Imagine your 15 year old son acquiring unexplained hypertension and debilitating pain and no one knows why. A Mothers journey to tell her son's story to help others. My Amps Kid.

My divorce was final, and I was kid free. Although it was a choice I made, I was at the lowest point in my life. I spiraled all the way out of control-what we all know as hitting rock bottom. I needed to build myself back up and get my shit together quickly. All the drinking, drugging, and partying led me to people that helped me turn things around. Regardless of how bad things got, my club brothers never turned their back on me. That's why joining...

Adopted at an early age, I had no idea what was going on or what was about to happen to me. I found myself growing up in a household with people that abused me mentally, physically, and emotionally. Not knowing how to deal with living in a loveless home, I began to act out. I was out of control in school. I made sure I got good grades. My behavior, on the other hand, showed that I was a troubled child. I did not listen to teachers, principals, or...

Inspiring story of a 15th-century farm girl who answered a divine call to drive the English from France. The miraculous story of the Maid of Orleans unfolds from her early childhood and the touching story of the "Voices," to the battles she led and the splendid march to Rheims.

»Dies ist kein Buch über die Schuld meiner Großeltern. Was weiß ich denn auch, und wer bin ich, nach Schuld zu suchen? Es ist ein Buch über das Leben von Menschen auf dem wilden Kontinent, im wilden Deutschland, im wilden Bremer Westen um das Jahr 1945. Über das Leben von Menschen, die mir noch immer in den Knochen stecken. In Leib und Seele. Über das Leben von Menschen, die ich Tag um Tag in den Gesichtern meiner Kinder neu entdecke.« Miriam...

Sarah, a free-spirited artist in her late twenties, accepts an assignment from her granduncle, Albert Smithson, to write his memoir. 'Bertie' has a crippling terror of death brought about by the agonising death of his father, who was an atheist. He learns that there are three conditions one must attain to die in a peaceful state. At age fifty-four, he has none of them and is determined to achieve them all.

On Dec.5, 1951 a baby girl was born to a white mother and a black father. When the little girl was born her grandmother told her daughter that the baby girl was born with a vale over her face. When the daughter asked the mother what did that mean, the grandmother only said that her granddaughter must never have children. The grandmother ran out the room in tears. The mother and father named the little girl Alzora. Alzora was the baby girl; she had...

ALATASH is about a young African lady called Alicia Anderson. The story follows the complications that forced the young Alicia to grow up too fast. It showcases her growth from an innocent girl to a resilient woman. ALATASH puts matters of privilege in perspective and proves that age is but a number when facing life.

JOHANNES BEINERT, 1877 in Eckartsweier, Baden-Württemberg, geboren, starb 1916 im Alter von nur 38 Jahren in Frankreich während der Schlacht an der Somme. Als Deutsch- und Französischlehrer kannte und liebte er beide Staaten, deren Feindschaft ihm am Ende das Leben kostete. Sein heimatkundliches Werk »Geschichte des badischen Hanauerlandes unter Berücksichtigung Kehls« brachte Beinert den Ruf als »Erzähler des Hanauerlandes« ein. Die mit...

Le Franco-Ontarien, pour des raisons historiques, politiques et linguistiques, est un hybride tiraillé et ballotté dans un entre-deux incertain qui repose sur un socle mouvant. D'o le malaise persistant du Franco-Ontarien en quête de libération, qui cherche à vivre pleinement sa différence, à régler ses conflits intérieurs. Comment fait-il pour évoluer dans un tel contexte? Tout est question de métissage culturel et d'identité traquée...