Showing results for "Glasses" in Biographies & Memoirs

Being a Girl with Glasses isn't just a style choice; it's a way of life. If you've ever had your specs steam up when walking into a bar, squinted into the sun on the soccer field, or laid eyes on a new haircut only after your locks are strewn across the floor, you know what it's like to be a GWG. Marissa Walsh has worn glasses since third grade. Now - 10 pairs of glasses, one pair of prescription sunglasses, and endless pairs of contacts later - she has fully embraced her four-eyed fate.

Cathy is een ervaren pleegouder, maar niemand had haar kunnen voorbereiden op de komst van Jodie, een achtjarig meisje met zoveel gedragsproblemen dat ze in vier maanden tijd bij vijf verschillende gezinnen wordt geplaatst. Langzaam wint Cathy het vertrouwen van Jodie, en haar gedrag verbetert aanzienlijk. Stukje bij beetje onthult het meisje de schokkende en hartverscheurende details van haar mishandeling door de mensen die haar hadden moeten liefhebben en beschermen.

Motherhood is wild - so let's talk about it honestly. From body image to mental health to everyday chaos, Kassi brings the laughs, the realness, and the "same girl, same" energy. Pour yourself a glass and press play.

The Shattered Glass is a powerful journey through Valerie Conner's life, filled with raw emotion, resilience, and the fight to survive.

A raw, existential podcast about living life from the inside out — and what keeps us boxed into glass, societal boxes.

Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses is a memoir by Rosalie Richardson that takes listeners on a journey through her life. From her childhood filled with challenges to her struggles with addiction and the search for stability, Rosalie shares her story with honesty and courage. In this inspiring book, Rosalie reflects on the impact of her upbringing, the strength of family bonds, and the importance of resilience. She describes the pain of moving around, facing abuse, and battling addiction, but also highlights moments of hope and love that helped her find her way.

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of...

Sometimes joy and grief are separated by mere moments. A last-minute run down a ski slope … a catastrophic accident … and an amazing young man is reduced to a comatose form in a hospital bed. His adoring fiancée remains to weep, pray, grieve, rage, and struggle with the jagged trauma of...

The night before her father dies, 18-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. But this isn't the book she imagined. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death.

Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A roller-coaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.

Dit is het persoonlijke en waargebeurde verhaal van Melody, die op achtjarige leeftijd wordt weggehaald bij haar alleenstaande drugsverslaafde moeder. Melody is kwaad dat ze niet thuis kan blijven wonen en in het pleeggezin van Cathy moet blijven, maar ze lijkt zich ook wel erg veel zorgen te maken om haar moeder – veel meer dan Cathy ooit heeft gezien. Amanda, Melody's moeder, is ook boos en haalt tijdens hun afspraken een paar keer flink uit naar Cathy. Maar wanneer ze de verloren en kwetsbare blik op Amanda's gezicht ziet, begint Cathy net zo bezorgd te worden als Melody.

Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness.

Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes...

From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a...

In "The Mr. Glass Story, Darrin Andrus opens up about his journey, sharing an honest and hopeful account of escaping the clutches of gangs and addiction. This book is more than just a story-it guides those grappling with similar challenges, offering practical lessons and a path to redemption.

People in Glass Houses tells how a small church in a suburban Australian school hall became a multimillion-dollar tax-free enterprise and a powerful international force. Providing memorable portraits of charismatic leaders Brian and Bobbie Houston, this is a powerful, personal, and at times very funny exploration of an all-singing, all-swaying mega church. The church is more than a faith—it’s a brand. And one fraught with scandal.

Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force's first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot's wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman admitted to the Air Force's elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base.

When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brought to Cathy with a police escort as it’s...

Beth is a sweet-natured child who appears to have been well looked after. But it isn't long before Cathy begins to have concerns that the relationship between Beth and her father is not as it should be. Little Beth, aged 7, has been brought up by her father Derek after her mother left when she was a toddler. When Derek is suddenly admitted to hospital with psychiatric problems, Beth is taken into care and arrives at Cathy's.

Cathy Glass, international best-selling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. When 14-year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what?Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and sisters terribly.