My Story
Title | My Story PDF eBook |
Author | Lola Taubman |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1105713687 |
Lola Taubman was born in 1925 in the Carpathian Mountains (then Czechoslovakia). Life was rich in her extended Jewish family, part of a community with citizens from many backgrounds, where multiple languages were common currency, and education mingled with the joys and games of youth. By the late 1930s, anti-Semitism grew, and communities were disrupted. In May 1944, Lola and her family, and the remaining Jews from her town, were sent to Auschwitz. Lola was chosen to work; her immediate family perished. In January 1945, as the allies approached, the Nazis moved her, with many others from Auschwitz, on a series of death marches. Life as a DP followed, with a 4-year struggle to emigrate to the U.S. Arriving in New York in 1949, she later relocated to the Detroit area, where she married Sam Taubman and raised a family. Since the mid-1990s, she has been an inspiring speaker about her Holocaust experiences. Now, she shares her amazing story with us in this moving narrative of her life's journey.
Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood
Title | Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Daley |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2021-10-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0008217920 |
Longlisted for Autobiography of the Year, Sports Book Awards 2022 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller ‘Honest and moving – everything a memoir should be’ The Sun ‘An illuminating look at what it takes to be an Olympian ... in this story, passion reigns supreme’ Cosmopolitan
Tom's Daily Goals
Title | Tom's Daily Goals PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Daley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780008314408 |
House You Cannot Reach
Title | House You Cannot Reach PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Daley |
Publisher | Futurecycle Press |
Pages | 89 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9781938853685 |
In HOUSE YOU CANNOT REACH, a mother's voice is reimagined, amplified, and permitted to ventilate both forbidden grievance and private passion. Simultaneously wistful and excoriating, she cherishes and denounces a philandering husband and ponders the suicide of her youngest son. Whether needling a portfolio manager or reconnoitering the disappointing God of her Irish Catholic upbringing, she casts her sometimes witty, sometimes jaded regard on a society that pampered and grieved her. After a stroke, her restraint loosens even more radically. Her consciousness splinters as she proceeds to cajole the Virgin of Guadalupe, to hallucinate over Tolstoy's War and Peace, and to brazenly equate her addled suffering with that of earthquake victims in Haiti. Complemented by poems in the poet's voice that extend the territory of their mutual experience, this mother's utterances discomfit and regale with terrifying and exultant fervor.
HAPPY
Title | HAPPY PDF eBook |
Author | Fearne Cotton |
Publisher | Orion Spring |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
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Fearne Cotton understands how important happiness is, and why we need to seek it out each and every day. Determined to help break the taboo around mental health, here - for the first time - she opens up honestly about her own battle with depression, and the little things that help keep it at bay so she can continue trekking towards the good stuff. Including expert advice from Mind, and packed with little ideas and practical exercises so you can join in, she invites you to pick up your pencil and come on this journey with her.
The Queer Advantage
Title | The Queer Advantage PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Gelwicks |
Publisher | Hachette Go |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 030687461X |
Meet the LGBTQ+ dealmakers, trailblazers, and glass-ceiling breakers in business, politics, and beyond. The people who are creating national public policy, running billion-dollar tech enterprises, and winning Olympic medals. Andrew Gelwicks interviews the leaders who have forged their own paths and changed the world. From Troye Sivan to Margaret Cho, George Takei to Billie Jean King, Shangela to Adam Rippon, each person credits their queer identity with giving them an edge in their paths to success. Their stories brim with the hard-won lessons gained over their careers. With variances in age, background, careers, and races, key themes shine through: Channeling anger in a positive way -- using it as rocket fuel to succeed Leveraging your difference to beget new ideas and strategies Bridging generational gaps Accessing resources to conquer crippling denial, internalized homophobia, and doubt The power of the Internet as a tool of self-discovery Using your sensitivity and attunement to read the room, deciding when to fit in and when to stand out Finding a queer tribe and learning to help and lean on one another Collecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness.
Tom Daley
Title | Tom Daley PDF eBook |
Author | Chas Newkey-Burden |
Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2011-10-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1843177692 |
This highly anticipated biography tells the inspirational story of the World Champion diving ace, Tom Daley.