A biography and family memoir by turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, Miranda Seymour's Thrumpton Hall is a riveting, frequently shocking, and ultimately unforgettable true story of the devastating consequences of obsessive desire and misplaced love.
SHARESometimes you can see into a person s life and imagineThe joy from each one of them derives from just knowingThat the other one is there to care and understandSo, lend an ear or hold a handand celebrate the victory so that you can share!
Take an excursion with the author as he navigates the choices he made while sailing through three careers--jazz musician, Naval officer, and award-winning educator--amidst marriage, fatherhood, divorce, and remarriage against the backdrop of World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and the2020 pandemic.
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Written as a collection of essays and poems, A Light in the Darkness describes Rowan's descent into the darkness of sin and what's left at the end: years of broken relationships and spiritual wandering.
In this darkly funny and poignant memoir of love and addiction, award-winning author Anna Marrian chronicles her attempts to win the love of her charming, elusive, and boundary-crossing father.
The story is centered around a young woman who is six months pregnant, it is New Years Eve, December 31, 1945, on the warm and hot night in the United States Virgin Island.
'There is a certain feeling - standing between rows of richly dyed blue cloth - that you are within an enclave of protection, that within this ocean you can feel calm; a separation from the outside world.
In a fresh, innovative way, the author chronicles her faith journey as a collection of stories, each complete in itself yet all bound by the common thread throughoutthat of our universal need for prayer.
This is a boy's firsthand account of the Second World War siege of Budapest and the trials of its aftermath, transitioning to an English private school and tough days in London on the way to medical school.
In Puttin' on Ole Massa the noted historian Gilbert Osofsky has edited the autobiographies of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup that tell of their time as slaves before the Civil War.
Riding the Samosa Express is a collection of life stories exploring issues of marriage, love, loss, family life, culture, religious beliefs, suburban life, local and international politics, freedom and education among other important issues faced by professional and well-educated Muslim women who have not been held back by global stereotypes.
This book is about David Davey whose life changed when he was stricken with polio in 1948-go into the thoughts of a twelve-year-old as he lay in an iron lung, recovering.
Sky brings us back to her earliest memories to help us understand and glimpse into the challenges she faced as a First Nations Child, growing up on then off the reservation.
This is the unforgettable journey between my beloved horse Joe and myself, a courageous hummingbird, a horse ranch for children, and a small woven tiger from Peru.