Showing results for "The Attempt" in Biographies & Memoirs

In 1973, Myra Hindley, the most notorious woman in Britain, is serving a life sentence for the moors murders—a case that shocked the world. Behind bars, she has fallen in love. When Hindley is refused parole, she persuades a sympathetic prison officer and former nun to help her break out of London's grim Holloway prison. The women plan to run away together to Brazil. Twenty years after Hindley's death, this extraordinary true story is brought to life in vivid new detail by Howard Sounes, author of the true-crime classic Fred & Rose.

On the morning of December 22, 2005, New York City firefighter Matt Long was cycling to work when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of death. Miraculously, after five months in the hospital and more than 40...

Mock the Week and Outnumbered's Hugh Dennis with an hilarious and insightful exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness.

Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being "British" meant for nearly a decade, ever since his friend Ardal O'Hanlon had told him in passing that he was the most British person he had ever met. Hugh was unclear whether he was being praised, teased, vaguely insulted, or possibly all three - because it has always been very difficult to know how to feel about being British.

Raven Thorne unpacks the CIA's decades-long obsession with killing Fidel Castro through exploding cigars, Mafia hit men, and poisoned wetsuits. Each episode reveals how operational creativity masked strategic failure and examines what this Cold War campaign tells us about covert action's costs. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Maxwell Slate investigates political assassins' escape attempts, tracing flight plans, support networks, and capture. From Nazi ratlines to modern lone wolves, discover what happens after the trigger is pulled—and what the run reveals about the killing itself. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

When seventeen-year-old Marcus Sarjeant fired six shots at Queen Elizabeth II during the 1981 Trooping the Colour ceremony, it exposed critical vulnerabilities in royal security. Raven Thorne dissects the incident, the teenager's disturbing motivations, and the threat landscape facing the Crown. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

When Pastor Steve Austin left home that Sunday night, he knew his wife and little boy would never see him alive again. Steve had survived childhood sexual abuse as a preschooler, but the effects rippled through his life for the next 25 years. After nearly 10 years as a youth pastor and worship leader, Steve was convinced that his only choice was suicide. But childhood sexual abuse, addiction, and a suicide attempt were only the beginning of Steve Austin's story. This book is for anyone who has hit rock bottom and is left wondering what to do next.

When a 20-year-old climbed a roof in Butler, Pennsylvania with a rifle aimed at Donald Trump, he triggered 16 seconds exposing catastrophic security failures. Host Marc Ellery investigates three assassination attempts, Secret Service vulnerabilities, and the tension between protecting leaders and preserving democratic access. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

John is my mother’s husband, he has subjected his wife, (my mother) to various forms of abuse, physical, emotional, psychological, financial abuse, isolation, medical neglect, and prolonged mental anguish.My Mom has Alzheimer’s.Having this knowledge, there are ethical concerns about John Wallach’s behavior.—video evidence can be viewed on TikTok.https://www.tiktok.com/@omgbckyMy mom was my best friend, we ran a Fantastic Sam’s hair salon together for several years. My mother and I were like sisters, remaining close my entire life, until John decided (for her) that she was not going ...

Germany one felt the world’s wrath for crimes committed during the Nazi regime. More recently, it received extravagant praise for facing up to the atrocities. The country now boasts of new Jewish museums, Holocaust memorials, restored synagogues, and classroom lessons designed to honor its Jewish heritage and teach tolerance. This effort was led not by politicians or historians, but by local citizen activists, few of them Jewish, almost all of them born after World War II. They could have shrugged off responsibility for evils done before they were born.

Alida Nugent graduated college with a degree in one hand and a drink in the other, eager to trade in parties and all-nighters for "the real world". But post-grad wasn't the glam life she imagined. Soon buried under a pile of bills, laundry, and three-dollar bottles of wine, it quickly became clear that she had no idea what she was doing. But hey, what twentysomething does?

Join Amy and her family in their mishaps and adventures living in Barcelona and traveling throughout Europe, and watch as Amy—openly and with a self-deprecating humor—unfolds her struggles in her transition from a handle-it-all doctor and mother in the States to full-time parent who needs her kids to translate.

It's a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on. Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some...

An attempt to find purpose in this lifetime through storytelling & conversation.

Undaunted is the captivating true story of the spirited, intrepid aviation pioneer who inspired the countless daring pilots and astronauts who came after him. A consummate adventurer, Jimmie Mattern was seemingly impervious to pain or despair. After every misfortune, he climbed right back into the cockpit and set his sights on the next horizon—unafraid and unfaltering.

Inspired by her mother's attempts to create joyful traditions in tough times, and by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bernadette Nason has been forever striving to find the perfect Christmas, even though childhood memories haunt her. When she reads that her hometown of Winchester is vying for the coveted title of "Most Christmassy Town in Britain", she's gobsmacked. Most Christmassy town? Snort! Not on your nelly! And, suddenly, the ghosts of Christmases past are back, and Nason is reflecting on the consequences of deep-rooted family rituals.

Killing The Presidentsoffers a brief and fascinating look at the Presidents who lost their lives, the motives and mental states of the assassins, and the reactions of the public.

What Catholic guy made money as an organ-grinder's assistant, spent one-on-one time with John Paul II, met a very nice Thai prostitute, and confessed his sins on a beanbag chair? Lino Rulli, of course!

The First Counterspy is the story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell's technical library. The FBI pitted them against Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.

In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her greatest challenge to date: acting her age. Jen is finally ready...