Biography

If You Can't Walk, Try Flying

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”... I was a happy-go-lucky child, just like any other. Many of you would say that not all children are blessed with a happy beginning in life—and rightfully so! What I’m saying is that no matter how hard a child’s life might get, in their own little bubble they are bound to always be happy because over there everything is beautiful. Everything is untainted and everything is possible. This is why you will never hear me saying that I had a miserable childhood, although from the outside my first years of climbing the ladder of life might well look like a struggle. Indeed, from the outside, my brother and I were often looked upon with pity—the kind that weighs on you, judges you, and ...

Marinela Drop

Love Changed Everything

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The Briggs family (Bridges family in the book - names changed to protect privacy of participants) struggled to escape poverty because of The Albert’s ill health. The children were happy until they realised they were deprived of the pleasures their friends enjoyed. But love surrounded and encouraged them every day of their childhood lives. Their days were filled with good times and adventures.Eddie (Wallace - the writer), the eldest child of four, suffered at the hands of the bullies. But his father showed him how to stand up for himself. Albert taught his children that success could come even after multiple failures if they kept trying. But when he had a lung removed, he lost his job and t...

WallBriggs

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

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Remarkable... Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." — The New York Times"This nail-biter account has the intensity of the best true crime... A high-def tale that ensnares you from the start." —PeopleDavid Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian charactersTo catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that’s what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Ev...

Rebecca Renner

American Wolf: From Nazi refugee to American Spy. A true story (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)

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In the summer of 1941, 11-year-old Wolf is growing up amidst the rubble and antisemitism of war-torn Nazi Berlin. Destitute and facing deportation, he must leave behind his sister and travel with his family across a continent entrenched in war. With nothing in hand but expired visas to the US, Wolf and his family must figure out how to sneak aboard the Spanish freighter the Navemar, a ship that would gain its reputation as the “Hell Ship of Death.” But this is only the beginning of Wolf’s saga.American Wolf is a heart-stopping true story full of last-minute rescues, near-death encounters, and survival against untold odds. It is also a story about coming of age, family dysfunction and n...

Audrey Birnbaum

A Marine’s Story “Okay, Buddy, Let’s Go! Hoorah!”: A Marine Sniper Survives Vietnam

Mike lived by the marine sniper mantra: One shot, one kill.

During his time in the jungles of Vietnam, Mike was confronted with having to hunt and kill the enemy and being hunted in return.

Now, for the first time, marine veteran and debut author, Phil Lenser, guides listeners through Mike’s extraordinary final mission. This historical combat thriller reveals to listeners the real experiences of a combat sniper in one of America’s bloodiest wars.

The story carries listeners from assignment preparation to completion and then beyond into the complications when things went wrong.

Sit in as two marines talk out what happened and how Mike's faith has helped him live with his survival.

Phil Lenser

Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

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The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country’s most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if newly freed citizens were condemned to live...

Brian Kilmeade

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