Author : Dr. Cassandra White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1514483181
This book means so much to me. I have had so much tragedies and troubles and this book will give me more reason to continue striving for higher and better things.
Author : Jeffery Deaver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525535985
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CBS ORIGINAL SERIES TRACKER In this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, reward-seeker Colter Shaw infiltrates a sinister cult after learning that the only way to get somebody out...is to go in. In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame. Shaw's search for answers leads him to a shadowy organization that bills itself as a grief support group. But is it truly it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult with a growing body count? Undercover, Shaw joins the mysterious group, risking everything despite the fact that no reward is on offer. He soon finds that some people will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden...and to make sure that he or those close to him say “goodbye” forever.
Author : Irene Spencer
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1599950316
Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's six brothers, one sister, and numerous wives and children. Readers will be appalled and astonished, but most amazingly, greatly inspired. Irene's dramatic story reveals how far religion can be stretched and abused and how one woman and her children found their way out, into truth and redemption.
Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1466867973
A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson’s promiscuity, Taylor’s high diva-dom, and Dean’s egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. In this compelling and impeccably researched narrative history of the making of the film, Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham’s Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film’s production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema.
Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849837619
A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
Author : Jessica Helstrom
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1483479781
No Beginning's 8 and No end Lifes a circle "" If you can dream it, see it, feel it, and Believe it... You can Achieve it"" I thought if I was to write a book about my life... I would not want to see my life as a sick, broken, sad girl... But a person who's suffered and came out of it Stronger and Wiser. I had so many Dreams that I could not do and was very depressed by this disease... There are days I did not want to get out of bed. Everyone's dealt with tragedy... and some are seen and some are not. I want to INSPIRE to LIVE... and INSPIRE people +++ Now I'm in the space where I BELONG... Some of my BEST WORK has been done in tragedy, and my lowest days where I took a step back and really looked inside myself. Life is but a Breath+++ ONE MOMENT in Time+++ I have a son named Ian. He is my HEART and my MIRACLE+++ The Lords Final Command +++ Love One Another +++ as Have Loved You
Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2024-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1493085662
A fresh and long-overdue reassessment of James Dean, examining his life and legacy as a queer man. Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean revolutionized American manhood. As a celebrity and icon, he melded vulnerability with determination, sensitivity with strength, in a way that offered a bracing and—for some—threatening new vision of masculinity. His massive influence and the fascination he has always inspired are inseparable from his identity as a queer man whose complex sexuality shattered the norms of midcentury American society. (When asked whether he was a homosexual, he reportedly said, “I’m certainly not going through life with one hand tied behind my back.”) Today, even though it is widely accepted that Dean was gay or bisexual, the story of his life and personal character continue to be colored by the prejudices of an earlier era and the work of often unscrupulous biographers and journalists. Drawing on exhaustive new research (including more than four hundred previously secret pages of Dean’s personal and business records), Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean is a revelatory reassessment of the man and his legacy. Free from sensationalism—but unafraid to confront the difficult facts of Dean’s life—it deploys modern insights into sexual diversity to transform our understanding of James Dean’s story, and the stories of boys and men like him.
Author : Deborah L. Davis
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781555913021
Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.
Author : Lhoussain Simour
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476664145
Established in 1971, Nass el-Ghiwane is a legendary musical group that transformed the Moroccan music scene in the last decades of the 20th century. The charismatic founding member Larbi Batma (1948-1997) through his lyrics brought to light Moroccan folklore and obscure poetry. His autobiography Al-raḥīl, blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction and deals with social issues plaguing post-independence Morocco. Providing a reading of Al-raḥīl, this book is the first in English to examine the work of Nass el-Ghiwane, as well as the emergence of al-Ūghniya al-Ghīwaniya as a musical genre and the social conditions that fostered its growth.
Author : Paul Alexander
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9780452278400
Drawing from new and documented sources, a revisionist portrait of the actor's homosexuality and personal identity conflict argues that Dean's angst-ridden public compliance with rigid sexual mores helped fuel the electricity of his performances.
