Resultados para "Suche" en Biografías y memorias

Zehn Jahre später fragt sich Annette Dittert, was aus dem Land geworden ist. Sie nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise über die Insel: Wir besuchen die Royal Albert Hall und das House of Lords, schwimmen mit der Frauengruppe »Blue Tits« im Meer an der Ostküste der Insel, plaudern mit Schotten, Priestern und Earls. Und sind bei der Autorin auf ihrem Narrowboat Emilia zu Gast, einem kleinen bunten Boot aus Stahl am Regent's Canal, mitten im Zentrum Londons.

This is Nadina LaSpina's story - from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her, and to her rebellion and her activism in the disability-rights movement. 

Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, 20-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room. On the night of January 14, 2003, Jason strangled his mother. To keep authorities from identifying her body, he chopped off her head and hands, an idea he claimed he got from watching an episode of the hit TV series The Sopranos.

If you would have told me that in the year 2020 I would stand at the White House podium and communicate with the American people as COVID-19 ravaged the globe and violent protests beset the nation, I would have told you that you were crazy. But Jesus Christ had this very plan for my life.

Shannon Monaghan follows a core group of Western volunteers in Ukraine, fighting together from the early battle for Kyiv through to the last stands at Severodonetsk and Bakhmut. They arrived alone, but became a family—back when nobody bothered to learn names, because they all expected to die. These men knew they'd be fighting without the NATO support they were used to. They knew the danger they faced, and how they might be criticized for fighting someone else's war. But they also knew it was the right thing to do. This is their story.

Surviving non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer, former White House chief-of-staff Hamilton Jordan shares his personal and political reflections--from his experiences with the Civil Rights movement to his civilian volunteer tour in Vietnam, from his years of scrutiny under the Carter administration to his agonizing, yet triumphant times battling cancer.

Since serving as President Jimmy Carter's chief of staff in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived three forms of cancer: non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. In this remarkable memoir, Jordan recounts his tumultuous adventures in the political arena and his successful journeys through the world of modern cancer treatment.

Die Republik ist nervös und zerstritten - und sie sieht sich stärker werdenden inneren und äußeren Feinden gegenüber. In einer Zeit, in der autoritäre Regime weltweit an Einfluss gewinnen, sehnen sich viele Menschen nach einem Konservatismus, der sowohl das Land stabilisiert als auch den Autoritären die Stirn bietet. Aber ist der neue Kanzler ein solcher Konservativer?

Mit Herzschmerz und einer sich anbahnenden Sinnkrise schmeißt sich Sebastian in ein Abenteuer. 12 Rollen in 12 Monaten. Er lebt unter anderem anonym, frutarisch, nackt, pilgernd und autark. In den unterhaltsamen Selbstversuchen ermutigt Sebastian, festgefahrene Gewohnheiten zu hinterfragen, den Autopiloten auszuschalten und sich großzügig am unendlichen Buffet des Lebens zu bedienen. Ein Jahr lang sucht er in 12 verrückten Selbstversuchen Ablenkung und neue Perspektiven. Was er findet, ist viel wichtiger: sich Selbst. Aus kleinen Veränderungen wurden Lawinen.

How do you move forward when life doesn’t go as planned? Such is Life?: Framing a Positive "Next" Mindset in the Wake of Life's Setbacks by Bobby Steffens, thoughtfully narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman and Lauren Henry, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful and deeply personal memoir about resilience, healing, and finding purpose after life’s most difficult moments.

Mit 38 Jahren trifft Timm Kruse bei einem Festival auf einen indischen Guru und lauscht gebannt seinen Worten. Die Begegnung verändert etwas in ihm - von heute auf morgen lässt er seine Familie und sein altes Leben hinter sich und begibt sich auf die Suche nach Erleuchtung. Ehe er sich versieht, lebt er im Ashram des Gurus in Indien, geht als sein Chauffeur mit ihm auf Weltreise durch Kanada, die USA und Europa...

For listeners of I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, a candid and heart-wrenching memoir about child abuse, family secrets, and the healing that begins once the truth is revealed and the past is confronted. Andrea is four and a half the first time her father, David, gives her a bath. Although she is young, she knows there is something strange about the way he is touching her. When her mother, Marlene, walks in to check on them, she howls and crumples to the floor—and when she opens her eyes, she is blind.

In researching for the book Mobile Under Siege, author Paula Lenor Webb, came across a woman unlike any other who lived in the 1800s. Octavia Walton LeVert, living in the wealth and wilds of the expanding United States, influenced those around her. Paula realized how fascinating this story was and set out to discover more. After five years of traveling, visiting archives, and private collections, Paula Webb has written the true story of a woman ahead of her time.

A collection of short stories and poems, Such Pretty Pain is a beautiful invitation into the depths of our shared human experience. Drawing from real life moments that have caused the author much grief, the listener is asked to consider how they may carry their own invisible burdens and regrets. Reflections on violence, racism, trauma, and passed down pain are explored in a unique way. The transformation of harmful stigmas to liberating self expression is possible, and shared in this memoir.

Meet Anne Lister, the 18th-century landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. This is her story.... Anne was different from society’s expectations of a woman at the time: she not only did not wish to marry, but she also did not want to conform. Anne was interested only in women and had ‘marriage’ ceremonies with Mariana Lawton and later Ann Walker. She spent a great deal of time studying, managed her own estates, sought business opportunities, travelled widely and climbed mountains.  

A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER:"To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I...

Trost finden. In einer Welt, die so überwältigend, ängstigend, fordernd sein kann. Trost finden im Empfinden von Schönheit, weil das, so Gabriele von Arnim, nicht weniger ist als Selbsterhalt. "Ich brauche Schönheit. Den Trost der Schönheit. Denn wenn ich Schönheit sehe, höre, lese, spüre, dann glaube ich an Möglichkeiten. An Wege, Räume, Purzelbäume." "Der Trost der Schönheit" ist eine schillernde Verbindung aus autobiografischem und essayistischem Erzählen: keine Kulturgeschichte, die ihren Gegenstand mit Theorie einhegen will, sondern eine literarische Spurensuche.

There is No Such Thing as a Typical Librarian pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day operation of working in both an academic and public library. It is a love letter to the library profession based on the personal experiences of Steve Antonuccio, who worked in libraries for over 30 years. He spent 20 years at Colorado Springs’ Pikes Peak Library District creating and operating the Library Channel as the manager of the educational cable access studio.

If you are born into ineffable darkness, can you even comprehend the light? Take one-part volatile home life, two-parts haphazard nomadic existence, zero-parts social connection, and shake well. Our protagonist's only constant is unpredictability: that, and the charismatic, fundamentalist hammerings from the pulpit. But, when a sheltered child goes nuclear? Just pray you are far from the exclusion zone.

Es beginnt als harmlose Wanderung im idyllischen Boquete: Lisanne Froon und Kris Kremers, zwei junge Niederländerinnen, brechen zu einer Tour auf dem malerischen Pianista Trail auf. Als die beiden nicht zurückkehren, setzt eine beispiellose Suchaktion ein: Einheimische, Polizei, Rettungskräfte - ganz Panama scheint in Bewegung. Nach qualvollen zehn Wochen wird ein Rucksack im Flussbett des Río Culebra gefunden - kilometerweit vom ursprünglichen Wanderweg entfernt. Die Erleichterung über den Fund währt kurz.