What does an award winning 2nd Unit Director / Stunt coordinator have in common with one world famous wall crawling hero? More than one might imagine. In his memoir, he talks about his life. Growing up. Dreams of being an actor, working with Marvel C...More info...
An intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan.In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challen...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University Press of America, ISBN-13: 9780761874867)
A young Syrian boy growing up in Damascus finds himself and his family in the midst of a brutal war of repression waged by the Al-Assad government against its own people. As friends and relatives are imprisoned and murdered, Bashar becomes increasing...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University Press of America, ISBN-13: 9780761874867)
A young Syrian boy growing up in Damascus finds himself and his family in the midst of a brutal war of repression waged by the Al-Assad government against its own people. As friends and relatives are imprisoned and murdered, Bashar becomes increasing...More info...
(Pub. Date: 06-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814284032)
How do you survive when your world explodes? By the time she was seven, Amy Lee Scott had seen her world end twice: first as an infant, when adoption brought her from Korea to Ohio, and again when her adoptive mother died of cancer. Orphaned twice ov...More info...
Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David SedarisA lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty. Daily MailMade me laugh out loud and then properly cry. Jennie GodfreyWhen it comes to the challenge of being a man, Ada...More info...
Amid the chaotic world caused by Covid, Gail receives an expected diagnosis, not having had any symptoms it is a total shock to her. How does she cope with this news and get her head around it, as she is going through her treatment, the bombshell of...More info...
Khaled was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1998. After spending 25 years in a medicated haze of stupour and depression, he is now determined to transition from illness to recovery. For many years, Khaleds outlook was dominated by despair, but in 202...More info...
The author has captured in words and lavish illustrations (many of his own that have never been seen before), the stories of over one hundred men and women whose personal motor racing journeys paved the way to establish and explode this sport. They d...More info...
In the months leading up to her nervous breakdown and subsequent admission to a French psychiatric facility, Celine often flippantly remarked, This job is going to kill me. Some nearby would agree, You might be right, but the universe responded d...More info...
Engagement is a biography/novel spanning two generations of a family bound by a shared commitment to improving the lives and livelihoods of poor families and communities in developing countries, though their paths differed greatly. The story opens wi...More info...
An erotic and often humorous memoir of a male life model in the UK. This is the story of a mans unconventional upbringing in the Australian outback, a boy who became obsessed with art books, art, and ballet. He was introduced to these creative outle...More info...
This book will take you on an emotional journey about living with Endometriosis - it is a true story that has been written to raise much needed awareness about the condition, and to also reach out to others who think they might have Endometriosis or...More info...
Have you ever wondered what really happens at nursing executive level in the Australian acute private health sector? Join Fiona for a look behind the curtain at what really occurs with the hiring and firing of executive nurse leaders, and learn from...More info...
A young girl cant stop bleeding, a husband has just found out his wife has terminal cancer. A twenty-five-year-old has been permanently disfigured by her abusive boyfriend. A young nurse was found hanged in her room, the note she left stating stre...More info...
When I wrote this story, I never imagined that my lifelong fishing partner and I would find ourselves in the Caribbean. I also never thought I would have false teeth, but here we are. Even more surprising, I never thought any of our crew, my partner,...More info...
Thirty-four years ago, Charles Smith was incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (or ‘Injustice,’ as he would say) with two life sentences. Now, he shares with us the harrowing and horrific experience of life in a Texas p...More info...
He feared escaping the daily terror of drug dealing and violence would overwhelm him, as it had so many other young men of color growing up in the housing projects. His life, and their lives, seemed destined to become more cruel statistics of the ghe...More info...
(Pub. Date: 13-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Bonifatius GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783987909429)
Herzlich, aber ruppig, so beschreibt Thorsten Schmale seine vom Wetter gegerbte Haut und sich selbst. Das ständige Leben draußen, von Arsch abfrieren bis Arsch abfrieren, wie er es nennt, hat ihn geprägt. Er ist ein Typ, der nicht um den heiß...More info...
