Resultados para "My Heart" en Deportes y aire libre

When five-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s, he looked in vain for something that would anchor him to it, make him feel at home. Then, one Saturday afternoon, it came: the roar of a crowd, and a football team to support. Young Michael became an avid Newcastle United fan, and has remained one - if sometimes disenchanted - for over 60 years. In this football memoir with a difference, the celebrated playwright and screenwriter tells the story of his six-decade love affair with the club, each chapter recreating an iconic Newcastle match

Este audiolivro é sobre um pai de tenista e sobre o pai de um tenista. São papéis diferentes que Osvaldo Meligeni, argentino de Buenos Aires, interpretou ao educar e formar seu filho Fernando como pessoa e como jogador. Em primeira pessoa, Fernando relata momentos marcantes da convivência com o pai, conversas a bordo de um veleiro na infância e adolescência e exemplos de conduta que determinaram sua forma de enxergar a vida e o mundo. É uma história de amor e renúncia, de liderança e paciência, de retidão e esperança.

Anne Marie Allen was 15 when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Her happiness was short-lived as it became clear she had been tricked instead into a life of domestic servitude to the members of the Opus Dei cult. What followed were years of misery in slavery, forced celibacy and traumatic physical suffering under an ambitious and tyrannical institution that demanded perfection, humiliation and pain.

Born with hearing loss, later battling cancer multiple times, and navigating life with disability, Lori takes listeners on a powerful journey of survival and transformation. This isn’t just a cancer memoir—it’s a story about the human spirit, the power of family, and the lessons for living that come when life doesn’t go as planned.

Andrew Porter lost his mother to breast cancer at the age of 12, spent much of his teens suffering with his mental health and overcame his issues by focusing on rugby. Displaying courage and resilience, Andrew shares the stories of his toughest tests in life and in rugby, covering his emotional journey from the gym to winning 75 caps and three Six Nations wins with Ireland and becoming one of the highest profile and most respected players in the world along the way.

Herschel Cobb's moving account of his relationship with his legendary grandfather reveals a side of Ty Cobb that few people ever saw, that of loving nurturer. A baseball icon and arguably the best player who ever lived, Ty Cobb's infamously cold, competitive nature allowed him to excel on the ball field but undermined his relationship with his children. Devastated by the untimely death of two of his sons, Cobb relished the opportunity to reconnect the broken family ties when young Herschel and his siblings visited him during the summers.

When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in rural Taranaki, she can't help but feel different from her peers and professors. She finds solace in long walks foraging weeds and plants along the river, but something inside her still longs for home. Chasing a feeling of ancestral belonging, she travels to England with her new husband. There they learn about nature as the commons, shared between all who encounter it - a source of delight, food, medicine.

In the dramatic final book of the three-part Living Life Sideways series, the harsh effects of years of narcissistic abuse begin to take their toll as Michelle Segrest is broken down psychologically and emotionally—piece by piece—by her manipulative partner. She is forced to battle her inner demons as she struggles to rediscover her personal strength and resolve. Trapped inside the lonely darkness of depression and unsettling isolation, she must dig deep into her soul to find a way to save herself and her two devoted beagles.