Showing results for "Reunion" in Biographies & Memoirs

The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to deal with them. Steve Orlandi, happily married, father of two and step-father of three, was living the typical middle class American life. But since the age of eight, when he discovered he was adopted, he had led that life dealing with inner questions about his self-identity and genetic history.

The sons and daughters of slaves and slaveholders attempt racial reconciliation in York County, South Carolina – the onetime heart of the Klu Klux Klan. As they embark on their global journey, they find trauma – and heroes – through the generations...and a path to healing.

This is the audiobook version of the new 4th edition of the unauthorized Slayer band history Slayer 66 2/3: A Metal Band Biography. Author D.X. Ferris updated this popular book after the band's surprising 2024 reunion. The audio version covers the group's ongoing reunion seasons.

Jungkook is one of the world's biggest stars, period. His first album, Golden, sold more than 2 million copies on the day of its release and stayed on the Billboard 200 for twenty-four consecutive weeks. How did a young prodigy from South Korea make music history? The Meaning of Jungkook is an...

In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother?

A long-kept secret is revealed long after the battlefield death of a beloved and courageous West Point army officer in the Vietnam War. His young widow, in an act of love, had climbed up to the treacherous north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps with his ashes. In the casket in which his body had returned from war, she placed beloved memorabilia of their marriage and all, except one, of the hundreds of letters he had written to her.

Bienvenue sur Réunion au sommet. Je suis Agathe et ici je vous partage des histoires de vie qui, je l’espère, pourront vous donner de l’inspiration. Des personnes qui vous ressemblent et qui vous livrent avec humilité les clés qu’elles ont trouvées en chemin pour avancer et pourquoi pas se rapprocher un peu de leurs rêves. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

This audiobook is about those days, specifically about Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the war at home; about the thousands upon thousands of everyday Americans who joined hands as strangers in a near classless society and secretly pulled off the greatest scientific experiment in history - the making of the atomic bomb. We, the Oak Ridge High Class of 1952, were their children and we, too, joined hands as strangers. We have never let go.

In 1940, as World War II is raging in Europe, Boudewijn van Oort Sr., a Dutch immigrant living with his wife, Wilhelmina, and young son, Boudewijn Jr. (the author), in South Africa, decides to move his family to the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies, today known as the Republic of Indonesia. Van Oort Sr. made the move wanting to support and strengthen his mother country Holland against Japan, the threatening and belligerent aggressor. Two years after having settled down comfortably on the island of Java, Japan invades the entire Dutch East Indies archipelago.

Bienvenue dans ce joyeux chaos où les rires et les réflexions se mélangent pour créer un univers où chaque “crise” devient une histoire pas si grave et sympa à partager. Aussi loin que je me souvienne, ma tête blonde a toujours été animé par un tourbillon de pensées, chouette la plupart du temps, un peu moins quand ça devient envahissant... Je vous propose de vous embarquer dans ma vie, faite d'anecdotes étonnantes et de pensées décalées. Entre rires et moments de réflexion, je partagerai également des techniques et des conseils qui ont fait leurs preuves pour moi. Je ...

Welcome to Class Reunion, the podcast that takes you back in time to your high school days! I’m your host, Lee Ann Pepper, and together we’ll explore how the people we used to be have shaped the people we are today. Each Episode is packed with heartwarming stories, juicy drama, and maybe even a few tears. Whether it’s reigniting old friendships or uncovering hidden secrets, this deep dive into the past is sure to spark nostalgia, leaving you with a greater appreciation for the twists and turns that life can take. So, grab your yearbook, and let’s get ready to remember the good old days...

High school memories, life stories, and mid-life reflection from interviews with Willowbrook HS class of '01 graduates.

The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. “[It] will be talked about and written about as long as the American people boast of the dauntless courage of Gettysburg,” declared a woman who accompanied her father to the reunion. But as the years passed, the memorable event was all but forgotten. John Hopkins’s The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 goes a long way toward making sure the world will remember.

In 1970, Lynda was 18, unmarried and pregnant when she was forced to give her baby up for adoption. She was sent by a doctor to a Catholic girls’ home for unmarried mothers, and told she’d have no hope of keeping her child because she was Aboriginal. After 26 years, Lynda was finally able to make contact with her lost son – but the much wished for reunion didn’t go well. When she looked into the adoption records, she found a web of lies – lies about her family, the baby’s father, her ‘consent’ for the adoption – and her Indigenous heritage had been completely erased.

Dr. Susan Mossman Riva was adopted in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1963. In 1995, she sought the help of the Nebraska Children's Home to find her birthmother, leading to the discover of her birth family in 1996. Miraculously, her search and reunion coincided with her biologicals sister's search. The awe and joy of homecoming brought her to the realization that synchronicity acts as a guidepost, repairing relational brokenness. The divine timing of their reunion happened months before their biological, maternal grandmother died.

海外育ちのアルパカとカワウソ、幼なじみ2人が雑談をするpodcastです。🇩🇪と🇺🇸からお届け！特にテーマはなく、しょうもない話から真面目な話までします。雑踏にもまれて働く皆さん、一緒に週末に素に戻りませんか？リラックスのお供にどうぞ。毎週金曜日19時配信！ ⭐️X(旧Twitter)も是非フォローを！ https://twitter.com/weekend_reunion ⭐️トピックのリクエストや、エピソード追加時のお知らせメール配信希望の方は下記から！ https://...

Des rencontres permettant de replonger dans les souvenirs gustatifs. Autant de prétextes à explorer les cultures, les liens, les héritages. La cuisine, sphère de l’intime, étant le marqueur culturel le plus probant, le plus évident. Autour d’un plat, d’un dessert de fête ou d’un fruit particulier se dessinent des mondes, des liens nouant les générations, et sont soulevées les questions de transmission, d’amour filial, de mutations, d’urbanisations, de religions ou de croyances. Le « goût de l’enfance » fait naître envies de découverte, sourires, interrogations, et ...