Download or read book My Fight Never Ends written by Yamila Romero and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey there, my name is Yamila Romero. I was born with Pompe disease and this book will help explain my life since birth.Pompe disease is an inherited disorder caused by the buildup of a complex sugar called glycogen in the body's cells. The accumulation of glycogen in certain organs and tissues, especially muscles, impairs their ability to function normally. In other words, you lose muscle control and end up in a wheelchair, dependent upon others to do things that you can no longer do myself. I have many ups and downs and it's never easy to deal with a rare disease.
Download or read book Where It Never Ends written by Basil Hazem Al-Efranji and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has taken me to another level and achievements. It took me a while to write this book, but eventually, it happened. This book has the motivation for people to understand the change in this world and how it can help by understanding the real meaning of life and how it can support with the new generation.
Download or read book My Last Fight written by Darren McCarty and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back on a memorable career, Darren McCarty recounts his time as one of the most visible and beloved members of the Detroit Red Wings as well as his personal struggles with addiction, finances, and women and his daily battles to overcome them. As a member of four Red Wings' Stanley Cup-winning teams, McCarty played the role of enforcer from 1993 to 2004 and returning again in 2008 and 2009. His "Grind Line" with teammates Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby physically overmatched some of the best offensive lines in the NHL, but he was more than just a brawler: his 127 career goals included several of the highlight variety, including an inside-out move against Philadelphia in the clinching game of the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals. As colorful a character as any NHL player, he has arms adorned with tattoos, and he was the lead singer in the hard rock band Grinder during the offseason. Yet this autobiography details what may have endeared him most to his fans: the honest, open way he has dealt with his struggles in life off the ice. Whether dealing with substance abuse, bankruptcy, divorce, or the death of his father, Darren McCarty has always seemed to persevere.
Download or read book My Fight to the Top written by Michelle Mone and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect blend of business and drama, My Fight to the Top is a unique, heart-rending autobiography that has mass appeal - whether the reader wants to learn how to get ahead in business, or simply learn how to keep it together through life's challenges. Fromt the rough East End of Glasgow, Michelle Mone overcame the physical violence of school bullies, the emotional trauma of financial difficulties at home and the tragic paralysis of her father, to become one of the UK's most respected entrepreneurial women. From the simple experience of wearing an uncomfortable bra Michelle created the Ultimo brand, now worth £50m. However, the road has been far from smooth and the pressure of trying to build a business and be a good mother brought her marriage - and her health - to the edge. But with steely determination she fought back, striving to make Ultimo a genuine success story.
Download or read book My Paperback Book written by Pheello Pitso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on my visions and visitations by God personally. How I saw His face and How He is unhappy about mankind and the love that He has for man. The message to the world, especially those who can hear His word and the truth.
Download or read book So You re Crazy Too written by Amber Portwood and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a reality TV stalwart and one of the original stars of what’s become a massive franchise, Amber Portwood has been the subject of media curiosity and public scrutiny for almost thirteen years of her life—since the age of seventeen. Throughout the years, Amber has struggled with up to five severe mental disorders that, especially when grouped together, would bring even the heartiest among us to their knees. Currently serving out her five years of probation for a widely publicized fight with the father of her son, Amber has been on a rollercoaster of experiences since she famously emerged from prison almost eight years ago. Now, she is finally ready to share the painful and emotional journey that has brought her to the more stable and productive life she’s leading today. This book chronicles Amber’s journey with painstaking specificity, as she takes the reader through her harrowing battle with mental illness. Her story serves as a triumphant tale of rebirth, as Amber finally conquers her demons and begins her road to a healthy and happy life.
Download or read book Then and Now written by Simone Haysom and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa. This collection of the first five singles from the Safe House anthology gathers work from the very best of contemporary African writers. Includes: The Life and Death of Rowan Du Preez by Simone Haysom The Mission at Verona by Beatrice Lamwaka The Search for Magical Mbuji by Neema Komba Forgetting Lamido by Chike Frankie Edozien
Download or read book Signed Mz Bad Azz written by Candace Blaney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lolita Jenkins she's trying to get her life back on track, she's been placed in a sex addiction clinic, and she has to come face to face with all her demons. Will she be able to conquer them or will they conquer her?
Download or read book Parcells written by Carlo DeVito and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing biography, the exhaustive research of acclaimed sports historian Carlo DeVito sheds new light on football coaching legend Bill Parcells, exposing the two-time Super Bowl-winning coach's moxie and lifelong dedication to football. The book digs deep into Bill Parcells' past to unlock the secrets of what made him who he is today, following him from his childhood, through 15 years of college coaching, to his first big chance in the pros and the year that almost broke him. With more than 3,000 interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, and scores of primary resources, DeVito's book brings Parcells to life as readers have never seen him before.
Download or read book A Soldier Dies to Live written by Gary L. Williams, Esquire and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever found yourself confronting life and its many important decisions and find yourself living life due to your past decisions? Do you earnestly seek and need a change in your life’s direction? As you come from your vicissitude of despair, suddenly enlightenment dawns upon you. Your pathway becomes clearer and you begin the process of change. As you continue, the change you seek does not appear; but then, you come to your final crossing point, that is, either to descend into darkness or embrace the light or face death. As you face your end, a miraculous savior appears and you realize, “Yes, I want to live.” In A Soldier Dies to Live, Collins Herrington was such a man who “gave himself the bullet that he didn’t get in the war and found himself lying horizontally across a vertical stream” – his final crossing point. You shall discover whether Collins dies in order to live.
Download or read book Pursuit written by Court Greene and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide is a serious and, sadly, increasingly common phenomenon in our world. It gets much more serious, though, when it affects those we personally know and love. Pursuit is the story of a pastor whose twin brother’s death came in such a way, casting his life into turmoil. Using hunting and fishing stories to make complex emotions and ideas understandable, the reader will take a journey with the author through his past (with his brother) and toward healing. Along the way readers examine the identity crisis that the author faced, wrestle with biblical truths, and understand the anguish through which those affected by suicide often go. Pursuit is just that, a dogged pursuit to recover identity, something like normalcy, and healing in a world suddenly changed. Attempting to bring help to some, and understanding to others, pursuit is presented in a raw and honest way for which the author does not apologize, but does hope potential readers will find necessary and not gratuitous.
Download or read book The Mission at Verona written by Beatrice Lamwaka and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa. This creative nonfiction single from the Safe House anthology is Beatrice Lamwaka’s memoir of conflict in northern Uganda.
Download or read book The Otome Heroine s Fight for Survival Volume 2 written by Harunohi Biyori and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young orphan Alicia—now going by Alia—manages to escape death at the hands of Graves by jumping into a turbulent river. Narrowly surviving the raging torrent, she makes her way to the isolated cabin of Cere’zhula the Fiend—the demoness and retired sorceress who was once the mentor to the woman who attacked Alia in an alley—and becomes the dark elf’s newest apprentice. Under Cere’zhula, Alia learns new spells and combat techniques and dips her toes in the art of alchemy. After a few months, the young girl grows used to her new life in the woods, only for it to be thrown into disarray by the arrival of a mysterious man from Cere’zhula’s past...
Download or read book Music to My Years written by Cristela Alonzo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is “an emotional journey that will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between” (Wanda Sykes) as it explores comedian, writer, and producer Cristela Alonzo’s childhood as a first-generation Mexican American in Texas and her dreams to pursue a career in comedy. When Cristela Alonzo and her family lived as squatters in an abandoned diner, they only had two luxuries: a television and a radio. These became her pop cultural touchstones and a guiding light that ushered her forward. In Music to My Years, Cristela shares her experiences and struggles of being a first-generation American, her dreams of becoming a comedian, and how it feels to be a creator in a world that often minimizes people of color and women. Her stories range from the ridiculous—like the time she made her own tap shoes out of bottle caps or how the theme song of The Golden Girls landed her in the principal’s office—to the sobering moments, like how she turned to stand-up comedy to grieve the heartbreaking loss of her mother and how, years later, she’s committed to giving back to the community. Each significant moment of the book relates to a song, and the resulting playlist is deeply moving, resonant, and unforgettable. Music to My Years is “a timely reminder that regardless of economic status, race, or gender, love is the connection that ties together all humanity” (Booklist).
Download or read book Revelations of the Fallen written by D. E. Phoenix and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation of the fall: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto The name of the book is called Revelation of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto. The story begins at the end of creation, the end of our lives in this universe and the destruction of them by a being called Eversor. The main character Astrial is a fallen angel telling the story from his perspective beyond the creation of this universe and into a reality where the a Creator of all Creator resides. He was the angel of intelligence and the most high scribe before he fell himself. He takes you through his torment by Evil and how he is forced to chose between these world that he doesn't really belong to. He shares insight into how evil was born and most importantly how everything we think we know about good and evil is really motivated by agendas. He introduces you to the four Eternals that have a lot to with how this story plays out. He then gives you insight into the war in heaven, the fall of the angels and how a small decision by a being led to this obsession with man. He gives you the history of the earth and the makers of mankind and their civilizations that still exist today. He leads you out of the garden of Eden and shows you the very rocky relationship between Adam and eve. Astrial finally leads you into the final wars of mankind when there was ordered a mass exodus from this planet leaving us totally alone.
Download or read book On My Couch written by Stephen J. Myles and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Wanted I am what I am. I am what you made me. POET WANTED-written lines like written rhymes singing opportunity in my ears. I sift through my experiences, pulling colorful stories from my archival memory, showing you what mine eyes have seen, ears have heard. Orchestrating my music of sound, my compositional opus. POET WANTED; circling ads in the classifieds- attempts at answering my calling, thoughts, that through this, I will be classified; pushing back the tides of formerly being identified as irrelevant-overlooked. Remember this moment, for it has already been etched in the deepest nooks and crannies of my brain- for even I, won't let me forget. I call til' you pick up. Question until you answer, answer until you question, knock until it is opened- pound until my fist is imprinted on your door, and kick until forensic pathologists can make a mold of my shoe print. I will not be forgotten. You will not look past me. A professional knocker I will be. And !no!, Avon is not calling. Have you listened intently to the sound of prolific knocking- knuckles meeting doors only to find that no'ones home. Auditioning for an audience alone- the fire marshall petitions me to fill the room capacity. Casting couch calls- I hang on to my integrity. There will be no selling out. Every "No" heard, creating more hunger pains. Experiences that are starving man reserved... for they are mines... and yours, hers... and theirs.
Download or read book William Greaves written by Scott MacDonald and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about its own making, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Greaves was an influential independent documentary filmmaker who produced, directed, shot, and edited more than a hundred films on a variety of social issues and on key African American figures ranging from Muhammad Ali to Ralph Bunche to Ida B. Wells. A multitalented artist, his career also included stints as a songwriter, a member of the Actors Studio, and, during the late 1960s, a producer and cohost of Black Journal, the first national television show focused on African American culture and politics. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of Greaves’s remarkable career. It brings together a wide range of material, including a mix of incisive essays from critics and scholars, Greaves’s own writings, an extensive meta-interview with Greaves, conversations with his wife and collaborator Louise Archambault Greaves and his son David, and a critical dossier on Symbiopsychotaxiplasm. Together, they illuminate Greaves’s mission to use filmmaking as a tool for transforming the ways African Americans were perceived by others and the ways they saw themselves. This landmark book is an essential resource on Greaves’s work and his influence on independent cinema and African-American culture.
