Memoirs

The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one man's journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in America.

Moses never wanted to be a leader.

This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In 1993, Donna Palomba was raped by a masked assailant in her own home.

When someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, every second you have left with them is precious.

I don't have to see your home to know your shame .

This is the story of the most unlikely Olympic decathlete in history.

One woman s memories of her deportation to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women in July 1941.

None of us is unaffected by the dreams and failures of our ancestors.

In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of us special and the ways in which we can become a force for good in a broken world.

For more than 60 years, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick's Cafe Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot.

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.

Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands.

A Sojourner's Truth is an African American girl's journey from South Carolina to the United States Naval Academy, and then to her calling as an international speaker, mentor, and thought-leader.

Gibs Odyssey is the true story of an extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo journey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrigs disease.

An inspiring book about dedication, the love of dogs, and the physical endurance and mental toughness needed to run the Iditarod sled dog race -- from a female perspective.

Speak, Hands is a meditation on memory and the unconscious which employs innovative narrative techniques to transport us into the wordless realms of meditation and gesture.

A young man comes of age surviving the chaos following the victory of the Cuban revolution, starting as the youngest military commander and then engaging in resistance and espionage activities against the government.

Max Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emotional shield.

Lives Interrupted portrays life in a country at war, through compiling the Facebook posts of long-term American missionaries to Ukraine, Mark & Rhonda Blessing.

John Marion Porter (18391898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky.

One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina.

Part of the outstanding biographical series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s.

From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club.

Protecting and Promoting Client Rights examines the inherent tensions within the family assessor role when there is no overarching compulsory regulatory body in social work.

'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt.

The Science of Crime Scenes, Second Edition offers a science-based approach to crime scenes, emphasizing that understanding is more important than simply knowing.

Some of the maps in this title are best viewed on a tablet device.

A #1 bestseller in England, former Prime Minster David Cameron's For the Record shares his views on his political career and the state of the UK.

'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES'These letters are a treat .

EMS in Crime Scene: Role of Medical Emergency Teams in Forensic Cases addresses the different settings that occur in pre-hospital environments, along with the medical-forensic relevance surrounding evidence preservation.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MEDITERRANEE 2018From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece.

HR Management in the Forensic Science Laboratory: A 21st Century Approach to Effective Crime Lab Leadership introduces the profession of forensic science to human resource management, and vice versa.

"e;To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope?

Polly Adler emigró a los Estados Unidos desde Rusia siendo casi una niña.

Pedigree Analysis in R gives an introduction to the theory of relatedness and covers a range of applications in forensic and medical genetics.

Entdecke die fesselnde Geschichte einer digitalen Nomadin auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung, Freiheit und persönlichem Wachstum.

'We asked listeners to be honest, creative, funny, engaging and evocative in their writing.

In 1961, President Kennedy named Edwin O.

We have all heard the common sayings like ';happiness comes from within' and ';happiness is a choice"e;.

"e;From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world.

Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after.

A book of the year for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Mail'Charming .

An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation.

This accessible book takes a unique person-centred approach to working with older people and provides an introduction to the legislation, policy, theory and research needed by social workers.

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An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time"e;In this deceptively quiet and self-effacing book, Anthony Kronman makes an audacious argument: the most important things in our lives make sense only if we believe the world is divine.

This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906-50).

Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong?