Author: Papa Spyk
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312664681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Papa Spyk's Autobiography chronicles his life and how it was turned around after suffering a near death experience.A professional rugby player, top international model, actor and stuntman. His heart exploded due to drug and steroid abuse, his Aorta split in half from his heart to his legs and was left in a coma for a month surgeon wanted to amputate both his legs. Spent two years bedridden. Paralyzed from the waist down told he would be brain dead, never walk again and never fathered a child, and proved them wrong. Fortunately his amazing family and friends gave him the strength to survive. Learning to walk again and father his Angel, Angelyna.A Naughty Thing called Life an honest story of his experience, hoping to make a difference to other people's lives. It's about courage to love and be loved and the way he healed himself by going through hell and back. It reminds the reader that there is a silver lining in every cloud. A testament to his focus of his energy from self destruction to creation.
Author: Papa Spyk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781490935799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Papa Spyk Recalls Colorful Life Journey in... 'A Naughty Thing called Life...The Complete StoryNew book chronicles the author's life and how it was turned around after suffering a near death experience.Some people live pretty colorful and incredibly intense lives. Sometimes all it takes is one dramatic event to be the catalyst for change. Author Papa Spyk takes readers on a nostalgic road down memory lane as he recalls A Naughty Thing called Life.Papa Spyk, an ex professional rugby player, top international model, actor and stuntman. Born in the sixties. Papa Spyk was an overly intelligent child, trapped in a hopelessly dysfunctional world. He lived life on the edge until he suffered a near death experience. When he was told he would never walk again, be paraplegic, never father a child. He thought his life was over. Fortunately his amazing family and close friends gave him the strength to survive. Learning to walk again and father his very own little Angel, his Angelyna. A Naughty Thing called Life shares the honest story of Papa Spyk's experience, hoping to make a difference to other people's lives. Its about courage to love and be loved and the way he healed himself by going through hell and back. It remind's the reader that there is a silver lining in every cloud. This book is a testament to Papa Spyk's focus of his energy from self-destruction to creation.
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Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462898157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Papa Spyk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781483920627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Papa Spyk Recalls Colourful Life Journey in A Naughty Thing called Life New book chronicles the author's life and how it was turned around after suffering a near death experience Some people live pretty colourful and incredibly intense lives. Sometimes all it takes is one dramatic event to be the catalyst for change. Author Papa Spyk takes readers on a nostalgic road down memory lane as he recalls A Naughty Thing called Life. Papa Spyk, an ex professional rugby player, top international model, Hollywood actor and stuntman. Born in the sixties. Papa Spyk was an overly intelligent child, trapped in a hopelessly dysfunctional world. He lived life on the edge until he suffered a near death experience. When he was told he would never walk again, be paraplegic, never father a child. He thought his life was over. Fortunately his amazing family and close friends gave him the strength to survive. Learning to walk again and father his very own little Angel, his saving grace Angelyna-the love of his life. A Naughty Thing called Life shares the honest story of Papa Spyk's experience, hoping to make a difference to other people's lives. Its about courage to love and be love. the way to heal himself by going through hell and back.It remind's the reader that there is a silver lining in every cloud. This book is a testament to Papa Spyk's focus of his energy from destruction to creation. http://anaughtythingcalledlife.com/
Author: Papa Spyk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781482624441
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Papa Spyk Recalls Colourful Life Journey in A Naughty Thing called LifeNew book chronicles the author's life and how it was turned around after suffering a near death experience. Some people live pretty colourful and incredibly intense lives. Sometimes all it takes is one dramatic event to be the catalyst for change. Author Papa Spyk takes readers on a nostalgic road down memory lane as he recalls A Naughty Thing called Life. Papa Spyk, an ex professional rugby player, top international model, Hollywood actor and stuntman. Born in the sixties. Papa Spyk was an overly intelligent child, trapped in a hopelessly dysfunctional world. He lived life on the edge until he suffered a near death experience. When he was told he would never walk again, be paraplegic, never father a child. He thought his life was over. Fortunately his amazing family and close friends gave him the strength to survive. Learning to walk again and father his very own little Angel, his saving grace Angelyna-the love of his life. A Naughty Thing called Life shares the honest story of Papa Spyk's experience, hoping to make a difference to other people's lives. Its about courage to love and be love. the way to heal himself by going through hell and back.It remind's the reader that there is a silver lining in every cloud. This book is a testament to Papa Spyk's focus of his energy from destruction to creation.http://anaughtythingcalledlife.com/
Author: Papa Spyk
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477105468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Author: Neal Karlen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250135257
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock’s greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote “3 Chains o’ Gold,” Prince’s “rock video opera,” as well as the star’s last testament, which may be buried with Prince’s will underneath Prince’s vast and private compound, Paisley Park. According to Prince's former fiancée Susannah Melvoin, Karlen was “the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.” Karlen quit writing about Prince a quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he never quit Prince, and the two remained friends for the last thirty-one years of the superstar’s life. Well before they met as writer and subject, Prince and Karlen knew each other as two of the gang of kids who biked around Minneapolis’s mostly-segregated Northside. (They played basketball at the Dairy Queen next door to Karlen’s grandparents, two blocks from the budding musician.) He asserts that Prince can’t be understood without first understanding ‘70s Minneapolis, and that even Prince’s best friends knew only 15 percent of him: that was all he was willing and able to give, no matter how much he cared for them. Going back to Prince Rogers Nelson's roots, especially his contradictory, often tortured, and sometimes violent relationship with his father, This Thing Called Life profoundly changes what we know about Prince, and explains him as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office, who frequented libraries and jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward), who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible, talk about movies and music and life, and watch as he tries not to curse, instead dishing a healthy dose of “mamma jammas.”
Author: Mel Carnegie
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780885555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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In I’m Still Standing, Mel Carnegie vividly recounts how she has fought adversity since childhood, beginning with the death of her father when she was just four years old and culminating with the discovery that her ten-year marriage had been nothing but a sham. She now believes that the man she called her soulmate was a sociopath.Sociopaths, or psychopaths as they are also known, live and breathe among us. They have no conscious. No empathy. No remorse. And there is no easy way to tell them apart from other people. Sociopaths are expert manipulators, and they are real – not just the fantasy of some Hollywood filmmaker. They look normal and they sound normal. Typically they come across as being charming, charismatic and the life and soul of the party. But underneath the mask they are nothing but predators, searching for people and situations that will give them their next ‘hit’ whatever that might be – money, status, sex, a façade of credibility… They see other people as nothing more than providers, who usually don’t notice what they’re doing until it’s too late. Leaving trails of chaos, confusion and destruction behind them, they’ll simply move straight on to their next willing target without even a backwards glance. When Mel discovered the truth about the man she called her soulmate, she pulled on all her life experiences to make sense of an unimaginable mess and fight her way back to life and to ultimate victory. Here she shares her journey with candid and often brutal honesty in the hope that she can help others recognise and escape the clutches of emotional abuse. This is her heart-rending and ultimately inspirational story.
Author: Christopher Milne
Publisher: Christopher Milne
ISBN: 0646393952
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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The Complete Book of Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls is a best of compilation volume of Christopher Milne's Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls. The Naughty Stories series has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide and Christopher Milne has won many Australian Children's Writing Awards including Young Australian's Best Book Award.
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340977002
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasnt about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
