Memoirs of an Eternal Optimist

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517266462
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)

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Book Synopsis Memoirs of an Eternal Optimist by : Thione Niang

Download or read book Memoirs of an Eternal Optimist written by Thione Niang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of An Eternal Optimist is a riveting story that tells the personal journey of international business leader and political strategist, Thione Niang. The story chronicles Niang's life as a young boy raised in a modest polygamist family of 28 in Kaolack, Senegal, to becoming the national Co-Chair of GEN44 Barack Obama's presidential campaign for voters under 40, called Gen44. Thione Niang, undeterred, persevered despite numerous obstacles, learning valuable life lessons from each achievement. Niang presents his journey to inspire those who hope to construct a better world for today and generations to come. He created Give1Project, a global nonprofit organization, for youth empowerment and it is currently in 30 countries.. This captivating book highlights the numerous adversities that Thione encountered as a young man, and is a testament to dreaming big. "In the moments when despair awaits, try to remember that you are acting not only for you, but also for your parents, friends and relatives, your city, your country. You do it for the youth of the world. In braving difficulties, by moving one step forward, you allow the youth of the world to improve, you make the world better. Thione Niang

No Time Like the Future

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Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250265622
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis No Time Like the Future by : Michael J. Fox

Download or read book No Time Like the Future written by Michael J. Fox and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges. In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox’s trademark sense of humor, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses. Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson’s disease he’s had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and “get out of the lemonade business altogether.” Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.

Always Looking Up

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144640854X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Always Looking Up by : Michael J. Fox

Download or read book Always Looking Up written by Michael J. Fox and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame ... This reflected version of myself, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here."' Struck with Parkinson's - a debilitating, degenerative disease - at the height of his fame, Michael J. Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. In Always Looking Up, Michael's Sunday Times bestselling memoir, he writes with warmth, humour and incredible honesty about the journey he has undertaken since he came to terms with his condition.

My Memoirs

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477272216
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Book Synopsis My Memoirs by : Ameal Moore

Download or read book My Memoirs written by Ameal Moore and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone has said that the greatest barrier to achievement is fear of failure. Many times we have brilliant ideas but do not act upon them because we fear we will fail. I wonder how many times did the Wright brothers failed before they finally soared. Usually when I visit Washington, D.C., I like to tour the Space Museum. At the entrance to the Museum hangs a small bi-plane---I assume this plane was our first venture off the ground into the air. The Wright brothers had the idea that, If birds can fly why cant I. In other words, as someone has said, If you can conceive it, you can achieve it. However, you may fail many times before you succeed. The important thing is to learn from your mistakes/errors and keep at it. Sometimes I wonder if we challenge ourselves enough; do we stretch ourselves; strive to reach our full potential in life. Dont get comfortable where you are---put all your energy into reaching your full potential. We cheat ourselves when we do not give our best effort. Pursue your dream in life. If you dont have a dream come up with one---something that excites you; something that puts fire in your belly; something that gives meaning to your life; something that you know you have the talent to do. You only go around once in life so put God first and pursue your dream. Dont go to your grave with the music still in you. I grew up in the country and I can remember spending hours lying under a shade tree looking up into the sky watching the clouds take on different shapes. I would imagine seeing the faces of animals, humans, states, continents, etc. You name it and I have imagined seeing it among the clouds in the sky. I believe you have to imagine yourself where you want to be before you can achieve it. Finally, listen to that Still Soft Voice that speaks to you and follow its leading; it will lead you to success and fulfillment.

The Grace of Silence

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307475271
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Grace of Silence by : Michele Norris

Download or read book The Grace of Silence written by Michele Norris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star. A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been willfully withheld. These revelations—from her father’s shooting by a Birmingham police officer to her maternal grandmother’s job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima in the Midwest—inspired a bracing journey into her family’s past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South. The result is a rich and extraordinary family memoir—filled with stories that elegantly explore the power of silence and secrets—that boldly examines racial legacy and what it means to be an American.

I Must Say

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062309536
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis I Must Say by : Martin Short

Download or read book I Must Say written by Martin Short and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Short’s endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it’s also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who’s thrived on planet Hollywood.” — Washington Post In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian." Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toronto as a member of the fabled improvisational troupe Second City to the all-American comic big time of Saturday Night Live, and from memorable roles in such movies as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride to Broadway stardom in Fame Becomes Me and the Tony-winning Little Me. He reveals how he created his most indelible comedic characters, among them the manic man-child Ed Grimley, the slimy corporate lawyer Nathan Thurm, and the bizarrely insensitive interviewer Jiminy Glick. Throughout, Short freely shares the spotlight with friends, colleagues, and collaborators, among them Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Gilda Radner, Mel Brooks, Nora Ephron, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Shaffer, and David Letterman. But there is another side to Short's life that he has long kept private. He lost his eldest brother and both parents by the time he turned twenty, and, more recently, he lost his wife of thirty years to cancer. In I Must Say, Short talks for the first time about the pain that these losses inflicted and the upbeat life philosophy that has kept him resilient and carried him through. In the grand tradition of comedy legends, Martin Short offers a show-business memoir densely populated with boldface names and rife with retellable tales: a hugely entertaining yet surprisingly moving self-portrait that will keep you laughing—and crying—from the first page to the last.

The Andrew Carnegie Reader

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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Andrew Carnegie Reader written by Andrew Carnegie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology which aims to bring together a representative selection of Carnegie's writings which show him as a shrewd businessman, celebrated philanthropist, champion of democracy and eternal optimist. This collection covers 60 years of the industrial giant's life, from his letters to his cousin, George Lauder, written in 1853, to the final chapter of his autobiography, completed in 1914.

Memoirs of a Scheduler

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479715468
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Scheduler written by Andrew J. Page and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to My Sisters

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781502450579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to My Sisters by : Thione Niang

Download or read book Letters to My Sisters written by Thione Niang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to My Sisters is a series of letters written from women all over the world. Compiled with life lessons, yet thought-proving letters to encourage each woman along their journey in life. These meaningful letters have intent to provoke positive change in the mind of each reader. This book contains countless gems of expressed dreams, fears and vision from the lives of both well-known and ordinary women.

Social Entrepreneurship

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546878483
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (784 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Entrepreneurship by : Thione Niang

Download or read book Social Entrepreneurship written by Thione Niang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book retains the must-have tips; as businesses and rules of entrepreneurship are redefined in lieu of e-commerce and new media. Whether you are a student of business administration or just an academia that needs a contemporary publication to revise the millennial curriculum; this book will serve as an authentic reference to the current corporate best practices and game-changing strategies that oriented new market structures and methodologies. Many parallel industries evolved out of convention and this book encapsulates the same monumental transition. It also fosters the notions of social responsibility and how each step at a time- one can attain corporate profitability and customer satisfaction without any opportunity cost. The content will grow on the reader and will serve as a roadmap for young entrepreneurs. All with a social benefit in perspective- transforming into a mode of responsible collective growth. A must read for those who look forward to the future of trade, finance and business.

Blue's Memoirs

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645307492
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Book Synopsis Blue's Memoirs by : Joseph A. L. “Blue” Blais

Download or read book Blue's Memoirs written by Joseph A. L. “Blue” Blais and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLUE MEMOIRS By: Blue Blais BLUE MEMOIRS: Faces, Places, and Lives of a U.S. Spy/Counterspy is the remarkable adventure of a French-American born in Maine who diligently worked, zealously played, and lived life to the fullest in numerous neighborhoods of the world. Blue Blais has had a bountiful array of diverse Faces as an Aircraft Mechanic, Flight Engineer, Pilot, Spy, Counterspy, and Diplomat while fluent in French, Spanish, and English. Among much else gained while in America’s Special Forces, Blue became an expert small arms marksman and developed skill in Karate, Garrote, and Savate. He was a Skin Diver, Sky Diver, Tennis Player, Downhill Skier, Sports Car Racer, Sailor, husband, lover, and father. Blue served his country in many thrilling and dangerous Places, including Vietnam, Honduras, Thailand, Venezuela, Zaire, Finland, Germany, Tanzania, the United States, the Azores, and New Zealand. Incredibly, he has out-distanced a feline’s pedestrian nine Lives, having already used up eleven. While in Vietnam, he was shot out of the sky twice and escaped attempted bombing two other instances. In 1978, Blue was headed toward certain death with the Georgetown Guiana Kool-Aid Drinking Suicide of the Jim Jones Cult followers. 1998 in Tanzania, Blue survived a lethal explosive for a third time, in the bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam. There was no escape even in Homestead, Florida, where Blue was shot at and lived to tell the tale. He survived two horrendous car accidents in Maine and Kinshasa, Zaire, nearly drowned skin diving in the Azores, and played with fire on a perilous DEA Operation in Medellin, Colombia.

The Optimist

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982152516
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Optimist by : David Coggins

Download or read book The Optimist written by David Coggins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect fly fishing book for today's novice, enthusiastic amateur, as well as the devoted angler is part narration of the author's own angling obsessions and adventures, part practical how-to, and part meditation on a connection to the natural world.

Your Voice in My Head

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408822067
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Your Voice in My Head written by Emma Forrest and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other

Year of the Monkey

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Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0735279292
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Year of the Monkey by : Patti Smith

Download or read book Year of the Monkey written by Patti Smith and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

The Ballad of a Broken Nose

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481415441
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of a Broken Nose written by Arne Svingen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning Norwegian author Arne Svingen comes “an uplifting coming-of-age story” (The Wall Street Journal) about a relentlessly positive teenager who uses his love of opera to cope with his less-than-perfect home life. Bart is an eternal optimist. At thirteen years old, he’s had a hard life. But Bart knows that things won’t get any better if you have a negative attitude. His mother has pushed him into boxing lessons so that Bart can protect himself, but Bart already has defense mechanisms: he is relentlessly positive…and he loves opera. Listening to—and singing—opera is Bart’s greatest escape, but he’s too shy to share this with anyone. Then popular Ada befriends him and encourages him to perform at the school talent show. Ada can’t keep a secret to save her life, but Bart bonds with her anyway, and her openness helps him realize that his troubles are not burdens that he must bear alone. The Ballad of a Broken Nose is a sweet story about bravery, fear, bullying, sports, and music. But most of all it is about the important days of your life, days when everything seems to happen at once and nothing will ever be the same again.

Heartache and Happiness My Memoirs

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524642274
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Book Synopsis Heartache and Happiness My Memoirs by : CK Smith

Download or read book Heartache and Happiness My Memoirs written by CK Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing memoirs are always a work in progress. From birth to present, the book takes you through the good and bad of life. It is a book that describes obstacles of health problems, career climbing, divorce, marriage, and the quest for paradise. This book is one that, once you enter the authors life story, you want to stay with her until the journey finds happily ever after. The book is filled with life lessons that all of us not only relate to but struggle with along lifes precious moments.

A Three Dog Life

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0156033232
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis A Three Dog Life by : Abigail Thomas

Download or read book A Three Dog Life written by Abigail Thomas and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Abigail Thomas shares the story of how she started a new life after an accident left her husband brain damaged and institutionalized.