Ergebnis für "Rook" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Cheer the F--k Up is a bold, brilliant and very personal account of a young comedian’s experiences with mental health. An ode to the importance of friendship, Jack Rooke takes us on a mission to better understand the reasons why so many people are struggling and how we can all feel better equipped in knowing how to support that one friend we might be that bit more worried about.

The Power of Love is an award-winning memoir of a soul's quest. Dr. Fran Grace, a professor of religion, narrates her life journey and describes her personal encounters with some of the century's most memorable spiritual figures.

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country...

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2025 A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a...

Dive into the remarkable life and career of Brent Rooker on this dedicated biography podcast hosted by Tye Morgan on the Biography Flash network. From his roots in Germantown, Tennessee, to his standout college years at Mississippi State, through being selected as the 35th overall pick in the 2017 MLB Draft by the Minnesota Twins, this show covers every chapter of Rooker's extraordinary baseball journey. Follow his rise through the minor leagues, his Major League debut during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, and the pivotal waiver claim by the Oakland Athletics in November 2022 that changed...

"Narrator Landon Woodson does a masterful job delivering Person's audiobook--which is both Person's own coming-of-age story and the story of a nation trying to reckon with racism...This important audiobook is shared exquisitely by Woodson." -- AudioFile Magazine A firsthand exploration of the...

For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology services. In cases of unexpected or unexplained death, it was his job to determine when a person took their final breath, and whether they had died naturally - or not. But Manock did not have the necessary training for such a specialist role, and made serious errors in several major cases. The full extent of his wrongdoing, and the exact number of cases impacted by it, remain a mystery more than twenty-five years after he retired.

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic...

The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and as new as now.” As individuals, Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love.  

Ze ging in rook op. Eefke Wolf (25) uit Wezep liep bijna veertig jaar geleden de zijdeur van haar werk in Hattem uit, richting het donkere fietsenhok, om vervolgens in het niets op te lossen. Op een zandpaadje van een kleine 25 meter. Ze liet geen enkel spoor achter. Nog geen voetafdruk. De Stentor-journalisten Arjen ten Cate en Paulien Plat duiken in haar vermissingszaak, en schijnen nieuw licht op haar verdwijning. Wat is er met Eefke Wolf gebeurd, die zomerse donderdagavond in augustus 1983?

A woman, groomed to be a wife and mother, discovers through her clandestine interaction with a free-spirited foreigner that she has a right to determine her own destiny. Every step Elena takes toward personal liberation is considered treason by her society, driving her deeper and deeper underground and threatening her escape from Russia. Elena Vaytsel is one of the two women featured in BBC's Outlook Weekend: The Voyage of Meg and Elena, and NPR's Snap Judgment: Kismet, for their escape from Russia and yearlong planet-crossing run for their lives and freedom.