Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> People with Disabilities

The Real Antonette Come Forth series walks you through the life of Antonette Smith. This book series chronicles the life of a girl from age 5 to 39. She has suffered physical, mental, emotional, and drug abuse. She has cheated death and lived to tell her story. If you have been molested, if you have been raped, if you have been in an abusive relationship, if you have run for your life, if you have been rejected, if you have been abandoned, if you have been looked over, if you are a teen parent, if you are a confused teen, if you suffer from false identity, if you suffer from hurt and pain,...

When life doesn't go as planned...Make new plans

When a devastating event takes away the way of life you are accustomed to, you have two choices: Stop living or Start Planning

In this memoir, Shawn Paulsen demonstrates how he has overcome his stumbling blocks and turned them into stepping stones on his journey through the misfortunes of life. Shawn's story inspires and motivates others to overcome. He describes how he has learned to face adversity with his chin up by taking a comedic view of his malady and life.
He has shaped his life goal around making...

Alina is the true story of a beautiful and seductive woman seemingly born out of time and place to a culture inundated with pitfalls she was inherently unable to navigate. As a child she survived sexual molestation only to find herself in the grip of a lifelong untreated bi-polar condition.  This is an account of the thoughts and feelings of a woman who suffered through silent alternating periods of depression and a sense of omnipotence that eventually led her to the door of a psychopath. 

The author reveals an early childhood dominated by a controlling and abusing...

Being a full blown diabetic, and not even being aware that I was one, came as quite a shock to me. My job involved heavy physical work, up on roofs in the hot California sun, and I was totally unaware that I had anything wrong with me at all. As I moved into the unfamiliar arena of trying to deal with this disease, I was prescribed various drugs, some of which that disagreed with me right away,and I soon found out that managing this disease was going to be far more complex than just taking a few prescribed pills. I began by coming home from work almost every day and doing research on the...

Do you believe in fate? Do you believe in miracles? Have you ever experienced a tragedy that you thought would never happen in your normal life? Well, it did happen to two boys one day in April 1990. Soul Uncharred is about how those two boys ended up with scars that would never be healed and the results of a decision that would affect them for the rest of their lives. This story is written by Caper, the older brother. He hopes that by reading this book, he can inspire people to be grateful for what they have in life and simply see and appreciate it in a better light. He also hopes that by...

An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight's button collection. A collection that has been passed down through three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a favourite coat, three tiny pearl buttons from her mother's first dress after she was adopted as a baby, a jet button from a time of Victorian mourning. Each button tells a story.

'They change our view of the world and the world's view of us' said Virginia Woolf of clothes....