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Hazel Hendry is a remarkable woman. She worked tirelessly raising
money for charities, and particularly for TEARFUND, including
walking the form of a cross from John Oa Groats to Lands End and
from Ramsgate to Fishguard in Wales. When the Croatian War began,
the founder of TEARFUND, George Hoffman, told her, a Hazel, the
people of Croatia need your helpa . So she raised money to send
over 50 lorries, full of much needed supplies of food, furniture,
medical equipment and toiletries, into Croatia. She travelled
personally with many of them during and after the war. Hazel
delivered aid right to the Front Line risking her life to help
people who had lost their homes, livelihoods, and families. This
book is about her experiences during those dangerous years, and the
people who helped her and those that she helped. It is based on
journals which she kept at the time and later recollections of
particular people and events. As such, it is a vivid account of how
the Croations in the War Zone suffered at the hands of the Chetniks
who would attack their villages while leaving neighbouring villages
in Croatia where Serbs lived unscathed. Some of the details that
she recalls are not for the squeamish, but the way in which her
faith supported her throughout this period shines through on every
page.
The book contains stories on various subjects, starting with the
contemplations of passengers in an airplane during a fictitious
flight on various situations in their life, through the memories
captured by ZS during his study and work, as well as stories based
on pub talks and on the imagination of the author.
Sentenced to Lockdown, regarded as "non-essential", 40 South African writers get together in a virtual Corona Collective, to pen The Lockdown Collection, trying to make sense of a world, held hostage by a virus.
Powerfully visceral, this gem includes a list of South Africa's most celebrated writers, brilliantly capturing the emotional, the spiritual and even the humorous effects of a global pandemic.
This historical gem includes: Sisonke Msimang, Lebo Mashile, Fred Khumalo and Marianne Thamm.
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extraordinaire, la rA (c)ussite da un circuit de la Suisse A pied,
A vA (c)lo et en kayak, en suivant au plus prAs la ligne frontiAre.
Une distance totale de prAs de 2a 500 km et 120a 000 m de dA
(c)nivelA (c) (environ 13 fois la hauteur de la Everest!) parcourue
en 115 jours en 2015 et 2016, dans des conditions parfois
dangereuses, hors des sentiers battus. Au cours de cette pA
(c)riode, la auteur a escaladA (c) un peu plus da une centaine de
sommets et un nombre A (c)quivalent de cols sur la frontiAre, y
compris des sommets mythiques comme le Mont Rose et le Cervin; il a
fait de la randonnA (c)e dans le Jura, le Tessin et les Grisons et
du kayak sur le lac LA (c)man et le Rhin. Ca A (c)tait aussi un
exploit, A 75 ans! Le livre comprend des sections sur la
contrebande et des exemples de retrait des glaciers, ainsi qua une
trentaine da A"histoires de frontiAreA", qui constituent une source
da informations prA (c)cieuse sur la histoire et la gA (c)ographie
de la frontiAre suisse.
Nine days that set the course of a nation... Johannesburg, Easter
weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is
in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when
a white supremacist shoots Mandela's popular young heir apparent,
Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. Will he
succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid
for perhaps years to come? Or can Mandela and de Klerk overcome
their differences and mutual suspicion and calm their followers,
plotting a way forward? In The Plot to Save South Africa, acclaimed
South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the riveting story
of the next nine days - never before told in full - revealing
rarely seen sides of both Mandela and de Klerk, the fascinating
behind-the-scenes debates within each of their parties over whether
to pursue peace or war, and their increasingly desperate attempts
to restrain their supporters despite mounting popular frustrations.
Flitting between the points of view of over a dozen characters on
all sides of the conflict, Justice Malala offers an illuminating
look at successful leadership in action... and a terrifying
reminder of just how close a country we think of today as a model
for racial reconciliation came to civil war.
This book will take you on Andy's personal journey of recovery,
giving you a direct window into how it felt mentally and physically
to suffer a heart attack. This came as a huge shock to Andy, not
least because he didn't smoke or drink but was leading what he
thought was a perfectly healthy lifestyle. He shares his darker
moments of fear and depression and how he learned to master his
negative thoughts. It is written to pay respects to all those
around the world who face up against serious illness, be that
mental or physical, look it square in the eye and tell it to**CK
OFF.
Daughter. Wife. Mother. Mystic. Discover the life of this fifteenth
century merchant's wife from King's Lynn who despite being unable
to read or write created the first autobiography in English.
Explore Margery's world of visions, pilgrimages and the constant
threat of being burned for heresy.
Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and
betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations.
2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition,
Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture
Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice,
controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is
spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant
"anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's
shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning
investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the
crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story,
he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who
was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of
this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the
anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield.
Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the
United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning
a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer
battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and
gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking
schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with
disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.
The true story of a young lady's escape to better things. Of love,
marriage and children. A tale of death and despair in a foreign
land. Of fate taking a hand and joining two people in a deep and
lasting love. The author has used letters and anecdotal evidence
from family members who are the lead players in this story. He
hopes he has done justice to the tale of their lives.
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