Tag: Memoir

This Time for Me A Memoir


Free Download Joey Soloway, "This Time for Me: A Memoir"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1542029414, 1542029406 | EPUB | pages: 446 | 2.3 mb
An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings.

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The Cage A Holocaust Memoir


Free Download The Cage: A Holocaust Memoir By Ruth Minsky Sender
2008 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1481457225 | EPUB | 1 MB
A testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this "vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is a Holocaust survival story that will be remembered for generations.As long as there is life, there is hope…After Riva’s mother was taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers were left to cling to their mother’s brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then the family is rounded up, deported to Auschwitz, and separated. Now Riva is alone.At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittlesteine and Grafenort, Riva vows to live, and to hope-for Mama, for her brothers, for the millions of other victims of the nightmare of the Holocaust. And through determination and courage, and unexpected small acts of kindness, she does live. And this unforgettable memoir of love, strength, and survival is her story.

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Dancin’ with Dollies A Memoir of World War II


Free Download Dancin’ with Dollies: A Memoir of World War II by Edwin Dwight Ledbetter, Beverly LaVigne Ledbetter
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1956271090 | 178 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
Edwin Dwight Ledbetter was born on March 9, 1924 in Conway, Arkansas, was a B-17 pilot in WWII shot down over France, POW, recipient of France’s Legion of Honor award, Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, graduate of Harvard Law School 1953, a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. This war memoir is published posthumously, seven years after his demise. These are his words, a war memoir he had been working on for many years. He became so involved and charmed by it that it grew like Topsy and he began to insert other people’s stories. As his loving wife, upon rereading his memoir, I have decided to omit other people’s war stories and stay with his alone, or those with whom he shared that experience.

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Riding the Rollercoaster A 30-Year Memoir of Living with Bipolar


Free Download Riding the Rollercoaster: A 30-Year Memoir of Living with Bipolar: One Woman’s Journey of the Highs of Mania, the Crushing Depth of Depression and Dealing with Mental Health by Lisa Stein
English | July 11, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CBQJJ8NH | 87 pages | EPUB | 0.43 Mb
"Riding the Rollercoaster: A 30-Year Memoir of Living with Bipolar" is a poignant and personal account that follows the life of a remarkable woman who has navigated the turbulent waters of bipolar disorder for three decades. In this illuminating memoir, readers are invited to witness her unfiltered journey through the highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks, as she confronts the formidable challenges of this complex mental health condition.

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Consent A Memoir


Free Download Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment
English | June 11, 2024 | ISBN: 0593701062 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 5.9 MB
From the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso"-Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo.

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Teardown Memoir of a Vanishing City


Free Download Gordon Young, "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City"
English | ISBN: 0520270525 | 2013 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country’s most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer could afford a lavish mansion, speculators scooped up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson was often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification.

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