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This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to.
So begins this multigenerational memoir that explores the author's maternal history of repeated trauma, separation, adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and their impact on mental health. Set against a twenty-year dialogue with her mother Barbara who suffers from long undiagnosed PTSD, author Elizabeth Wilcox opens her maternal...
42) The Silent Cry
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The heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help. The sixteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. It is the first time Laura has been out since the birth of her baby when Cathy sees her in the school playground. A joyful occasion but Cathy has the feeling something is wrong. By the time she discovers what it is, it is too late. This is the true story of Laura whose life touches Cathy's in a way she could never have foreseen....
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Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers-until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016. In the spring and summer of 2014, the two spoke for an hour or more on the phone...
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Diario de un confinamiento es una obra poliédrica. Lo que empieza como diario abierto, un diario que se pretende bálsamo para el autor y medicina para el alma de aquellos contactos a los que cada noche, religiosamente, envía sus páginas, se va convirtiendo poco a poco en un cajón de sastre de emociones y vivencias. En palabras del autor, el diario le permite narrar sus historias cerca de los políticos, anécdotas del mundo educativo, los procesos...
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Life has a way of interrupting our plans. Most of us get knocked off our chosen paths at some point. It's what we do in such moments that determine our fate. In 1997, Jon Chandonnet - twenty-seven, a semester away from completing his Master's Degree at MIT, with a job offer from promising startup Sapient - received the diagnosis that would change his life: Multiple-Sclerosis. MS knocked Jon down; it almost knocked him out - but it didn't. It motivated...
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It's 1985 in a small factory town near Pittsburgh. Eight-year-old Karen's parents are lifelong workers at the Anchor Glass plant, where one Saturday, an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors, then himself. This event splits the young girl's life open, and like her mother, she begins to seek comfort in obsessive rituals and superstitions. This beautifully evocative memoir chronicles the next fourteen years, as Karen moves through...
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The latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. Beth is a sweet-natured child who appears to have been well looked after. But it isn't long before Cathy begins to have concerns that the relationship between Beth and her father is not as it should be. Little Beth, aged 7, has been brought up by her father Derek after her mother left when she was a toddler. When Derek is suddenly admitted to hospital with psychiatric...
48) Fostering and Us
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It covers their years of fostering, all the ups and downs, and how fostering affected their daily lives, and the amount of enjoyment and happy memories they have. It is also written to acknowledge the amount of support they received from their family, friends, and neighbors.
49) Reconstructed
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Have you ever seen your life flash before your eyes? Follow one man's journey of positivity and resilience as he reconstructs his life after a near-fatal accident!
Atta Ahmad was determined to make his dreams come true. So unwavering, in fact, that he was willing to forgo sleep just to reach his goals.
Eventually, it caught up to him on September 5, 2015.
That fateful day, an exhilarating road trip from Boston to Michigan turned into a fight for...
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It would be easy to accept this book as 'another adoption story', that is until you read it. From the first words the reader is caught up in the account, enthralled by not just the tale but the telling of it. Ms. Shiveley Welch's talent reveals the journey to love, her decision to adopt instead of giving birth, her new and wonderful child and most of all her earnest desire and steadfast belief that everything would come to pass.Son of My Soul -The...
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How do you let go of a hand you've held your whole life? When Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother's life – and ultimately – death. From a child's first breath to a mother's last, 14 Days shows how closing that circle can be a celebration of this unbreakable bond.
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In this Tracy-Hepburn romance a sophisticated New York intellectual is charmed by a down-to-earth newspaperman. Frankie's Place is the tale of a summer cottage and the story that unfolds under its roof. Jim Sterba is the down-to-earth newspaperman who charms the New York sophisticate, Frances FitzGerald, after several visits to her writer's retreat on the coast in Maine. Frankie's place is a secluded little house out of harm's way and the clamor of...
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An "achingly beautiful" memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her two teenage daughters from the streets and bring them back home (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, blame their mother for what happened, and one day the...
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When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small. Dr. Larimore shared some of these heartwarming and heartbreaking tales in The Best Medicine. Now he offers up more charming stories of his time as a family physician in a rural, small-yet-growing town in The Best Gift.
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Blake Taylor's mother first suspected he had ADHD when he, at only three years of age, tried to push his infant sister in her carrier off the kitchen table. As time went by, Blake developed a reputation for being hyperactive and impulsive. He launched rockets (accidentally) into neighbor's swimming pools and set off alarms in museums. Blake was diagnosed formally with ADHD when he was five years old. In ADHD and Me, he tells about the next twelve...
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The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost twice the size of ours from which to draw new waves of soldiers. Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn't going to be enough.
Eighteen-year-old Jessie Ward defied her mother...
57) Me 'n' Clint
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Called "One of the best horse stories you'll read in a long time," Me 'n' Clint is less a "how to" than about the trade one young fellow unexpectedly fell into, fell in love with and bounced around in over much of a lifetime. Written with an authentic voice and wonderful balance of humor and expertise, this unusual telling, straight from the horseshoer's mouth, offers the reader a window into the everyday trials and tribulations of a farrier that...
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“I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command.
Orenstein's lucid prose recreates this horrific time...
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How am I supposed to carry on like normal when half of my soul has been taken from me? Losing my wife of 53 years changed who I am, and nothing will ever be the same again. I have never experienced such bitterness, heartache, and loneliness before. I struggle to find purpose and hope in the future. I've always been a happy guy, but now I'm facing the biggest battle of my life to be that person again. Although sometimes tempted, I can't give up. I'll...
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In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers-in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields-a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barcelona, where she briefly moonlighted as a dubber of Italian pornography into...
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