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The book chronicles the adventures of Ed and Janice Schofield including building their own home, learning about the wild plants, the people and the wildlife of the area. Short episodic chapters keep readers turning the pages full of «can-do spirit» and live in the last frontier. Part love story, part adventure, and part natural history, this is a chaming memoir.
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A chilling true story about a pregnant mother with two children who must battle cold, starvation and exhaustion. Ultimately it's a story of survival and trimph amid unspeakable sorrow.
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Лев Толстой заявлял: «Смотри на общество женщин как на необходимую неприятность жизни общественной и, сколько можно, удаляйся от них» – и уточнял, что женский вопрос состоит «не в том, чтобы женщины стали руководить жизнью, а в том, чтобы они перестали губить ее». Отчего, по какой причине возникли столь нелицеприятные суждения о прекрасной половине человечества? Какие события в жизни великого писателя, которого справедливо именуют патриархом мировой литературы, привели к таким заключениям? На эти и многие другие вопросы, касающиеся жизни и любви Толстого, отвечает автор книги, анализируя художественные произведения, дневники Льва Николаевича и воспоминания о нем современников.
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Автор произведения Николай Шахмагонов
Жанр Биографии и Мемуары
Серия Любовные драмы
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In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying; including those personally close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities.
As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown offers practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part of the wider, collective story of our mortality.
As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown offers practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part of the wider, collective story of our mortality.
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Andrew Moon enjoyed a successful career as a Manager, General Manager, Managing Director and CEO of many varied and interesting companies in a wide range of countries and situations. From start-ups to liquidations, his career took him from Sydney, Australia, where he grew up and was educated, to: Melbourne, Australia; London, U.K., Jakarta, Indonesia; Hong Kong; Sydney, Australia, again; Dayton, Ohio, USA; and back to Melbourne, Australia. His travels took him to most countries in Asia; North and South America; many European countries and Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific nations. During that career, he had dealings with every level of business from sole operators to Ministers of State and all those in between, as he rose to the level of Manager of an autonomous operation at the age of 21 and to become a Chief Executive at the age of 29. In all, he spent nearly 3 decades «at the top». Along that journey, Andrew suffered a variety of health and financial setbacks and has, as a result, learned a vast amount about life, people, management and leadership (and the difference between them!) and about himself. This memoir recounts some of these stories, the people whom he met and the lessons that he learned along his life's rich and twisting path. Andrew retired from corporate life after the removal of a benign brain tumour and lives, with his wife, Liz, in the beautiful Sunshine Coast hinterland in Queensland, Australia.
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A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest account of a life coming undone.
To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her.
As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her mother’s partners. Her success defied all expectations, but the greater the disparity between her outer achievements and inner demons, the more she struggled to hold everything together.
Coming Undone is Terri’s documentation of her unravelling, and her precarious navigation back from a life in pieces.
To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her.
As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her mother’s partners. Her success defied all expectations, but the greater the disparity between her outer achievements and inner demons, the more she struggled to hold everything together.
Coming Undone is Terri’s documentation of her unravelling, and her precarious navigation back from a life in pieces.
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On 1st September 1939, Poland was invaded from the west, north and south by the Nazis. Three weeks later the Soviet Red Army moved in and occupied the remainder of the country. Twenty three year old Kazimierz Szmauz was picked up and taken into custody by Red Army border guards whilst trying to
cross between the Soviet and Nazi occupied zones of Poland.After months of interrogation by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, in Brest-Litovsk and Homel jails he was convicted by a court he had never seen, of trying to leave the Soviet Union
illegally and was sentenced to eight years in a labour camp.
In the following 18 months he found himself thrown into a living hell of backbreaking work norms, dominated by the stark realisation that the amount of food allocated was dependant on work output. No work literally meant no food. The sick were considered unproductive so were put on a starvation diet and left to die.
Amazingly Kazimierz Szmauz did survive and was perhaps considered one of the more fortunate of those that fell into the clutches of the notorious Gulag system. It is an almost unbelievable tale of survival and a compulsive read.
cross between the Soviet and Nazi occupied zones of Poland.After months of interrogation by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, in Brest-Litovsk and Homel jails he was convicted by a court he had never seen, of trying to leave the Soviet Union
illegally and was sentenced to eight years in a labour camp.
In the following 18 months he found himself thrown into a living hell of backbreaking work norms, dominated by the stark realisation that the amount of food allocated was dependant on work output. No work literally meant no food. The sick were considered unproductive so were put on a starvation diet and left to die.
Amazingly Kazimierz Szmauz did survive and was perhaps considered one of the more fortunate of those that fell into the clutches of the notorious Gulag system. It is an almost unbelievable tale of survival and a compulsive read.
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‘THE TWISTING OF SOULS’ is an emotional roller coastal ride. Christina’s life had been falling apart. She had come to despise Carl, the man who had shared much of her life…a turbulent life. Handsome and charismatic Carl De-vrise, feels the bottom has fallen out of his world. Unable to accept their relationship is over he becomes obsessed with revenge. No longer able to conceal his dark side, the depth of his sardonic passion is for all to see. His turmoil of seething emotion motivates his every attack, with only one thing in mind–to trap and destroy Christina. Diagnosed with a fatal illness he had nothing to lose. His attitude was, even if he ended up dead, what the hell. “If I can’t have you then no other fucker will! And that dwarf you’re with, his days are numbered.” The following 11 months became a living nightmare for Jack and Christina as they became ensnared in the emotional twist of daily onslaughts, perpetrated and executed by Carl De-Vrise. His need to win and have total control underpinned his every move and using a phrase he often expressed “to win you have to know your opponent’s “Achilles Heel”. He certainly knew Christina’s. Endeavouring to survive and outwit the malicious and vindictive actions perpetrated by Carl, forced Christina and Jack to defend and protect what was theirs. “How could she do this!” Was the cry of disbelief from family and friends when hearing that Christina was no longer with Carl. The close family were under no illusion, therefore, under “normal” circumstances, no heed would have been paid to Christina’s exit from the relationship. But this was not normal. Her timing was wrong. Carl had cancer. Enduring 11 months of being stalked and harassed, with fear as their daily companion, the final straw eventually came when “nowhere else to hide” and being shot at-forced them to leave beloved England and flee for their lives. A mistaken phone call intervenes with fate. Christina returns to England. Christina’s re-emergence into Carl’s life causes the family to gasp with disbelief. Carl is dying. It becomes imperative for Christina to seek forgiveness from Carl. Her daughter Felicity mistakenly believed that Carl would reject her. His welcome of Christina’s return, divides the family. Felicity’s jealousy of her mother’s occupancy in Carl’s life becomes a main thread in the second half of the book. An unbelievable twist becomes the finale to this true and at times incredible story.
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In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime – the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about remembrance, growing older, the importance of play and the ways in which we make sense of our past by ornamenting our present.
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A mother's remembrance… Summer camp. These two words have been known to inspire many things in the hearts of young girls and prospective campers- from fear, loneliness and anxiety, to joy, freedom, and lessons learned that will last a lifetime. Facing her mom's recent passing, the author recalls another time in her life when she was learning to live without her. Set along the shores of Lake Michigan, time runs parallel between a present day journey and a distant place of memory where friendships formed and faith grew. A daughter's journey… Told in flashbacks as the author drives to a camp reunion with her own daughter and her two teenage friends, memories unfold, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey back to the idyllic setting of the camp. In these humorous and at times harrowing adventures, the author realizes the power of female friendship can last a lifetime- in fact, it can change the form and direction of your entire life. Through laughter, tears, colorful descriptions, thoughtful prose, and steady plot teasers, this memoir will infiltrate your dreams. Even if you've never attended summer camp, as you turn the last, heart-warming page, you'll feel as if you have. Welcome back to Memory Lake.