Olga S Story

Author : Stephanie Williams
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385673464

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Olga's Story by Stephanie Williams Pdf

When Canadian journalist Stephanie Williams set out to discover her Russian grandmother’ s long-lost history, what she unearthed was this stunning, sprawling portrait of a life lived on the grand stage of the 20th century. Born in remote Siberia in 1900, Olga Yunter was the youngest of five children. As a teenager during the Revolution, she was a courier and arms-runner for the White Russians. After learning of the execution of her brother at the hands of the Red Army, which drew nearer every day, her father sent her to China with rubies and gold sewn into her petticoats. She would never see her family again. The life of a Russian exile in China meant poverty and fear. But Olga was lucky. She met and married Fred Edney, and gave birth to their daughter, Irina, the author’s mother. But the creeping Japanese occupation and invasion of China forced Olga to flee with Irina to Canada, leaving Fred behind to continue working. For five years she heard almost nothing of her husband, save that he was alive in a Japanese prison camp. At the end of the war she returned to China to find him broken by his internment. The family was driven out of the country for good by the Chinese Revolution in 1949. They settled in Oxford, where Olga and Fred lived out the rest of their days. Drawing on letters, diaries, government documents, and interviews, Stephanie Williams brings to life this gripping historical drama, sweeping in scope and illuminated by the intimate details of one woman’s extraordinary life.

Author : Olga Soter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1934849480

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Olga's Story by Olga Soter Pdf

Author : Olga Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646864386

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Olga's Story by Olga Abbott Pdf

Olga was born in 1933 and lived in Shanghai, China, for most of the first 17 years of her life. She experienced the horrors of the Japanese occupation during WWII and later the arrival of communism. But now both her parents were deceased and her current "adopted" family was leaving for the USA, joining the mass exodus. She felt alone and wondered what her fate would be. So she put her life in God's hands and a life changing adventure was about to start. Despite the difficulties of a young woman travelling alone from one end of the world to the other, she was soon on her way to Australia - a country of unknowns!

Author : Bruce Grierson
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780345812452

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What Makes Olga Run? by Bruce Grierson Pdf

FINALIST 2014 – City of Vancouver Book Award Part science book, part journey into the untapped potential of the human spirit, this is the remarkable story of a 94-year-old track and field champion (not retired). Olga Kotelko is most certainly a genetic outlier, one of those rare, blessed people whose bodies resist the degradations of age. More remarkably, she's not alone; there are men and women all over the world competing at ages at which most of us will be lucky even to be alive. But her secret, and theirs, isn't just the luck of the gene pool. It's in the stories of how they exploit their genetic good fortune where the lessons for the rest of us may be found. Author Bruce Grierson, whose much-read 2010 New York Times Magazine piece first brought attention to Olga's remarkable story, accompanies the nonagenarian Canadian to track meets to see her in action, and to research facilities around North America where he and medical researchers hope to learn the secrets of her thriving tissues and age-resistant DNA. And perhaps most importantly, she welcomes him and us into her world, where we learn that your life might benefit most of all from how you live it.

Author : Xochitl Gonzalez
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250786197

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Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · WINNER OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD FINALIST A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots—all in the wake of Hurricane Maria NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus, Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Vogue, Esquire, Book Riot, Goodreads, EW, Reader's Digest, and more! "Don’t underestimate this new novelist. She’s jump-starting the year with a smart romantic comedy that lures us in with laughter and keeps us hooked with a fantastically engaging story." —The Washington Post It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power brokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1 percent but she can’t seem to find her own. . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets. Olga and Prieto’s mother, Blanca, a Young Lord turned radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history, Xochitl Gonzalez’s Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dream—all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.

Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644210352

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The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk Pdf

A beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life for readers of all ages by by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk. "Olga Tokarczuk’s The Lost Soul, an experimental fable illustrated by Joanna Concejo and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, resonates with our current moment. . . . What a striking, and lovely, material object it is." —New York Times "The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul. . . It pours a childlike sense of wonder into a once-upon-a-time tale that is already resonating with adults around the world." —The Guardian The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of another time. Here a man has forgotten what makes his heart feel full. He moves to a house away from all that is familiar to him to wait for his soul to return. "Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul—he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he felt as if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " —from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a sublime album, a rare delicacy that will delight readers young and old. "You must find a place of your own, sit there quietly and wait for your soul." Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, Special Mention 2018, Prix de l'Union Internationale pour les Livres de Jeunesse (IBBY), The White Raven (IJB Munich), and the Łódź Design Festival Award.

Author : Olga Munari Assaly
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1475951965

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The Joy of Cancer by Olga Munari Assaly Pdf

In April of 2006, Olga Munari was at the end of her rope. Unhappy with her life and her marriage, Olga confessed to her personal trainer that she wished something bad would happen to her as a means to create change in her life and her relationship. The following Monday, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Kim Mecca narrates the moving story of how Olga bravely faced a life-threatening diagnosis and used it as an opportunity to create a sacred bond with her children, adopt a positive attitude, and give back to others. As Olga began her journey through surgery and subsequent treatment, she soon discovered that her healing was not only physical, but also emotional. She learned to create joy from her immense challenges. As Mecca details Olgas dedication to fundraising, her decision to not change her life because she had cancer, and her devotion to her family, she provides an unforgettable glimpse into all the ways Olga walked through the darkness of her disease and into the light of healing. The Joy of Cancer tells the inspiring story of how one woman used her breast cancer diagnosis to slowly transform, break free of her cocoon, and become the beautiful butterfly she was always meant to be.

Author : Olga Trujillo
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781608825707

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The Sum of My Parts by Olga Trujillo Pdf

By the first day of kindergarten, Olga Trujillo had already survived years of abuse and violent rape at the hands of her tyrannical father. Over the next ten years, she would develop the ability to numb herself to the constant abuse by splitting into distinct mental “parts.” Dissociative identity disorder (DID) had begun to take hold, protecting Olga’s mind from the tragic realities of her childhood. In The Sum of My Parts, Olga reveals her life story for the first time, chronicling her heroic journey from survivor to advocate and her remarkable recovery from DID. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID is defined by the presence of two or more identities. In this riveting story, Olga struggles to unearth memories from her childhood, and parallel identities—Olga at five years old, Olga at thirteen—come forth and demand to be healed. This brave, unforgettable memoir charts the author’s triumph over the most devastating conditions and will inspire anyone whose life has been affected by trauma.

Author : Patricia Phenix
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89070875570

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Olga Romanov by Patricia Phenix Pdf

Author : Bruce MacDonald
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798846538672

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Olga's Story by Bruce MacDonald Pdf

This is the story of the last Romanov family from the point of view of Olga Romanov, the eldest of the four children. Olga describes the time from her childhood to the Revolution and beyond, to the tragic and brutal killing of the whole family.

Author : Olga Esther Nevarez Custodio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952779227

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Latinas in Aviation by Olga Esther Nevarez Custodio Pdf

Latinas in Aviation is a celebration of the rarest women in the industry, told through stories of their triumphs, their falls and their most crowning achievements. Hear from retired veterans as well as new graduates, pilots as well as aviation aeronautical engineers, administrators, military and civilians, all with a unique passion for aviation and its impact on our world. Each author inspires, entertains and sets the stage for the next generation of Latinas who look to the sky with a dream.

Author : Elizabeth Watkins
Publisher : Britwell Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1905203748

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Olga in Kenya by Elizabeth Watkins Pdf

Some people achieve far more than their time on earth should allow, making a real difference to many, yet unrecognised by most.Olga Baillie-Grohman is one such person. The summary of her life reads as an extraordinary catalogue of events ? born in Austria within hours of Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, she married a Kenyan soldier-settler and was recruited to British Intelligence work. Her second marriage to a senior Government official enabled her to fulfil many missions in life - elected as the first female member of the Nairobi City Council followed by the Kenyan Legislative Council, Olga used her standing to advance better urban housing for African's, education for the continents women and as a representative to the smaller coffee farmers. Olga?s story is one that should not be forgotten as it is a guiding light for putting the world to rights and an inspiration to others.

Author : Bernhard Schlink
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063112940

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Olga by Bernhard Schlink Pdf

“Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”—Booklist “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”—Evening Standard A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age. Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures Unfolding across decades—from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century—and across continents—from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west—Olga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a woman’s devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shines—revealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable. Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlink’s magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman and her world. Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

Author : United States. Social Security Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Social security
ISBN : UOM:39015005068989

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Publications ... by United States. Social Security Administration Pdf

Author : United States. Committee on Economic Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : UOM:39015006483096

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Social Security in America by United States. Committee on Economic Security Pdf