Download or read book Surviving the Survivor written by Joel Z. Waldman and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Karmela’s story is moving and inspirational, and one every young person should be reminded of.” —Mitch Albom, Author of The Little Liar Karmela Waldman is an eighty-something psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor. Her son, Joel Waldman, is a successful broadcast journalist. After a discontented Joel chooses to leave his network-news job, he gets a crazy idea for the next step in his career: What if he and his elderly mom did a podcast together? The two embark on creating a show together and name it Surviving the Survivor. Things get off to a bumpy start as the lovingly dysfunctional mother-son duo struggle to figure out the art of podcasting on the fly—sometimes feuding, sometimes laughing, and finally mastering the format and watching Surviving the Survivor break out as a wildly popular true-crime hit. Along the way, the two discover things about each other that they never knew. Joel is stunned to learn that Karmela survived World War II by hiding in a boys’ Catholic school. Karmela also sheds light on the emotional struggles she endured when Joel’s older brother, Rami, died of an incurable illness. She’s also struggling with the inevitable loss of her husband of sixty-three years, which she describes as the most difficult experience of her life. Mastering podcasting is one thing; figuring out the meaning of life is a challenge of an entirely different order. In real time and “on air,” mother and son engage frankly and movingly with each other for the first time as adults, discussing child-rearing, aging, illness, death, and the secrets to enjoying life no matter how complicated it gets.
Download or read book I am a Survivor written by Kristina Ritorto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a survivor is a very inspiring book for children about a girl named Kaylee who has cancer. Read the story to find out how she survived cancer.
Download or read book The Soul Survivor written by Joe Townsend and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is inspirational and serious because it is about a real life accident and overcoming adversity. Even though those are heavy topics- it is also important for us to capture Joe’s unique personality and sense of humor. It adds to the message we are trying to deliver. Overview – and how this book is different! The purpose of Soul Survivor is to tell the real life story of Joe Townsend, who was flying one day with his family and due to mechanical failure – the small plane he was piloting crashed- killing Joe’s wife and two small daughters. Joe was critically injured and survived brain injury, a stroke, hours of surgery and months of physical and emotional pain to survive and then to thrive. Through grit and determination, he then began to rebuild a new life. This inspirational real life tale of overcoming adversity will get people to realize their own true potential. When they read this story, they will understand that if one man can overcome this kind of horrific adversity, then anything in life is possible. There are no limits.
Download or read book New York Survivor written by Anthony Motta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can laugh at your ups & downs you will appreciate this book. It is a wannabee comedian's tumultuous ride through life. An uplifting story of how life's struggles sometimes make you stronger and funnier. It's the author's hilarious memoirs redux - first written in 2007 and now expanded years later. It describes his young days in Long Island City and his exciting career at People magazine, The New York Times and MMR, Inc. The author also relates his antics in school, his crazy friends, Army days, surviving cancer, dealing with retirement, and his experiences with several media darlings of publishing and television. If you know NYC, you will love the author's uproarious memories of life in "the concrete jungle".
Download or read book The Diary of a Cancer Survivor s Daughter written by Rebecca Bany and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sunday she went to my niece's seventeenth birthday party. It hasn't even been a week since the surgery. She didn't act any different. If you didn't know, you couldn't tell she had just had a mastectomy surgery. I hope that I have at least half of the strength and courage she has. It boggles my mind how she is always so strong and happy. Through this whole process she didn't let it get her down. The day author Rebecca Bany discovered her mother suffered from breast cancer, she wasn't sure how she would handle the experience. Terrified of the c word, Rebecca's love for her mother and her faith in God are put to the ultimate test. After watching her mother endure chemotherapy, endless doctor appointments, and hair loss, Rebecca learns how strong her mother is in the face of adversity. The Diary of a Cancer Survivor's Daughter will help those who struggle to deal with a loved one's diagnosis. With candor, humor, and love, Rebecca relates her own personal story, offering hope and support for both the family and the patient.
Download or read book The Survivor written by Elle Kennedy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as Silent Watch in 2009, this heart pounding romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy will have you at the edge of your seat… Blake was tracking the Rose Killer in order to forget the woman he couldn’t save. Now there was a new lead: a survivor. Convincing Samantha “Sam” Dawson to help was only half the battle. Resisting the allure of the fiery beauty was downright impossible. Sam wanted nothing to do with men. With the city. With the fame of her former life as a model. Six months after the heinous attack, she still bore the killer’s trademark scar. But if she was tough as she thought, she’d have to face her fears to catch a killer—and dare to love again.
Download or read book i missed me after the terror during the years of unbearable sorrow written by Alan Allen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Spring 2010) Local parents warned about priests and nuns who gang rape and prostitute kids, tweens & teens in directory of clergy perps & pervs in your neighborhood. i missed me after the terror, during the years of unbearable sorrow: trafficking the holy Spirit includes oral journalism of adults raped as kids and a parental directory of priests and nuns who gang rape and prostitute kids, tweens and teens. Book asks Angela Merkel, Michele Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Alessandra Mussolini and Oprah Winfrey to help remove state, federal, civil and criminal statutes of limitation for sexual assault of kids, tweens and teens. Author says, “To protect families we must remove civil, criminal, state & federal statutes of limitation for sexual assault of children by showing parents and legislators cliches of ‘child abuse’ mask violent serial sexual assault and child, tween and teen suicide. The book documents only a few U.S. priests and nuns rape children under 12, serially rape children under 11, gang rape children under 10, sodomize kids under 9, give kids AIDS, get 11 year olds pregnant, abort children and teenagers, ritually abuse kids, sexually assault kids, torture kids, prostitute and murder kids, and abandon their illegitimate children borne of kids they raped ... all at the same 1.5% percentile as perps & pervs in society: of one million Catholic priests worldwide, only 15,000 sexually assault kids and teens; of ten million nuns, only 150,000 are perps & pervs. An appendix, Where are the Children of Table 34?, exposes a study of the ‘scientifically established’ orgasm rates of infants, toddlers, preschool children, kids, tweens and teens cited in proponing today's standards of sex education in the classroom for kids too young to be exposed to sex education and helped set statutes of limitation for rape of women (there had been none) and the shift from rapists being guilty to women having to prove they didn't want to be raped. It likely influenced setting statutes of limitation for clergy crimes of sexual assault of kids, tweens and teens. It has come to light ‘scientists using stopwatches’ to document ‘scientific studies’ – now used to justify premature sexual education of elementary school-aged kids, were conducted by child rapists and child murderers. That is one reason statutes should be removed, or extended to the life of the child, or ‘windowed’, since the ‘objective studies’ were done by perps and pervs. Another reason is, the psychiatric record establishes kids, tweens and teens sexually abused often commit suicide or repress the events for 20-30 years in order to not go crazy. They consequently make bad choices and live sad lives that never would have been, if they had not been sexually molested, assaulted, raped, serially raped, gang raped, prostituted and/or ritually abused. ABOUT THE AUTHOR & THE PHOTOGRAPHER Allen first published at 9 yrs old. Old Rails’ Tales reviewed by NYT as one of best books of year. Books include: Storytellin’ Muni Drivers; and A Noah’s Ark of Recurring Celebration: San Francisco Annual Event History. Tanna Baumgardner, Digital Faerie Photography www.digifaephotography.com dredged vintage baby doll (on book’s cover) from river in North Carolina.
Download or read book Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis written by Johanna Dobrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process explores a previously neglected area in the field of psychoanalysis, addressing undertheorized concepts on siblings, disabilities and psychic survivorship, and broadening our conceptualization of the enduring effects of lateral relations on human development. What happens to a person’s sense of self both personally and professionally when they grow up alongside a severely disabled sibling? Through a series of qualitative interviews held between the author and a sample of psychoanalysts, this book examines both the unconscious experience and the interpersonal field of survivor siblings. Through a trauma-informed contemporary psychoanalytic lens, Dobrich combines data analysis, theory-building, memoir, and clinical storytelling to explore and explicate the impact of lateral survivorship on the clinical moment, making room for a contemporary and nuanced appreciation of siblings in psychoanalysis. Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process, will be of immense interest and value to psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals, and for all therapists who work with and treat patients that are themselves survivor siblings. Uniquely integrating both academic and memoir writing, this book will also engage those building theory around the implications of the analyst’s subjectivity on clinical processes.
Download or read book The Diary of a Breast Cancer Survivor written by Anita Poortenga and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will inspire you, encourage you, make you laugh and make you cry. An honest, real account of breast cancer survivor, Anita Poortenga, and her journey with God as her captain resulting in the transformation that took place to fulfill God's plan. An inspirational, heartwarming testimony that will touch the lives of anyone going through a trial or difficult situation, giving hope that God will guide you through. This book is for anyone looking for answers on how to triumph over life's difficulties using the power of faith, prayer, and God's promises. Anita Poortenga and her husband, Terry, live on their farm in Florida. They have five children and ten grandchildren. Anita loves to trail ride, camp, read, and spend time with family and friends.
Download or read book Letters to My Mother written by Mary Ruth Borg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I knew I liked to write when I was a teenager, locking myself in my room. I was angry, frustrated and needed a positive outlet. I was tired of breaking things. I was sad having to pick up pieces of my little treasures. So I picked up a pencil to write about how I felt and why I was being self-destructive. I was determined to find a way to diffuse the confusion in my head. Taught very early to pray, I'd put my prayers on paper. Seeing something written brought me back into reality. I had a reference point. Something I could read over and over to remind myself who I was and that I would be okay. This is my story of survival. My journey from the traumatic experience of being molested countless times by my step-father while living within the strict religious practices of Jehovah's Witnesses to my healing process with Parents United. I thought my life of confusion, mistrust and low self-esteem could never change. As I got older, I attracted more dysfunction in my choices. I didn't know I could change that. I didn't know any better. I became afraid for my children. I thought I was crazy and didn't have good parenting skills. After years of therapy, I learned to have control over my life and how to take the power back that I kept giving away. I am no longer a victim. It has been a long and twisty road. Today, I am proud to be happy, healthy and productive in my world. I am proud to be a survivor! I hope to inspire others and give them hope that the craziness in their heads can go away. I want to keep talking about this until the cycle is broken and all children are safe.
Download or read book From Victim to Victor A Survivor s True Story of Her Experiences with School Bullying How She Overcame Won Back Her Confidence and Found Peace and Happiness written by Cherie White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherie White shares her own story of what were the worst six years of her life, during which she was relentlessly bullied after moving to a small Tennessee town. She describes the heartache, loneliness and despair she felt as a victim of school bullying and how her cries for help went ignored. She is brutally honest about how she viewed her bullies and the bystanders who watched but did nothing to help. She is also candid about how she too became a bully and the torment she inflicted on her own victims, whom she herself viewed as inferior, as a means to preserve what little self-esteem she had left and feel better about herself. Finally, she tells of how she was able to escape her tormentors by changing schools, make several new friends out of her new classmates, and go from victim to victor! "From Victim to Victor" is a story of survival, trial, heartache, self-discovery, reflection, growth and the eventual escape and triumph.
Download or read book Unbroken written by Nidhi Chaphekar and published by Manjul Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fateful day of 22 March 2016, Nidhi Chaphekar, a cabin crew manager, was assigned a flight from Brussels to Newark. One of the most shocking terror attacks took placeat the Brussels airport the same day, killing around thirty-two people and injuring over three hundred. Nidhi was gravely injured, and her photograph, taken minutes after the blast, became the face of the terror attack. Navigating through Nidhi’s life and career as a flight attendant, this heart-wrenching story opens with the horrific incident that shook the lives of all those caught in itsvortex. The aftermath of intense trauma and rigorous medical treatment sees Nidhi emerging as a real-life superhero. She survived despite sustaining more than twenty percent burns, multiple fractures, crushed bones, ruptured eardrums and being in a state ofinduced coma for twenty-three days. Narrated in the form of a daily journal, painstakingly penned by her, this true story of grit and willpower will reach out to millions of people across the globe with itsenduring message of positivity and the infinite ability of the human spirit to triumph against all odds.
Download or read book Wild River The Wild Series written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick sends readers rushing down a raging river on a life-or-death adventure when a white water rafting trip goes terribly wrong! Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep on the first night of a white water rafting trip, when he's awoken by screams. The dam has failed. The river is surging, and their camp will be under water in a matter of moments.As the shrieking roar of the river rushes closer, the kids scramble to higher ground. They make it; their counselors do not.Now they're on their own, with barely any food or supplies, in the middle of the Montana wilderness. Do Daniel and his four classmates have what it takes to stay alive until they can get rescued? Alone in the wild, they forge powerful bonds -- but develop dangerous disagreements. If nature doesn't break them, they might just destroy each other.This gripping survival story from the Newbery Honor author of Wildfire is filled with adrenaline-pumping adventure and moments of true bravery.
Download or read book Spirit written by Susan Schall and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When CC, a bright inner-city teenager, receives an application to a gifted and talented charter school, his mother trashes it. But CC secretly rescues it from the garbage and applies. Living in the depressed projects, attending a failing school, will CC have the courage and the spirit to escape the world of gangs and poverty? CC applies and is accepted. Though he feels like a fake, CC gradually gains confidence and bonds with three kids. As close friends they mature together, deal with their environment and set themselves on the road to a positive future. CC matures sexually; becomes a foster child in his friend Latisha¿s home; finds a long lost relative; develops strategies to deal with the Bloods; has a relationship with a mentor, his employer, a Korean immigrant; and solves the mystery of the lurking shadow in the girls¿ room. Spirit is a story of courage and determination that proves that you can overcome the most challenging obstacles and take positive steps to control your own destiny with grit and determination.
Download or read book Ask Bethany written by Bethany Hamilton and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her chatty and breezy style, typical of any online conversation, Bethany Hamilton shares information on a wide variety of topics about her life and faith.
Download or read book Message from a Native Son from a Cell written by Julian Martin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective that I had my entire life was to just fit in with this brood of bully kids that were my older siblings. I further had to survive a brutal, dominant, religious zealot mother and an illiterate father, who could be swayed due to his innocence and uncorrupt childlike manner, which his mother would happily manipulate if she finds it necessary. My story is a story that no one wants me to write. That cool look that the band Green Day projected, that hurt, disgruntled, maligned look, is my real, true look. I wasnt making this up. Yet a horrible neighborhood where I was brought up to would use these weaknesses, which I was afflicted with, to their gain to vilify me and all the good that I might tried to get done.
Download or read book Superman The Man of Steel Vol 5 written by John Byrne and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth collection of Superman tales from the 1980s, featuring ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #432-435, ACTION COMICS #592-593 and SUPERMAN #9-10! Superman encounters the new hero Gangbuster, faces the menace of the Joker, teams up with Mister Miracle and Big Barda, and inadvertently becomes Metropolis's greatest menace!
