. The battle for democracy and equal rights was sparked by a few characters, who are now lost and forgotten pieces of history. Forefathers & Founding Fathers is an adventure, a love story, and a tale of great persistence, chronicling those who fought to create the template for America. It is a tale that every American should know and yet most do not.Travel back to 1620s London, where hardworking and...
| Автор | Michael Gorton |
A diagnosis of autism can rock a family's world. The toll it takes on everyone involved can be one of isolation; a child who doesn't respond to the world around them, a parent who gives dedication, patience and love – often with no expressible love given back. It's a messy equation with huge emotional and financial costs.As a mother of a daughter with autism, Julie Hornok has experienced her fair share of these parenting challenges, and now brings together thirty inspiring and...
| Автор | Julie Hornok |
Dr. Mayo's Boy traces the medical experiences of three generations of Texas physicians in small town Waxahachie and big city Dallas. Dr. Mayo's Boy explores how physicians have viewed their commitment to their patients, how they sacrifice to meet the challenges they face and how the practice of medicine has, sadly, changed over almost sixty years. Dr. Mayo's Boy is full of stories that are often heartening in their humanity and sometimes disturbing in what they reveal about...
| Автор | Rob Tenery, MD |
First published in 1886, “Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People” is the fascinating biography of Harriet Tubman by American author and historian Sarah H. Bradford. The second of Bradford’s works on the life of the courageous former slave and abolitionist, Tubman herself worked closely with the author to ensure that the details of her amazing life were captured accurately. Bradford’s biography begins with Tubman’s birth into slavery in Maryland in 1822 and her brutal life before she escaped to...
| Автор | Sarah H. Bradford |
"Contains the most fascinating true crime story I have ever read." –Earl Stanley Gardner<P> Crime, criminals, and their prosecution and punishment, have, from the day Cain slew Abel and the Supreme Law Enforcer dealt with the first fratricide, provoked the interest, aroused the passions, and puzzled the minds of men. Because tales of dark deeds are quick to catch attention and stark sensationalism is easily marketable, accuracy, which is always essential, no longer seems required. So...
| Автор | Martin M. Frank |
The true story of Richens Lacy «Cut-Hand» Wootton, mountain man, pioneer, explorer, and trader who helped open the American West. Dick Wootton was «two hundred pounds of hard muscle with a wild shock of bristling hair to match» when in 1836 he set out from Kentucky for the far west. He lived to become one of the greatest of all those who helped tame a savage and unknown land. <P> In childhood when playing with an axe, Dick lost two fingers and was always called «Cut-Hand» by the Native...
| Автор | Joseph J. Millard |
Anna’s Story is the remarkable life story of Anna Burkardt McKay, who was born in Germany before WWII and who moved to the United States as an American war bride in 1947 to raise a family on a small cattle ranch in Nevada. Through a childhood in Hochst, Germany, where fond memories mingle with remembrances of the horrors of World War II’s start; into a young adulthood, filled with terrors of the escape and evasion of Nazi youth work camps; through falling in love and immigrating to the United...
| Автор | Rich McKay |
On the football field, Sean Taylor was feared by opposing teams. Off the field, he was loved by those who knew him best, as well as his many fans. Tragically, Sean was killed in a home invasion gone wrong. However, “Going Full Speed, the Sean Taylor Stories” is not just about being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It's Sean’s father, Pedro “Pete” Taylor's recollection of raising, training, then losing his superstar son. But Sean Taylor was no saint. And in the words of his father,...
| Автор | Steven M. Rosenberg |
Love. What is it? Can a person describe love? Can love even be described? Throughout time, it has been heard that love can be defined in different ways. That there are different types and styles. It has been heard that love could be defined as an attraction (driven by the chemicals in our brains such as adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin), an infatuation, a feeling, an emotion, an action and even as much as a choice. In this book you will read of how a woman experienced the Storge (empathy),...
| Автор | Antoinette Spade |
This vintage book (first published in 1948) contains a short biography of Mark Twain, with a wonderful selection of humourous and often aphoristic quotations taken from his writings. This concise and easy-to-digest text is full of interesting and entertaining information concerning Mr. Twain, and is highly recommended for those with an interest in his life and mind. A profusely illustrated antiquarian volume, this book is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Samuel Langhorne Clemens...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
Originally appearing as a series of articles in “New York World” magazine and then published as a book in 1887, “Ten Days in a Mad-House” by the journalist Nellie Bly is the shocking true account of her time spent undercover at the Woman’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York. Bly posed as a madwoman and was able to convince several doctors to have her committed to the asylum in order to expose the horrible conditions the female patients there were subjected to. Bly spent ten days in...
| Автор | Bly Nellie |
"Lives" is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch who lived during the first and second century AD. «Lives» consists of twenty-three paired biographies, one Greek and one Roman, and four unpaired, which explore the influence of character on the lives and destinies of the subjects. Rather than providing strictly historical accounts, Plutarch was most concerned with capturing this issue of character. This volume, volume 1 of 2, contains the...
| Автор | Plutarch |
Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI of France, the reigning King at the time of the French Revolution. Louis XVI's failure in running the country along with Marie Antoinette's unpopularity were central elements that led to the political climate at the end of the 19th century in France and ultimately would seal their own tragic demise and the end of the monarchy. Hilaire Belloc, a Frenchman himself who was raised in England, constructs an excellent biography of Marie Antoinette...
| Автор | Hilaire Belloc |
During the Age of COVID-19, the world needs a distraction. Perhaps that’s why we’re collectively riveted to Netflix’s Tiger King. A murder mystery in the vein of Dateline, Tiger King introduced the world to the flamboyant Joe Exotic, a former magician, country singer, and zookeeper with a troubled past. Joe now sits in jail for planning to murder his rival, Big Cat Rescue owner and animal rights activist Carole Baskin, who he accuses of killing her husband and feeding him to her tigers. Truth is...
| Автор | Michael Frizell |
A brand new edition with never before seen images! Barack Obama’s story inspired a nation, but you’ve never seen it told like this! Pick up this wildly entertaining and factual look at the life of our 44th president from writer Chris Ward and artist Azim Akberali (Wrath of the Titans) and see why everyone from CNN to Howard Stern is buzzing. Stimulate the economy by getting this collector's issue today! With new material! Special cover by famed artist Dave Ryan.
| Автор | Chris Ward |
Diana Mackintosh came of age to the drone of sirens alerting the people of Malta to the arrival of relentless flights of belligerent German and Italian menace – the bombers she first imagined as a swarm of black flies, pests that stung and cursed her Mediterranean homeland. The three-year onslaught never took a day off; it was endless, but supplies were not. The hope of a shipment of high protein became an ongoing dream. The only time Diana wasn’t hungry was when she slept. Her story of that...
| Автор | Diana Mackintosh and Douglas Thompson |