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The curious story of the unlikely relationship between a champion boxer and a celebrated man of letters. Gene Tunney, the world heavyweight-boxing champion from 1926 to 1928, seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw, but Shaw, a world-famous playwright, found the Irish-American athlete to be «among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection.» The Prizefighter and the Playwright chronicles the legendary – but rarely documented – relationship that formed between...
| Автор | Jay R. Tunney |
Over the past 9 decades Ernie Nullmeyer has had his share of mountain top experiences but along with them came many deep valleys. The devastating, often painful vicissitudes of his life would have overwhelmed most people. But Ernie learned that the secret to a joyful, effervescent, meaningful life is not in some skill related to avoiding the troubles, uncertainty and suffering that life will bring, but in responding to everything that comes our way with a God-trusting, persevering attitude. In...
| Автор | Ernest Nullmeyer |
This is the true story of the world of human trafficking in Canada. For years many people refused to believe that human trafficking was happening here in innocent, safe Canada to our very own Canadian girls. But they were wrong! It is estimated that between 12 and 27 million people are currently caught in human trafficking globally, and Canadian stats show that thousands are exploited for their labour or sexual services right across our own country. To begin combating the monstrosities...
| Автор | Paul H Boge |
A Rare Find is the heartwarming and true story of Ethel Kemp, an English emigrant whose vigilant determination to overcome endless trials lead her to successfully serve the people of Canada’s prairie for 6 decades. Despite her battle through years of family health problems, the Great War, the flu epidemic, considerable personal losses and constant overwhelming grief, she overcomes every obstacle and, perseveres. A widow at a young age, her strong faith, personal tenacity and unending passion...
| Автор | Donna Mann |
John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book WinnerNew Mexico-Arizona Book Award Winner Kirkus Reviews «Best Book of the Year» selection "A richly literary account. . . . Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world that holds the secrets of our planet's deepest past, even as it accelerates into our rapidly changing future. The book bears the literary, scientific, philosophic, and poetic...
| Автор | William E. Glassley |
a) Dancing on a Razor chronicles, through a series of dynamic short personal stories, the life and God’s redemption of Kevin John White, son of internationally known author and lecturer Dr. John White. Despite his conversion experience at age fourteen Kevin becomes a hopeless alcoholic, an addict and a wandering minstrel—riding freight trains and hitchhiking coast to coast, singing his own music for forty-five years. But all-the-while he lives this derelict lifestyle Kevin experiences the...
| Автор | Kevin John White |
Winner of Castle Quay Books and Word Guild Best New Manuscript of 2019 Chinese-Canadian pastor Bosco H. C. Poon, stage name B.O.Z, was an aspiring Canadian recording artist. Through a series of unfortunate associations and choices, he ended up involved in criminal activity, eventually becoming an accomplice to the kidnapping of a Vancouver college student in April 2004. He was arrested and entered a lengthy trial, where he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping, extortion, and...
| Автор | Bosco H. C. Poon |
Fifty years after his passing, <i>The Man Within</i> is meant to reinvigorate the spirit of Winston Churchill—approachable rather than academic, lively rather than staid.<br><br> This collection features exceptional black-and-white photos, many of which are previously unpublished, woven together with his own powerful words. It tells his story – his childhood, his family, his passions, his friends, his life—and has been chosen as the official commemorative book of the...
| Автор | Alison Carlson |
Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the “English style,” on display at her home at Barnsley House, the “must have” adviser to the rich and famous, including Prince Charles and Elton John, and a beloved and wildly popular lecturer in America. A child of a generation born between the two World Wars, she could have easily lived a predictable and...
| Автор | Barbara Paul Robinson |
Quest for Healing – EBOOK A Story of LoveJoin Wendy on her inspirational journey as she seeks healing from the effects of her childhood diabetes. This is an inspiring story about miracles and the rekindling of hope…. Wendy spent much of her life looking for answers to the health issues caused by childhood diabetes, and because of this she discovered a wealth of knowledge in this area. She consistently recovered from health issues in ways that both confounded and inspired the medical community....
| Автор | Wendy Carol Abelson RNCP, ROHP |
After backpacking around Asia, Anne Fitzpatrick spent three months volunteering in rural India. Inspired by the program, she returned to Australia determined to raise funds for the education of young people in Kodaikanal, by cycling around Australia – despite having no experience of either cycling or fundraising. "Cycle of Learning" is Anne's story about her journey and the people she meets across urban and rural Australia – at Australian schools and church groups where Anne...
| Автор | Anne Fitzpatrick |
"The style of Peter Korn’s lovely, patient and fastidious ode to craft, Why We Make Things and Why It Matters , mirrors the technical precision and style he has used in his career as a furniture maker and teacher."—The New York Times The pursuit of material things often leaves some essential part of us malnourished. We may find ourselves starved for something more satisfying. Furniture making, for woodworker Peter Korn, is the challenging work of bringing something new and meaningful into...
| Автор | Peter Korn |
On the morning of July 12, 2012, Mandy Bath left her picturesque home and garden in Johnson’s Landing, BC, for a day trip to nearby Kaslo. She had no forewarning of what the placid summer day would bring. But just over an hour later, a massive landslide tore into the community, destroying her home and killing four people: Valentine Webber, aged 60, and his daughters, 22-year-old Diana and 17-year-old Rachel, along with 64-year-old Petra Frehse. Returning the next day to search for her...
| Автор | Amanda Bath |
From the 1960s through the 1980s, RCMP Sergeant Charlie Scheideman spent much of his time patrolling the «dark corners of the Interior of British Columbia» where «the citizens would meet the modern criteria for redneck: if their veranda collapsed it would kill more than four dogs; they think 'harrass' is two words, and so on.» Such places weren't much fun to police but they were full of characters, many of whom make their way into Charlie's entertaining book, Policing the...
| Автор | Charles Scheideman |
For more than a decade, the Globe and Mail has featured comprehensive obituaries of notable British Columbians by columnist Tom Hawthorn. He recounts the lives of the recently departed in an engaging style, finding anecdotes to illuminate personality, giving voice to those who no longer have one. These stories are not about death, but about life in all its sad, funny, exhilarating complexity.Gathered here are the best, the funniest, the most memorable of the passing parade of characters who make...
| Автор | Tom Hawthorn |
In celebration of his extraordinary life, photographer Gary Italiaander, who was a personal friend, has written this amazing book that includes previously unseen portraits as well as memories by his colleagues, family and friends. Larry Adler, world famous mouth organist, raised the harmonica to an orchestral instrument. His extensive repertoire of classical and popular music included his own compositions and those written for him by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and...
| Автор | Gary Italiaander |
Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was an American school teacher who in 1941 who along with her husband, Foster agreed to teach the Natives on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. They were both sixty-two years old when they left Alaska's mainland for Attu against the advice of friends and family. Etta, and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east...
| Автор | Mary Breu |
An evocative, immersive memoir that charts the personal evolution of an American philanthropic thought leader and arts advocate. <i>A Life of My Own</i> follows the author’s journey from girlhood to the woman she would become. Wilhelm reveals her unique upbringing, diverse work history, family challenges and journey of personal growth with unbridled honesty and narrative energy. When life on the outside seemed under control, her inner life was in turmoil. A search for...
| Автор | Donna Wilhelm |
Malika Ndlovu takes us right into the heart of her grief – the loss of her third child, who was stillborn. The book breaks the silence around stillbirth, often seen as a non-event, something women are expected to «get over» as soon as possible, Invisible Earthquake is placed in the wider South African context by Sue Fawcus, who writes tenderly and expertly about stillbirth from the point of view of an obstetrician, and by Zubeida Bassadien and Muriel Johnstone, social workers who accompany women...
| Автор | Malika Ndlovu |
For an actor who's been in so many mega-hits and equally mega misses, it can be tough to track Keanu Reeves's accomplishments. But true fans know that Keanu is so much more than his Bill and Ted persona, both onscreen and off. During his long career-over thirty years, although you wouldn't know it from his immortal looks-he has constantly subverted Hollywood stereotypes and expectations. He's the type to start his own publishing company, reread Hamlet, write a grown-up...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Life at boarding school is not all diets, dresses and dances, as Trinity Luhabe discovers when her parents move overseas for a term. She has hardly settled into Sisulu House when she finds herself caught up in the most unexpected love triangle of her life. Zach is the school sports hero, while James is different to anyone shes ever met. One of them wants to control her the other holds the key to an old secret that has been buried for a very long time. Will Trinity figure out who to trust before...
| Автор | Toni Strasburg |
Summary, Analysis, and Review of Trevor Noah's Born a Crime PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Trevor Noah's Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is television star Trevor Noah's...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: Part memoir and part pop psychology...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as «the most dangerous man alive.» But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone awry. This astonishing book lays bare the life and the mind of a man whose acts have left us horrified. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders, and reminds us of the complexity of the human condition. Born in the middle of the Depression to an...
| Автор | Nuel Emmons |