Resultados para "Christie Thompson" en Biografías y memorias

This is the story of an unforgivable con man. Vulnerable families were his prey. His promise was an impossible dream and a lie. Peter Candlewood understood the system. That’s how he could commute prison sentences and reunite hopeless families with incarcerated loved ones. For a price. Except there was no Candlewood. No hope. Just a lowly Texas con artist who bet on the desperate - and won. And he wasn’t working alone. The multimillion-dollar deception cost the betrayed more than their savings.

In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe, Roger Thompson meditates on the life and premature death of his best friend and business partner, Tim Garrety, cofounder of Skate Street Ventura. Roger and Tim's 25 friendship was forged in the surf and on the streets of 1980s California. Together they hazarded countless waves and every rite of passage - from guitars to girls to God - and influenced the lives of thousands of skateboarders, musicians, surfers, and otherwise disconnected youth in the process.

Almighty is His Name is the riveting story of God’s hand of protection as missionary SoPhal Ung and his family fought for their lives in Cambodia. Although the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979, SoPhal started a house church, which grew from five members to six hundred in eight months. He was arrested for this “illegal” activity, imprisoned, severely beaten, and chained by hand and foot, losing seventy-five pounds in the terrible ordeal.

Peek behind the Instagram filters and Photoshop effects for an authentic, laugh-out-loud look at author/blogger Heather Thompson Day’s journey into the arms of husband Seth Michael Day, the cutest boy in her sixth-grade class. Christian women often embrace an unrealistic, fairy-tale view of dating, relationships, marriage, and parenting. Proverbs 31, anyone?

Exposing trafficking, theft, fraud, and gambling in the major leagues, a founding member of the MLB's Department of Investigations reveals a news-breaking true story of power and corruption. In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on...