A Brother's Journey

A Brother's Journey
Author: Richard B. Pelzer
Publisher: Sphere
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005
Genre: Abused children
ISBN: 9780316727327

The story of Dave Pelzer is a legend in our times: the shattering tale of the child called 'It' who was forced to live in the basement; the 'Him' the other children were taught to hat; the 'Freak' who wasn't allowed to speak. his mother was the perpetrator of the horror, but she had a willing accomplice. It was Dave's little brother Richard - the author of this book.

My Brother Martin

My Brother Martin
Author: Christine King Farris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689843879

Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement. Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down. Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history.

Three Weeks with My Brother

Three Weeks with My Brother
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2004-04-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0759510334

In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope. As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragic. In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective Nicholas recalled their rambunctious childhood adventures and the tragedies that tested their faith. And in the process, they discovered startling truths about loss, love, and hope. Narrated with irrepressible humor and rare candor, and including personal photos, Three Weeks with My Brother reminds us to embrace life with all its uncertainties . . . and most of all, to cherish the joyful times, both small and momentous, and the wonderful people who make them possible.

My Brother's Road

My Brother's Road
Author: Markar Melkonian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2008-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1786739534

What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unravelling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestors' town in Turkey and leading to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the windswept heights of Mountainous Karabagh. Monte's life embodied the agony and the follies bedevelling the end of the Cold War and the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? "My Brother's Road" is not just the story of a long journey and a short life, it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.

My Brothers' Keeper

My Brothers' Keeper
Author: Gloria Reuben
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1642934119

The death of a sibling is unlike any other. Gloria Reuben’s little brother died just before his twenty-second birthday. Two decades later, her oldest brother Denis died two weeks short of his sixtieth birthday. Just as Gloria felt like she was finally healing from David’s death, the shock of Denis’ unexpected death was almost too much to take. In My Brothers’ Keeper, Gloria bares her soul as she reveals the intimate details of her life at home as a young girl. How the death of her father when she was twelve shaped her view of love and life. How David’s death was the impetus for her move from Canada to the United States. And how her brother Denis was her heart’s twin in a multitude of ways. Gloria, most well known as an actress, debuts her talent as a writer in My Brothers’ Keeper, an intimate and honest tribute to David and Denis. Their lives. Their deaths. And the hope that awaits. “Gloria has written a truly wonderful and inspirational tribute to her brothers and to life. Helpful to all of us who have suffered losses.”—Pete Earley

Standing on My Brother's Shoulders

Standing on My Brother's Shoulders
Author: Tara J Lal
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1780289049

A suicide loss survivor tells her story. Tara Lal’s childhood was battered by her father’s mental illness and by her mother’s death when she was thirteen. Caught up in grief and despair, she developed a deep, caring bond with her charismatic and kind older brother Adam, though he struggled silently with growing anxiety and depression. Four years after their mother’s death, Adam committed suicide. Grief and insecurity threatened to engulf Tara, but eventually she found, through a dialogue with the words her brother left behind in his diaries, her reason to live. The book includes an Afterword on the possibilities for recovery and growth following a tragedy, written by Miriam Akhtar, author of Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression.

From My Nigger to My Brother

From My Nigger to My Brother
Author: Teddy Vail
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530183272

This is the story of my coming to grips with my own racism. I am not proud of it. I am trying to find an answer.

Our Brother's Keeper

Our Brother's Keeper
Author: Jedwin Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2005-03-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Few Vietnam books treat the effects of a U.S. soldier's death on his family. This muscularly written, starkly honest memoir fills a significant gap. Smith (Fatal Treasure), an Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor, was 22 years old, the oldest of six children, when his beloved younger brother Jeff was killed by a Vietcong rocket during a firefight near the village of Mai Xa Thi on March 7, 1968. Jeff's death tore the fragile family apart: their mother retreated into severe alcoholism and an all-encompassing fixation on Jeff (who had been her favorite); their emotionally distant father-a WWII Marine beset by postwar demons-left the family for another woman. Smith's other brothers and sisters suffered severe and lasting psychological problems, and Smith himself-while outwardly coping well by marrying, having children and working his way up the journalism ladder-became an emotional cripple bent on self-destruction: "Not only did I thoroughly embrace alcohol, but I also became kind of psychotic." Smith tells his story with bluntness and conviction, including what becomes a cathartic happy ending when he and two of his brother's fellow Marines make a journey to Vietnam in 2001 to visit the spot where Jeff died. --Publ.

My Brother's Name is Jessica

My Brother's Name is Jessica
Author: John Boyne
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780241376164

Sam has known his sister Jessica all his life. Tonight is the first time they're going to meet. Sam Waver has always been a loner- bullied, struggling at school, with parents who have very little time for him. The one person he has always been able to rely on is his beloved older sibling - but when they announce that they are transitioning, Sam's life is thrown upside down. He's convinced nothing will ever be the same again - but as Sam is about to discover, nothing is more constant than love.

Next of Kin

Next of Kin
Author: Thomas L. Reilly
Publisher: Potomac Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Vietnam
ISBN: 9781574885958

A beautifully written story about the bond between brothers and one man's search for truth in the midst of the Vietnam War