It Wasn't All for Nothing

It Wasn't All for Nothing

Author: Bill Hill

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-06-13

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1666765937

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Jump aboard this emotional roller-coaster ride through a painful past. A life full of suffering, rejection, loneliness, hatred, and heartbreaking memories of the author and his three sisters. The ways in which they were traumatized, abandoned, and made to fend for themselves. The author’s experience of dealing with an alcoholic mother, being bullied, and turning to drugs, alcohol, and violence to cope with harsh reality. He shares his experiences of going in and out of jail and the hospital due to street fighting. He describes the joy of having a son and the pain of losing his mother, getting married, having a daughter, and being cast in the overwhelming role of being a parent without any experience of knowing what a normal family looks like. He shares with you the things that led him to God and how he experienced true healing. His hope is for others to find peace with their painful past too. God is your heavenly Father and will forgive you of your sin, but there are consequences; he will discipline his children. The author found this out the hard way when he wrote this book, facing ninety-one years in prison.


It Ain't All for Nothin'

It Ain't All for Nothin'

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0061975001

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Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely knows -- unless, that is, Tippy is willing to walk the far side of the fine line between right and wrong. Grandma Carrie always said if he had Jesus in his heart there wasn't anything to worry about, but sometimes it's not that simple. When the chips are down, will Tippy be able to call for help -- and is there anyone out there who will listen?


All for Nothing

All for Nothing

Author: Walter Kempowski

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1681372061

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A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.


Twice Upon a Midnight

Twice Upon a Midnight

Author: Anna Harrington

Publisher: Rose Garden Books

Published: 2023-09-26

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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WHEN ONCE UPON A TIME…BECOMES TWICE UPON A MIDNIGHT When Lady Elenora Darby returns to London, what better way for her parents to introduce her—and attract suitors—than to throw a masked ball? But Ella prefers poets to peers, and in the dark gardens, she encounters a man she knows nothing about…except that he loves poetry. Before she can learn his name, midnight strikes, and he vanishes, leaving behind only one clue to his identity—a glove embroidered with his initials. As the Duke of Pensworth’s unwanted stepson, Spenser Rhodes has nothing to do with society…until he meets Ella. He knows they have no future. After all, the daughter of a duke deserves a peer, not a printer. Yet Ella is determined to find her masked man. As her search brings them closer, more than society is keeping them apart—so is Spenser’s half brother Simon, who wants Ella for himself. With a masked ball, evil stepfather, jealous half brother, and unlikely fairy godmother, TWICE UPON A MIDNIGHT is a Cinderella story that readers of Regency romance will love!


War School

War School

Author: Julian Manieson

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1912924706

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Deep in the heart of Nazi Germany, an elite school, War School, is training the best and brightest teenagers to rule the world.But Hugo Safin and his sister Lottie aren't like the other students.They're Jewish.Nobody knows this but them and their mother. What better place to hide from Hitler than right under his nose?They are about to have the adventure of a lifetime, along with their friends Jens Goebbels, Andrea Ducasse, and Oliver Muller.Sent deep into the Russian winter, they are given an impossible task: kill Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, and win the war for the Nazis...


Migratory Birds

Migratory Birds

Author: Melda Sherman

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-02-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1664157220

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In the United States, Melda is about to receive the “Best-Selling Female Author of the Year” award from the famous talk show host Oprah Winfrey at a ceremony attended by the president of the United States. She’s walking on air. She has shown that she can fulfill her dreams and be a success story despite a host of challenges. On her way to the ceremony with her family, she pores over her past life, the heroes of her book, and their intersections in life. Her novel Migratory Birds is a tale of her life, others’ lives, how they changed the course of their lives, and how they adapted to their new ones. A tale of rebirth, a tale that became everyone’s story. This is a story of the struggle for life in the face of fears and challenges. Today, yesterday, even two centuries years ago . . . This is the story of Lady Mary and Lord Charles de Veille, who escaped the French Revolution and ended up in Boston. After a difficult two-month cruise, they embarked on a new life with her pregnant sister and their parents. The story tells of their arrival in Boston after a stormy voyage and how they settled down, their struggle with the Mohawk natives, and becoming Americans. This is the saga of Reyhan, who lived in Ankara, Turkey, in the 1970s, and her violent, womanizing tailor husband and how she came to America. Her story of clinging to life with her abusive husband in Boston. Her divorce and meeting her second husband, André, the love of her live, and becoming Madame Renée. A story about raising two children and becoming a strong woman. Charlie migrated from Ireland, leaving behind his alcoholic, aggressive brothers, and came to New York at the beginning of the 1900s to live the “American Dream” after seeing it on a brochure calling Irish people to America. He settled in Massachusetts after working on skyscrapers in New York. And of course, Leyla’s story . . . The tempestuous story of award-winning architect Leyla Vardar and her husband, Yaz. Events that unfolded right during the best period of their lives led to them starting all over again in another country. All these people came to America like migratory birds and made a new life. The challenges underlying their new lives, envied from the outside; the prices paid; and the lives gained . . . Aren’t these lives and stories the stories of all people?


The Apostasy

The Apostasy

Author: Kathryn Friesen

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1460263839

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"I didn't know where Uncle Robert got his army, but they were the most barbaric, bloodthirsty creatures I had ever seen... and they were everywhere. We had to stop him. What a way to spend my birthday, I thought. Ugh, thirteen. I'm a teenager." Since her adventures in The Prophesied, the newly discovered Legend Amber has learned of trouble in the Elven kingdom. In hopes of finding both the next Legend and protecting the kingdom, Amber and her best friends Mo and Tiltyr set out to visit the center city of Naor-Eldvin. This leads them deep into their next adventure in some surprising new worlds.


Mozart: A Life in Letters

Mozart: A Life in Letters

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-10-26

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 0141902884

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A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.


All Things Nice

All Things Nice

Author: Sheila Bugler

Publisher: The O'Brien Press

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1847178502

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Charlotte Gleeson is living the life she always dreamed of, but it's nothing like she imagined. Her daughter hates her, her husband is having an affair, her drinking is out of control. And now she's the prime suspect in a murder investigation ... For DI Ellen Kelly, this is her first big investigation in eight months – since she let a serial killer get away. There's an awful lot riding on a good result, which means keeping up the pressure on Charlotte Gleeson and her messed-up family. As Ellen investigates, it becomes clear the Gleesons are harbouring some dangerous secrets. The more she digs, the more she uncovers ... and the closer she comes to a deadly confrontation. All Things Nice is the third in the Ellen Kelly series of crime novels.


Nothing Will Be Different

Nothing Will Be Different

Author: Tara McGowan-Ross

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1459748751

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Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2022 — Shortlisted A neurotic party girl's coming-of-age memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die. Tara has it pretty good: a nice job, a writing career, a forgiving boyfriend. She should be happy. Yet Tara can’t stay sober. She’s terrible at monogamy. Even her psychiatrist grows sick of her and stops returning her calls. She spends most of her time putting out social fires, barely pulling things off, and feeling sick and tired. Then, in the autumn following her twenty-seventh birthday, an abnormal lump discovered in her left breast serves as the catalyst for a journey of rigorous self-questioning. Waiting on a diagnosis, she begins an intellectual assessment of her life, desperate to justify a short existence full of dumb choices. Armed with her philosophy degree and angry determination, she attacks each issue in her life as the days creep by and winds up writing a searingly honest memoir about learning to live before getting ready to die. A RARE MACHINES BOOK