During her teenage years, award-winning author Sharon E. Cathcart dreamed of working in the music business. She lived that dream for seven years, beginning at age 18. Unfortunately, she learned that dreams can turn quickly to nightmares. Sharon found herself in a world of not only of music, but also one of domestic violence when she got involved with an undereducated youth she met during a concert. In this book, Sharon tells the unvarnished truth...

Ten thousand joys, ten thousand sorrows." --Chinese proverbEvery life overflows with joy and sorrow. Ten thousand of each, if you believe the proverb. You can always find someone to celebrate with you. But what happens when life rips out your heart? You may find comfort in conventional religion. But if you're someone who can't relate to blind faith or traditional institutions, you might want to explore Buddhism, a philosophy that meets tragedy head-on...

Nightlife tales from the 90's - Bangkok, Manila, Phnom Penh, Pattaya and more... --Provided by publisher.

The Joy of Living is a story that touches the soul and gives us heart-warming, fascinating and deep insights on the hard road from diagnosis to treatment and eventual survival from throat cancer.Barry Eaton, author and radio presenter, describes the careful preparations he made for his journey, using his experience and understanding of the spirit world to deal with and survive the ordeal. Balancing holistic and spiritual methods with modern medicine,...

Raleigh and Wake County, North Carolina are prominent in the history of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and Southern Railway companies. By 1880 they maintained offices in North Carolina's capitol city, on Halifax and Fayetteville Streets (downtown). My eBook is a directory of biographies of railroad employees who worked for SAL Ry and Southern. However there are also profiles of individuals who worked for Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and the Richmond...

Winston Churchill did not describe General Sir Charles Monro in the most glowing terms. Referring to Monro's brave decision to recommend a withdrawal from the Gallipoli disaster Churchill said: "He came, he saw, he capitulated." Monro was one of a handful of senior officers selected to command a division in 1914 with the British Expeditionary Force and he also led a corps and army on the Western Front as the war progressed. After Gallipoli he was...

This is the true story of Harvey Bernard Milk, American politician, civil and human rights activist, and one of the first openly gay officials in the United States. --Provided by publisher. Excerpt: Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and civil and human rights activist. He became one of the first openly gay officials in the United States in 1977. --Provided by publisher.

"What happens when a woman and her husband move their family from New Hampshire to Alaska to train a team of purebred Siberian Huskies for the world's toughest dogsled race, the Yukon Quest? They endure thousands of miles of lonely training in the Yukon trying to avoid thin ice, wolves, and rogue moose; they put up with the amused skepticism of Alaskan locals; and they pit themselves against the ultimate, fickle adversary--nature. RUNNING NORTH is...

In the space of less than 20 years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve the internal problems which it had created, before turning his restless ambition to remodeling the political structure of the whole continent in a series of brilliant military victories. He was never able...

"Living with depression doesn't have to be an issue Adam Croft is a successful crime thriller author with a number of best-selling books to his name. His works have been adapted as audio plays starring some of Britain's best-known actors. Underneath this success, though, Adam has been battling severe clinical depression for most of his life. This groundbreaking new book details some remarkably frank incidents, including a breakdown shortly before...