Beautiful Memoir

Patricia Highsmith - author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal documents - diaries, notebooks and letters - which detail the links between her life and her work.

When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of the forces that have shaped Wilson's life, and his body: vulnerability and power, grief and trauma, science and narrative. In this powerful and lyrical memoir, Wilson makes a case for the strength we find when we confront the complexities of our identity with compassion.

Late one night, while Rebecca Fogg was alone in her apartment, her hand was partially amputated in an explosion. Quick thinking saved her life, but the journey to recovery would be a slow one. As the doctors rebuilt her hand, Rebecca (who also survived 9/11) began rebuilding her sense of self by studying the physical and psychological process of recovery.

In Beautiful Lady, author Geri Maroney shares her story to inspire other women who are also battling cancer’s grip on their lives. Filled with honesty and humor, she offers a resource for growth of spirit and evolution of mindset packed with essential tools and new perspectives on age-old beliefs that may weigh heavy on the heart of cancer patients.

John Keats died 200 years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began 100 years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender Is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence.

Forget all the hype, myth, legend, and lore - here is the Beatles as they are, and ever will be in their own words. Written and narrated by author actor Geoffrey Giuliano, here is the perfect compendium for fans, philosophers, pop historians, culture vultures, casual commuters, and all enlightened school and university systems. It is the ultimate source for everyone interested in the incredible, unequalled social and cultural phenomena that was Beatlemania and their continued unmatched musical influence to this day some 50+ years later.

Égérie de Jean-Paul Gaultier, Ève Salvail, l’icône de beauté à la tête rasée et tatouée, a défilé pour de prestigieux créateurs de mode, dont Versace, Lacroix, Lagerfeld et Mugler, fait la une de grands magazines, de même que des apparitions remarquées au cinéma. J’ai tout de suite compris, en voyant Ève la première fois, qu’elle allait réinventer le style des mannequins de cette époque.

They mate and they kill. These women used their beauty to attract men before killing them for reasons that only they understand. Samantha Scott appeared in numerous shows such as Bewitched and MASH before turning on her older husband and stabbing him to death. Tracey Grissom was a gorgeous head-turner in her small town before she claimed her husband abused her to the point where she had to shoot him to death.

Sedona, Arizona, one of the most beautiful towns on the planet. A destination known the world over. How did it come to be called Sedona? In this short audiobook, learn about the Schnebly family, who came to build a life in the Arizona Territory in the early 1900s.

From the author of a top 100 Free for Kindle eStory "The Killing of Train-Man Brown" and "Then Her Wig Fell Off" and "Send Me a Friend", "Slow Foreplay on a Fast Bus", and many, many other stories comes... "Carabella: Beautiful Face of My Father - My Mental Breakdown on I-65 South." A short memoir of a family that must have been out of their minds to do what they did - be completely spontaneous for one brief moment in their lives... describing the adventure it took them on... And the memory it created that lives on in one son's heart.

A Day in the Life of a Soul has been a momentous endeavor of extracting, writing, and editing my diary entries which chronicle my lifetime experiences over the 66 years I have been with you here on earth. This book also details my four NDEs (near death experiences) and multiple OBEs (out of body experiences). Although this manuscript was originally intended to be a book of uplifting spiritual stories it transitioned into my own lifetime biography. Although the stories presented herein may not appear to have overt spiritual significance, they each have had a direct impact on the growth and evolution of my soul.

Mitropolit Dimitrij Rostovskij (v miru Daniil Savvich Tuptalo; 1651-1709) - russkij cerkovnyj dejatel', episkop Russkoj Cerkvi; duhovnyj pisatel', propovednik. V 1757 godu proslavlen v like svjatyh Pravoslavnoj Rossijskoj Cerkov'ju; pamjat' 21 sentjabrja (po julianskomu kalendarju) i v den' Sobora Sibirskih svjatyh (10 ijunja). Dimitrij Rostovskij proslavilsja kak plodotvornyj cerkovnyj avtor - sostavitel' sbornikov zhitij svjatyh (naibolee izvestnyj, v chetyreh knigah - "Chet'i-Minei").