Author : Editors of Chartwell Books
Publisher : Chartwell
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0785840230
With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on his life, My Grandfather’s Life guides your grandfather to begin his life’s memoir and create a fully realized record of his adventures, stories, and wisdom for you and your family to cherish for future generations.
Author : Gary Gildner
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Believing that the last book his grandfather ever read, the one he was buried with, was Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gildner reflects on his relationship to literature and writing and how that is related to his roots as a Slovakian. Much of his reflection takes place in the context of travels through Eastern Europe and the United States, as well as his relationship with family members past and present. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Clarence Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0063235927
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing the suffering and injustices he has overcome, including the polarizing Senate hearing involving a former aide, Anita Hill, and the depression and despair it created in his own life and the lives of those closest to him. In this candid and deeply moving memoir, a quintessential American tale of hardship and grit, Clarence Thomas recounts his astonishing journey for the first time.
Author : Edward Swift
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820321004
The author recounts his youth in the Big Thicket region of eastern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, and describes the distinctive way of life in the area and some of the people that lived there.
Author : Rachel Naomi Remen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573228567
In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive. Dr. Remen's grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection and knew that everyone belonged to him, and that he belonged to everyone. He taught her that blessing one another is what fills our emptiness, heals our loneliness, and connects us more deeply to life. Life has given us many more blessings than we have allowed ourselves to receive. My Grandfather's Blessings is about how we can recognize and receive our blessings and bless the life in others. Serving others heals us. Through our service we will discover our own wholeness—and the way to restore hidden wholeness in the world.
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439925457
A tailor's very old overcoat is recycled numerous times over the years into a variety of garments and other uses.
Author : Marc Demetriou
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780578600147
Self help business and personal success book
Author : Marta Altés
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1447294440
My Grandpa is the stunning picture book debut from Marta Altés, author of I Am An Artist. A moving and memorable book about the very special relationship between an elderly grandfather and his adoring grandson, this unique look at old age through the eyes of a young bear is big-hearted, poignant and beautifully observed.
Author : Silvia Foti
Publisher : Regnery History
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1684511089
Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.
Author : Nikola Sellmair
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1615192549
Now in paperback: The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) and “a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity” (Booklist). At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Plaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her grandfather had met her—a black woman—he would have killed her. Teege’s discovery sends her into a severe depression—and fills her with questions: Why did her birth mother withhold this chilling secret? How could her grandmother have loved a mass murderer? Can evil be inherited? Teege’s story is cowritten by Nikola Sellmair, who also adds historical context and insight from Teege’s family and friends, in an interwoven narrative. Ultimately, Teege’s search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation.
