Diary Biography

Two months to live. That's what the doctor says. Sally responds with grace and optimism. Marisa responds by closing herself off. If her mother is going to die before she graduates from high school, why even try. Cancer has already ruined everything. Honest and heartfelt, The Goodbye Diaries offers a touching glimpse into both sides of a terminal diagnosis - the one who will leave and the one who will be left behind.

In 2014, Mackenzie Basham dropped her little boy off at her Mother's house on a Friday night, and never returned. The following week her family saw 19-year-old Mackenzie's mug shot on the local evening news channel, she has not been home since. This is the true story of Mackenzie's mother's personal diaries to her daughter through years of her incarceration, and Mackenzie's letters written back.

The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible - soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals - are honored and remembered in these minutes by famed war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.

Infused with Southern charm, this irresistibly weird and wonderful story chronicles Slash Coleman’s upbringing in a warped but warm-hearted household of eccentric artists. Descended from a posse of offbeat immigrants - including a grandfather who danced at the Moulin Rouge - and raised near the capital of the Confederacy during the 1970s and ’80s, young Slash sets out to find true love. Unfortunately, he’s his own worst enemy. Obsessions with Evel Knievel, rock band KISS, and crisscrossing the country to find the girl of his dreams set his quest for happiness on a hapless course.

Sarah Morgan Dawson used her diary to record her thoughts and experiences from 1862 to 1865, during the height of the American Civil War. A Confederate Girl’s Diary provides a thorough account of civilian life in Louisiana during and after the war.

The world spun and rolled as I collapsed at Macy’s in San Francisco to the voices of Christmas carols being sung and bells ringing. Fresh out of the ICU and a week later, a beige man gave me a beige folder with a dark diagnosis that would color the rest of my life - multiple sclerosis. This set off a tidal wave, a tsunami inside of me that ravaged my body and crushed my lungs. The MS Diaries is a memoir that seeks to impart the journey inside one man’s mind struggling with a severe chronic illness through uncensored personal anecdotes and humorous situations.

This is only one of the many revelations in Eugenia Price’s intimate account of the many months she spent sorting through voluminous historical research and writing Margaret’s Story, the third novel in her Florida trilogy. Published as a companion to the novel, this journal offers a fascinating view of the author at work as the novel developed week by week.

In his intimate diary, Jerome Mayne personally shares his life-saving lessons of ethics, morality, trust, and humility, with wit and passion. He was an aspiring finance professional on his way to the top. With his new family and his sights set for success, the world was his oyster. Lured by the prospect of big business, his career derailed when he joined forces with his future co-conspirators in a real estate finance scandal. The nightmare begins with a hurricane of FBI investigations, criminal court, and prison.

Inspiration. "Welcoming me into the world took some time. My entrance was not one that you would want to imagine. I wasn't stubborn at all, I just had a few complications due to my mother's drug abuse...."

A most captivating and intriguing true story of a young Jewish girl's life during a World War, and how she survived the Holocaust. Through the pages of this rediscovered and recently translated diary, we find ourselves in the midst of a wartime drama in Budapest, Hungary, as a teenage girl evades capture, ultimately escapes, and emigrates to America.

Eine außergewöhnliche Künstlerehe - mit bislang unveröffentlichten Briefen. Die Briefe, die Theodor Fontane und seine Frau Emilie wechselten, gewähren intime Einblicke in die Höhen und Tiefen einer Dichterexistenz und zeichnen das lebendige Bild einer starken Frau, die aus dem Schatten ihres Mannes tritt.

Au travers d'une trentaine de lettres absolument inédites en français, ce premier volume des lettres de Lovecraft, offre l'opportunité de se forger sa propre idée du Maître de Providence.

A personal-sounding email in the midst of so much unsolicited junk, announcing “Your friend passed away”, captures the author’s attention and takes him to a flashback mode. A long-lost friend; with whom he had spent hours in deep, animated conversations; his views on varied topics ranging from the Universe, origin, and evolution of life to the gods up there in the sky; and many others flashed past the mind.

If you've ever wondered what it's like working at a hospital Level 1 trauma center, this book offers unfiltered, true stories that occurred during a surgeon's first year of training. The book offers insight into 21st-century modern health care and the state of society. You will laugh, cry, and question your beliefs about the health-care system and patients. Listen to this before you go to the doctor the next time, and share this information with your family.

It’s morning at Meadow Brook Nursing Home. During the last 10 months, this has been my mother’s abode. Most days, I feel it is mine, too. Life, as I have known it, is a blur. Alzheimer’s has taken mother from herself, her family, and her friends. It has demanded a grit and grace in our everyday lives beyond human comprehension. I know that I must tell her story - which ultimately is my story, too - with hope that it may bring a degree of peace to the hearts of those who have walked, or will walk, the same road.

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting selection of weekly 'pen-pal' letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Pier Approach Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower, living on Long Island, New York. Frances Woodsford and Commodore Paul Bigelow never met, and there was no romance - she was in her forties when he died aged ninety-seven - yet their epistolary friendship was her lifeline.

Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window—their circling, strident calls—and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most explosive of writers. Proceeding month by month through the year, she sets out to start again with Lawrence: to find vital literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and even, unexpectedly, to child-rearing; to find a way through his writing to excavate the modern world she feels he helped bring into being.

In the spring of 2018 writer / reporter Holly Nadler gave up her year-round apartment on Martha’s Vineyard even as everyone cried out, “Don’t do it! You’ll never find another one!” And they were right! Follow her around the Vineyard with her dear old thug of a Boston terrier as she lodges in a lilac-walled cottage which is enchanting except for the fact that it has no running water.

To erfarne retsmedicinere tager os med på arbejde verden rundt i forbindelse med naturkatastrofer, krig, terror og tortur. Bogen er en ærlig, åbenhjertig og nogle gange rystende brevveksling gennem knap tre årtier. Hougen og Rogde bruger hinanden som både faglige sparringspartnere og som en trøstende skulder, når der er brug for det. Sammen og hver for sig har de oplevet vold og katastrofer af dimensioner, som i flere tilfælde overgår fantasien.

Wenn Metin nach Feierabend mal wieder an seine Kühlschranktür klopft, weiß er, dass an diesem Tag sehr viele Patient*innen nach ihm gerufen haben – Er ist Krankenpfleger durch und durch, und ohne diese Leidenschaft geht das in seinen Augen auch gar nicht. Denn das kaputtgesparte Gesundheitssystem, der stressige Klinikalltag und die mangelnde Wertschätzung machen seinen Job zu einer Herausforderung. Doch die Patient*innen stehen immer an erster Stelle und das Team hält zusammen.