Crossing Over: One Woman’s Escape from Amish Life

Unsatisfied, she bravely crosses over to contemporary life to fully explore the foreign and frightening reality in hope of better understanding her emotional and spiritual desires. As a result, ruth knew only one way of life, and one way of doing things. This compelling narrative takes us inside a hidden community, offering a striking look as one woman comes to terms with her discontent and ultimately leaves her family, faith and the sheltered world of her childhood.

. She was brought up in a world filled with rigid rules and intense secrecy, in an environment where the dress, buggies, codes of conduct, and way of life differed even from other Amish societies only 100 miles away. What emerges is a powerful tale of one woman's search for meaning and the extraordinary lessons she learns along the way.

A work booklist called ଯving and life–affirming, Crossing Over is the true story of one woman's extraordinary flight from the protected world of the Amish people to the chaos of contemporary life. Ruth irene garrett was the fifth of seven children raised in Kalona, Iowa, as a member of a strict Old Order Amish community.

This old order community actively avoided all interaction with ೨e Englishߜ'96 everyone who lived on the outside.

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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

Of the 15, 000 children brought to Terezín and deported to Auschwitz, there were only one hundred survivors. Includes a special interview with Helga by translator Neil Bermel. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document her experiences in a diary. These pages reveal Helga’s powerful story through her own words and illustrations.

Miraculously, she was able to recover her diary from its hiding place after the war. Helga was one of them. A new york times bestseller"A sacred reminder of what so many millions suffered, and only a few survived. Adam kirsch, new republicin 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. During her internment at the concentration camp of Terezín, Helga’s uncle hid her diary in a brick wall.

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Redemption: A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars

It is a coming-of-age story set in a parallel universe of a maximum-security prison. This real-life tale, of stacey lannert and her struggle to survive violent sexual assault and the devastating aftermath raises intense issues of crime, as dramatic as any movie, culpability and the nature of violence and families.

Six days later she walked out of the gates a free woman. Redemption is the story of how Stacey learned to be free while living behind bars. It's a devastating and important subject, beautifully told. Naomi wolfon july 4, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, 1990, who had been sexually abusing her since she was eight.

Missouri state law, a disbelieving prosecutor, and Stacey’s own fragile psyche conspired against her: She was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. Redemption is stacey’s candid memoir of her harrowing childhood and the pain and protective love of her sister that led her to that horrifying night.

It is also an extraordinary portrait of what happened after she found herself in prison and how she grew determined to live positively, even triumphantly, despite her circumstances. And, it is a story of sisterhood, courage, and justice finally served. Ultimately, and most profoundly, she learned the healing power of forgiveness.

After spending as many years in prison as she had out of it, 2009, on January 10, outgoing Missouri governor Matt Blunt commuted Stacey’s life sentence.


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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. 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.


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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20, 000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy. A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition.

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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir

Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, and startlingly funny, heartbreaking, Homes's memoir is a brave and profoundly moving consideration of identity and family.

A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk. Zadie smith "i fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. Amy tan. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own.

The "fierce and eloquent" new york times memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your LifeThe acclaimed writer A. The mistress's daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her.


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The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.

Emboldened by her newfound freedom, and security, education, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. Written in exquisite, unflinching prose, spare, the road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls.

Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking—rape, torture, deprivation—until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker.

She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, started schools, Vietnam, Thailand, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, and Laos. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia.

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation. A riveting, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hopeBorn in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, raw, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old.


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Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations

What we want for our children—popularity, normalcy, character—are explored by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, achievement, empathy, genius—and what they truly need—grit, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.

An eloquent, brave, big-hearted book…about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon. James fallows, the atlanticLove That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations.


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The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir

All that changed with the death of their mother. Despite the welch children’s wrenching loss and subsequent separation, they retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up.

While nineteen-year-old amanda was legally on her own, the three younger siblings–Liz, sixteen; Dan, fourteen; and Diana, eight–were each dispatched to a different set of family friends. Told in the alternating voices of the four siblings, their poignant, harrowing story of un­breakable bonds unfolds with ferocious emotion.

Quick-witted and sharp-tongued, amanda headed for college in New York City and immersed herself in an ’80s world of alternative music and drugs. But diana’s siblings refused to forget her--or let her go. And diana, the red-haired baby of the family, was given a new life and identity and told to forget her past.

Mischievous, bounced from guardian to boarding school and back again, rebellious Dan, getting deeper into trouble and drugs. Liz, living with the couple for whom she babysat, followed in Amanda’s footsteps until high school graduation when she took a job in Norway as a nanny. A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love.

Peoplesomehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together. The kids are not only all right; they’re back together.




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Bastards: A Memoir

Moving, haunting, and at times wickedly funny, Bastards is about finding one's family and oneself. Because mary was adopted by her grandparents, Jacob, is legally her sister, while her brother, Mary’s mother, Peggy, is legally her nephew. Living in oklahoma with her maternal grandfather, Mary gets a new name and a new life.

Explores how identity forms love, and love, identity. Written in engrossing, intimate prose, it makes us rethink how blood’s deep connections relate to the attachments of proximity. Andrew solomon, author of far from the treein the early 1980s, were "great at making babies, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, but not so great at holding on to them.

After her father leaves the family, she is raised among a commune of mothers in a low-income housing complex. When mary is legally adopted by her grandparents, the result is a family story like no other. With each subsequent reunion, her family becomes closer to whole again. But she's haunted by the past: by the baby girls she’s sure will come looking for her someday, by the mother she left behind, by the father who left her.

. Mary is a college student when her sisters start to get back in touch.


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Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness

As told to robert specht, Anne Hobbs’s true story has captivated generations of readers. People get as mean as the weather, ” she discovered, but they were also capable of great good. The beloved real-life story of a woman in the alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved   “From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier.

The memoir reads like an old-fashioned novel, a heartwarming love story with the added interest of frontier hardships and vividly portrayed characters. Publishers Weekly. Running a ramshackle schoolhouse would expose her to more than just the elements. After she allowed native american children into her class and fell in love with a half-Inuit man, she would learn the meanings of prejudice and perseverance, irrational hatred and unconditional love.

Now this beautiful new edition is available to inspire many more. So when i was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accepted right away. Anne hobbs was only nineteen in 1927 when she came to harsh and beautiful Alaska.


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