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61) Speak your truth
Author
Publisher
Pilgrim Spirit Communication
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Emma Anne was considered the 'perfect' child. Straight A’s, multiple extracurricular activities, and finally attending her dream school. Until she had to drop out of school because of her battle with bipolar 1 and an eating disorder. From someone who seemed to do it all to struggling to survive, this is her firsthand account of her experience with mental illness." --
Author
Publisher
Worldview Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Note: The Elephant Chaser's Daughter is a true story of Shilpa Raj's life, and all events presented are factual based on her recollection. Individuals portrayed in the book are real, but pseudonyms are used for most to protect their privacy."--page 6.
When you are a female born into a poor Indian family, the odds are already stacked greatly against you. The human drama captured in this memoir is nothing short of amazing - a young woman's struggle...
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Louis Borek is a typical American, born and raised in a rough section of Brooklyn, (East New York) in the 1940s. He tells short stories of his exciting experiences growing up on the streets. Highlighting the many ways, children improvised with inexpensive games, his continuous and resourceful ways to earn money, and love for family. His willpower to adapt to the gradual neighborhood change from predominately Italian, Jewish and Irish, to Negros and...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone, The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man's endurance and his determination to not only survive the Holocaust but to bring to justice those who perpetrated great crimes against humanity. This is one of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust. Josef Lewkowicz was the only one left alive in his...
Author
Publisher
Valiance Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Shani-Lee's childhood was anything but happy. Helpless and fraught with fear in a web of lies and sexual abuse, she watched as her innocence and sense of childhood wonder disintegrated, leaving behind searing embers of abuse and bullying that scarred her irrevocably. Plummeting into an abyss of mental illness, self-abuse, and an eating disorder as an adult, Shani-Lee found herself engaged in a battle royale, not with perpetrators but rather with...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin-a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch-delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame. By age seven, Rebecca Quin, now known in the ring as Becky Lynch, was already defying what the world expected of her. Raised in Dublin, Ireland in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry-roughhousing...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"One woman's incredible story of life on the front lines as an emergency medical worker in New York City. On the streets of New York City, EMTs and paramedics do more than respond to emergencies; they eat and drink together, look out for each other's safety, mercilessly make fun of one another, date one other, and, most crucially, share terrifying experiences and grave injustices suffered under the city's long-broken EMS system. Their loyalty to one...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ln 2008, Bonner Paddock summited Mount Kilimanjaro. Four years later, he earned the triathlete title Kona Ironman. Thousands have done each individually; Bonner is the first person with cerebral palsy to do both. Bonner grew up just wanting to be ordinary. Despite his skinny legs and habit of tripping over nothing, he fought to keep up with his athletic older brothers and did everything he could to feel like a regular kid, even when it became clear...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This "comic memoir ... shares Anna's ... stories of love lost and won. Part memoir--including stories about being 'the short girl' in elementary school, finding and keeping female friends, and dealing with the pressures of the entertainment industry and parenthood--part humorous, unflinching advice from her hit podcast, ... the book [gives] Anna's unique take on how to master the bizarre, chaotic, and ultimately rewarding world of love"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Fedd Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Avremi Zippel always knew his life would be different. With a commitment to follow in his father's footsteps and serve as the Rabbi in Salt Lake City, he knew his life would defy stereotypes. However, nothing could prepare him for the truly unexpected twists and turns reality had in store. Not What I Expected tells the story of a young adult coming to terms with the decade of childhood sexual abuse experienced at the hands of the family caregiver...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Patricia Heaton knows what it's like to stage a second act and navigate pivotal transitions in life. When Heaton's children left the nest, she found herself in a new and unfamiliar stage of life, compelling her to evaluate which direction to take next. She discovered she had the time to pursue passions that were previously placed on hold, both personally and professionally. She made her move and took a step forward in her career and for the first...
Author
Publisher
Urano Publishing, an imprint of Urano World USA, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Author Robert Francis has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia for longer than a quarter century. Over the many years, Robert has been intimately familiar with the commonly tempered expectations and diminished hopes for those living with schizophrenia to live a full and abundant life, similar to others. In his now third book on living with schizophrenia, Robert was driven to literary action, to flip the schizophrenia narrative from one of abundant...
Author
Publisher
Mandel Vilar Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"To answer his son's question: what was it like growing up in Samarkand? Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman wrote and researched this memoir and history about Chassidic Jews who found refuge in Samarkand during the World War II and continued to live there under Soviet rule. This is a personal story for Zaltzman, who was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. When the Nazis invaded Kharkov, Zaltzman's parents fled with their three young children to Samarkand (Uzbekistan). There...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and only 2,000 returned. A Jewish doctor named Isaac Matarasso and his son escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Nazis and joined the resistance. After the city's liberation they returned to rebuild...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"To many people, a diary is like a trusted friend - somewhere to share their true (and sometimes secret) thoughts and feelings. In this book, explore more than 200 years of American history through the eyes of real people who lived through it... and, lucky for us, wrote about it, too! In this book, learn what makes diaries and autobiographies different, why they matter, and how to think critically to read them like a historian. From the American Revolution...