Биографии и Мемуары
35106 кн.
When I was 18 years old, I left Iran after graduating from high school to come to America to continue my education, with the hope that someday I might become a physician. I suffer from multiple disabilities. The most troubling issue revolves around polio. At the age of five, I contracted polio as a result of a bad dose of the vaccine I received. As an adult with a sever twisted body, I have been forced to walk with a cane and stand only four feet tall. Over the course of my life, I've...
| Автор | Ali PhD Kian |
With Thailand preparing for the ASEAN Summit of 2015, the welfare of visitors to the so-called Land of Smiles has become a major issue. Every day tourists are bashed, robbed, drugged and murdered; many of these incidents going unreported in the press. <br><br>European, Australian, American and Chinese governments have all warned Thailand that the welfare of their citizens while on Thai soil has become an issue of major concern.<br><br>Not For Publication is the final...
| Автор | William John Stapleton |
This book is the memoirs of "A Driven Class American." The author uses his own life to characterize the after "Boomers" generation (X, Y, and Millennial's) and their traditional middle class aspirations. He shares a story about the trade-offs necessary to elevate himself and his family economically. He weaves the external factors of boom and bust activity into decision making for home ownership, higher learning, career advancement, retirement, and...
| Автор | Cory Psy.D. Ash |
Practically every member of the Peale family contributed to America's early art and culture and Sarah Peale was the first woman artist to have made a living from her work. Having learned to paint from her renowned father, she painted several famous people, including Lafayette, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Hart Benson, and Daniel Webster.<br> Sarah was a passionate woman bent on being successful as an artist. She was also a woman of strong passion with a will to love and to be in love....
| Автор | Joan Ph.D. King |
Travels with My Hat is the story of how an Australian nurse switched careers to become an award-winning international travel writer and photographer. It is a colourful record of her experiences defined by travel and frequently against all odds. "We don't know who you are," she was told on arrival in London in 1974. "To get a name here, you need to write a book," which is precisely what she did, choosing as subject, the developing Arab oil states of the...
| Автор | Christine Osborne |
Muzungu, the Swahili word for white folk, translated literally means "confused person wandering about." During the author's months working and traveling through Kenya, this description fits her to a tee. Her audacious Kenyan adventure makes for a bucket load of anecdotes and impressions born of heart and hands-on experience–enough to knock your socks off. <br>The devil in Africa is in the details, and Muzungu is there in the trenches – raw, down and...
| Автор | Pamela Sisman Bitterman |
A biographical novel of the biblical King David. It follows the Bible very closely, but imagines the motivations the Bible only hints at.<br><br>Few stories have had such an effect on the world. The lonely shepherd boy, singing his songs in the wilderness to his one intimate friend, God, said what no one before had even dared to contemplate: "I" . In using the first person in "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want," he formed a personal...
| Автор | Allan Boone's Wargon |
"How Awesome Is This Place" is the story of how the Cathedral in Oakland California became a "liturgical Mecca with a national reputation." It unfolded in the l960s through the 1980s, decades fraught with turmoil within the country and the Catholic Church. <br><br>Father Don Osuna, cathedral music and worship director for nineteen years (ten as rector) recalls in graphic and entertaining detail how one congregation successfully gave a form and face...
| Автор | E. Donald Osuna |
Escribir mi testimonio tomó varios años, no porque tuviera que pensarlo mucho para decidir qué escribir, pues la historia no podría fluir con mas facilidad. Mi experiencia de Dios, que narré en la primera versión de mi libro conocido en español como "Testimonio" y en otros idiomas en que ha sido traducido como "De la Oscuridad a la...
| Автор | Marino Sr. Restrepo |
More than 140 entries in this book depict events which have had lasting national significance in opening opportunities in the struggle for equal civil rights and opportunities for women. The impact of many of the included events was initially felt on a local level; but in time it created repercussions that spread across the country. These stories show women assuming roles of providers and heads of households, and their leadership, exerted in and outside the home, would often manifest in the...
| Автор | Paul D. Buchanan |
The Long Shadows: A True-Life Novel<br><br>The Long Shadows is a fascinating true-life novel about Jacob Reuben Erlich, who, at 8 foot 6, was among the tallest men in the world. Best known by his stage name, Jack Earle, he would overcome crippling shyness, depression, temporary blindness and the physical challenges of a giant's frame to earn widespread acclaim during his career as a silent film star, circus performer, artist, poet and vaudevillian.<br><br>Drawing...
| Автор | Andrew Boone's Erlich |
This is a husband's heartfelt story about his wife and their journey during the last year of their life together. You will learn firsthand, how they embraced some of the most memorable and cherished moments of their marriage. You will also learn how they handled some of the difficulties presented to them and how they dealt with some of the worst times of their life. Together, they leaned on each other to provide a common strength but in the end, he had to rely on her incredible strength...
| Автор | Thomas Crochetiere |
The Author, David O'Dell shares his true story on how he met his "true love", his wife on an international romance tour.<br><br>Imagine traveling to an exotic location, like Barranquilla Colombia, located on the Caribbean coast and joining eleven other guys with the same mindset of sincerely searching for love and a life partner. During your stay you will attend three socials on different days and at these socials you will be surrounded by one hundred...
| Автор | David Inc. O'Dell |
Con gran calidez y simplicidad, Alejandro Arias relata la historia de su camino desde recibir el llamado a predicar cuando era jovencito, a convertirse un evangelista internacional. Las experiencias sobrenaturales que ha atestiguado, como la historia de su propia sanidad te inspirará y desafiará. En "El Niño Predicador: Una Travesía Sobrenatural, aprenderás maneras...
| Автор | Alejandro Arias |
What would happen if The Unthinkable blindsided you, requiring everything be put on hold to become a full time caregiver for a loved one? At the very least, it would reshape your life. Without a survival guide, it could even destroy it.<br><br>Barb Owen delivers precisely that survival guide in NORMAL Doesn't Live Here Anymore: An Inspiring Story of Hope for Caregivers. She weaves a story, through the first two parts of the book, based on her life-changing experience as...
| Автор | Barb BSL Owen |
After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss. Seventy-two days later, the body was found in the woods next to a roadway, a short distance from Lindbergh's house.<br> In 1927, Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic. By 1932, he was perhaps the most famous man alive. A great hero, he was allowed to be the chief architect of the investigation into his son's kidnapping. In this...
| Автор | Gregory Ahlgren and |
This first book by Pennie Morehead chronicles the life of Judith, the wife of Gary Ridgway, the infamous serial killer of more than 48 women. It contains 112 original photographs and letters, many published here for the first time, and reveal the relationship between Gary and his unsuspecting wife, Judith, who was living some of the happiest years of her life while married to a killer. Ms. Morehead also gives an in depth analysis of Gary's handwritten letters from a professional...
| Автор | Pennie Psy.D. Morehead |
Hazard, Kentucky is the setting for this historical story enhanced with some fiction, amazingly well told by author Wayne Combs, the great grandson of Bad Tom Smith. "Bad Tom" Smith was a notorious and murderous character in the late 1800s and as a result of his misdeeds was hanged in the town square for all to see. Still, there is more to a man than his public reputation, Bad Tom Smith was also a family man. This fast paced and realistic book will fill the reader in on many...
| Автор | Wayne Combs |
Unlike the memoir of a famous person, my story lives with the millions of baby boomers who passed me a joint and a beer in college and again at the corporate picnic. Before the Woodstock weekend in 1969, I graduated from college and married the mother of our love child, began training for a computer programming career, and a few months later got a high number in the draft lottery. My use of recreational drugs escalated from fun getting high to a craving that trumped my love for drinking beer....
| Автор | John Hayes W. |
Turning to the Catholic Church as a means of healing from childhood abuse, Hank Estrada looked for consolation and comfort but instead found cruel deception and ultimate religious betrayal at the hands of a very powerful religious machine, and in particular one manipulative, deviant priest.<br> <br>UnHoly Communion is a shocking and candid account of one man's personal battle with the darker side of the Catholic Church. Read the author's first hand accounts of how the...
| Автор | Hank Ph.D. Estrada |
This book is about one woman's shadow journey to find value in herself, that brought healing and forgiveness. How she changed her story from being a victim of childhood abuse into a powerful celebration of being a woman.<br><br>This is a memoire of Joyce B Boudreau's life. She lived the first 7 years of her life with a very violent father. Because of this she had many conscious and unconscious negative beliefs about life, the world around her and her value as a woman....
| Автор | Joyce MDiv Boudreau |
The Twilight Soi dwells on the dangers of one of the world's most beautiful and intoxicating cities, Bangkok. It is named after one of Bangkok's more infamous small streets, or sois as they are known. <br><br>Soi Twilight runs off the main thoroughfare of Surawong in the centre of Bangkok's oldest entertainment district Patpong and is known to travelers around the world. It is here where touts from go-go boy bars such as Ocean boys, Bangkok Boys and Classic...
| Автор | William John Stapleton |
Lance Brown knows firsthand the opportunities available to those who are willing to work hard and challenge themselves to attain a goal—to make a dream come true. There is no easy road to success but many rewarding ones where the journey changes the perceptions, possibilities and prospects of those who persevere. Through his personal journey and stories, Lance will convince you to embrace and love the challenge.<br><br>Lance shares his personal story progressing from a job...
| Автор | Lance Brown |
Every so often, our practical, science-dominated world is gifted with a mystic; a spirit-based, spirit-directed person. The world doesn't know how to deal with these people. They are disrespected at the very least, often bullied, sometimes drugged into submission and even institutionalized. Without recognition and support, the mystic believes there is something wrong with them. Unhealed, these individuals may abuse themselves. . . to the point that they might even consider killing...
| Автор | S. Joshua Mendel |