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This story begins, at the age of 14... in the closet of my Grandma's old bedroom... in my childhood home... which was now my room. I was getting ready to go into my freshman year of high school and knew I would be showering in the football locker room after practice... this terrified me because I knew everyone would see my huge scar that I received from a major childhood surgery.

How do you move forward when life doesn’t go as planned? Such is Life?: Framing a Positive "Next" Mindset in the Wake of Life's Setbacks by Bobby Steffens, thoughtfully narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman and Lauren Henry, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful and deeply personal memoir about resilience, healing, and finding purpose after life’s most difficult moments.

From her first ski trip, Jean Waight is entranced by the beauty and welcoming feel of Oregon's old lodge—an inspired 1937 creation. Winter by winter, her friends share weather, mishaps, and ale. She braves a comical encounter with a pine marten and is less brave when alone in a freakish snow accident that takes her to life's very edge. But Timberline Lodge's whisperings only become clear after she has to give up skiing. When skiers and snowboarders head for the slopes and all is quiet inside, the past comes out to play. Even the linocut murals hold up a mirror to her own life.

En su debut, Miriam Casco Benard y sus hermanos emergen como sobrevivientes, relatando sus extraordinarias experiencias en sus recuerdos Tender Memories of Fire and Dust: Earthquakes, Revolution, and Family. Esta no es solo una historia de supervivencia, es una narrativa que palpita con la intensidad de superar el catastrófico terremoto de 1972 que asoló Nicaragua, navegar por el peligroso derrocamiento del gobierno por parte de los sandinistas y el arduo proceso de reconstruir una nueva vida en Estados Unidos.

This book offers a personal inquiry, not a political treatise, into the consequences of allowing labels to define both individuals and societies. It asks: What remains when these labels are stripped away? What is the danger in neglecting to examine our core identity beneath them? My exploration culminated in a singular insight: unexamined collective labels profoundly influence not only the self but entire communities.

How long can you go on without breaking into a million pieces? Sara-Fay Tarlin, in this heartbreaking memoir that she dedicated to her daughter, will show you how. Follow her life’s story in Life’s Ups and Downs where she unfolds how she adopted her daughter, loved her as if she was her own...

When I first saw Brian Epstein’s black Twinlock binder, I was struck by how small and unassuming it was – just 160 by 100 millimetres, the kind of thing you could slip into a coat pocket. But inside, it held a universe. The book felt alive, buzzing, ready and waiting to be explored. So I dug...

In The Yankee and the British War Bride, two voices from opposite sides of the Atlantic come together to tell a deeply personal story of resilience, love, and the enduring spirit of the Greatest Generation. Through handwritten memoirs, Mary Irene Cooper-Dodd of Tipton, England, and Ernest Joseph...

I still remember the morning of January 7, 2025. I awoke to an odd scent of burning... both natural and chemical. I went downstairs and opened my kitchen door, like I do most mornings. Typically, I'm greeted with the joyful sounds of children heading to school, but this time I found the air thick, the density burning to my eyes and seemingly layered onto my skin, my clothes. The streets were oddly vacant.

Part memoir, part biography, this is a journey of change and transformation. This memoir offers a collection of Dan's life learnings and challenges, and her ride on the emotional rollercoaster called life. It demonstrates that life is not linear, and when we overcome its challenges we face everything and rise. We build our resilience and come out stronger and wiser. Some days it may not feel as though we are strong, but it's step by step, day by day moving forward; even small steps in the right direction are still progress.

On cold, damp Dublin day, Padraig enters Ryan’s of Parkgate Street in a dark and despairing mood – and meets the man. From this moment nothing is the same as he begins a journey in which he discovers his ability to truly lead and, in so doing, turns around a faltering business. This metaphorical journey is paralleled by a real one through various Dublin pubs, and the extraordinary people who can be met in these establishments. Pints of stout are consumed, profound conversations are had, and odd coincidences occur as the tale unfolds.

The perfect Christmas gift, this beautiful book explains how the bearded, red clad, big bellied, reindeer driving jovial gent came to be the face of Christmas, and reveals the historical origins of Saint Nicholas over seventeen hundred years ago in the Eastern Roman Empire. In a winding, magical...

Serving Without a Uniform: Reporting Truth In Defense Of Freedom is the inspirational autobiography of Mahtab Farid—award-winning journalist, U.S. diplomat, and American patriot—who has dedicated her life to advancing truth, freedom, and national security.

I fell in love with the bush (forest), the rugged terrain, the loneliness and wildness all rolled into a parcel and wrapped with the excitement of unknown territory. I was 14 and from that day, wanted nothing more than to immerse myself in the isolation and romance of the lonely Pakihi Valley.

Not every call ends when the sirens go quiet. In this reflective memoir, a veteran fire officer looks back on the moments that stayed - long after the uniform came off and the shift ended. Told in short, powerful chapters, these stories aren't about flames or headlines, but about people: the quiet weight of leadership, the cost of responsibility, and the small human moments that shape a life of service.

A book to lift your spirits: inspiring stories of people’s happiest moments from every country in the world, showing the many forms that happiness takes and what we have in common with people across borders and from all walks of life From the shores of the island nation of Tuvalu to the icy...

From the author who redefined motherhood for the modern age comes an unflinchingly honest account of midlife, identity, and recovery By her mid-forties Angela Garbes had built a good life. She was a successful author with a loving husband, two kids, and a thriving community. Her writing on...

In this wise, moving, and unexpectedly humorous memoir, David Belden traces a lifelong quest to unite the personal and the political, the spiritual and the secular. Born in postwar London to parents who believed their faith-based movement—the Oxford Group, later Moral Re-Armament (MRA)—could literally "remake the world," Belden grew up surrounded by the conviction that personal transformation could end poverty, war, and hatred.

In the late‑Victorian era, one novelist outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells combined. Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and William Gladstone were her devoted fans. The critics, however, loathed her – calling her “the favourite of the common multitude” and...

From a small African village marked by polygamy, betrayal, and hardship, to the cold streets of America where new dangers awaited, The African Girl God Remembered is the riveting true story of a girl who survived the unthinkable—yet rose unbroken. Born into a lineage shaped by ancestral pain and unspoken secrets, Charity’s childhood was filled with servanthood, sacrifice, and the search for belonging.