In Paul Hebert's inspirational memoir, The Sun Above the Clouds, travel back to a day when men cleared wooded homesteads by hand and horse but raised their families with violence.
Miracle Dreams from my Daughter in Heaven is a grieving mother's story of facing terminal cancer with her brave and tough, loving thirty-one-year-old daughter--and then attempting to go on living, loving, and giving.
This book is a warm and fascinating collection of short stories emanating from the nineteen fifties through contemporary times, capturing the incredible world of Thoroughbred horse racing and American history.
As a teenager during World War II, author Lilija "e;Lita"e; Zarina's idyllic life of perfumed soaps, shelves full of books, and carefree parties explodes into irretrievable pieces after a Soviet bomb strikes her family's property in Latvia.
En el presente libro encontraras una serie de poemas, reflexiones y aventuras vividas durante los aos 2000-2004 cuando inicie a laborar como profesora de primaria.
From car bombings to meeting Yasser Arafat and making it to the summit of Mount Everest, Mark 'Squiz' Squirrel has experienced more than many can dream about.
This is a story about a womans exceptional courage, a mothers unconditional love, and a matriarchs uncompromising will to see her family survive against insurmountable odds.
This is a story told by a cancer survivor unlike any other story: from the initial shock and disbelief of the diagnosis to the search for answers, second and third opinions, and alternative treatment options; from having to make very painful and life changing decisions to the eventual recovery and return to a normal, productive, and happy life.
No One but You is a fictional account of a young girl's extraordinary life, from the post-war East End of London to the high life of America and back again.
La memoria, es la conciencia de los pueblos, en ella se reflejan sus temores, sus tragedias y sus actos heroicos, esta es una recopilacin de varios hechos en los que personajes de la vida urbana se han visto involucrados en los aconteceres cotidianos, en sus luchas internas, en sus tragedias y sus pasiones.
In Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair, "e;our greatest guide to London"e; (The Spectator), chronicles the transformation and disappearance of his beloved East London in the wake of the 2012 Olympics.
Romping through crooked games, dodgy players, exotic venues and incredible hands, 'Poker's Strangest Hands' celebrates the strange history of Poker's most celebrated tournament, its World Championship event and the characters who have graced it with their presence, compiles some of the strangest things said about the game and fully records the details of the strangest Poker Year yet, 2006.
If you were astounded by the unlikely true story of a life-changing friendship in Same Kind of Different as Me, you can now go deeper into the story and its powerful themes with the Same Kind of Different As Me DVD-Based Conversation Kit and its accompanying Conversation Guide.
You Cant Win is the true story of one womans courageous battle with a debilitating addiction and the forces that wanted to keep her dependent on gambling.
La idea del libro es que algn da nos llegaran a comprender las autoridades de Estados Unidos de Norteamrica, que no es un gusto, una casualidad, un reto, ni es ofender a su gente, con el emigrar indocumentadamente a este grandioso pas, tampoco no somos los culpables de nuestra pobreza, como humanos, solo buscamos solucionar nuestros problemas y vivir cmodamente.
Storytelling at its best, this compelling memoir graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men who seek a place in the world by way of a military career.
From gifted and unorthodox doctor, to wife-beating bully, to Star Wars bounty hunter, one thing Temuera Morrison can't be accused of is being typecast.
