Tag: inspiration
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unbroken spirit by Jade Lynn
Book Description (from Amazon.ca) In this heartfelt and unflinchingly honest memoir, Jade recounts her harrowing journey from the depths of emotional abuse to the discovery of her inner strength and unyielding hope. Told with raw vulnerability and courage, this story traverses the painful terrain of manipulation, self-doubt, and isolation, painting a vivid picture of a…
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The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen
Book Description (Amazon.ca) Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty”—just as the 1970’s counterculture movement…
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Across the Narrows
Book Description (from Amazon.ca) In 1924, at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital, Ruby del Palacio delivers a blue baby weeks early. The baby girl dies for want of oxygen. Within a year, Ruby delivers another baby girl named Alice. Gradually realizing that her sole role in the del Palacio household is to conceive, deliver, and nurse…
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