Tagebücher & Memoiren

In this compelling memoir, Jerad Romo reflects on a life shaped by hard work, determination, and unexpected twists. From his early days mowing lawns and toiling in carrot fields, to the pinnacle of high school sports triumphs, the journey took a sharp turn when coveted scholarships eluded the athlete. Undeterred, he navigated the challenges of college sports, facing setbacks and ultimately finding success at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. The narrative weaves through personal and professional milestones, from a chance encounter with Carl Sewell Jr. to a lasting bond with football legend Roger Staubach. Now a devoted family man with sixteen years at Sewell Automotive Companies, he imparts the invaluable lessons of faith, generosity, and perseverance. Through highs and lows, Rise Above is a testament to the resilience that fuels the pursuit of greatness-a journey that will resonate with readers, inspiring them to embrace life's lessons with unwavering determination.

Eric Protzman chaired the Young Life committee and Andy Morman served as the Area Director. When they began their journey together, they brimmed with confidence and trust.In just a few years, they couldn't stand each other, and their Young Life Area struggled because of it.In Our Town, Our Kids, Eric Protzman shares the lessons he and Andy learned as they forged a trusting friendship and developed a model for healthy Young Life Areas. In his thought-provoking book, you'll learn how to¿ Honor Young Life and YL staff¿ Avoid outsourcing your kids' salvation¿ Wage war on staff fear and lonelinessReimagine your Young Life Area!

In this candid memoir Hofer Ho reflects on his tumultuous young life under the indomitable but often questionable leadership of his mother.From her own childhood experiences of war and the ever-near dangers of rape and starvation, Ho relates his mother's rise from the ashes to conquer every obstacle that threatens her family's success. But at what cost? From the near abandonment of husband and home to the steady erosion of her most sacred relationships; cat-and-mouse acts with immigration and close calls with the law Ho questions the price of his mother's seemingly insatiable need to acquire wealth.My Hakka Mother is a brave confrontation of memories so deep and bitter only forgiveness can soothe them.

Brendan Murphy was born into the Irish diaspora, returning home to Ireland in 1996, after multiple attempts, just as the Comet Hale-Bopp became visible, leading the way home as the bright light it was. He has lived in the Cooley Mountains in Tullaghomeath, high above Carlingford Lough since 1997, where his sense of belonging and identity have been nourished by the warmth of neighbours and community.Brendan's work as a Business Consultant has taken him to many countries, but it is Ukraine which left a mark on him, never to fade or be forgotten. He built a home away from home. Forged and nurtured friendships, which have seen them through war, turmoil and escape.A year into his separation from his ex-wife, meeting and falling in love with Sophia (not her real name) was what truly grounded him in Ukraine, even if it took them twelve years and two glorious attempts at their marriage. First the green wedding, then the blue.However, new home, family and life was suddenly disrupted by the threat of war and arguments with the Irish government, culminating on the morning Russia attacked where he lived, on 24 February 2022.From that moment, it was a race against time and death, as Brendan, along with Sophia and her family, navigated country roads in a small Skoda Fabia, sheltering in safe houses, and with no documents, hoping to make it to Ireland, before they too would become lifeless bodies, strewn about the roads, as many, horrifically, have done.This is their story.

"What does it mean to live a kind life? In this inspiring book, a mother-of-two provides a blueprint for how she and her family adopted a sustainable, plant-based lifestyle, sharing the eye-opening facts that convinced her they needed to make a change."--Provided by publisher.

In this little book, I hope to shed a little light on the shadowy subject of, having a relationship with someone with Asperger's Syndrome. I won't advise anyone, warn anyone, or provide any contingency plans. My life with Rosa was fascinating. She dragged me kicking and screaming out of my past and into my present. I had issues before meeting her and she allowed me to work some of them out.Discovering Rosa was also a magical journey of self-discovery. It has been a privilege to know her and if I found the relationship difficult, it was because of us both. We both loved and we both wanted. And we both benefitted and suffered. I believe that any relationship with a lover, is a case of, 'it takes two to tango.' We grow and learn if we are wise. As a couple, we have run our race. Now we are friends and Bem's mums. I am still me and Rosa is still she, but after five years of separation, she is still by my side and I am still learning to be with her.

Journey into the tumultuous mind of a mother besieged by psychosis. Tasked with the immense love and responsibility of five children, she is caught in a relentless battle, yearning to shield them, yet grappling with scars from her past that hinder the very connections she desires. In a world clouded by diagnoses - Bipolar Disorder, psychotic illness, and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - clarity becomes elusive. Yet, amidst the chaos, she discovers an oasis in poetry. Each verse becomes a lifeline, a way to navigate the storm and reach out to the world. Her heartfelt compositions aren't merely an expression; they're a plea to underscore the importance of understanding and aiding those grappling with mental health challenges.

Ever wonder what it's like to live in Qatar? Well M hadn't. He couldn't have even found it on a map... then found himself there. When M arrived in Qatar from London on his newly-minted expat assignment, he didn't expect to be confronted with life's most existential choices...so immediately. And he dragged his girlfriend-cum-wife too. "But I wanted to go to Singapore," she said. "We got at least half-way there!" From job offer, to eloping in Las Vegas (because living together out of wedlock is haram), to having a kid - and back again, "TIQ" is a humorous, if not slightly exaggerated, acerbic account of an amateur expat's trials and tribulations waaaay out of his depth in a country, frankly, he had never heard of. If you're about to move to Qatar, or if you ever thought you wanted to visit (you KNOW you want to), TIQ will help you frame (and perhaps even answer) some non-trivial questions such as: - What would you choose with your marginal dollar - beer, or bacon? - Is it OK to eat your lunch on the toilet? - Who's that scary voice on the radio every morning? and - Are traffic signs really just...guidelines? If you weren't planning on moving to Qatar, or even visiting - the shock, laughs and jaw-droppingly ridiculous happenstances might just even move the needle (albeit slightly). Way back when M got his Hebrew tattoo, his mom, like any good Jewish-American, said, "Well, now you'll never be able to go to the Middle East." M just scoffed and said, "Middle East? Me? Never." Who's laughing now? (And by the way: the answer is definitely never bacon.)

THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus -- a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years.For decades, Georges Erasmus led the fight for Indigenous rights. From the Berger Inquiry to the Canadian constitutional talks to the Oka Crisis, Georges was a significant figure in Canada's political landscape. In the 1990s, he led the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and afterward was chair and president of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, around the time that Canada's residential school system became an ongoing frontpage story.Georges's five-decade battle for Indigenous rights took him around the world and saw him sitting across the table from prime ministers and premiers. In the 1980s, when Georges was the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, he was referred to as the "Thirteenth Premier." This book tells the personal story of his life as a leading Indigenous figure, taking the reader inside some of Canada's biggest crises and challenges.

This is the life story of Clive Towle, born in 1939 a few months before the beginning of WW2. A shy lad who grew up to be adventurous and creative and admits to still being a little shy on occasions. Clive has experienced many things in life, mostly good, but some not so good. His story relates to many different aspects of life that, suggested by some, few could equal. In his own words, "I've done so many things in my life, quite a few people have said, 'You should write a book', so I did." He covers the war, school, farming, army, various jobs, self employed, two marriages and old age. A fairly compelling read to say the least.

MAGGIE: In 2019 we gave up the constraints of a frequently frantic existence to live and travel in a campervan for a year; to be in the flow of life; trusting the great mystery of the universe to guide us. We got far more than we expected. The truth is that the truth is stranger than fiction. PETE: On our adventures we encountered sea turtles on a remote island; a mystical prophet woman in an Aborigine rainforest; were bitten by a rare spider; visited most of the Lord of the Rings film locations with uncanny ramifications; collected Maori tea; encountered mysterious Broch energies, and many more weird and wonderful experiences This is: HISstory and HERstory Sit back and come with us on an adventure.

I was born in the heart of London's East End, where the gritty neighbourhoods of Wapping and the West End intersect with the grand commerce of the City. This spiderweb of commerce has been the financial capital of the world since the Middle Ages, yet just beyond the posh centre lies the hardscrabble poverty of London's working class. From this seat of empire that once ruled the largest domain the world had ever seen, my story begins.

Through a carefully-chosen selection of medieval love letters, Myra Stokes and Ad Putter explore the blurred boundary between literary art and actual missives. This anthology brings together epistolary poems, model letters and real letters and includes critical editions of seven remarkable and substantial texts not easily available elsewhere.

Trace Kingham always stood out-and not always for the reasons he hoped. Growing up in a conservative, rural Midwestern town in the 1970s presented challenges for Trace, who discovered his uniqueness at a young age. In a world that expected him to enjoy traditionally masculine activities like camping and fishing, Trace found solace in sewing, baking, and assisting his grandmother with her ceramics shop. Enduring severe bullying throughout his teenage years, Trace lived in constant fear, especially at school. To make matters worse, he was ostracized by community members for becoming the sole male cheerleader on his high school team. However, fueled by passion and determination, Trace remained steadfast in his pursuit of authenticity, constructing a satisfying, self-defined life. ¿Permission to Be Me is an honest and courageous memoir that explores the triumphs and tribulations of living unapologetically on one's own terms.

"From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a clever and subtly scathing follow-up about love, sex, drugs, and techno in our time of rage Everything shifted for Emily Witt the day she met Andrew. It was the summer of 2016, and her first book would soon enter the world. A tour through alt-sex in the Internet age, it would receive widespread acclaim for its sharp and aloof critical eye. And yet here Emily was, pining for the same monogamous normy life she once questioned-all because of a techno-head programmer from Queens who chain-smoked and showered with Irish Spring. Their future together developed unexpectedly. Over the next four years, they would fall in and out of foggy clubs, take drugs in bathroom stalls, move in together, and build a life. As oceans boiled and wildfires burned, Emily and Andrew retreated deeper into Brooklyn's underground, where illegal parties in hollowed-out offices drowned out the din of a crumbling world. But like even the best calibrated trip, it had an end. Bookended by Donald Trump's election and the summer of George Floyd's murder, Health and Safety recalls these tumultuous years with bracing clarity, offering Witt's own life as a lens onto an American era of dissolution, dissociation, and rage. With her trademark critical eye that spares no one-least of all herself-Witt explores how a generation has endured the indignities of late-stage capitalism, and questions whether we still might be saved"--

"Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history-and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address"--

"An example of how meaningful change begins-and where our path can lead if we are brave enough to keep asking why."-Martin Luther King III, from the forewordIn an extraordinary gift to his children, one father shows how the power of mindfulness and self-compassion can help chart a path through life's challenges toward solace and joy. A unique memoir that weaves together stories of personal triumph, love, loss, and lessons learned, Notes for the Children follows Patrick Priestner throughout his life as a son, a brother, a car salesman, an award-winning automotive entrepreneur-and his most rewarding roles, as a husband and a father. Through his engaging and inspiring storytelling, Priestner transports readers from the streets of his childhood neighborhoods to the bustling car dealership where he made his first sale. He reveals the challenges and joys of his relationships with family members and loved ones and how music and Buddhist philosophy helped him cope with the struggles that life threw his way with compassion and forgiveness. Notes for the Children is a testament to the power of making small changes in life in order to heal, inspire, and connect. Priestner's inspiring words offer reflections on life and its many lessons and show how the threads of experience make up the tapestry of life.¿All proceeds of Notes for the Children will be donated to Well-being Canada. Please visit wellbeing-canada.ca/ for more information.

In diesem Buch wird von einer Geschichte einer schlesischen Familie erzählt.Viele historische Ereignisse werden dabei erwähnt.Zum Beispiel: Die Emigration im 19. Jahrhundert nach Amerika, der Erste und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Spannungen und das Zusammenwachsen der deutschstämmigen und der polnischen Bevölkerung, nachdem Schlesien 1945 an Polen fiel.Darüber hinaus wird auch von Alltäglichem, wie z. B. ,dem Leben, der Landschaft und der Bräuche der Menschen damals', berichtet.Aber auch gefährliche politische Unruhen in den 60er-Jahren, Kommunismus, Existenzialismus und die 68er-Bewegung sind Themen dieses Buches.Die vertriebenen Deutschen und deren Nachkommen aus Schlesien, Ostpreußen und Pommern werden hier auch die eigene Geschichte finden.

In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London's Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory "tramping? expeditions to the city's East End, then a place of great squalor and deprivation. Later he moved to Paris's bohemian Latin Quarter, where, in early 1929, during a bout of serious illness, he was the victim of a robbery that left him in a state of near destitution, forcing him to work punishing hours in a series of menial jobs, including as a restaurant dishwasher. These real-life experiences laid the foundations for what would be the young writer's first full-length work.Populated by a troupe of colourful characters, replete with penetrating observations and cast in the limpid prose that would become Orwell's hallmark, Down and Out in Paris and London - published by Victor Gollancz in 1933 - provides both an invaluable historical snapshot and an insight into the perennial social evils of inequality, poverty and alienation.

"ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived."--USA Today" I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. Most are utterly unprepared for them. By writing The Family Heart, Robb Forman Dew has done such parents an extraordinary service."--The Washington Post Book World"TOUCHINGLY WRITTEN."--The Boston Globe"At the heart of this memoir lies a true epiphany: the author's sudden, galvanizing awareness of the suicidal consequences of homophobia. It is a chilling moment, and it is described with a writer's eloquence and a mother's rage....Dew's intense imagination, combined with her ignorance of homosexuality, was as much a hindrance as a help, and it is to her credit that she has recorded the occasionally wacky assumptions and painful readjustments of her own odyssey with such care and humor."--The New Yorker"POETIC, HONEST."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram"Eloquent and absorbing...The true testament of Mrs. Dew and her husband as parents, and the most powerful moments of this inspiring memoir, occur when they come out' to their community as parents of a gay child....Though Mrs. Dew imparts a lot of self-gained wisdom in this perceptive and beautifully articulated story, in the end she realizes she has something she has always had--a strong loving family and two good sons."--The Dallas Morning News"AMEN FROM ANY MOTHER, EVERY MOTHER."--Anna Quindlen The New York Times

Hook and Ladder Dreams is a story of the lengths a person will go to in order to realise their love, the tragedy of love, and one man's dream and sacrifice for the woman he loves. The hero, Colin Saywood, tells his story of the love he feels for Jane, a woman betrayed and abused within her marriage and by her own family. Finally, when Colin gives her hope for a new happiness, tragedy strikes once more to test his strength and resolve.

The Loner Girl en Sudamérica is volume 6 - and the first bilingual book - in the series On Being, a psychological, self-referential, metaphysical, astrological, diary case history. OB is a first-person, self-reflective narrative serving as a qualitative, longitudinal research project investigating what it means to be, using tools like astrology to explore human consciousness.Volume 6 documents the protagonist Ana's year 2014, when she travels to South America and learns Spanish as a 23-year-old, visitando varias ciudades en Uruguay, Argentina y Chile, y conociendo a la gente y las culturas diversas mientras luchaba con aprender el idioma.As On Being is the written evolution of Ana's consciousness throughout time in the form of personal, intimate diaries, and she was immersed in the Spanish language for the entire year of 2014, it follows that she would begin writing in Spanish. Thus this book is full of code-switching and linguistic experimentation that mixes English and Spanish. If you don't speak Spanish and/or have no interest in reading/learning it, ¡este libro no es para vos!

Five minutes changed Mary Walsh's life forever... On October 4, 2018, she was in a harrowing car accident that sent her to the ICU with a fractured vertebrae and nearly took her life. Through this inspiring book, readers will gain the courage and determination to keep fighting no matter the odds. By reading this book, readers will:¿ Discover the power of resilience in the face of a life-changing event¿ Feel the strength of compassion from others around them¿ Learn how to regain independence and keep a sense of humor while healingThis book chronicles the author's struggles and healing journey, including the determination to keep moving forward, the compassion of others around her, and the desire to be independent again. It is filled with inspiring stories and practical tips to help readers on their own path.

The year is 1971. Blocks away from Princeton University and just days after his graduation, a young Michael meets Ella, an elderly woman living alone and in need of a housemate. Michael cannot refuse her offer of free lodging, since he hopes to stay in town and ride out the Vietnam War draft-a war that has already taken his friend's life.As their friendship grows, Michael learns of Ella's remarkable past as a Russian countess: Ella is a descendent of Czar Alexander II. Michael finds his guide in Ella. Through her magnificent stories about her royal past, Michael gains a new perspective on his own life's direction.Royal Edge tells the true story of a cherished friendship that explores themes that readers are sure to embrace-choosing how we want to live our lives no matter what our circumstances, accepting that there is so much we may never know about one another, enjoying life in times of uncertainty. The story of their friendship is one of a connection that has served the author throughout his entire life.