The little girl in the pages of this book is mine, I have nursed, trained, and nurtured her all her life. I not only love her, I like her; and, for me it is harder to like than to love. She is a believer in GOD, she is a survivor, and she has a good heart, in-spite of what she has lived through. She has learned the value of having strength of character, she is funny, caring, and she has a few talents. and most important of all, I am she. And I have planned to write this book about and for her since she was nine years old. This story about what happens to the heart, mind, body, and soul of a child who has been shuffled from place to place, raped, abused, neglected, misused, and the subsequent effects into adulthood. It is the map of, her journey, through trauma, struggles, and the lessons. It is written to hopefully help someone navigate, who has or may be experiencing trauma of whatever magnitude. I am not saying that I have all the answers; I have just been through a lot of the questions. I especially want the reader to pay close attention to the quotes that I used at the beginning of each chapter, because they relate to each chapter’s content .

#1 New York Times Bestseller now in paperback with new material The inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels premiering September 2020 In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.

Mark has been in and out of hospital his whole life - and he's fed up. So when his cancer returns, he decides he's had enough. Running away with his dog Beau, he sets out to climb a mountain - and it's only when he's left everything behind that Mark realises he has everything to live for.

The little girl in the pages of this book is mine, I have nursed, trained, and nurtured her all her life. I not only love her, I like her; and, for me it is harder to like than to love. She is a believer in GOD, she is a survivor, and she has a good heart, in-spite of what she has lived through. She has learned the value of having strength of character, she is funny, caring, and she has a few talents. and most important of all, I am she. And I have planned to write this book about and for her since she was nine years old. This story about what happens to the heart, mind, body, and soul of a child who has been shuffled from place to place, raped, abused, neglected, misused, and the subsequent effects into adulthood. It is the map of, her journey, through trauma, struggles, and the lessons. It is written to hopefully help someone navigate, who has or may be experiencing trauma of whatever magnitude. I am not saying that I have all the answers; I have just been through a lot of the questions. I especially want the reader to pay close attention to the quotes that I used at the beginning of each chapter, because they relate to each chapter's content .

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.