Resultados para "Me" en Aventureros, exploradores y supervivencia

Step into a story of hope, transformation, and triumph! In Losing for a Better Me, Shorn Marshall invites you to join a journey that proves every setback can be the start of something beautiful. Through honest reflections and heartfelt moments, Shorn shows how facing emotional eating, family challenges, and self-doubt can lead to discovering inner strength and joy. With courage and humor, she navigates the ups and downs of single motherhood, career changes, and personal healing. Along the way, she learns to set boundaries, embrace self-worth, and celebrate every victory—big or small.

When Chick Ferguson made plans to go to the Yukon, he wasn’t planning on taking his newlywed Mary. He definitely was not planning on spending much of the next 18 years in the wilderness. For he was just a photographer with a little studio in a little town in Montana. His business was failing and having heard of the riches of the fur trade he was hoping to spend a year or two trapping, making a stake and returning to his routine life. But he didn’t figure on love....

Giovani, innamorati e con un roseo futuro di fronte, Tami Oldham e il suo fidanzato Richard Sharp hanno trascorso alcuni mesi a visitare le isole polinesiane a bordo di una piccola barca a vela. Sono skipper provetti, e la proposta di portare l'Hazana, un modernissimo yacht a vela, fino al porto di San Diego è per loro un'occasione imperdibile che accettano con entusiasmo.

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections.

Bury Me in a Dirty Suit is a gripping eyewitness account of 9/11 and a heartfelt exploration of what it means to live with a valiant purpose. With honesty and humility, Kinder recounts the chaos and trauma of that day, the resilience of the human spirit, and the sustaining power of faith in the darkest hour. Through personal reflection and biblical insight, he invites listeners to consider their own missions, their own "why," and challenges men especially to answer God’s call, step up, and fight back against the darkness.

Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother’s footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl. Kathleen bonds with the exotic animals that could strike and kill at any moment, but instead bring her a peace she has never known. And when she stumbles into the arms of Stefano, the sexy elephant keeper, she finds a man who understands her wild spirit.

He was never meant to rise—yet he did. From the riverbanks of Aguascalientes to the turbulence of the Texas foster care system, Anthony Gonzalez Harris’ journey is a raw, unflinching testament to survival, faith, and transformation. Orphaned, misdiagnosed, and nearly forgotten, he found an unshakable strength in silence, the unlikeliest of families, and the relentless whisper of God’s presence. The Many Me isn’t just a memoir—it’s a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible. In these pages, brokenness becomes blueprint, and pain is repurposed into purpose.

At age 13, Darnell Davis stood in a courtroom as the key witness in a murder trial that sent his father to prison for life—a moment that shattered his childhood and marked the beginning of a long battle with pain, anger, and self-doubt. The Seven Wonders of Me is Darnell’s deeply personal memoir of navigating the darkness, confronting his deepest wounds, and finding healing against all odds.

A retired law enforcement officer turned pilot and a former math teacher chose to leave their home in Texas for a cabin in the wilderness of Alaska. They left life as they knew it behind to start fresh in the land of the Last Frontier. Their cabin on Cub Lake was only accessible by bush plane in the summer or snow machine during the winter, making life challenging. They knew their learning curve would be steep. What they didn't realize was living on a homestead in the wilderness of Alaska would make them face obstacles they had never experienced before.

In less than sixty days, published author and family chiropractor Kristi Hellenbrand would suddenly lose the ability to walk. The brightest doctors would not be able to figure out why. Part memoir, part research thesis, the author reveals with raw honesty her journey through Lyme Disease and the seemingly impossible passage to rediscovering wellness. In 2020, a sudden and mysterious illness - said to not exist in Georgia - took everything from her. This is the story of the deep, dark place where only grief takes you, but also the story of how she saves her own life.

What happens when the parachute doesn’t open? For Rex Alan Davis, a decorated Army officer, that question became a reality during a near-fatal parachute accident that left him broken, immobile, and forced into a yearlong recovery. But Free Fall is about more than a soldier’s survival—it’s about the universal moments when life rips away our safety net. Whether through divorce, betrayal, addiction, financial collapse, or unexpected loss, everyone experiences their own “free fall”—a season when the ground gives way and we’re left asking: Is there a way back?

My life was exactly where I wanted it. I reached everything that I was working so hard to get, and I was steadily moving forward. Then a nasty controversial pandemic started the landslide that was becoming my new life. I was viewed as an anti-vaxxer and sent home from the hospital with a fever of 104deg and positive for COVID-19 pneumonia. Eventually, both my lungs collapsed, my diaphragm was paralyzed, I had nerve damage and blood clots, and I was on a ventilator. The doctors prepared my family by letting them know that I wouldn't make it through the night.

Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's enthralling bestseller as your eye-opening guide. "Hadfield proves himself to be not only a fierce explorer of the universe, but also a deeply thoughtful explorer of the human condition." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Colonel Chris...

Perfect Unfolding is a thought-provoking travel memoir about a woman who trades her dream home and fourteen-year firefighting career for the freedom and possibility of the open road.

Gerald Durrell prožil pět let svého dětství na Korfu. Právě toto období, resp. vzpomínky na něj, ztvárnil zoolog a ochránce přírody ve slavné knize O mé rodině a jiné zvířeně. "Ptáci, zvířata a moji příbuzní" je magickým, poučným a ještě navíc humorným volným pokračováním této knihy. Druhý díl je stejně jako ten první mozaikou faktů o zvířatech, rodinných historek, popisů přírody a domorodých zvyklostí. Zjistíte, jak se na Korfu 30. let rybařilo, jak se vyrábělo víno, slavily svatby, rodily děti nebo sbíraly a zpracovávaly olivy.

This program is read by the author. A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. “Have you ever read Lolita?” So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson’s metamorphosis...