Download or read book An Astronaut s Guide to Life on Earth written by Chris Hadfield and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement — and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth — especially your own. "Hadfield proves himself to be not only a fierce explorer of the universe, but also a deeply thoughtful explorer of the human condition." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Download or read book The Biggest Moonshiner written by Betty M. Rafter and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biggest Moonshiner is a story of unconditional love, triumph over hate, forgiveness, and redemption. It's a memoir with bits of history during the hard-scrabble life of the author and her eleven siblings growing up during the Depression in the Glades of South Florida with, allegedly, "the biggest moonshiner on the East Coast" and their faith-based mama. It tells of their mama's struggle to keep the family together and life lessons the author and her siblings gleaned from adversity: while hiding out in the woods with their parents, Urbie and Leila Meeks; when they were running from the Feds, picking cotton in Alabama while on the run, living in a tent and picking other crops with migrants; and during their time living in an orphanage. Leila never lost her faith in God or her unconditional love for their hardworking, optimistic, and fun-loving daddy, who made every challenge a fun adventure—even when he got drunk and abused her and sometimes the kids or when they were homeless after he lost their home and business gambling or when she had to feign for herself and six kids when he went to prison for making moonshine. When a tragedy brought about the death of Leila and her unborn child, the siblings struggled to work through the fog of pain, knowing they had to put their anger and hate aside and forgive, if they were going to fulfill their mama's last request: "To get along with your daddy, and keep the kids together."

Download or read book Finding Edith written by Edith Mayer Cord and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight is the coming-of-age story of a young Jewish girl chased in Europe during World War II. Like a great adventure story, the book describes the childhood and adolescence of a Viennese girl growing up against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the religious persecution of Jews throughout Europe. Edith was hunted in Western Europe and Vichy France, where she was hidden in plain sight, constantly afraid of discovery and denunciation. Forced to keep every thought to herself, Edith developed an intense inner life. After spending years running and eventually hiding alone, she was smuggled into Switzerland. Deprived of schooling, Edith worked at various jobs until the end of the war when she was able to rejoin her mother, who had managed to survive in France. After the war, the truth about the death camps and the mass murder on an industrial scale became fully known. Edith faced the trauma of Germany’s depravity, the murder of her father and older brother in Auschwitz, her mother’s irrational behavior, and the extreme poverty of the postwar years. She had to make a living but also desperately wanted to catch up on her education. What followed were seven years of struggle, intense study, and hard work until finally, against considerable odds, Edith earned the Baccalauréat in 1949 and the Licence ès Lettres from the University of Toulouse in 1952 before coming to the United States. In America, Edith started at the bottom like all immigrants and eventually became a professor and later a financial advisor and broker. Since her retirement, Edith dedicates her time to publicly speaking about her experiences and the lessons from her life.

Download or read book Quarantine written by David von Schlichten and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As COVID-19 shut down the world in the early months of 2020, professor and writer David von Schlichten decided to keep a diary to help him cope with the crisis. As a scholar of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, von Schlichten recalled her journal that she kept while she and her dying husband and daughter were under quarantine in 1803. They had been forced into a lazaretto upon arriving in Italy due to fears among the Italians that the family might carry yellow fever, which was ravaging New York, the Setons’s home city. Elizabeth wrote about the ordeal in detail that is heart-breaking, mystical, poetic, and inspiring. In Quarantine: How Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Helped Me Through the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic, von Schlichten shares his diary written during the first three months of the pandemic. He writes candidly about his struggles and doubts while also offering an insightful analysis of Seton’s quarantine journal and what it has to say to us today. Quarantine is an accessible, intelligent, spiritual, and heartfelt reflection on the power of Seton’s wise words of hope for any crisis.

Download or read book Nothing Personal written by Nancy Jo Sales and published by Legacy Lit. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with a brilliant investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps, by firebrand New York Times–bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales At forty-nine, famed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales was nursing a broken heart and wondering, “How did I wind up alone?” On the advice of a young friend, she downloaded Tinder, then a brand-new dating app. What followed was a raucous ride through the world of online dating. Sales, an award-winning journalist and single mom, became a leading critic of the online dating industry, reporting and writing articles and making her directorial debut with the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age. Meanwhile, she was dating a series of younger men, eventually falling in love with a man less than half her age. Nothing Personal is Sales’s memoir of coming-of-middle-age in the midst of a new dating revolution. She is unsparingly honest about her own experience of addiction to dating apps and hilarious in her musings about dick pics, sexting, dating FOMO, and more. Does Big Dating really want us to find love, she asks, or just keep on using its apps? ​Fiercely feminist, Nothing Personal investigates how Big Dating has overwhelmed the landscape of dating, cynically profiting off its users’ deepest needs and desires. Looking back through the history of modern courtship and her own relationships, Sales examines how sexism has always been a factor for women in dating, and asks what the future of courtship will bring, if left to the designs of Silicon Valley’s tech giants—especially in a time of social distancing and a global pandemic, when the rules of romance are once again changing.

Download or read book Hope When the World Shut Down written by Bonnie R. Pearson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a cool drink on a summer day, “Hope When the World Shut Down” offers an oasis of hope from a world that often leaves us parched and exhausted. A compilation of short stories from believers in all walks of life, these snapshots, written during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, will leave you laughing and crying as you read how ordinary people held onto God’s promises. You’ll be sure to identify with these easy-to-read stories by doctors, educators, students, ministers, homemakers and grandparents, packed with uplifting Scripture. Whether reading it as a daily devotional or all in one sitting, you will come away refreshed, feeling like you just spent an evening with an old friend.

Download or read book The Warrior Child of God written by Tina Chavez and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of a child's will to survive. A child who by God's grace cheated death numerous times. A boy that was born deaf and blind that can now see and hear. He is a fighter. A Warrior child of God. Michael has CHARGE Syndrome, Joubert Syndrome and Autism. These come with many health issues. Such as Congenital heart defect, Epilepsy, severe cognitive disability and hypotonia to name a few. This is a testimony of many miracles that have taken place in Michael's life. This is a mother whose unfailing love for her son helped him to thrive. Her faith is stronger than ever. She believes anything is possible with God. As a single mother of five, her family has gone through many hardships. God has given them the strength to get through each of them. She feels God can and will move mountains. All you need is the faith of a mustard seed. Here you will read the story of Michael's many surgeries, hospital stays, and nearly losing his life on many occasions. From the moment Michael was born he has been a fighter. He has been an inspiration. A giver of hope. It's believed that his story can bring hope and faith to others. Other parents, other children who are sick and even Doctors to not give up on their patients. We know miracles happen every day. They can happen for anyone. Even if you don't feel that you deserve a miracle it can happen. This book will bring out all of your emotions. It's a must read if you are a family that has a special needs child. God Bless Everyone who reads this book. 2

Download or read book AVM WHAT written by Pamela Erba and published by Pamela Erba. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVM ...WHAT? is a call to life, a battle cry for when you think you can't make it, when you are exhausted and think you're going to collapse. That's exactly when you should pick up this book! When a bad word is better than a stream of medicines. Life is very creative at bringing bad luck, but it also gives us wonderful surprises, if we know how to recognize and face them in the right way. Buying this book we will give the 10% of the proceeds of the sale to the Associazione Italiana MAV odv ( Italiana AVM Association ). AVM is arteriousvenous malformation.

Download or read book Quarantined written by Drethi Anis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This book is part of a SERIES and NOT a standalone.A gripping, friends-to-lovers-to-enemies, dark romance.New York City-not for the faint-hearted or the sweetest of souls. The last thing I expected was to be back in this city, after all these years. And I definitely did not expect to be back in this house, where it all started. I have spent years avoiding this place, and the cold hard reality of what happened here. But I have no choice. We are all quarantined together in this house. It took the end of the world, for me to come back here and face him.Milo Sinclair.Once my legal guardian and savior in life. The person who saved me from drowning in loneliness. Who gave me everything I ever wanted. But then he took everything away from me. Plus interest. He broke me. He will not break me again.This is a dark forbidden romance. It contains discussions about the pandemic, mental health issues, mature new adults. It also contains dubious situations that some readers might find offensive.Dark romance is subjective. Some readers have found this book to be a light read while others were sensitive to the material. Milo isn't a normal romance hero, and some might not consider him a hero at ALL. So, please don't read this if any of the above bothers you.Quarantined is book one of The Quarantine Series.

Download or read book Saving Grace A Psychological Thriller written by D.M. Barr and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A psychological thriller with more than enough twists, turns, and misdirection to keep even the most jaded reader turning pages all night long." –Lori Robbins, author of the Silver Falchion Award-winning novel, Lesson Plan for Murder Grace Pierrepoint Rendell, the only child of an ailing billionaire, has been treated for paranoia since childhood. When she secretly quits her meds, she begins to suspect that once her father passes, her husband will murder her for her inheritance. Realizing that no one will believe the ravings of a supposed psychotic, she devises a creative way to save herself—she will write herself out of danger, authoring a novel with the heroine in exactly the same circumstances, thus subtly exposing her husband's scheme to the world. She hires acclaimed author Lynn Andrews to help edit her literary insurance policy, but when Lynn is murdered, Grace is discovered standing over the bloody remains. The clock is ticking: can she write and publish her manuscript before she is strapped into a straitjacket, accused of homicide, or lowered six feet under? With a cast of secondary characters whose challenges mirror Grace's own, Saving Grace is, at its core, an allegory for the struggle of the marginalized to be heard and live life on their own terms.

Download or read book Beef with Tomato written by Dean Haspiel and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native New Yorker leaves Manhattan for a fresh start in Brooklyn, only to face a new strain of street logic.

Download or read book Memories of a Vanished Time written by Robert Blumenfeld and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mother, Ruth Blumenfeld, née Korn, was born on January 15, 1915; and died on August 18, 2015, aged one hundred years, seven months, and three days. My father, Max David Blumenfeld, was born on February 25, 1911 and died on December 26, 1994, about two months shy of his eighty-fourth birthday... I love my parents so much and I don’t want them to be forgotten, which is why I am writing this book. And I am writing this memoir for myself as much as for anyone else, because in doing so I bring my parents back to life in my memory. I do the same when it comes to my grandparents and aunts and uncles. I write also for my family members, who may wish to know more about our background. And I am writing for the general public, who may find this memoir of interest as being the embodiment in specific people of the history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the United States... When my father was born, World War One was several years away, and when my mother was born, World War One was raging. They lived through the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition, the Great Depression, and World War Two, and the subsequent wars... They lived through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. The technological changes in their lifetime were the greatest in human history, from the evolution and ubiquity of the telephone, and of electricity and electric lighting, to airplane travel and the proliferation of the automobile, the invention and spread of radio and television, and the invention of such conveniences as frozen orange juice, the electric clothes drier, and the electric dishwasher, and, later on, of the internet, the computer and the smartphone, and of so much more... The world was a better place because Mom and Dad were in it. They did much political and social good in their time because they cared, and they wanted to help create a kinder, better, more loving world for everyone, a world where the ideals of equality and justice for all would at least begin to be fulfilled. When people like them disappear from the earth, the world is a poorer place.

Download or read book The Companions written by Katie M. Flynn and published by Gallery/Scout Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Station Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this “suspenseful, introspective debut” (Kirkus Reviews) set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can’t go out, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. Sixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away, searching for the woman who killed her. Lilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America in this “compelling, gripping, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction” (Jennie Melamed, author of Gather the Daughters) that you won’t want to end.

Download or read book Without a Trace written by Danielle Nadler and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From World War Two veteran to legendary American mountain man: The “mesmerizing tale . . . [of] a 20th century Kit Carson” (The Winchester Star). Orphaned as a young child during the Great Depression, he was called John P. Glover. No one at the boys’ schools in which he grew up knew much about him. The boy himself hadn’t even a clue what the “P” stood for. Seventy years later he was known as the Sierra Phantom, a blissful, solitary modern frontiersman who’d finally found a place to call home in the wilds of the Sierra Nevada. Then, after decades of surviving off the land, the local legend who lived in the shadow of the small mountain town of Bishop, California, was tracked down by journalist Danielle Nadler. Through their weekly conversations, the mountaineer shares his years of outdoor survival, his need to be free, and eventually the personal tragedies that drove him to a life in the wild—from his hardscrabble childhood to his service fighting the Japanese during the Second World War. With each new revelation behind his personal, spiritual, and emotional journey, the Sierra Phantom himself comes to discover the importance of human connections, and a renewed sense of purpose that could change his life yet again.

Download or read book Pixie s Song written by Hazel Cooper and published by MWI Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazel Cooper’s story begins in the late 1920s, on the wild coast of Northern Ireland where, at two and a half years of age, she was sent to live with three eccentric aunts. Theere follows a return to England where she is subjected to mistreatment and surrounded by mysteries. A love of music was displayed at age two, but always discouraged. This striving for the recognition of her talent was shattered at every turn, until she fell into a complete breakdown. Hazel’s story then relates the hardships and struggles to recover and survive – and the final answers. The story, however, is not without joyous moments, and a lightness of touch is kept throughout giving the worse moments a glimpse of hope.

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Navigating Eldercare Dementia written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These revealing stories from family caregivers-spouses, grown children and grandchildren-share the emotional support and practical tips that you need as you navigate the world of eldercare, especially when Alzheimer's or other dementias are part of it. You'll feel less alone and more empowered in your new role as you help your loved ones"--

Download or read book Diamond Quarantine written by Elaine Spencer and published by The Endless Bookcase Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a truthful, honest and fascinating account of being quarantined on the cruise ship Diamond Princess. It was the first cruise ship to be hit by Covid-19. This was the first major event of the coronavirus outbreak. The story draws heavily on a detailed diary kept by the author and includes the lead up to the holiday of a lifetime. It shares what it felt like being confined for 19 days in a small cabin room with no balcony or window, and the challenges that followed. After being repatriated from Japan to the Wirral in Liverpool, and enduring another quarantine, the author finally makes it back home. Further details Elaine and John's experiences have been covered in national newspapers including: The Daily Mail The Times The Straits Times