Author : James Ryle
Publisher : Truthworks
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982614402
A compelling true story of one man's personal journey from abandonment to love, from hopelessness to faith, and from incarceration to freedom.
Author : Steve Murrell
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629985740
Where do I find more leaders? Every leader of a growing organization asks this question. And though we know we need more leaders, few of us know how to create a culture of leadership development. This book recounts how Steve Murrell and Every Nation rediscovered four leadership multipliers that solved the leadership shortage of a growing church and global mission organization. The principles and stories in these pages will help you identify leaders, develop current leaders, and multiply future leaders!
Author : Angela Sedran
Publisher : Evolve Global Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release :
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1923223313
“She Built It: Stories and Strategies for Women in Business” is a tribute to the resilience, creativity, and power of women who have carved their paths in various industries. This collection shares the extraordinary journeys of women who have faced challenges and emerged stronger, offering inspiration and practical advice. Discover the powerful stories of women whose experiences of perseverance and determination illuminate the path for others. These narratives are enriched with strategies that demonstrate how to navigate the often turbulent waters of professional life with steadfastness and self-belief. Angela Sedran: Resilience in the Face of Loss The personal story of Angela Sedran, overcoming profound loss and adversity to reclaim her life and finances, underscores the indomitable spirit of a woman who refuses to be defeated or defined by circumstances. Michelle Huntington: Soaring Above Stereotypes Michelle Huntington exemplifies how determination can shatter the glass ceiling—even the one that looms in the skies. As an airline captain, Michelle broke through gender barriers to prove that the cockpit is no place for gender biases. Heather Disher: From Pain to Power Heather Disher turned a life-threatening experience into a catalyst for personal and professional transformation, building successful businesses that embody her strength and resilience. Jo Cooper: A Stand for Justice Jo Cooper’s journey through the corridors of the Supreme Court underscores the profound impact of advocating for justice and integrity, setting a precedent that extends beyond the personal to the societal. Sue-Anne Wilson: Transforming Trauma into Mission Driven by her challenging childhood, Sue-Anne Wilson dedicated her life to supporting parents, using her past as a foundation to build supportive communities and empower parents globally. Rachel WingMan: Beauty from Adversity Rachel Wingman’s journey from a struggling teenager to a beauty empire mogul shows how personal challenges can lead to entrepreneurial success and global influence. Polina Kesov: Rising from Ashes Polina Kesov encountered sceptics who doubted her ability to succeed as a woman in business after losing her partner to illness. Her journey demonstrates that challenges can become opportunities for growth and success. Sophie Firmager: Corporate Skills to Compassionate Business Sophie Firmager transitioned from a high-flying corporate career to founding a business that aligns with her passion for helping others, demonstrating the power of aligning her career with personal values. Jenny Godfrey: Marketing Mastery through Adversity Jenny Godfrey built her marketing empire not only because of her trials but also because of how personal stories can power professional achievements. Suzanne Rath: Advocacy through Adversity After a severe accident, Suzanne Rath turned her ordeal into advocacy, establishing holistic health clinics and promoting community well-being. Cristina Santangelo: Self-Realisation to Service Realizing her corporate career was unfulfilling, Cristina Santangelo found her true calling in empowering women, combining passion with profession to help others shine. Conclusion: A Collective Journey of Empowerment Each story in this collection celebrates individual achievements and forms a mosaic of encouragement that speaks to the heart of every woman striving to make her mark. This book is not just a read; it’s a movement towards self-belief, resilience, and transformation. Join the Movement Let these stories inspire you to push boundaries and embrace your potential. This book is dedicated to every woman with a dream, reaffirming that you can build your path to success with belief and resilience.
Author : Ashley C. Ford
Publisher : Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250245303
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist Indie Bestseller “This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down. Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.
Author : Gerard Ellis Green
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Only by God's grace, I am still alive and not in prison. I was born in a federal housing project, and my mother was fifteen years old when she became pregnant with me. Both of my parents served time in prison for trafficking heroin. My father had eight sons, and I am the only one who did not spend time in the penitentiary. Two of my brothers and four of my nephews have been murdered in the streets because of gang wars. After being raided by the police, I was luckily given probation. I would either get a job and work or spend the rest of my life in and out of prison. My life has been an incredible journey, and I am happy to share my story of survival with anyone who is interested.
Author : Ebony Roberts
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 006287666X
A Notable Memoir by the New York Times Medium’s Books to Help You Transition Into 2020 With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man—a poignant story of hope and disappointment that lays bare the toll prison takes not only on those behind bars, but on their families and relationships. Ebony’s parents were high school sweethearts and married young. By the time Ebony was born, the marriage was disintegrating. As a little girl she witnessed her parents’ brutal verbal and physical fights, fueled by her father’s alcoholism. Then her father tried to kill her mother. Those experiences drastically affected the way Ebony viewed love and set the pattern for her future romantic relationships. Despite being an educated and strong-minded woman determined not to repeat the mistakes of her parents—she would have a fairytale love—Ebony found herself drawn to bad-boys: men who cheated; men who verbally abused her; men who disappointed her. Fed up, she swore to wait for the partner God chose for her. Then she met Shaka Senghor. Though she felt an intense spiritual connection, Ebony struggled with the idea that this man behind bars for murder could be the good love God had for her. Through letters and visits, she and Shaka fell deeply in love. Once Shaka came home, Ebony thought the worst was behind them. But Shaka’s release was the beginning of the end. The Love Prison Made and Unmade is heartfelt. It reveals powerful lessons about love, sacrifice, courage, and forgiveness; of living your highest principles and learning not to judge someone by their worst acts. Ultimately, it is a stark reminder of the emotional cost of American justice on human lives—the partners, wives, children, and friends—beyond the prison walls.
Author : Barack Obama
Publisher : Crown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307394123
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman
Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982148926
A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits. When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he joined a list of esteemed writers—from Eudora Welty to George Saunders—all of whom are acknowledged masters of the short story. Wideman’s commitment to short fiction has been lifelong, and here he gathers a representative selection from throughout his career, stories that “have a wary, brooding spirit, a lonely intelligence…[and] air the problem of consciousness, including the fragile contingency of our existence” (The New York Times). Wideman’s stories are grounded in the streets and the people of Homewood, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood, but they range far beyond there, to the small western towns of Wyoming and historic Philadelphia, the contemporary world and the ancient past. He explores the interior lives of his characters, and the external pressures that shape them. These stories are as intellectually intricate as they are rich with the language and character. “Wideman has been compared to William Faulkner and James Baldwin…[these] prove that he is every bit as masterful a cartographer of the American spirit as his forebears" (Esquire). Comprised of thirty-five stories drawn from past collections (American Histories, Briefs, God’s Gym, All Stories Are True, Fever, and Damballah), and an introductory essay by the National Book Critics Circle board member and scholar Walton Muyumba, this volume of Wideman’s selected stories celebrates the lifelong significance of this major American writer’s essential contribution to a form—illuminating the ways that he has made it his own. “If there were any doubts Wideman belongs to the American canon, this puts them to bed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Author : Dorothee von Meding
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571818539
Nazi "justice" following the attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944 led not only to the brutal execution of scores of conspirators, but also dramatically changed the lives of their families. However, whereas it is the husbands who are celebrated annually as heroes of the resistance, little mention is made of their wives. This collection of interviews, which the author conducted with eleven of them, reveals that it was the women's courage that sustained their husbands both before the plot and later, in the face of certain violent death.
Author : Grace Perry
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1250760151
From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman "Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen, co-head writer of SNL "If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace, Gossip Girl, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” country-era Taylor Swift, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And, for better or worse, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words, gay as hell. Throw on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago, which many seem to forget.
