Tag: true story
All That Is Bitter and Sweet, A Memoir by Ashley Judd – Memoir Monday
All That Is Bitter and Sweet, A Memoir by Ashley Judd. In 2002, award-winning film and stage actor Ashley Judd found her true calling: as a humanitarian and voice for those suffering...
A Broken Childhood by Lydia Ola Taiwo – Throwback Thursday
Something thoughtful and soulful to remember from 2013. Lydia Ola Taiwo's A Broken Childhood is still available and still emotionally charged.
At the age of five, Ola was torn away from a safe...
17 Cents and a Dream Dan Milstein USSR Memoir – Memoir Monday
Daniel Milstein's 17 Cents & a Dream is a harrowing story about how his mother, father and brother escaped the oppressive government of the U.S.S.R and immigrated to Ann Arbor, Michigan has...
Tau Bada: The Quest by John E. Quinlan -Memoir Monday
Tau Bada: The Quest and Memoir of a Vulnerable Man by John E. Quinlan. Embark on John E. Quinlan’s remarkable journey from the halls of high finance through back roads and mountain...
Soldiers’ Stories: A Collection of World War II Memoirs – Memoir Monday
This is a different kind of history book, one told, not by historians, but by the families of the veterans of World War II. Here they tell the stories that have never...
Throwback Thursday Book Trailer – LUCIA ZARATE in Spanish
https://youtu.be/jCdqq1Dn_gc
De la autora aclamada internacionalmente Cecilia Velástegui, la novela histórica LUCIA ZARATE, la fascinante odisea de la vida real de la mujer más pequeña del mundo.
http://ceciliavelastegui.com/espanol/
Book Review: The Peerless Four by Victoria Patterson
It’s 1928 and women are allowed to participate in the Olympics in track on a “trial basis” so the whole world is watching and the pressure is unrelenting. Four women, amazing athletes,...