Showing results for title "How Long" in Biographies & Memoirs

An eye-opening, inspiring, and timely account of the complex relationship between notable suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women’s equality.

Completed after eight years of writing and research, Nicole Waybright's memoir tells the true story of her coming-of-age struggles while deployed as an officer on a US Navy destroyer. With heartbreaking and fearless realism, the author chronicles the despair and psychological crisis that she experienced while yet in the early days of a five-year military obligation.

Pete developed a love of nature at a young age, first through the fantastic adventures he had read about in classic adventure books, and then thanks to frequent trips to Telluride. He immediately fell in love with the fresh air and majestic mountains. He decided to move to Alaska, "the final frontier", by himself to try his hand at dog mushing, and it almost got him killed. When his mother passed away, Pete decided to honor her legacy by running 50 marathons in 50 states and raising over $60,000 for cancer research in the process.

An estimated 160,000 US children miss school every day due to fear of being attacked or intimidated by other students. Eighty-three percent of girls and 79 percent of boys report experiencing harassment. Six out of 10 teenagers say they witness bullying in school once a day. Author Lenora Lassiter was inclusive in the statistical account stated above. Her traumatizing experiences, and there were many during her years growing up, have incited her to address what is now epidemic across the country.

How Far Is a Mighty Long Way? takes us on a journey in the life of Sharon Kimbrough, an advertising executive. Her journey begins as a little girl in Chicago, IL. Her sister, Myra and Sharon had a good life until the day Myra is struck by a car on the way back home from a trip to the neighborhood grocery store

Part memoir, part self-help, Happy Old Me is a fitting, heart-felt tribute to the love of his life and a surprisingly amusing and informative book about an age, and stage in life, which we might all reach someday. The third book in Hunter Davies' much-loved memoir series, which includes The Co-Op's Got Bananas and A Life in the Day.