Orphan Memoir

An orphan who has survived life's challenges, from his third day on earth following the death of his parents. Taking responsibility for my own life from the age of six. Living from house to house, country to country, with the aim of finding my destiny. My passion for pursing education by overcoming all kinds of challenges. Improvising, Adapting, and overcoming being my motto and driving force. It is titled A Traumatized Orphan, because it adds up in one word who I was.

Albertina Zimmerman, known affectionately as “Oma” by her loving grandson, Bernard, was an endless source of fascination and narrator of true stories, whose protagonists were leading figures from music, politics, and the Viennese opera.

The Galveston Orphans Home of Texas has been a fixture of the historic city for over a hundred years. Surviving the great storm of 1900 and giving children a place to call home, there are countless stories about the house’s rich history.

The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas. There, she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother.

Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was an African American accused of murdering his white employer and family over a single dollar. The tumultuous events and cast of characters surrounding the racially charged crime garnered national media attention and changed the course of Maryland history. With exacting research, former Maryland State's Attorney Joseph E. Moore reconstructs the murders, the ensuing roller coast of a trial, and the eventual conviction and execution of Orphan Jones. Moore details all of this in the context of Jim Crow and American society during the Great Depression.

في هذا الكتاب سِيرٌ لجمع من المفكرين والفقهاء والمخترعين والأدباء ورجال الأعمال والعلماء ممن اشتركوا في خصلة واحدة وارتبطوا فيما بينهم برابطة مشتركة... ألا وهي اليتم، فكلهم فقدوا آباءهم فأصبحوا بلا عائلة، وتُركوا أمام الدنيا كجندي بلا سلاح وربّانٍ بلا سفينة، تأخذهم المصاعب وتتلاعب بهم المتاعب، فتحدوا الحياة وخاضوا غمارها، فلم توقفهم العقبات ولم تحل دون ما أرادوه المصاعب والأزمات، ولم يتخبئوا خلف يتمهم ولم ينتظروا رأفة الآخرين وإحسانهم، وعلموا أن الحياة مغامرة مثيرة، وأن الوصول إلى القمة يتطلب السير في القاع...

After being orphaned not once, but twice, raised by nuns, foster parents, and passed between the homes of his grandmother and father, Jim Fiume learned how to survive and thrive after being tossed aside. His experiences led him to where he is now and helped give him wisdom that can only be gained from the university of the streets.