“This can’t be happening to me!” Yes, bad things do happen to good people. Perplexing or painful, personal or professional, life challenges stop us in our tracks, leaving us numb, breathless and frightened to our very core. The 20 essential life lessons in IT'S JUST HAIR will give you the strength and perspective to meet these challenges. Read them all at once, read them one at a time. Read them in moments of solitude, read them out loud with others. Read them as a battle cry, read them in a quiet whisper. These powerful lessons, delivered with honesty, courage and brilliant humor, are resources you or a loved one will reference time and again.

It's Just Hair: 20 Essential Life Lessons

Self-Help

Pearson, Judith L.

Motivational

Courage Concepts

UPDATED VERSION IN RECOGNITION OF THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECEMBER 7, 1941, ATTACKS!\nOn December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than 1,600 other American captives. More than 1,100 of them would be dead by journey’s end. Belly of the Beast is their collective story. 
The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the Navy’s medical corps, Myers arrived in Manilla shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military. While he and his fellow corpsmen tended to the bloody tide of allied soldiers pouring into their once peaceful Naval hospital, the Imperial military overwhelmed the Pacific islands (having dismantled the nation’s civilian government), and captured 78,000 POWs by April 1942. Myers was one of the first taken. 
After a brutal three-year encampment, Myers and his fellow POWs were forced onto an enemy hell ship bound for Japan. Suffocation, malnutrition, disease, dehydration, infestation, madness, and simple despair claimed the lives of nearly three quarters of those who boarded “the beast.” 
Myers survived. 
A compelling account of a rarely recorded event in military history, this is more than Estel Myers’ true story. It is a compilation of the many stories of the men with him every step of the way. It is also an important history lesson. A small group of rogue military officers overtook a nation. Understanding that can help ensure against its repetition. 
Re-published twenty years after its initial release by Penguin Putnam, this new edition features an updated forward, preface and epilogue. 
Called “[A] searing tribute,” by the late Senator John McCain, and “An inspiring look at one of World War II’s darkest hours,” by best selling author James Bradley, Belly of the Beast is an homage to the unfailing courage of men at war, an inspiring chronicle of self-sacrifice and endurance, and a tribute to the power of faith, the strength of the soul, and the triumph of the human spirit.\nThis edition's release is timed to the 80th anniversary year of the December 1941 bombings that drew the U.S. into war. It is a must-read for anyone intrigued by WWII history.

Belly of the Beast: A POW's Story of Faith, Courage and Survival Aboard a WWII Hell Ship

History

Americas

Inspired Press

Virginia Hall left comfortable Baltimore roots of wealth and privilege in 1931 to follow her dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, a job that would change her life forever. She watched as Hitler rolled into Poland, then France, and she decided to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). There she learned things her wealthy Baltimore contemporaries would never have imagined--demolitions, assassination, secret radio communications, and resistance organization. She was deployed to France where the Gestapo imprisoned, beat, and tortured spies. Some were mercifully executed while others faced slow, painful deaths. Against such an ominous backdrop, Hall managed to locate drop zones for the money and weapons so badly needed by the French Resistance, helped escaped POWs and downed Allied airmen flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents in need. Soon, wanted posters appeared throughout France offering a reward for the capture of "The most dangerous of all Allied spies . . . we must find and destroy her." By winter of 1942 Hall had no choice but to flee France via the only route possible: a hike on foot through the frozen Pyr?9n?9s Mountains into neutral Spain. The escape was arduous, and Hall''s artificial leg (nicknamed "Cuthbert") became very painful. In a radio message to London during the journey, she mentioned that Cuthbert was giving her trouble. Forgetting her leg''s nickname, London replied, "If Cuthbert is giving you trouble, have him eliminated." Upon her return to England, the OSS recruited her and sent her back to France in the spring of 1944 disguised as an old peasant woman. While there, she was responsible for killing 150 German soldiers and capturing 500 others, sabotaging communications and transportation links, and directing resistance activities. But the Gestapo had become wise to her ways, and inexorably tightened the noose around her day by day. This is the true story of Virginia Hall, a remarkable woman who has been ignored by the history books for over fifty years.

The Wolves At The Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lyons Pr

My stories of Animal Recues in New Mexico

The Dog Days of Dixon: Incredible stories of love and healing in a rural New Mexico Rescue

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Four Paws Press

When the tsunami of medical treatments end, cancer survivors often feel as though they’re drowning in physical and emotional collateral damage from the disease. But there is “HEALING IN HELPING.” The book you’re holding will introduce you to ordinary, EXTRAORDINARY women survivors who, by helping others, are healing themselves. These stories, shared with live audiences, come from curated performances of S.T.A.R.S.: Survivors Tell A Real Story Woman by woman, city by city, we’re changing survivors’ life focus from “WHY ME?” to “WHAT’S NEXT!”

A 2nd Act: Cancer Survivors Changing the Question from "Why me?" to "What's next!"

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Independently published

From Shadows to Life, is the story of the war on cancer, the cancer survivorship movement, and its impact on modern cancer care.

From Shadows to Life: A Biography of the Cancer Survivorship Movement

Lincoln Square Books

A 2nd Act presents STARS!: Survivors Taking A Real Stage

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A 2nd Act: Cancer Survivors Changing the Question from "Why Me?" to "What Next!"

Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker

Community & Culture

Mayo Clinic Press

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