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Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival
Voices of Courage is the vision of life coach and speaker Brenda
Dempsey to bring extraordinary women together from around the globe
to share their stories in an inspirational book of strength,
courage and transformation. Many women become trapped in their
lives feeling hopeless and alone. They are so overwhelmed by their
situation that they can no longer see a way out until... The pain
they are suffering becomes too much and they reach the critical
point of 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!'. This is the Pivotal Moment
when they summon up their courage from deep within their soul and
scream ENOUGH - NO MORE.
In February 2018, Kiko Matthews set out to row solo and
unsupported, 3000 miles across the Atlantic. She not only added her
name to the handful of women who had successfully made the crossing
solo, but did so in a world record time of 49 days, 10 hours and 13
minutes - more than five days less than the previous record. She
had never rowed before deciding on this challenge. But following
brain surgery after being diagnosed with a rare life-threatening
condition, she set herself goals that pushed her mental and
physical boundaries to the limit. In her book she vividly describes
her epic voyage and what drove her to attempt it.
'IT TOOK ME LONGER TO FORGIVE MY DAD FOR NOT HELPING ME WHEN I WAS
TORTURED, THAN TO FORGIVE THOSE SOLDIERS WHO TORTURED ME' Mirsad
Solakovic survived a war in which some 300,000 people died, but was
left with psychological damage. Mirsad lived through the ethnic
cleansing of Bosnian civilians, until his family escaped to the UK.
Following his experiences, he became difficult and untractable, and
refused to speak English - until dedicated and sympathetic teachers
at his school in Birmingham brought him back into contact with
those around him. This thought-provoking account of the Bosnian and
Herzegovinian tragedy paints a uniquely intimate portrait of
survival, revealing pain that has never faded, yet has not crushed
the human spirit. It is also an uplifting account of just how
effective good teachers can be when faced with deeply troubled
pupils.
Children of the Revolution is a book of converging worlds. In it
you discover the very human weave of courage, perseverance and
vision, woven with a delightful touch of humour and surprise. It
also has the beguiling pattern of a journey unfolding. And as it
unfolds, you learn. And you are inspired. Children of the
Revolution, by Feroze Dada, is a story which begins with a chance
meeting at a family gathering in Burma (Myanmar) with a freedom
fighter from the Pa'O region in the northeast of the country, and
which then takes you on to a monastery on the shores of beautiful
Inle Lake in Shan State. There, at the Buddhist monastery of Phaya
Taung, the head monk Phongyi is passionately caring for and
teaching more than 600 orphaned and refugee children of the
revolutionary wars. You discover that both the freedom fighter and
the Buddhist monk are in their different ways forces of nature, or
men of action, and while you learn about their lives, you also find
the human goodness that shines in the darkness of war, and you
witness the path of the dhamma in the world. You cannot fail to be
encouraged by Phongyi's example to `go beyond one's imagination
because there is no limit'. But at the same time, another story is
unfolding, and that is the journey of self-discovery of Feroze
Dada, who moves with his Burmese wife MuMu between his metropolitan
western life and Taunggyi in the northeast of Burma, where her
family live, and in doing so finds a new reality and purpose.
Feroze is a man of action too, as you will discover. And he has
written an inspirational story which is all the more powerful when
you consider that his reasons for making the journey are literally
a world away from what transpired. There are no accidents, the law
of karma tells us, but we're not the sole cause of our experiences
either.
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