Johnny’s Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska’s underworld as the only child of gambler John F. “Johnny” Rich and exotic dancer, Frances “Ginger” Rich. It chronicles Alaska’s mean streets and her parent’s tragic lives that were cut short. Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of gamblers, pimps, and con men. She longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother, who suffered from mental illness, was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15, and Kim became a journalist, was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.

Alfred W. Drayson "The Gentleman Cadet" covers the journey of Arthur Haldene, a younger guy who enters the elite Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Set in 19th-century England, the unconventional follows Arthur's struggles and accomplishments as he navigates the rigorous education and companionship of military life. As Arthur seeks to earn the name "gentleman cadet," he meets hurdles both outside and inside the academy walls. Along along with his fellow cadets, Arthur struggles with instructional research, physical education, and the extreme subject imposed by using his superiors. Throughout all of it, he establishes long-lasting connections and learns vital training about honor, courage, and obligation. As Arthur rises via the ranks, he faces love, competition, and the brutal truth of military carrier. Drayson expertly depicts the camaraderie and friendships fashioned within the furnace of army training, taking pictures the essence of honor and sacrifice that defines the profession of hands. "The Gentleman Cadet" is a gripping tale of coming of age in the military, complete with journey, intrigue, and the eternal ideals of devotion and heroism.

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