Radical Survivor: One Woman's Path Through Life, Love, and Uncharted Tragedy
10 best books like Radical Survivor: One Woman's Path Through Life, Love, and Uncharted Tragedy (Nancy Saltzman): Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, House Calls, Bereaved, Bothered and Bewildered: One long crawl out of the grief swamp, Helmets and Lipstick: An Army Nurse in World War Two, The Life-Changing Lessons Of Dr. Phil - How To Be Successful in Life And Personal Relationships, The Deepest Waters, Tilting, For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan, Office Calls
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of the Second World War. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris...
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
| Author | Nora Ephron |
| ISBN | 0307264556 |
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The...
The following twenty-one stories are from actual house calls I have made in three different states during my thirty years of practice as a rural family physician. Some are humorous, some sad, some sublime. I have changed the names and in a few cases altered circumstances slightly to protect privacy...
Bereaved, Bothered and Bewildered: One long crawl out of the grief swamp
Bereaved, Bothered and Bewildered is a personal account of how life carried on for one widow after losing her beloved husband of thirty years. Finding herself stuck in a grief swamp, and trying to crawl out, her husband’s enduring message was “always look for the funny side”. His second enduring...
Helmets and Lipstick: An Army Nurse in World War Two
Helmets and Lipstick, first published in 1944, is a first-hand account by Second Lieutenant Ruth Haskell of her service in the Army Nurse Corps as an army nurse during World War Two. Of note was her unit's presence during the Operation Torch invasion of North Africa in late 1942, where the nurses and ground...
The Life-Changing Lessons Of Dr. Phil - How To Be Successful in Life And Personal Relationships
Discover The Life Changing Lessons Of Dr. Phil!
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve the quality of your life towards achieving your dreams and desires based on the experiences and expertise of Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil first became well known as a regular advice-giver...
| Author | Dan Walsh |
| ISBN | 0800719808 |
What began as a fairytale honeymoon in 1857 for John and Laura Foster aboard the steamship SS Vandervere becomes a nightmare when a hurricane causes their ship to sink into the murky depths of the Atlantic. Laura finds herself with the other women and children aboard a sailing ship while John and a hundred...
| Author | Nicole Harkin |
| ISBN | 1612968929 |
We only learned about our father's girlfriend after he became deathly ill and lay in a coma 120 miles from our home.
Overhearing the nurse tell Linda--since I was nine I had called my mom by her first name--about the girlfriend who came in almost every day to visit him when we weren't there confirmed...
For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan. A Japan where snakes slither down school corridors, where bears prowl dark forests and where Westerners are still regarded as curious creatures. Welcome to the world of the inaka – the Japanese countryside.
Unhappily...
'Angels Landing' is a book spanning three continents that tells the story of how Miss Sadler had her left arm torn off in a car accident deep in the Australian Outback, was found bleeding to death on the side of a dirt-track road (100 miles south of Darwin) by some Aborigines.....and goes on to impart the...
Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she's not afraid to use it—most of the time.
She's an intrepid cruiser, but wild rumors of marauding gangs of flesh-shredding giant Humboldt squid on a rampage in the Sea of Cortez could keep even Hetta tied to an expensive dock. However, when...
| Author | Travis Thrasher |
| ISBN | 0781408385 |
Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he’s spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past.
Until one moment—one mistake—changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began....
Seeking Solace: Finding Joy After Loss
Life in the United Arab Emirates brings many ups and downs. Amy, an American, married to an Arab, is pregnant with twins. But during her twenty-week check-up, Amy learns she has lost one of her precious babies. Suddenly she is hospitalized with pre-eclampsia and fighting for her and her second twin’s...
I Only Wanted to Live: The Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust
A broad picture of the Holocaust from the point of view of a child This book is a memoir of a child who is swept into the whirlwind of the Holocaust. The epic history is narrowed down to the struggle of a single boy nicknamed Leosz to survive the war. From age 7 to age 13, he endures all the horrors that the Holocaust...
This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons society of Britain at the beginning of the 1980’s, the author is literally transplanted to a farm in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in what is now Kwazulu Natal.
Once...
Carrie Lang’s sheltered life ends with a prison sentence for involvement in a bank robbery. Her arrest comes on the day she’s called in sick and stayed inside, so she can’t explain how an eye-witness describes her in great detail, down to the make and model of her car.
A terrible mistake...
Mobility Matters: Stepping Out in Faith (The Mobility Series Book 1)
Adventurous international teacher, Amy Bovaird, is diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disease that will blind her. In spite of that, she manages to continue teaching overseas. Then her father’s final illness brings her back home for good. There, friends and acquaintances...
