Incidents of the War / The Civil War Journal of Mary Jane Chadick

History

Nancy M. Rohr

Americas

Silver Threads

White Russians were retreating before advancing Bolsheviks in the east...Germans were losing control of the west...Poles were killing Ukrainians in Galicia. Over the phone, an unfamiliar voice warned twenty-year-old Alexandra, “Leave Kiev immediately.” Two days later, Alexandra stood on the railroad platform, crying as she watched her familiar life vanish behind her and hoping that the defeat of the Bolsheviks would bring a return of order. Instead, she was beginning a search for a new homeland, a quest that would span four continents and ten decades. Often fleeing with only what she could carry, Alexandra used her charm and ingenuity to build a future for herself and her family. Filled with icons and other artwork by Alexandra and more than 100 photographs, "Riding the Century" is Olgard Dabbert’s inspiring and loving account of his enterprising and courageous mother.

Riding the Century: A Memoir

Margaret Lang

Olga Dabbert

Ray Hutchinson

Ollie McNamara is one of the few women to have succeeded in the male-dominated fashion industry. From her early years with Saks Fifth Avenue to her retirement in 2000, Ollie viewed the fashion business from its very center. Ollie shares this view in Fashion Diva, her memoir of fifty years in fashion. With words and pictures, she describes an industry that only an insider could know. In the process, she takes a candid look at the toll her success extracted from her family and her personal life. Running through her story is a dark secret that threatened to make meaningless everything she accomplished. Ollie McNamara writes with the same candid attention to style and detail she dedicated to her career. A passionate tribute to life, love, and creativity, Fashion Diva brings the society page and the fashion magazine to life.

Fashion Diva

Business & Money

Ollie McNamara

Industries

In this new edition of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Sheila Bender has taken a classic and made it even better. She continues to share the tips and secrets that have given so many of her students the skills to become confident writers. At the same time, she has brought the original up to date with new content and extensively revised resources. Writing and Publishing Personal Essays provides powerful encouragement to write...instructions for writing eight different kinds of personal essays...special techniques for giving, receiving, and using critical feedback...proven tips for getting your writing published. Writing and Publishing Personal Essays shows why Sheila Bender is one of the most successful and sought-after writing teachers today.

Writing and Publishing Personal Essays, Second Edition

Reference

Sheila Bender

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Ever since his first gatecrashing adventures during the 1940s at movie theaters in his hometown San Diego, Dion Rich has made daring, ininvited appearances at Superbowls, All-Star games, the Olympics, Kentucky Derby races, Academy Award ceremonies, celebrity parties, and other exclusive events and ceremonies--often right under the noses of security personnel looking for him. In "The Life of Dion Rich," he reminscences about his favorite adventures and gives away, for the first time, the secrets he has used to become "the World's Greatest Gate Crasher." Written with the late sportscaster, Charlie Jones, and acclaimed sportswriter, Bill Swank, and accompanied by more than 200 photographs, "The Life of Dion Rich" is the fascinating and revealing story of this one-of-a-kind American icon.

The Life of Dion Rich: Live Like a Millionaire with No Money Down

Biographies & Memoirs

Charlie Jones

Bill Swank

Leaders & Notable People

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