Brother Lawrence entered the monastic order in 1642 believing that he was giving up this world's happiness to become a monk, but there discovered a much deeper happiness than he had ever imagined.
THE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIMIn January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby.
Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students' experiences at college, offering lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices.
Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students' experiences at college, offering lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices.
The respectfully uncensored story of how Mandy Rennehans savvy business skills and innovative thinking led her to the top of the male-dominated construction industry before the age of thirty Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Mandy Rennehan began her business career at the age of ten by catching bait and selling it to local fishermen.
The Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature gathers Robert Louis Stevenson's most revealing autobiographical and itinerant prose, tracing a mind restlessly attentive to landscape, manners, memory, and moral atmosphere.
The Man Who Was Goethe: Memoirs, Letters & Essays gathers the self-revealing prose through which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe becomes not merely a monument of German letters but an active, searching mind.
'A small masterpiece' The SpectatorMy Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely.
'Charmingly provocative' Observer'A smorgasbord of delights' Irish Times'Addictive a writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' The SpectatorInAutobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius to Robert Bolano and Svetlana Alexievich as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create.
A BARACK OBAMA FAVOURITE BOOK OF 2020A New York Times best book of 2020One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans.
My Bloody Roots is the brutally honest story of life in two of the worlds best-known heavy metal bands, Sepultura and Soulfly, by one of the global metal scenes most respected musicians.
Dieses eBook: "De Profundis (Deutsche Ausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Diese eBook Sammlung: "Der unglücklichste Romantiker der Jahrhundertwende" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who was killed at the age of 35 by a suicide bomber while hunting high value targetson a classified mission in Syria in 2019.
Its the 80s just before the advent of AIDS, and we are behind the scenes at the entrancing Mitchell Brothers OFarrell Theater, which gonzo journalist Hunter S.
Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World is a collection of stories by neurodivergent people who identify as being Mad, about what it's like to live Mad in a world that oppresses them for the ways they think, live, and act differently from those who consider themselves Normal.
Rachel's story is a true one of young love, joys and triumphs experienced, but also is about difficulties of being and staying together, as they are beset by hardships, disappointments, and struggles toward making a good life for themselves.
Nationally regarded trial attorney and media personality Brian Claypool weaves together his personal story of trauma and his experiences litigating notorious child abuse cases to show how our cultural code of silence endangers children and what we can do about it.
AGAINST ALL ODDSDeclaration of Dependence on GodGod did not let me come back, just to be back, but to fight back and take my health backGod did not judge my faults, but he allowed me to find favor at the place where I failed and made mistakesIf God brings me to it, he will get me through itWhen God delivers me out of it, he is able to keep me from going back to it!
Based on fact, this is the story of the main character Jeff Baker, who tells of what it was like to live and grow up through the hell of the London blitz of World War two, then with the bombsites as his playground and the trials of growing up in the aftermath of post war BritainLater in life he moved to the Estuary where he leads a ';David and Goliath' fight against the impossible odds of taking on the most powerful international conglomerates of the Oil IndustryIn this part of the story it tells of a battle against impossible odds that took place in the suburbs of the Estuary, of what it was like for the little man taking on the most powerful people in the world and the establishment that supported them, He led an ordinary small community of people in an epic struggle, when they took on the might of two powerful international oil refinery companies and the establishment and the Authority that supported them, proving one twig you can break very easily, bind those twigs into a bundle of twigs no matter how powerful you are, you will never break them therefore ';The Big Boys Don't Win all the Time'.
2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards WinnerBest Memoir in the Personal Struggles/Health Issues CategoryTwo-time 2023 NYC Big Book Award WinnerMemoir and Non-Fiction2023 International Latino Book Award WinnerMost Inspiring Non-Fiction, Honorable MentionDear Son, Im going to tell you a story, the most difficult one to share.
IPPY Awards Gold Medal Winner in the memoir categoryColorado Independent Book Publishers Association (CIPA) Gold Medal Winner in the memoir categoryNational Indie Excellence Awards finalist in the new non-fiction categoryA deeply personal memoir about finding family and belonging from White House staffer Robin F.
From a remote cabin in the rugged rainforest of the Alaskan wilderness, where the untamed landscape tumbles into the ocean, a remarkable yellow Labrador retriever named Woody helped an exile from corporate America seek a fierce freedom.
Hier berichtet Heinz Siebeneicher über sein Leben, das nicht immer ein Wunschkonzert war, über seine Kindheit im Berlin der Kriegs- und Nachkriegsjahre zwischen Ost und West, über seinen Beruf bei der Post und über seine Berufung, über Träume, Sehnsüchte und Realitäten.
Iniciar este proyecto implicaba una serie de retos, como convencer a los lectores-escritores de contarnos parte de su vida, la relacionada con la lectura.
—Nota del editorEste libro llegó a mis manos bajo pseudónimo, con la fuerza que tiene el azar de organizar el caos, y con una estricta petición de confidencialidad por parte de la autora.
