pha - Biography & Memoir 21

Every Labor Day weekend, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Courthouse Square in Scranton for the largest ethnic festival in northeastern Pennsylvania: La Festa Italiana. The Italians of Penns……続きを見る

Splendeurs et misères d'un rugbyman. Sur le sport de haut niveau, un témoignage comme on en a rarement lu. Mai 2010. Sur le bord du trottoir, un brun mal rasé de 1,86 m pour 100 kilos, dont le débar……続きを見る

In the annals of military history, only rarely has someone earned the distinction of rising from the rank of private to full general. Born January 5, 1887, Courtney Hodges attended West Point during……続きを見る

Das Buch »Refugium – sichere Gebiete nach Alois Irlmaier und anderen Sehern« fasst die Aussagen der bekannten europäischen Hellseher zu den unterschiedlichen Gebieten in Deutschland, Österreich, der……続きを見る

Manchmal ist ein Jahr ein ganzes Leben. Iris Berben erzählt: aus ihrem Alltag, von Höhen und Tiefen, von Plänen und Wünschen, von Erfolgen und Niederlagen. In Gesprächen mit ZEITmagazin-Chef Christo……続きを見る

"A él dedico mi pensamiento cuando no puedo dormir por las noches. Desde que apareció en mi despacho y me notificó el despido, me desvelo muy a menudo. Echo la vista atrás y contemplo la historia de……続きを見る

Stephanie Millward was on the verge of the British able-bodied swimming squad before being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) when she was only 17. 続きを見る

"1962 studierte meine Großmutter in Leningrad. Sie ging eine Beziehung mit einem ukrainischen Juden ein und wurde schwanger, mit meiner Mutter. Als die Eltern ihres Freundes erfuhren, dass ihr Sohn ……続きを見る

How do we respond in the face of evil, especially to those who inflict grave evil upon us? Abducted in Iraq is Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna’s firsthand account of his abduction in 2006 by a militant grou……続きを見る

" Dans cet univers de négation, la force de l'espérance a été ma source de survie. " Raphaël a 18 ans lorsqu'il s'engage dans la Résistance. Le 8 janvier 1944, il est arrêté, torturé et emprisonné, ……続きを見る

Far from being a misery memoir, Was this in the Plan? Is a frank, open and no-holds-barred account of how a family was determined not just to survive but to thrive when the odds were against them. I……続きを見る

What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towa……続きを見る

One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn’s dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as……続きを見る

Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grote……続きを見る

Er ist die Ikone unserer Zeit. Niemand sonst wird weltweit so sehr verehrt und bewundert. Sein Name steht für Freiheit, Frieden und Versöhnung, aber auch für Widerstand gegen Unterdrückung, für ein ……続きを見る

Ascertaining the genre of this volume has been difficult. It is much more than memoire, book of poetry, case study, dream journal, and travelogue. It is all that, plus their integration into a creat……続きを見る

Letters To Libby/ Part Three is the final book of a three part series. The books are comprised of edited letters written by Joseph A. White II to his Wife, Elizabeth T. White ( "LIBBY"), during Worl……続きを見る

In my younger days I was content to consider myself a mosaic artist and designer, stringing together rows of glass cubes to form textural two-dimensional surfaces that potentially can last forever. ……続きを見る

A compelling account of a career in education. Dr. Bagnall has served as an elementary school teacher, a public and private high school teacher, a professor in community colleges, and an administrat……続きを見る

Journey for Julie is unique in that the reader is able to follow along with the author as she travels through China to adopt her daughter. The reader is invited to witness the miracle of adoption an……続きを見る

Author Mary Ellen Stepanich, with tongue firmly in cheek, answers the question, How do you turn a normal, happy-go-lucky, poor, small-town girl of the Midwest into a push-me-pull-me, multi-married, ……続きを見る

I am what I am today , not because of, but in spite of, the past. For author Stephanie Harrington, that statement encapsulates a life story that she shares with you in A Silk Purse from a Sows Ear I……続きを見る

Horses are often more than a hobby. For many people, especially girls, they are a passion. The horses at Friendly Horse Acres walk, trot, and canter across the pages of The Hoofbeats of My Heart. Th……続きを見る

This book is the distilled essence of forty-one continuous years of police work. The experiences and observations continued from 1 January 1970 until 31 December 2010. irreverent, pointed, sarcastic……続きを見る

The Dawn of Islamic Literalism: Rise of the Crescent Moon is a book written specifically for the People of the Occident. It places the subject matter, which is unfamiliar to most westerners, in chro……続きを見る

The Beloved of the Creator is a story of Catechist Mark Bassey Obotama. The author who is the first child of Catechist Obotama takes the reader through the journey of his late father from birth to d……続きを見る

The book its self is about my own experience of remembering where I came from before child birth its self. I had been in side of such a beautiful and heavenly place before going through child birth ……続きを見る

Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and went on to fight in the Second World War have been called the greatest generation. From his early years in the cotton patches of West Texas ……続きを見る

Do you ever feel like no one else understands the frustrations of being unable to conceive? In this book, the author tells the story of how she and her husband became parents. She chronicles the ups……続きを見る

The Stephanie Rodrigue story is one of tremendous faith in a God full of Grace as she pours out her heart and soul in her eleven year journey with cancer through her emails to family, friends and he……続きを見る