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Angel of the Ghetto tells the remarkable story of Sam Solasz, a boy born into a warm and loving Jewish family in Poland in 1928. Sam inhabited a protected world until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 which tore his world apart.
Grief Healed: A Physician’s Prescription for Thriving After Loss. This memoir chronicles Sona's journey through a time with grief so devastating that it could be paralyzing. Heart-wrenching, but ultimately triumphant, this is a story of recovery and hope for the future.
t’s In the Bag: How to turn a passion into a new business is an inspiring business memoir. Entrepreneurs will find invaluable business advice in this remarkable story of how a flight attendant turned an idea into a product category that didn’t exist and created a multimillion-dollar global brand—the iconic SHERPA BAG, the world’s top selling, soft-side pet carrier. Pet lovers who fly with a dog or cat, have Gayle Martz to thank for revolutionizing pet travel on airlines, and for making pet travel in every mode, safer. This is her story. Gayle’s journey to becoming one of the top successful women entrepreneurs, is not a fairy tale in which everything went smoothly. Her story began in 1987, when she was furloughed from the job she loved as a TWA hostess (now known as a flight attendant). Shortly after, she lost the man she loved, her fiancé, who died in his sleep. Her saving grace was her little dog named SHERPA, who became her life. It was on a cross-country car trip with SHERPA, that the idea of a soft-sided pet carrier came to her.
Part medical thriller, part spiritual awakening, part artistic curiosity, and all heart. Richard candidly recounts his decades-long struggle against cancer and unique approach to his treatment — allowing an artist to sit in during his surgeries to create paintings. This book will resonate with anyone who has faced life-threatening circumstances—or loves someone who has. Richard faced his mortality head-on with great ingenuity and courage. As he once said to his doctor, “I am what I am. No more, no less.”
How could a man like Chris Christie get within shouting distance of a seat in the Oval Office? What does this say about our Justice system, and about us? If you think you know the whole story of Christie's rise and later fall from grace-think again.
Struggling New York actress Alison has an outwardly good life: toned body, plenty of dates, a comfortable daily regimen. Still, she feels stagnant, empty, and as blocked as the river view from her Upper West Side apartment. Now divorced and in her mid-thirties, she has never gotten past an early childhood trauma of being torn away from her brother and sister when her parents separated. Since then, nothing sticks. No one stays. She craves a sense of permanence, a place to call home. A Place Called Grace is a humorous, hopeful, bittersweet contemporary memoir that shows how a seemingly unmoored existence can find its safe, solid center after all.
Field Work with an Open Heart depicts the trials & tribulations, life-changing situations and gratifying outcomes of cases that were worked on by a social worker who conducts home visits.
The following is a true story. I was a young boy when I first encountered death. Over the years, I slowly watched the people whom I loved most in life leave this earth one by one. Looking for answers in life, I turned to everything other then what I needed–Jesus Christ. My life story is a powerful testament of faith and victory. I was lost in a world, with nowhere to turn and on the brink of destruction. Being at a point in my life where I couldn’t handle my problems, I had two options–give in or give them to God. – Christopher Maskey
This is an unforgettable book, by an unforgettable person. Cristina has constantly lived life to the fullest. Whether its apartheid, archaeology, human history before writing, nuclear perils, politics, religion, terrorism, tsunamis, women’s lives, or something else, she has always involved herself in big issues.
Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his face. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed experimental surgeon.
When a tornado hits my Illinois home and forces my early retirement, it sends me into the heart of the Ozarks. This is when life gets interesting.
“Of Things that Used to Be” describes the rich and colorful lives of the Jews in the Southeast Bronx between 1916 and 1926 where Nathan Lobell grew up
Griselda Holzinger Lobell (1916- 2006) was born in Queens, New York into the world you read about in this book. It was a world that had as many horse-drawn carts in the street as cars and trucks. A world in which family members lived nearby. A world in which New York City schools were among the best in the world, and in which Griselda’s Latin teacher, on figuring out who she was, could say to her, “Your mother was one of the best students I ever had. I expect the same from you.†Griselda lived in Queens; Washington, DC; Great Neck, Long Island; Manhattan; and Wilton, Connecticut. She was among the first women to attend Columbia Law School, worked in the New Deal, and was a mystery writer. This memoir describes her life up to the age of sixteen.
Dark Souvenirs is the story of a young woman whose childhood was spent struggling to cope with severe sexual and psychological abuse. Bullied by students and teachers alike, and unable to understand what set her apart, she survived day by day trying to placate the monsters around her. Part unapologetic memoir and part insightful commentary, the author focuses on the lesser known emotional ramifications of abuse, sharing extensively on her experiences in the public schools, both as a student and later, as a teacher. Through her eyes, we witness not only the ravages of abuse, but also the indomitableness of the human spirit.
SARA, Sara is dedicated to Sara's brothers Nuchem and Velvel, to the three little sisters of my Grandma, and to the 1,500,000 Jewish children who perished in the Shoah along with their mothers, or separated from their mothers, or right before the eyes of their mothers and other witnesses. May each of us find within ourselves the strength and dedication to help make this world safe for all children everywhere.