Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Women

Are you part of the baby boomer generation, nearing 50 or have passed the threshold? Five years either way will still pull you into this collection of short stories, which will make you, laugh, sigh and cry. This book reflects the feelings, experiences and challenges we all face during the roller coaster years of the 50ies-stories every woman will be able to identify with. At least you will know that you are not alone but that we are many and what is better than knowing that misery loves company?

The period up to the Cold War of the late twentieth century was a time of great social, economic, political, and religious changes. New discoveries in medicine eliminated epidemics and increased life expectancy. Inventions such as the automobile, telephone, radio, television, airplanes and rocketry revolutionized our lives. We experienced major world wars and the disaster of a great depression.

In 1947, two adventurous college friends were among the first tourists to travel to Eastern Europe after WWII. These are some of their stories, as they wrote them, when they returned.

Born in Paris during its occupation by the Germans. Became a horse crazy girl in Costa Rica. Taking volcano trips on horseback, once sliding off a road on horseback 50 feet to a river. Passenger as freight on cargo planes over dense Central American jungle. Dating officers in Panama City during WWII.

More than a century ago, a lovely young Georgia aristocrat named Jane Carroll Heard came to the Indian Territory. She was the bride of Fred Severs Clinton, a handsome blue-eyed blond who was part Creek Indian, from the village of Red Fork on the Arkansas River. Their union was not only a lifetime affair of the heart, but an alliance of remarkable talents and abilities which would play a major role in transforming the little frontier village of Tulsey Town, I.T., into a booming mid-American city known as "The Oil Capital of the World." This is the story of Jane Heard Clinton, and of the people...

Lois Green was a beautiful, vivacious, dark-eyed woman whose life and words teach how to live with dying. "Death is hidden," she often said, "and we hurt because of it. My purpose is to bring death out into the open and share things that have been beneficial to me." To her death was a normal part of life. Through her work as a nurse, a licensed social worker, a Crisis counselor, a HIB/AIDS counselor, and Hospice volunteer, she learned that being aware of death left a person more open to life. She felt it was her experiences with the dying, along with the diversity of people she knew and...

Share the compelling true-life story of young girl's determination to survive after the fatal accidental shooting of her 28-year-old mother. Witness the author's inner strength to survive despite the challenges of sibling separation, relocation, sexual abuse, rape, life threatening living conditions, and alcoholism.

Learn how hatred of her father transformed her into becoming an effective human rights advocate and ultimately an advocate for long-term care. The level of awareness of elder abuse, has caused nursing homes to raise the bar when it comes to taking care of elderly and disabled....

"I don't remember being in the house when mother arrived to pick up my sister. I went next door to my cousin's house and was sitting on their front porch steps. I was all by myself waiting for them to get into the car. I don't know if they knew I was there when they got into the car at that moment or not. When they drove out our drive, they had to pass in front of my cousin's house. They saw me crying, my sister waved, I knew she was happy and mother leaned close to the steering wheel to look around my sister at me. She had a concerned look on her face. I started to cry so hard at that time...

In 1954, Ruth Vincent was a young teacher and Alaska was not yet a state when her biologist husband, Bob, decided to conduct research on rugged, isolated Afognak Island. As they left Oregon for the unknown, both Ruth and Bob eagerly anticipated their pioneer adventure. Hours later, the two stood on the remote island with nothing but a short-wave radio and bush pilots as their connections to the outside world. Dressed in heels, Ruth reveals how she was ushered into her tiny new home that had looked so tidy from the air, but in reality was filled with junk. While learning to live within...

"My Mammy and Pappy would let me look through their Bible for pictures. In it were handkerchiefs, flowers and notes all neatly laid out under particular pages. I'm sure these had some very important meaning, if only for them. Best of all, Mammy's big Bible showed a big picture of a red devil. He had a pitchfork tail and a big laughing face. He really scared me, and the look on my face when I found his picture made Mammy laugh and giggle. When I looked over to Pappy he was laughing a bit, too. It was very disturbing for me to see that picture of the old devil The next few times that I went...

The author introduces you to her deceased sister in this biography, written frankly and intensely personally. A Long Island bred girl, with only a high school education, meets, in a most unorthodox manner, a French Professor of Romance Languages from Columbia University in New York City and the planets collide. From this unlikely twosome emerges one of the more beautiful love stories of all time.

Anyone who has ever been deeply in love will relate to her doubts, her passions, her insecurities, her agony and her ecstasy and to the culmination of her every dream. Anyone who has never known...

"Lizzie turned away from the knothole. She didn't want to see any more of the auction. She didn't want to look any longer at the liquidating of the Murphy household. It really was like a terrible flood carrying away everything her family had used and enjoyed."

"She jumped into the hay and hollowed out a couch for herself. Then she stretched out on her back, not caring if she mussed her new gingham dress. "

"She remembered all the times Mama had come looking for her. She wished she could hear Mama calling, "Lizzie! Lizzie! Where are you?"Lizzie closed her eyes and pictured her mama as she...

While other kids enjoyed the social aspects of school in the 1960s, Jacqui DeLorenzo experienced the torment of bullying. From the moment she stepped onto the bus, walked through the schoolyard, and stepped into the classroom, lunchroom, and even her own neighborhood, she was a target. Unfortunately, Jacqui's adulthood proved to be as challenging as her adolescence and childhood but her unwavering faith always sustained her."A Thread of Hope" chronicles Jacqui's journey through her parents' devastating breakup, the death of her thirteen-year-old brother, her own struggle to survive cancer,...

"Shattered: True Story of an American Teenager" is about Holly Slack, the most popular girl in school, and how her life changes after a tragic car accident in her junior year.

Welcome a biography of oppression told through the eyes of a lesbian...a "HOMO-cide" survivor. I could easily relay some heart wrenching narrative about what you'll find here, but that's not only typical...it's not my style. I will, however, tell you this...I am honest, observant, and passionate about the subject of oppression and the desperate need for change.

I will ask you to remember that yesterday I may have been born the happy infant loved by all, and today I may be the adult lesbian that society gets to meet and discuss. But one day, not long ago...I too was a child...a child of...

Since we must all face grief someday, this book can be of great help. It is an additional comfort for anyone seeking material on consolation and strength from the pain of loss due to death or divorce. I highly recommend it.--E. S. Etuk, Ph.D., author "Recipe For Success: The 21 Indispensable Things That Can Help You Succeed in Life" "A Daughter's Love" is a must-read for anyone going through grief due to the loss of a loved one. Author Caroline Thompson uses the unexpected and unfortunate circumstances of her father's death to embark on a bold journey of self-discovery and introspection....

Trudi Alexy was born in Romania to a thoroughly assimilated Jewish family. After fleeing from Prague to Paris in 1938 to escape the Nazis, they hid in Fascist Spain as hastily baptized Catholics before immigrating to America.

Although torn by guilt over surviving the Holocaust 'by fraud" while living in Barcelona, eleven-year-old Alexy fell under the spell of Catholic rituals and promise of forgiveness. She planned to become a nun but left the church, disillusioned by anti-Semitism and tormented by recurring guilt and suicidal depression.

The love of her life, a Greek boy she met as a...

"A Dream Denied, a Promise Kept" will appeal to women of all ages because it gives pointers on how to travel alone. How to be accepted as an equal of men around the world. It tells of the wonderful love stories that are unforgettable and exciting as the author travels the globe. It is adventure at its most exciting and daring and takes place at a time when very few women traveled alone.

It shows women's forays into unknown and uncharted territory and has a dynamic all its own as the stories unfold with compassion and humor. It will take the reader to a harem in Yemen, The Steppes of...

Kathy Reichert and her husband, Dick, have been married fifteen years-Dick has been dead for three of them.

"I became a widow just like that, half of a whole, alone in navigating an abyss of emotion. Somehow we needed to weather (this) together, to remain partners in life and in death. This is our story of spiritual connection, how we found ways to break barriers when possible and to crack the symbolic codes of communication between loving, longing souls.

I share my story for many reasons. Perhaps the more important of these is to show that ordinary people can have extraordinary...