Sentences with phrase «compelling memoir»

Rabbi Silverman will discuss her compelling memoir and share: What calls us to become permanent, loving families for children who need them Why adoption enriches our families and communities How adoption and Judaism are woven together Susan Silverman is...

A compelling memoir, at times, a bit of a tough slog through information and descriptions of various organization but profoundly moving overall.

On the fortieth anniversary of the Arab - Israeli Six Day War (1967 - 1971), Ibtisam Barakat writes a compelling memoir of her young childhood during the war that shows the value and beauty of ordinary life.

Fontaine performs a balancing act in this compelling memoir as she comes to term with grief, fear and grasping all life has to offer.

Sarah Hannah follows her critically acclaimed first volume of poetry, Longing Distance, with Inflorescence, a compelling memoir - in - verse for her mother, Boston Expressionist painter Renee Rothbein, and their intense relationship in which they struggle with Rothbein's mental illness and eventual death from cancer.

Orange Prize — winner Karen Connelly's compelling memoir about her journey to Burma, where she fell in love with a leader of the Burmese rebel army.

Whether you're craving a well - crafted mystery or a compelling memoir — or just about anything else — the LibraryReads December list offers an eclectic mix of options.

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Not only this book a lively and honest memoir of Lane's experiences with church, but along the way, she makes a compelling case for the virtues that make thriving church communities to which we want to belong.

There are lots of other interesting and compelling details in the memoir, and I mean to return to some of them eventually.

Although she seems to presume that her readers wouldn't find a spiritual memoir sans Augustinian turns gripping, her story of the gradual strengthening of a lukewarm faith is precisely what many will find compelling.

NAYS Founder Fred Engh's compelling new book winner of the prestigious Best Memoir Award at the Florida Book Festival

of Acxiom Corp.... Matters of Life and Data is a compelling read, a page - turner of a memoir that sheds light on what it takes to be successful in business as well as on what it takes to live a fulfilling life.

A compelling first - person visual memoir that intricately weaves some 15 years of filmmaking into a remarkably watchable cinematic patchwork quilt.

The film, co-written by Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire, is inspired by Ralston's memoir, «Between a Rock and a Hard Place,» and features a compelling, Oscar worthy performance by James Franco.

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

My latest Amazon package was a compelling autobiography by the American artist Marcia Gloster, 31 Days: A Memoir of Seduction.

Through each episode, the memoir has the immersive feel of compelling fiction.

For the three lucky finalists of The Story of My Life contest, however, their stories are being publicized nationwide as Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, teams up with ABC - TV's Good Morning America to discover a first - time author of a compelling American memoir.

I designed this workshop to teach people how to organize their life experiences into a compelling story, help them improve their writing, and put all their ideas into a working plan for writing a memoir.

This memoir is likely to put her in the spotlight once again with its compelling account of her conversion from religious fundamentalist to women's rights activist.

This is one of the questions Robison struggles to answer in Switched On, his eloquent, vivid and utterly compelling new memoir.

The Ogallala Road By Julene Bair Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143127079 In this compelling and beautifully written memoir, Bair recounts the rewards and challenges of returning to her family's farm on the Great Plains, where she finds both a promising new romantic relationship and a troubling legacy of environmental transgressions.

Winter Journal is far more than a simple collection of lists, however; the memoir is strongest and most emotionally compelling when the reader can see Auster arriving at moments of revelation, such as the realization that his moments of periodic physical frailty coincide closely with episodes of emotional intensity, personal crisis, and loss.

So I just have to keep plodding along and make my memoir writing as compelling as possible, hoping that THAT is my platform.

Although there is motivational prose (complete with exclamation points) that will ensure Robinson's spot «on the corporate speaker circuit,» Croatto assures us that this memoir is really a compelling tale of determination and principles.

This inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty - two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China's history as it tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming - of - age during the Cultural Revolution.

How does an author of memoir or personal narrative transform a naked self into a compelling voice that tells a story readers can't put down?

Find out how she makes her memoir as compelling as a good novel to both tell a story and deliver a message.

Spanning three decades of Elizabeth's life and three generations of her family, this touching memoir is a compelling narrative of the richness of one man's art, the devastation of war, and one woman's unexpected path to healing.

«A wonderful memoir, searingly honest, beautifully descriptive and totally compelling.»

Tips from top marketing professionals on the three most essential components of marketing a memoir: determining who your readers are, figuring out how to connect with them, and establishing yourself as reputable and compelling source on the subject matter.

But she's such a compelling essayist that we can't help but imagine the powerful divorce memoir she could write.