Diary Biography

Back by popular demand as the next installment of The Diaries of a Doorman series of books, Bouncers & Bravado is a further collection of true short stories based on the years that Armstrong has worked the doors in the UK and abroad. This book is another real insight into the funny, tragic, and completely bizarre people and experiences encountered by a doorman. Yes, maybe there is a bit of artistic license in there, but only a bit. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty!

Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent. In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868-1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1927. Zwei Freunde sterben: Isadora Duncan und Maximilian Harden. Der Schwerpunkt in diesem Jahr ist die Zusammenarbeit mit den Künstlern. Arbeit als Mäzen und für seine Projekte. Mit Kurt Weill, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Valery, George Grosz, Aristide Mailoll, Markus Behmer, Gordon Craig. Mit dem deutschen Botschafter in Rom tauscht er sich über den Faschismus aus und kommentiert die Hinrichtung Sacco und Vanzettis.

OSS Against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America's first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and the liberation of Paris....

Dark night of the soul, spirituality, ascension. These were all new concepts to KR. A whole new world had opened up to him. Willing to explore this new world, KR embraced the future with an open mind. And then there was Theresa, the catalyst that awakened him, sending him on a quest for answers that led him to a juncture of two paths, where anything could be manifested.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868 – 1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen in den Jahren 1930 + 1931. Seine Beobachtungen sind sehr genau und zeugen von der Bildung eines aufgeklärten Europäers. Besonders elegant sind die etwas schmunzelnden manchmal aber auch etwas bitter klingenden voranschreitenden Kommentare. Ein Rezensent drückte es sehr treffend aus: "Ein wunderbarer Zeitzeuge, klug und aufmerksam". 30/31 sind die Jahre des Aufstiegs der Nazis und deren Kriege mit den liberaleren Kräften.

Seven-year-old Frankie awakens the morning after her mother’s surgery to learn a horrible truth from her father: “Mommy didn’t make it.” Frankie’s life turns upside down as the house fills with visitors, a funeral is held, and Mommy lies in a satin coffin wearing a dress she’d never be caught—well, dead, wearing. It's powder blue! All wrong, wrong, wrong! Sadness envelops Frankie. She listens to children playing in the neighborhood, instead of joining them. She stays in her room, coloring, or reading, or otherwise drowning herself in grief.

What is it really like to work in a British school as a teacher in the 21st century? What happened to the national curriculum in England? How do teachers deal with disruption? Hilarious things students say! Sometimes intentionally! Which issues are most draining of teachers' energy?

Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bricht der berühmte Schriftsteller Gustave Flaubert zu einer fast zweijährigen Reise in den Orient auf. In seiner umfangreichen Korrespondenz mit Verwandten und Freunden schildert er regionale Begebenheiten, kulturelle Eindrücke sowie allerhand Erlebnisse und liefert so schmackhafte Anekdoten über seine Zeit und persönliche Einblicke in sein Seelenleben. Der Orient-Briefe zweiter Teil.

S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are adult trick-or-treaters really that much of a threat?

The Diaries of a Doorman Volume 3 - Bouncing in the Sun is set in the Canary Islands back in the 1990s where Stu worked and lived in the murky world of Doormen. This was a time and a place where the line between bouncer and villain was often blurred.

In a collection of diary entries written with a stolen pen and papers, Hope begins by revealing the moment when, after awakening at her boyfriend’s house with a camera in her face and surrounded by police with huge guns, she was subsequently dragged to the police station where she was falsely accused of dealing drugs. As she chronicles her eight months inside a prison in Lebanon and the years after, Hope invites others to follow a lost woman as she attempted to not only survive psychological and physical torment but also to achieve justice.

Have you ever heard of the little saying “The truth will set you free?” Of course, you have. A riveting story of what happens when you find your voice and quiet the self-sabotaging voice in your head! Moving, thought provoking, and powerful.

Mohan Rakesh ki zindagi ek khuli kitaab hai. Usne jo kuch likha aur kiya- vah duniya ko maalum hai. Lekin usne jo kuch jiya- yeh sirf use maalum tha. Apni saanson ki kahani usne diariyon mein darz ki hai. Aur kitna takleefdeh hai ye ehsaas ki Rakesh jaisa lekhak apne anubhavon ki kahaniyan duniya ke liye likh jaaye aur apne vyaktigat santaap, sukh aur dukh ke shadhon ko jaanane aur pehchaanane ke liye apne dastavez doston ke paas chodh jaaye…

From homelessness to humanity, this is a memoir from the heart.

Carl Maria von Webers Briefe gewähren uns einen Blick in das Leben und die Seele des großen romantischen Komponisten. Im Kontakt mit seiner Frau, seinen Freunden und Kollegen erleben wir den Schöpfer des "Freischütz" als intelligenten, humorvollen und liebenswerten Menschen und wahren Romantiker.

De Profundis is a 50,000-word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting."

Charles Edward Wells deployed to France, and we join him there in the summer of 1918, following a vicious attack wherein he lost his first diary. We then see the full scale of war through his eyes. Not only the mortal danger of combat, but also a good bit of what happens to a soldier when he's not on the front line.

Digging into one's family history can reveal unusual surprises. In my case, I recently discovered my great grandfather, Jesse C. Davisson's first-hand account of his 25-year military experience during an epic period in American history. Jesse was no angel when he first joined the Army in 1893, as an ordinary young man in Philadelphia. His diary follows his subsequent adventures - from learning to ride a horse with the 7th Cavalry, and befriending Indian Scouts, to surviving ambushes, and water-boarding prisoners - all while serving in the American Indian Wars.

This is the diary of the author's tumultuous journey from childhood to adulthood. The road she has traveled has been full of many unexpected twists, turns, detours, and cliff-hangers. Her trip itinerary has included poverty, sickness, molestation, rejection, domestic violence, betrayals, divorces, single-parenthood, being a first lady, and many other treks. I believe that you will be captivated by the author's many excursions, some self-directed and some led by others, some good and some not so good.