Download or read book And Then We Went Fishing written by Dirk Benedict and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From actor Dirk Benedict comes this brilliant autobiographical telling of two unique and engrossing events that had an enormous impact on his life. He intertwines the story of his wife’s unexpectedly complicated home birthing with his own coming of age in Montana—and the violent death of his father. Past events of love, friendship, hatred, and fatherhood culminate in a dramatic explosion before him, linking his father’s death with the birth of his first child. Benedict’s writing style is lively, creative, and always engaging. His use of humor, pathos, and imagery is masterful. He has taken two rites of passage in his life and woven them together to produce a story that is every bit as entertaining as it is moving. Given Dirk’s unique storytelling ability and well-honed sense of timing, And Then We Went Fishing will keep you hooked from page one to its powerful, poignant conclusion.

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Download or read book Poster Child the Kemba Smith Story written by Kemba Smith and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited memoir, Kemba Smith shares her dramatic story, as it has never been told. Poster Child: The Kemba Smith Story chronicles how she went from college student to drug dealer's girlfriend to domestic violence victim to federal prisoner. Kemba shares her story of how making poor choices blinded by love and devotion can have long-term consequences. In 1994, Kemba was sentenced to a mandatory 24 1/2 years in federal prison, with no chance for parole, despite being a first-time, non-violent offender. Fortunately, she regained her freedom when President Clinton granted her executive clemency in December 2000 after having served 6 1/2 years. Kemba's case drew support from across the nation and the world. Often being labeled the "poster child" for the campaign to reverse a disturbing trend in the rise of lengthy sentences for first-time, non-violent drug offenders, Kemba's story has been featured on CNN, Court TV, "Nightline," "Judge Hatchett," "The Early Morning Show" and a host of other television programs. In addition, Kemba's story has been featured in several publications, such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and Emerge, JET, Essence, Glamour, and People magazines. Author Bio: Kemba Smith Pradia is a wife, mother, national motivational speaker, consultant, author, and criminal justice advocate. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her courage and determination to educate the public about the devastating social, economic, and political consequences of current drug policies. Ultimately, Kemba knows there is a lesson in each experience in life, and she has embraced her experience, learned from it, and is now using that experience to teach others. For more information about Kemba, visit www.kembasmith.com. Monique W. Morris is a researcher, author, and social justice advocate who has nearly twenty years of professional and volunteer experience as a scholar advocate in the areas of civil rights and social justice. Monique is the CEO of MWM Consulting Group, LLC, a research and technical assistance firm that advances concepts of fairness, diversity, and inclusion. She is the author of Too Beautiful for Words and thirty-five published articles, book chapters, and other documents on social justice issues. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and a regular contributor to MSNBC's TheGrio.com. For more information about Monique, visit www.moniquewmorris.com . keywords: Kemba Smith, Clinton Pardon/Clemency, Criminal Justice Issues, Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, Drug Dealer Girlfriend, Women in Prison, First-time offender, Domestic Violence, Women's Issues, Teen Choices/Consequences

Download or read book Deus Ex Machina written by Mel Croucher and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The billion dollar video games industry had to start somewhere, and this is the hilarious, heartbreaking, inside story of how it all began and where it's all headed. And in the middle of it all there was a game hailed as the best ever written. It was called Deus Ex Machina. It was a creative triumph and it was a commercial disaster. Meet the pirates, the nerds, the innovators, the charlatans, the superstars, the winners, the sinners, the good, the bad and the downright ugly. A remarkable story revealed by the founder of the industry himself, with gut-wrenching honesty and merciless humor. If you ever wondered how computer gaming turned us all into willing slaves, you're about to find out in glorious style.

Download or read book A Better Place written by Mark A. Roeder and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Losing Lola written by Shannon Eilers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a rural town in Texas, Losing Lola is a memoir of losing a mother to brain cancer. While Lola was dying, her daughter Shannon struggled with the reality at hand while battling mental illness and a drug addiction. As Shannon tried to cope with Lola's impending death she was also dealing with a marriage in shambles. Shannon was suicidal and her husband was not supportive, but pushed her over the edge. Lola's mother also died of brain cancer which influenced Lola's decision to not treat the cancer in any way. Lola's mother fought her brain cancer and lived in a nursing home mute and unable to walk. Lola did not want to die like her mother. Suffering for three years. After Lola died Shannon's drug use increased. She used LSD, crack, marijuana and cocaine. Marijuana was used daily during her mother's illness and after her death. Divorce came next as Shannon retreated to Germany to be with her high school sweetheart. A passionate love affair began and Shannon married Roger at a quiet ceremony at the Austin courthouse. Shannon continued to live with mental illness and drug abuse. Roger demanded that Shannon go to rehab. After six months in rehab Shannon relapsed many times until Roger had hired a divorce attorney and had found an apartment to move into. Devastated, Shannon stopped using drugs and learned how to be a good wife and mother. Ten years after her mother's death, Shannon and Roger have a happy life with two wonderful boys. A story of sadness and illegal behavior ends in joy and a new understanding of life.

Download or read book Sweet Nightmares written by Catherine German and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is I who walks through the valley of death. Even though it is written somewhere, in sometime though shall not fear death. It’s not death I fear; in fact I welcome it with open arms. What I fear the most is what I will become.

Download or read book Hope and Honor written by Sid Shachnow and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and Honor is a powerful and dramatic memoir that shows how the will to live—so painfully refined in the fires of that long-ago death camp—was forged, at last, into truth of soul and wisdom of the heart. Major General Sid Shachnow was more than a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran—receiving two silver and three bronze stars with V for Valor. He survived a crucible far crueler than the jungles of Vietnam: Nazi occupied Eastern Europe. As a child, he spent three years in the notorious Kovno Concentration Camp. But his next journey took him to America, where he worked his way through school and eventually enlisted in the US Army. He volunteered for U.S. Special Forces, and served proudly for 32 years. His driving dream was to save others from the indignities he had endured and the deadly fate he so narrowly escaped. From Vietnam to the Mideast, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sid Shachow served in Special Operations. He grew as Special Forces grew, rising to major-general—responsible for American Special Forces everywhere—but the lessons of Kovno stayed with him, wherever he turned, wherever he soldiered. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky The friend of the family written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hands of War written by Marione Ingram and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo. Marione’s mother attempted suicide after receiving a deportation notice—Marione revived her, but then the bombs started to fall, as the Allies leveled the city in eight straight days of bombings. Somehow Marione and her mother and sister survived the devastating firestorms—more than 40,000 perished, and almost the same numbered were wounded. Marione and her family miraculously escaped and sought shelter with a contact in the countryside who grudgingly agreed to house them in a shed for more than a year. With the war drawing to a close, they went west, back to Hamburg. There they encountered Allied troops, who reinstalled the local government (made up of ex-Nazis) in order to keep order in the country. Life took on the air of what it used to be. Jews were still second-class citizens. Marione eventually took shelter at a children’s home in a mansion once owned by wealthy Jewish bankers. There she met Uri, a troubled orphan and another one of the “Children of Blankenese.” Uri’s story, a bleak tale of life in the concentration camps, explores a different side of the Nazi terror in Germany. In this stirring account of World War II through the eyes of a child, the author’s eloquent narrative elicits compassion from readers.

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Download or read book The Billionaire s Nanny written by Melissa McClone and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEMPORARY ASSISTANT…FULL-TIME FIANCÉE Just when he thinks "problem solved," internet billionaire AJ Cole realizes he needs more than a temp. He needs a fiancée to show off when he returns home to Haley's Bay for the first time in ten years. His family has a habit of matchmaking, and AJ doesn't need the drama. But as soon as Emma Markwell agrees to his assignment, he learns that pretend love can feel oh-so real. Once a nanny, Emma's played many games of make-believe. This shouldn't be any different—until a few hot kisses meant for show blur the line between fantasy and reality! AJ doesn't do commitment, but Emma has always longed for true love and refuses to settle for less. AJ can't resist a challenge, and soon, he can't figure out if he's just trying to get into her bed…or keep her from getting into his heart.

Download or read book Melding the Pieces written by Henrietta Glaus and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From growing up in a home without indoor plumbing or electricity, running barefoot on the farm, to traveling and bicycling throughout the world, Henri Glaus has experienced a life filled with joy, sorrow, high adventure, and the pleasure of accomplishments large and small. Expressed honestly with an element of humility, she recounts her story up to the cusp of her nonagenarian years. Understanding that life is a series of abstruse valleys and radiant peaks, Henri has embraced all the vicissitudes that a long life brings. Throughout everything, she has had the undying support of an extended family so large that, as her sister said, a bramble bush rather than a family tree would be required to record it. Throughout her life Henri was blessed with role models, beginning with her parents, her brother, and later four husbands""one, a professor, encouraged and supported her in attaining a Ph.D. This set Henri on a path that provided undreamed of opportunities in her chosen field of education. There is an adage that states a life well-lived is a life worth living. This is the story of that barefoot girl's journey""the life of Henri Glaus.

Download or read book Orphan written by Delene Perry and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YOUNG WOMAN MUST LEARN THE TRUTH BEHIND HER CIRCUMSTANCES BEFORE SHE CAN RECONCILE HER PAST AND OPEN HER HEART TO THE LOVE OF HER SUITOR. Young Lila Jo Brewster's life is turned upside down when her father, a widower, enters into a marriage of convenience with Martha Adams, a widow with two young daughters. It isn't long before Jo begins to experience mental and physical abuse at the hands of her stepmother and stepsisters. When Martha and Jo's father have a son together, things grow even worse. Jo's father soon sees something is wrong and takes Jo to a children's home, promising to return for her. The child applies herself to learn to read and write in order to beg her father to come get her. When her letters go unanswered, however, Jo wonders what is wrong. Is her father dead? Does he not love her? Is she truly an orphan now? When Jo turns sixteen, she is sent to a wealthy family across the country to be the nanny to four children. There she meets and falls in love with the brother of her employer. Clay Logan falls for the beautiful young girl and, after a long courtship, finally persuades her she is worthy of his love. He takes Jo to her home to learn the answers to the questions that have plagued her for so many years-and the truth that they learn astonishes them both.

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