Resultados para "Glory" en Mujeres

In her touching memoir The Glory Road, Anita Faye Garner recreates her remarkable upbringing. The story begins with Ray’s attempts to settle down and the family’s inevitable return to the gospel circuit and concludes with Sister Fern’s brushes with stardom and the family’s journey west to California where they finally landed - with some unexpected detours along the way. The Glory Road carries listeners back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.

As manic teens in the ’90s punk scene, Gogo Germaine and her girl gang of delinquents engage in a vivid spectrum of misbehavior—from truancy to tattoos to trespassing. Here, in the underbelly of adolescence, music is God and the rest is a rush of nihilism. Gogo and her friends stumble through sound and fury into questionable firsts at varying degrees of sobriety. Many of us blunder through that black hole. It is a point of universal convergence, manifested by divergent experiences. Gogo’s rebellion may look different from yours, but the visceral highs and lows will be familiar.

At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices faced by their families, the women followed Babb and his dream.

In this book, I will walk you through a few of my traumas (childhood trauma, abandonment, a murder case, trying to find a job with a record, rape, family trauma), what they made me feel like and what things I was displaying during each trauma. Maybe you can identify yourself in my actions/feelings, even if you can't identify yourself in the exact trauma I went through. I will also tell you what tools I used to get to where I am now, on the other side of the trauma, in a healed space.

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant. Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first...

From her early struggles and enduring life's emotional roller coasters, Chiquita's resilience shines through. As she grapples with escaping drama, she's confronted with more challenges from different people and places. Through the trials of an abusive upbringing, turbulent marriages, and a struggle for acceptance in her own community, Chiquita discovers that her unique path is an integral part of her journey. Ultimately, she learns that despite her efforts to change, she must confront her fears and embrace her true identity—a journey that reveals the profound power and grace within her.