Foster Memoir

Foster children are society's throwaway kids, the children no one wants—until someone finally does. Saving Michael provides an inside look at Keri Vellis's struggle to secure the best possible services for two severely abused and traumatized siblings. Listeners get a glimpse of Keri and her family's day-to-day life as she went from mother of three to adoptive mother of three more children and then the temporary caregiver of another seventeen.

Molding My Destiny is a touching memoir that will tug at your heartstrings and inspire you to overcome any challenge. With honesty and vulnerability, Patrice Foster shares her journey of overcoming adversity, from the difficulties of growing up in poverty and being abandoned by her father to the challenges of battling depression as a teenager.

Nacido en una cuna de oro, la infancia de Donald Trump no fue un comienzo humilde. Su abuelo Frederick fue un millonario que construyó su riqueza adquiriendo restaurantes, construyendo hoteles donde uno podía conocer prostitutas y eventualmente fundó un imperio inmobiliario en Nueva York. El padre de Trump heredó el negocio inmobiliario familiar y lo dirigió con su madre como "Elizabeth Trump & Son" después de la muerte de Frederick. Cuando Donald J. Trump tomó el control de la empresa familiar en 1971 y la renombró "Trump Organization", ya era una empresa multimillonaria.

Detective Peter Seymour has seen every type of death imaginable in his time in the NSW Coroner's Court and, after many years in law enforcement, the tragedies are beginning to take their toll. Dealing with death day in day out becomes too much for Seymour and this seasoned veteran starts to grapple with overwhelming feelings of fear and doubt. He decides to return to the police force hoping the operational work might offer some reprieve. Fate would have it otherwise as he is thrust straight back into an intense murder investigation.

Que hayas oído o no sobre Slim, debes leer este libro. Aprende sobre la convincente historia del hijo de un inmigrante libanés que creció para convertirse en el hombre más rico de México. El padre de Carlos, Julián, abrió una tienda de ropa y complementos que tuvo mucho éxito, pero falleció cuando Carlos tenía tan solo trece años. Entonces Carlos tuvo que dirigir la empresa familiar hasta que se graduó de la escuela secundaria e ingresó la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Fred Rogers was a television personality who shaped American children's television. His programs such as Children's Corner and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood have influenced generations of Americans. But what do you know about Mr. Rogers himself? This insightful biography by Logan Miller will help you learn more about this kind and wise man who dedicated his life to teaching and entertaining children.

Los asesinos en serie ocupan un lugar en el corazón de la cultura popular. Vistos con desprecio y asco, sus enfermizas acciones, sin embargo, dibujan un aura de curiosidad y fascinación culpable. Ahora, la colección definitiva de asesinos aeriales está aquí para desenterrar los secretos de estos asesinos y sus malvados crímenes.

A powerful master criminal and the subject of a critically acclaimed 2019 film, the life of Frank Sheeran is one filled with violence, corruption, and a ticking time bomb that lead to his eventual capture and sentencing. Now, this biography explores the detailed and larger-than-life story of this criminal mastermind, from his connections to bloodthirsty organized crime families to his climb to becoming a high-ranking official in the IBT union.

È diversa dalle altre madri: è americana. Arrivata a Roma subito dopo la guerra con la divisa da ufficiale dell'esercito Usa, sceglie di rendersi utile prendendo le redini del Foster Parents Plan, un programma di aiuti che strapperà alla povertà 11.385 bambini italiani. Questa è la sua storia, ma è anche una storia d'amore tra lei e un intellettuale di raro carisma che fa a palle di neve con Pasolini e che le riempie la casa di scrittori, da Bassani a Cassola, da Carlo Levi a Montale.

The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and '90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II. Because she fell in love with the wrong man, she wound up peddling Nazi propaganda on the radio as "Axis Sally." Volatile Hester Foster was already doing time at the Ohio State Penitentiary when she bashed in the head of a fellow inmate with a shovel.

Arlis Kay Perry was a newly married 19-year-old when she entered Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University in the late night hours of October 12th, 1974. She would be found the next morning, the victim of a brutal murder in what appeared to be a ritualistic killing. Her case has remained unsolved for the past 42 years. Various rumors and theories abound as to who her murderer was. There is conjecture that she was the victim of the Son of Sam, the Zodiac Killer, the Death Angels, and the Process Church.

On Good Friday, 2015, a tornado rips through the countryside toward Whetstone Boys Ranch, a therapeutic boarding school in the Missouri Ozarks. Five young men sleep quietly in their upstairs rooms while two night-staff monitor the approaching threat. At 12:30 a.m., all seven souls hustle to the basement, and minutes later the windows on two levels of the 10,000-square-foot facility explode at once.

When police told Karen Foster that her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, had died in a hiking accident, she knew the pieces of the investigation just didn't add up. Bonnie would have never ditched her classes at the University of Alaska to go hiking. And she didn't drive—so how would she have reached McHugh Creek, miles outside of Anchorage, in the first place? Armed with little more than her own conviction, Karen set out to find the truth behind her daughter's death.

In 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter. He shouted for everyone to leave; he had a bomb. Five people died that day, and the mystery surrounding this event was never fully solved until, 50 years later, Joni Foster went looking for the details. Over nine months, she would interview first responders and survivors to hear stories about what happened and how they and the town moved forward.

On June 16, 2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is the exclusive story that led up to that momentous decision for the Austin-based grocery giant. Whole Foods' eccentric founder changed the way Americans consume food. Can he survive the Wall Street forces that now want to consume him?

Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America's Founding Fathers. Tracing these commentaries on the Revolutionary Era's major political figures in Sex and the Founding Fathers, Thomas Foster shows how continual attempts to reveal the true character of these men instead exposes much more about Americans and American culture than about the Founders themselves.

Is John McCain "for real?" That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when McCain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was "to inspire young Americans to devote themselves to causes greater than their own self-interest".

Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul documents the beloved singing star’s rocky personal life and internationally acclaimed show business career. An in-depth and frank examination of Aretha, this definitive biography traces her career from her beginnings as a 12-year-old member of a church choir in the early 1950s, recording her first album at the age of 14, a major recording contract at 18, and stardom in her 20s, right up through her headline-grabbing 2010 health scare, to her triumphant return: singing to her cheering Detroit hometown fans in summer 2011.

Have you ever stopped to wonder how life has been for the people who have been on the frontline of fighting COVID-19 - their experiences, how they are treated, how they are able to cope with the extreme pressure, seeing death everywhere, and risking being infected all the time? And have you wondered why nurses would be threatening to strike and others even strike in the middle of the pandemic to get a full glimpse of what has really been going on but has gone unreported?

I am on a mission to warn psychics to make sure the spirit guides they are working with are not imposters—mine was. Has your spirit guide caused chaos in your life? Embarrassment? Or tried to get you to do something you don't agree with? These are all signs that you are working with an evil spirit, not your spirit guide.