An eyewitness account of the prisoner revolt at a Nazi extermination camp, and the life of a teenaged boy who survived to tell the story. A Promise at Sobibor is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers. Between April 1942 and October 1943, about 250,000 Jews from European countries and the Soviet Union were sent to the Nazi death camp at Sobibor in occupied Poland. Sobibor was not a transit camp or work camp: its sole purpose was efficient mass murd...
Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine writer and editor in the food world, she'd returned to her home state of Oregon with her boyfriend from New York City to take an appealing job at a Portland lifestyle magazine. But neither job nor boyfriend delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Davis was unemployed, on her own, with nothing to fall back on. Disillusioned by the years shed spent mediating the lives of others for a living, she had no idea what to do next....
Against All Odds: My Journey to Becoming a Flight Attendant
by Lando Success
A Short thought of I Lived In Lowell Massachusetts, What I Think Of It Now!
by Stephen Cortney Maxwell
Me May Mary is an eloquent memoir about a teen emerging from a tumultuous past. Beginning with a childhood spent sleeping in cars and stealing money from her violent, alcoholic parents to survive, through her teen years in foster care and an orphanage, Mary struggled to overcome her history and embrace her potential. Recounted without self-pity, this poignant, surprisingly funny book relates one young woman's experience of surmounting the past, making sense of the present, and learning to draw s...
The remarkable true story of Margaret Powell, who arrived at the servant's entrance in the 1920s as a kitchen maid and entered an entirely new world. Margaret's tales of her time in service are told with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye in this fascinating portrait of life in Downton Abbey and 165 Eaton Place.
The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin, Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse