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Book Synopsis How New York City Saved My Life by : Meredyth Murray
Download or read book How New York City Saved My Life written by Meredyth Murray and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable memoir, How New York City Saved My Life takes an in-depth look at the role society plays in shaping the course of one's life. In this compelling and important story, the author addresses significant issues about the human condition. Its persuasive elements of empathy and caring touch the heart and nurture our desire to leave this world better than we found it. Humorous and entertaining, yet insightful and profound, this memoir addresses the topics of health and religion, and social issues such as immigration and racism... Of particular importance is the concept that society can profoundly shape and influence individual lives in many unexpected ways. [Author's website].
Book Synopsis Emma Who Saved My Life by : Wilton Barnhardt
Download or read book Emma Who Saved My Life written by Wilton Barnhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gil Freeman, a midwestern aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardombut instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely unique Emma, around whom his life comes to turn.
Book Synopsis Meditation Saved My Life by : Phakyab Rinpoche
Download or read book Meditation Saved My Life written by Phakyab Rinpoche and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, Tibetan lama Phakyab Rinpoche was admitted to the emergency clinic of the Program for Survivors of Torture at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital. After a dramatic escape from imprisonment in China, at the hands of authorities bent on uprooting Tibet’s traditional religion and culture, his ordeal had left him with life-threatening injuries, including gangrene of the right ankle. American doctors gave Rinpoche a shocking choice: accept leg amputation or risk a slow, painful death. An inner voice, however, prompted him to try an unconventional cure: meditation. He began an intensive spiritual routine that included thousands of hours of meditation over three years in a small Brooklyn studio. Against all scientific logic, his injuries gradually healed. In this vivid, passionate account, Sofia Stril-Rever relates the extraordinary experiences of Phakyab Rinpoche, who reveals the secret of the great healing powers that lie dormant within each of us.
Book Synopsis How Spirituality Saved My Life by : Diana Costas
Download or read book How Spirituality Saved My Life written by Diana Costas and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up I always knew I was different but I didn’t know why. A lifetime of sadness and trauma. Fortunate to have been baptized in 2017 at Faith Church CT. This is a guide on healing naturally from trauma with Nature’s Remedies and the word of God. There is power in prayer and healing naturally has been a blessing I am happy to share knowledge.
Book Synopsis Body Piercing Saved My Life by : Andrew Beaujon
Download or read book Body Piercing Saved My Life written by Andrew Beaujon and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Piercing Saved My Life is the first in-depth journalistic investigation into a subculture so large that it's erroneous to even call it a subculture: Christian rock. Christian rock culture is booming, not only with bands but with extreme teen Bibles, skateboarding ministries, Christian tattoo parlors, paintball parks, coffeehouses, and nightclubs,encouraging kids to form their own communities apart from the mainstream. Profiling such successful Christian rock bands as P.O.D., Switchfoot, Creed, Evanescence, and Sixpence None the Richer, as well as the phenomenally successful Seattle Christian record label Tooth & Nail, enormous Christian rock festivals, and more, Spin journalist Andrew Beaujon lifts the veil on a thriving scene that operates beneath the secular world's radar. Revealing, sympathetic, and groundbreaking, Body Piercing Saved My Life (named for a popular Christian rock T-shirt depicting Christ's wounds) is a fascinating look into the hearts and minds of an enormous, and growing, youth culture.
Book Synopsis How Starbucks Saved My Life by : Michael Gates Gill
Download or read book How Starbucks Saved My Life written by Michael Gates Gill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water. But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person. Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and, thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before. Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Book Synopsis Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life by : Liesa Mignogna
Download or read book Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life written by Liesa Mignogna and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays exploring the origins of the authors' relationships to their favorite superheroes; including stories from Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, Joe Lansdale and more! As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP, Editorial Director at Simon Pulse and editor of this anthology can expound on the virtues of Batman (her wedding was even Batman-themed) but it's her retelling of incredibly harrowing yet ultimately inspiring encounters with The Dark Knight over the years, as she struggled to coexist with the supervillains in her own family that birthed this collection. Last Night, A Superhero Saved My Life gives readers the chance to connect to their beloved authors, while those same authors connect to their beloved superheroes, and within that feedback loop of respect and admiration lies a stellar, and phenomenally accessible, anthology full of thrills, chills, and spills. Contributors include New York Times bestsellers Christopher Golden, Leigh Bardugo, Brad Meltzer, Neil Gaiman, Carrie Vaughn, Jodi Picoult, and Jamie Ford, as well as award-winners and mainstays like Joe R. Lansdale, Karina Cooper, and Ron Currie, Jr among many others. Last Night, A Superhero Saved My Life's authors share their most hilarious and most heart wrenching experiences with their chosen defender to explain why superheroes matter, what they tell us about who we are, and what they mean for our future.
Book Synopsis Hitler Saved My Life by : Jim Riswold
Download or read book Hitler Saved My Life written by Jim Riswold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hitler Saved My Life, advertising legend Jim Riswold brilliantly combines incisive and funny essays with gorgeous and hilarious visuals to chronicle his battle with cancer and details how a post-diagnosis career transformation into a 'fake artist' helped stave off death. And that fake art, inhabited by tyrants like Mao, Hitler and Mussolini, has provoked a great deal of controversy. But as one critic noted, Riswold's work 'teaches us how to deal with monsters, be it a Hitler or a deadly disease.'
Book Synopsis This Is How I Save My Life by : Amy B. Scher
Download or read book This Is How I Save My Life written by Amy B. Scher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This account was previously self-published in different form in 2013 as: This is how I save my life: a true story of embryonic stem cells, Indian adventures, and ultimate self-healing"--Title page verso.
Book Synopsis Heroin and Music in New York City by : B. Spunt
Download or read book Heroin and Music in New York City written by B. Spunt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing, creativity, and careers.
Book Synopsis How Running Changed My Life by : Garth Battista
Download or read book How Running Changed My Life written by Garth Battista and published by Breakaway Books. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE POWER OF RUNNING. Every runner knows this, and marvels at it, and finds it hard to wholly describe: Running will change your life. These four dozen essays capture the power of running to change and shape our existence, to elevate us, to inspire and strengthen us in all our pursuits. They were selected for the fine quality of their writing, the emotional strength of the stories, and for their narrative drama. Collectively they are motivational, inspirational, and instructive, thus making a fascinating book for dewy beginners and grizzled veterans alike. In this book are personal tales of running to quit drinking or drugs, to escape a bad marriage, to lose weight, running out grief, developing self-esteem, running for the sheer joy of it. A daughter finally bonds with her distant father when she wins a local race. A man diagnosed with a tumor in his lung runs his way back to health. A teenage girl living in a crack-infested neighborhood of the Bronx takes up running and finds her strength, and a good side of life. One man, viciously attacked on a remote beach in Africa and bleeding profusely, runs miles to safety, saving his own life. One woman’s story tells us, "Everything I need to know I learned from cross-country running." A Pakistani man, as an orphaned child, was introduced to running by a kind teacher—and went on to become a national caliber marathoner. They are all here—every type of runner, and running in all its physical and spiritual glory. This is a book to inspire anyone to go run, and love every miserable, glorious second of it. Garth Battista is the editor of The Runner’s Literary Companion.
Book Synopsis How to Save Your Own Life by : Michael Gates Gill
Download or read book How to Save Your Own Life written by Michael Gates Gill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including: ·Leap...With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim). ·Let Yourself...Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear. ·Look...with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path. ·Lose...Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness. Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, How to Save Your Own Life provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves. Watch a Video
Book Synopsis Motocross Saved My Life by : Brent Worrall
Download or read book Motocross Saved My Life written by Brent Worrall and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, former Canadian national champion motocross racer Brent (Airmail) Worrall, who had recently returned to the sport after a lengthy absence due to struggles with alcohol, gambling, and depression, was again in a fight to save his own life. His shot at redemption and making peace with the sport he loves was cut short by a near-fatal crash. A mechanical malfunction in mid-flight over the track’s largest jump sent him spiralling into a nose dive. He had just enough time while airborne to say, “Survive, survive, survive.” He broke his back and neck in six places, fractured his clavicle, sternum, and multiple ribs and collapsed his lungs. After flat-lining on the operating table four times, Brent’s doctors finally managed to stabilize him. He required two blood transfusions, and his doctors feared the worst. He emerged from hospital a paraplegic, given only five to ten years to live due to various complications from his accident. After losing the sport he loved many years before to the seedy underworld of depression, alcoholism, drugs, and compulsive gambling, he vowed never to let go of his lifeline passion again. Brent meticulously takes us through his troubled journey to the eventual promised land where he now sits. Along the way, he recounts his many inspirational interactions with those who helped mould his character, including Rick Hansen on his Man in Motion tour as well as looking into Terry Fox’s eyes on his Marathon of Hope. In keeping with his character as an avid sports and history enthusiast, Brent takes us back through many pertinent historical events that shaped his life and society as a whole. Two years after his accident, Brent was back at the track, this time to announce races rather than participate in them. Shortly after that, he launched the Canadian Moto Show, a live online talk-radio show, as well as a magazine, with his good friend Kevin Lefebvre. Throughout the process of giving back to the motocross community while also reinventing himself, he maintained a position as a senior writer at Motocross Performance Magazine. In 2016, he was nominated for a Coast Mental Health Courage to Come Back award. He continues to reshape his life within the sport he loves, refusing to let any of the formidable obstacles he has faced slow him down. This book is Brent’s firsthand account of his journey, written in all five senses, with the hope that his story will motivate and inspire others to see that any seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome.
Book Synopsis Holding My Hands and Saving My Life by : Roseann C. Diamond
Download or read book Holding My Hands and Saving My Life written by Roseann C. Diamond and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding my Hands and Saving my Life with Meryl and Maks is the story of the author’s journey from despair to fulfillment. The dancers, through their connection, friendship, professionalism, and shared artistry by the use of dance, were able to touch the soul of the author and help her take the steps necessary to take control of and improve her life. This is a story of hope, renewal, and the ability to live life again after debilitating adversity.
Book Synopsis Seven Letters That Saved My Life by : Dottie Lessard
Download or read book Seven Letters That Saved My Life written by Dottie Lessard and published by Coconut Avenue, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you make it to the fence? No matter how bad things look, do you have the energy, the motivation, to take another breath, another step? Are the obstacles in your life real? Or are they self-imposed? For Dottie Lessard, the obstacles were all too real. Afflicted with cystic fibrosis she underwent double-lung replacement only to have heart-breaking complications that required more surgery-this time a kidney transplant. Not only did Lessard survive these life-threatening medical conditions, she thrived to become a professional NIKE athlete. The secret to Lessard's amazing success? Seven simple letters. A-T-H-L-E-T-E. Letters that saved her life and empowered her to live her dreams. Seven Letters That Saved My Life takes us on Dottie's moving journey from conquering debilitating illness to literally climbing mountains with transplanted lungs. Combining personal insights with powerful motivational principles and affirmations, Dottie guides us in finding our own inner resources and inspiration. Lessard's seven letters and seven principles are not just for athletes. They can be used by anyone in any physical condition, life situation, or occupation to face and overcome challenges and obstacles. Dottie's words will motivate you and help you achieve anything that you decide to accomplish, do, or become.
Book Synopsis How New York City Saved My Life by : F. Walwyn Jones
Download or read book How New York City Saved My Life written by F. Walwyn Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Walwyn Jones's uplifting memoir relates how a Belizean immigrant's pursuit of the American Dream brings her a keen awareness of the needs of others. How New York City Saved My Life tells of the author arriving to a cold welcome from the woman who sponsored her entry into the United States. Her interaction with other New Yorkers, however, makes her optimistic about her future. She is soon offered a job as a live-in companion for an elderly woman, which grants her independence from her sponsor. The author returns to Belize, marries her fianc , and they return to New York to begin their quest for the American Dream. She eventually enters the corporate world as an assistant to high-powered executives and moves from a run-down Brooklyn tenement to purchasing a home in Queens, followed by a more elegant home on Long Island. The author's employer relocates its offices to New Jersey, and she and her family relocate along with her employer. She becomes active in her community and church, and such involvement heightens her awareness of the many problems and needs of others. This motivates her to give of herself to others, transcending the limits of self-absorption. She therefore leaves the corporate world and becomes a foster/adoptive parent to abandoned, medically fragile infants and to author two spiritually based books. After several years, the author and her family relocate to California where she furthers her education, obtaining a bachelor's degree in sociology, a master's degree in social work, and pursues a doctorate in counseling. She also adopts two children. Humorous and entertaining, yet insightful and profound, this memoir raises awareness to poignant cultural, social, and economic issues--comparing East Coast and West Coast. It also offers seminal illumination into issues of institutionalization and systemization run amok and the plight of the human condition when "group think" and Weberian Bureaucracy overshadow meeting the needs of the poor, the downtrodden, the infirm, and the vulnerable. A social worker, the author now lives in New York.
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Book Synopsis New York City Financial Crisis by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Download or read book New York City Financial Crisis written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
