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This book is a result of my own journey, wherein I found myself navigating through such tribulations without aid. I don't wish for you to endure what I faced. I understand your pain intimately and I aspire to equip you with the necessary tools to traverse through these challenging times—from dealing with divorce, exorbitant medical bills, credit card debts, to understanding your rights concerning your vehicle or home for a period of up to a year.

This is a collective of lessons learned from the perspective of a young man that has chosen to be a lifelong learner. Some of the lessons are from personal experience and travels and then there are some from the minds and mouths of others. All lessons are true and authentic to a life lived in abundance and curiosity.

Irreverent, nostalgic and vulnerable, Until the Last Pickle, is a memoir replete with remembrances, anecdotes, and exactly 18 recipes. It’s an exploration of identity and belonging — at once, deeply personal and broadly relatable — told through the lens of one family’s “totally average” immigration journey.

My memories of my father, Michael S. Kennedy, go all the way back to the Bahamas, where my sister, Abby, and I lived on a magical Out-Island. Dad was a blend of Tarzan and Chuck Norris. He loved deep sea fishing, was a boat captain and licensed twin-engine rated pilot, and still is an adventurer today, pursuing his love of photography at age 83!!

Ever felt like chucking it all and moving to an island paradise? Award-winning journalist David Haldane and his Filipino wife, Ivy, met on an international dating site. Ten years later, with David laid off from his dream job at the LA Times and frustrated by mounting costs in America, they made the bold decision to move to the Philippine island of Mindanao, where Ivy grew up.

In a collection of diary entries written with a stolen pen and papers, Hope begins by revealing the moment when, after awakening at her boyfriend’s house with a camera in her face and surrounded by police with huge guns, she was subsequently dragged to the police station where she was falsely accused of dealing drugs. As she chronicles her eight months inside a prison in Lebanon and the years after, Hope invites others to follow a lost woman as she attempted to not only survive psychological and physical torment but also to achieve justice.

Between 2 Worlds takes you through the life of an immigrant living a life of despair entrenched with a feeling of alienation. It's a heart-touching story that provides the readers with a glimpse of an immigrant surviving in western countries. It's Bahadir's tale of survival, living through the dungeons of Islamophobia and hate. This book provides an in-depth view of the life of an immigrant juggling the dilemma of identity.

Manipuliert und instrumentalisiert – meine Zeit an der Seite eines Soziopathen. Sieben Jahre lang lebe ich mit einem Narzissten zusammen und merke nicht, wie er mich für seine egoistischen Ziele und Wünsche vor seinen Karren spannt. Geschickt zieht er an den richtigen Strippen, und ich werde zu einer willenlosen Marionette, mit der er tun und lassen kann, was er will. In Episoden erzähle ich chronologisch, wie ich immer tiefer im Sumpf der emotionalen Abhängigkeit versinke und mich ausbeuten lasse, bis fast nichts mehr von mir übrig ist.

"Questo libro raccoglie alcune cose che ho imparato in tanti anni di professione, di incontri, di esperienze, di libri letti e scritti, di speranze e delusioni..." Così Piero Angela riassume e spiega la sua ultima fatica, un testo scritto di getto e nato dall'urgenza del momento, e dalle enormi sfide che ci attendono. Un lascito morale, dopo una lunghissima carriera al servizio dell'informazione e della formazione di generazioni di italiani.

“Irishman dies from stubbornness, whiskey.” So began Christopher Clifford Connors’s obituary of a life that included hunting bears in Russia, inventing limo surfing, surviving a shipwreck, and training with Navy SEALs—for starters. At the end of 2016, Connors’s story captivated the world when the exploits of his sixty-seven years went viral.

When World War II began, seventeen-year-old Letty from a rigid Orthodox Jewish family in Belgium is trapped in a resort nestled in the French Pyrenees with her mother and two sisters. Her oldest sister disowns the family to save herself as her mother’s distress turns into violent panic attacks. Ahead of Letty lay razzias, the French police round-ups of Jews, Nazi aircraft, young love, and uncertainty about who to trust or where to go in a country hell-bent on capturing her. Now her family’s fate, whether triumph or catastrophe, hinges on Letty’s escape plan.

Brian Johnson is a man who went looking for gold and found so much more-a soulmate for life, the child he had always dreamed of, and the joy of working alongside people who loved him. Brian Johnson lived his life in unexpected ways, choosing adventure over the predictable day-to-day. Working side-by-side with his brother, Loren, he struck gold repeatedly in the wilderness of Alaska and the Yukon as a modern-day goldminer for more than forty years.

Written with a unique blend of information, adventure, and humor; Ride the Jack Rabbit brings the stories and histories of Michiana to life in a whole new way. After spending hundreds of hours in the microfilm room, and just as many with a glass of bourbon at my typewriter, I'm excited to bring these adventures to you.

Special Agent Edwin Woodriffe was one of the first African-Americans to integrate the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1960s. On January 8, 1969, while attempting to apprehend an escaped fugitive, he and partner Anthony Palmisano were mortally wounded, making Woodriffe the first African-American FBI agent to be killed in the line of duty.

This personal memoir of Robert "Bob" Morin invites the listener into the life's journey of a Kansas farm-boy during a period of rapid change in the labor and life of farming the flat, dry land of Western Kansas during the middle third of the twentieth century....

Learn what role senate and congressional leaders played in promoting exclusion. Sit in on secret congressional hearings we now have access to, but was banned a century ago. Marvel at debate sessions and arguments against laws that would incorporate all citizens into American society.

No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul. Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.

A true story of a man who took it upon himself to live alone on a deserted island in the South Pacific, in fact he loved it so much he decided to return and stay a while longer!

A compelling and humorous story that combines two narratives: one an account of the emotional struggle to have a family, the shock of having triplets, and the challenge of raising them; the other a timely and insightful commentary on changes taking place in the America the triplets are inheriting.

This book begins with my hard-won freedom, as a divorced woman, by starting my new life in the Highlands area of Louisville – the neighborhood of my dreams. Many women were striking out on their own, at this time. I was eager to join them. As the generation that took women out of the home and into the workplace, our Silent Generation needed more skills in setting boundaries, and taking up for ourselves.