Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Biographies & Memoirs

"Jag Upphäver Gravitationen" är en stark utlämnande självbiografi från en ung person med en neuropsykiatrisk funktionsnedsättning. Hen föddes i Rumänien 1991, bara några få år efter att den rumänska kommunistregimen föll 1989. I nästan fyra år bodde hen på ett sunkigt barnhem i Rumänien, fram tills 1994 då hen adopterades av sina svenska adoptivföräldrar till Sverige. Alexander fungerade bra under sina första år, men när kraven ökade på honom när hen började på dagis, så visade sig symtomen på hens funktionsnedsättning allt mer tydligt och vid fem års ålder fick hen sin första neuropsykiatriska diagnos, autism.

The Crossing is about my life. This was a different time going through World War I and all the changes going forward.

Evolve is a photo-poetic prospectus suggesting man's responsibility to shape social evolution away from the habits of the Information Age to better communicate and to touch and be touched.

Ninety-three-count indictment on sex trafficking charges revealed against Backpage founders.

Aged 22, Andy's life collapsed into a dark depression. This is a brave, honest, and exciting story that will give you peace of mind and stir you to make something happen in your life. In Feeling Lost and Finding Your Way, Andy courageously shares his journey into postgraduate life, wrestling with the pressures of being successful, of being a young man in a hypersexualized digital world, and being brave enough to search for what really mattered.

A story about a former life-long pyramid scam and network marketing skeptic who becomes an industry leader!

Three guys I didn’t recognize stood outside the door as I came down the steps of a Chicago apartment building. I had just finished up collecting newspaper fees for delivering the daily paper. One stepped inside. As he stepped closer I saw a gun in his waistband.... My father always said, “Think before you react, son.” If I reach for his gun, I thought, he could be faster than me. He also had buddies just outside the door. ...the boys stepped into the hallway and surrounded me. It took me only a second to think, Is your life worth 90 bucks of newspaper collection fees?

This is a bi-racial pastor's struggle with acceptance, opioid addiction, mental health disorder, and road to recovery.

Not trying to be a guru, Deeia Topp offers a refreshing take on her inexplicably wild, intuitive world. From her sister’s death to her choice to leave behind a 27-year career, stories are shared by a woman who thought she knew the truth only to realize she didn’t have a clue. Expressed in a manner that isn’t an attempt to make you believe, Topp’s Unconventional Truth provokes thought by relaying unexpected lessons she didn’t intend to learn along the way.

The American West was a notion, not a nation. It was a process, not a place. The native animal and human life of the West was displaced, replaced, and exterminated - 60 million bison to make way for European bog animals, billions of passenger pigeons for nothing, and 90 percent of aboriginal native Americans, out of an original population of possibly a hundred million, by accident and design. Late in the summer of 2013, I set out to find the Old West, what it had been, and what had replaced it.

Listen to author Pearl Howie's personal manual on how it feels to be alive and fully awake to appreciate our miraculous world.

History colliding with the now. These are just some of the stories and personalities featured in the Grave Tales series. Grave Tales: Sydney visits cemeteries to feature people who willingly, or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest, in Sydney, Australia.

Chester and Mary Travis were Christian & Missionary Alliance missionaries to French Indo-China (today known as Vietnam) between 1925-1975. They experienced an abundant measure of Christ's indwelling and overflowing life. One of the aims of this book is to share the unusual experiences and their unshakable faith in their Lord and Savior. If this book does nothing else but generate and stimulate a continuing prayer vigil for those encountering severe trials behind the "Bamboo Curtain," it will have served well. That is all that Chester and Mary might ask of us.

In this three-part series by D.J. Bradley, we are read the life of Pamela Burroughs, an evangelizing single mother. In Part 1, we meet Pam, her fellow missionary friends, and Bibi, the boy who becomes their mission. While on a religious support trip to Africa, Pam's journey takes a surprising twist, as Pam's path crosses Bibi's. Bibi, a young, native Nigerian Christian, is on the brink of death, injured, bleeding, and without water. A detour caused by an accident on the highway changes the course of the lives of Pam and her group, along with Bibi.

Dawn Downey’s second collection of essays is for everyone who savors down-to-earth stories with a twist of wisdom. Deeply honest and deeply personal, her observations are laced with quirky insights and self-deprecating humor. She draws inspiration from the flu, the garden, bad knees, and bad TV. She explores larger themes of loss and estrangement while retaining a youthful outlook on the vagaries of life and aging. Listeners will journey from the mundane to the metaphysical. Here’s an author who lets us in on her fear of cows. We follow her quest to learn compassion.

After spending a few moments on heaven's front porch with God, he is thrust back into his old life. In the moments that follow, he struggles to find purpose and meaning in the day-to-day grind of life. On his quest he meets some wonderful individuals who support him as he uncovers five principles necessary to move him from just living again to being fully alive. Back from Heaven's Front Porch is about one man's struggle to be alive again after an accident claims the life of his friend and nearly his own.

The incredible story of the two most high-profile Italian cases in recent history: the story of the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades, and the Amanda Knox case.

Der jüdische Humor und seine Witze vermengen sich in Erwin Javors Erzählung wie ein Mosaik mit Geschichte und persönlichen Geschichten aus Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Es ist ein Buch über ostjüdische Identität im Lauf der Generationen: subjektiv, ironisch, kritisch, lachend, weinend und liebevoll. Eine jüdische Familiengeschichte der ganz besonderen Art. Vom Schtetl nach Budapest, von Budapest nach Wien und nach Israel führt Erwin Javors Zeitreise. Sie ist eine Liebeserklärung an seine Eltern, deren Geschichten und Erzählungen über eine heute verlorene Welt ihn geprägt haben. Das Schtetl ist, mit Sehnsucht verklärt, im kollektiven jüdischen Gedächtnis immer noch präsent. Doch diese versunkene Welt war auch hart und erbarmungslos, und gerade daraus entstand der jüdische Humor. Was ist an ihm so besonders, warum bringt er uns zum Lachen? Weil hinter jeder guten Pointe, wie bei jeder guten Komödie, immer auch ein Stück Tragödie steht.

Born in 1938 and adopted soon after, Kate Foley grew up in London during WWII. The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. 

In this audiobook, Bob takes us on his exciting journey through the world of show business as an entertainer in motion pictures, television, and theater in Hollywood and beyond. You will also enjoy an overview of Bob's one-man comedy show, "Humor Under the Steeple", including over 60 family-friendly jokes and humorous stories. At the age of 85, Bob can no longer stand or walk but continues to perform as a "sit-down comedian" from the comfort of his handy power scooter.