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For Maria, navigating life in all its glory has been accompanied by a steady stream of bicycles. No rule book, just a love of the new and a passion for the open road. Maria details a warm and witty, sometimes difficult ride through childhood, friendships, wealth, fame, reinvention, love and loss.

Bracing yet affectionate reflections on migration, race and society in Britain since the 1960s, by a journalist who was the BBC's first ever non-white editor.

With comforting advice and supportive activities, Grief: A Guided Workbook to Help You Heal is a comforting companion to help you make sense of your feelings after experiencing loss. If you're dealing with grief, you may feel isolated and alone, but this book is here to offer you support through each step of this personal journey.

Anxiety can feel like a huge obstacle to living the life you want - but it doesn't have to be! The prompts and exercises in this guided journal will help you to work through your worries, develop your self-belief, learn coping strategies and more, giving you the tools to conquer your anxiety, boost your well-being and live a happier life.

A humorous memoir of a young life in colonial Africa, with occasional interludes of sombre reflection by this son of German Jewish refugees. Set in Rhodesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, the author allows us a glimpse of his idiosyncratic family, the oddities of a vibrant Jewish community in the heart of Africa, schooling clothed with the trappings of Empire, holidays in apartheid South Africa and doomed attempts at athletic prowess.

Slide Tackles and Boardroom Battles isn't simply a football book. It's a memoir that will raise awareness of the trials and tribulations footballers face, while also giving a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on the business side of the game.

Getting Sauced is a rollicking backstage pass into the early days of food television, as Karen Katz, executive producer of Emeril Live, learns how to cook on the job with the help of the country’s most beloved chefs.

The never-before-heard story of legendary actor Billy Dee Williams, aka Star Wars' Lando Calrissian.

The extraordinarily inspirational memoir from Rugby League legend Rob Burrow from his life at the heart of Leeds Rhino's legendary team to battling motor neurone disease.

One of the most harrowing child abuse memoirs you'll ever read...this is a story of the most sickening abuse that a father subjected his daughter to, which led to her giving birth to two children through incest. After initially being dismissed and ignored, her father was finally brought to justice. Now released from prison, Mandy has bravely told her story in the hope of shedding light on some of the injustices in her case as well as exploring the stigma of having children through rape and incest.

In Search of the Beanstalk is a memoir about the family history and life of Jack Griggs and was written to preserve some of his family's history by recounting some of the amusing events and episodes of their humble beginnings and their journey to self-sufficiency.The family ancestry hails back to Scotland and the Cherokees of North Carolina. Although they were "poor," the family persevered through many hardships, but they seemed to always see the humor in what would have seemed to be unbearable circumstances. Levity made many of them tolerable, and the stories were retold many times at family gatherings.Jack, despite the many obstacles he faced in his early life, grew up to be the first in his family to graduate from college and earn not one but two master's degrees along with becoming a successful public servant devoting forty years to law enforcement.The book covers his family background and life from birth through adulthood. Jack recounts his tumultuous childhood in and out of orphanages, almost constantly changing where and who he lived with during his early years. He attended five different high schools. He served in the United States Air Force and had many jobs in his life until he ultimately began his career in law enforcement culminating in his last two jobs as a police chief in California before his retirement.With a phenomenal memory for details, Jack shares many anecdotes about his life growing up and his law enforcement career.

Are you tired? Carrying a heavy load? Do you grin and bear it, but inside feel torn, messy, broken?If you've ever questioned your worth, this book is for you. BARE by Niccole Nelson is a book about real evolution. Filled with poetry, short stories, and one-liners that just hit right at your core, Niccole's words reach into your soul providing a mirror to reflect your brilliance back to you, even when you feel anything but.With the depth of Alex Elle and the faith of Sarah Jakes, and a brand of realness like no other, Niccole Nelson no longer identifies as the twelve-year-old daughter of a heroin addict, crying, scared and confused in her first foster home. She has overcome a multitude of challenges and betrayals. Now standing in her power, owning her truth, she is finding her voice while guiding others to do the same.

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Two men in love. A world ready for change. THE WAY FROM ME TO US is the story of two pioneers. It's the true account of a love that began nearly 50 years ago in a Nashville gay bar called The Other Side. It was 1977, when coming out could mean you lost everything. Your job. Your friends. Your family. Mike and Ted were all too aware of the risks at the bar that night. It was literally a step to the other side for Mike, who was nowhere near as accepting of his true self as Ted was of his. "I like being gay," Ted told him. "I'd like to find somebody who likes being gay with me." Mike accepted the challenge. With no instruction manual, the two of them staked out a life together at a time when such things "just weren't done." Theirs is a story of two men battling the toughest challenges, some external, some that sprang from within. It's the story of the triumph of an undeniable love that has lasted nearly half a century. This uplifting memoir will move and inspire you. It's living proof that, no matter how vehemently the world works against it, love wins.

Brian Miller's Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination--fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of homegrown food and handmade drink. It is also about pain, blood, deaths, mud, storms, droughts, and failures. The author, who owns a small East Tennessee farm, lives an ""antiquated life,"" that is, a life often out of sync with modernity and closely in sync with the natural world. His book is structured as a breviary broken into the eight monastic offices of the day. Written as a series of meditative notes, it follows his efforts to live with purpose and stewardship.Kayaking with Lambs is about learning to dwell alongside neighbors, nature, and even the planet as if it mattered. In language that is poetic and writing that is honest, insightful, poignant, wry, and self-deprecating, Miller ponders everything from the cycles of life to his family heritage to what Wes Jackson refers to as ""becoming native to this place."" And, of course, he shares the many times along his journey that he's found himself in situations totally unforeseen when he began . . . like kayaking with lambs.

Mr. William Pratt was born on June 17, 1954, and his journey through life was bittersweet.He feels like these songs and poems are and will stand up to the test of times. Some will make you happy, and some will make you cry, but most you with truth, love, and harmony. Even though he's a man, when he wrote these songs and poems, he felt like a giant, and all his songs and poems are as vast as the universe, and he hopes these songs make the weak and unhappy souls strong. He tossed in some fantasies, which we all need to escape from reality sometimes and the reader's natural high.So enjoy his songs and poems; they're like his mother's jambalaya--a little bit of everything in a bowl and spicy to complete.

Jahrzehnte nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges beginnt Felizitas Puche ihre persönlichen Erlebnisse der Nachkriegszeit Revue passieren zu lassen. 1926 als Felizitas Reimann geboren und aufgewachsen in Glatz, nach einer unbeschwerten Jugend 1945 aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben und gestrandet in den Nachkriegswirren Westdeutschlands, musste Felizitas bereits in jungen Jahren viele Hindernisse überwinden. Ihre dabei gesammelten Erinnerungen und Erlebnisse zeichnen ein detailliertes Bild über das bemerkenswerte Schicksal einer jungen Frau, ihrer nie enden wollenden Stärke und über die systematische Vertreibung und Flucht ihrer deutschen Leidensgenoss*innen aus den ehemaligen Ostgebieten nach 1945. Felizitas Puche geb. Reimann nimmt uns mit in einen fast vergessenen Teil der deutschen Geschichte und zeigt uns hautnah, wie sich das Leben von Millionen von Menschen nach der deutschen Kriegsniederlage brutal veränderte und wie Gewalt, Willkür und Demütigungen Einzug in ihren Alltag hielten.

"A captivating, poignant, and transformative journey" -Fran Stedman¿Through her speaking and writing, Alice Scott-Ferguson's unique perspectives have encouraged countless women on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, in this delightful memoir, Alice for the first time gives details of her Shetland Island childhood under the Northern Lights, beside the ebb and flow of the sea, on the carefree sands, and within a crofter's cottage home. We follow her through challenges of Mainland schooling and boarding, then marriage, motherhood, ministry, and widowhood. We witness how her growing and evolving faith steadied her through turbulent tides and winds of change-currents that carried Alice to unexpected and undreamed-of adventures far from her native isles, to Ireland, England, Germany, and the United States. The experience and wisdom shared eloquently in this book shine light on the path of women young and old in the challenges they face today.

Stela Armstrong was born in Bulgaria to a poor white woman and an African soldier from Mozambique. She was placed in a post-communist orphanage as a baby and experienced many horrors. Miss Armstrong longed for someone to rescue her. Years later, she was adopted by an American couple who pulled her from a living hell and brought her to America. They raised Stela and cared for her. Still, she ached to find her birth parents and reunite with them. A Long Way Home: My Journey from Heartache to Healing is memoir about her adoption story and reconnection with her past. The book makes Stela Armstrong a first-time author. She currently works at a technology company and lives in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Do You Have the Courage to Be You? is a life-purpose book that tells the story of Jenny Williamson and how she left her ordinary life to start an international nonprofit, creating safe homes for children being sold for sex.

Have you ever been faced with a challenge that was as confusing as it was daunting? Or that required clear thinking and wise choices when you were overwhelmed and afraid? Close Contact: Memoir of a Determined Pandemic Cancer Survivor is Wendy Ormsby's account of being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at the start of a pandemic and the events that followed: personally frightening news at a universally frightening time. If you or someone you care for is trying to navigate a similar path, this memoir will show by example how to get to the other side. Informative and illuminating, she's optimistic that her experience will shine a light of hope and help on your endeavor as today, she is healthy, happy, and excited to share all she has learned.

Life is a journey but that doesn't say enough, does it? In his book The Two Paths, Steven Fidler shares how, in a single night, his life shifted from graduating college with honors and a bright future, to unexpectedly losing his sight, altering his journey forever. With all future dreams lost, inability to find employment and impending poverty, coupled with the loss of connection to the world around him. Steven spiraled into anxiety, panic attacks, and self-destructive behaviors. The dark night of the soul does offer a light at the end of the tunnel, however, and it is this that Steven is offering whoever chooses to share this journey through his eyes.The Two Paths offers a humorous yet profound look at struggle and how all of life has patterns. We all go on our own unanticipated journeys in some way or another. That said, all of life is happening for our true benefit. For Steven, it was his blindness that taught him to see that ultimately there is only one single problem that we all share, and the solution to any problem is already built into every problem for each and every one of us. We just have to learn a new way to see.

ANN IS CONVINCED SHE IS A GOOD MOTHER until her teenage daughter admits to suicidal thoughts. In a desperateattempt to rescue her child, she gathers wisdom from therapy, the 12 Steps, and Buddhist teachings, yet she finds her greatest solace from an unlikely source: the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Connecting this ancient story to her experience as a traumatized mother, Ann is vindicated in her desire to save her child but also learns the secret to returning to herself. A memoir about honesty, compassion, and trust, Craving Spring explores the pain and beauty of mother-daughter bonds and celebrates the universal desire for renewal."A masterful storyteller, Ann Batchelder takes us deep into the heart of a mother's love while demonstrating the power of myth to illuminate a path toward healing. Craving Spring is a gift to anyone trying to navigate the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship."-Anita Johnston, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon"Craving Spring is so deeply heartfelt that I felt it in my own heart, often pounding as I read-and yet I could not put it down."-Lynn Melnick, author of I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive:On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton"Ann Batchelder has expressed something extraordinary with relevance and profound teachings...Craving Spring is a story of triumph. I highly recommend it."-Tommy Rosen, founder of Recovery 2.0

It shouldn't be this hard. In her courageous memoir, Bethany opens up about her harrowing journey through a nearly fourteen-year-long marriage filled with turmoil and abuse. From the outside, her life seemed picture-perfect, but behind closed doors, Bethany faced a constant battle for her safety and sanity. With unflinching bravery, she recounts the moment when she found herself on the brink of losing her life at the hands of the man who had once promised to cherish her forever. Through her journey of survival and healing, Bethany sheds light on the often-overlooked realities of domestic violence and offers hope to those who may find themselves in similar situations.