Author: Dorothy Hamill
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401389783
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. "America's Sweetheart" Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: winning Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy faced a painful inner struggle from the time she was a young girl that followed her into adulthood--though she would not know about the depression that ran in her family until much later in life. Weeks and months away from home to train and compete took a difficult toll, yet little reprieve could be found in the tumultuous and fragile relationship she had with her parents. Dorothy went on to marry the man of her dreams, only to have the partnership end in heartache and a tragedy that almost pushed her to her breaking point. Then, just when a light at the end of the tunnel finally began to appear, a second failed marriage tried and tested Dorothy's trust and strength yet again--a travesty that could have led her to give up. But, she found a remarkable strength in what she did have--her greatest love, her daughter Alexandra. "Thank goodness, I had my skating. There was certainly a pattern to my life. When times were tough, I went skating. It was only while I was out on the ice, enjoying the freedom of movement and my love of music, that I was able to escape from my bottomless heartache." In her deeply moving and honest memoir, Dorothy opens up for the first time about love, family, courage, and what it means to truly win both on and off the ice.
A Skating Life
Author: Dorothy Hamill
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401389783
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. "America's Sweetheart" Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: winning Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy faced a painful inner struggle from the time she was a young girl that followed her into adulthood--though she would not know about the depression that ran in her family until much later in life. Weeks and months away from home to train and compete took a difficult toll, yet little reprieve could be found in the tumultuous and fragile relationship she had with her parents. Dorothy went on to marry the man of her dreams, only to have the partnership end in heartache and a tragedy that almost pushed her to her breaking point. Then, just when a light at the end of the tunnel finally began to appear, a second failed marriage tried and tested Dorothy's trust and strength yet again--a travesty that could have led her to give up. But, she found a remarkable strength in what she did have--her greatest love, her daughter Alexandra. "Thank goodness, I had my skating. There was certainly a pattern to my life. When times were tough, I went skating. It was only while I was out on the ice, enjoying the freedom of movement and my love of music, that I was able to escape from my bottomless heartache." In her deeply moving and honest memoir, Dorothy opens up for the first time about love, family, courage, and what it means to truly win both on and off the ice.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401389783
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. "America's Sweetheart" Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: winning Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy faced a painful inner struggle from the time she was a young girl that followed her into adulthood--though she would not know about the depression that ran in her family until much later in life. Weeks and months away from home to train and compete took a difficult toll, yet little reprieve could be found in the tumultuous and fragile relationship she had with her parents. Dorothy went on to marry the man of her dreams, only to have the partnership end in heartache and a tragedy that almost pushed her to her breaking point. Then, just when a light at the end of the tunnel finally began to appear, a second failed marriage tried and tested Dorothy's trust and strength yet again--a travesty that could have led her to give up. But, she found a remarkable strength in what she did have--her greatest love, her daughter Alexandra. "Thank goodness, I had my skating. There was certainly a pattern to my life. When times were tough, I went skating. It was only while I was out on the ice, enjoying the freedom of movement and my love of music, that I was able to escape from my bottomless heartache." In her deeply moving and honest memoir, Dorothy opens up for the first time about love, family, courage, and what it means to truly win both on and off the ice.
Life
Author: John Ames Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Life
Author:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A Skating Life
Author: Dorothy Hamill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316408226
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Three decades after her gold medal performance, Americas Sweetheart finally speaks out about her behind-the-scenes trauma and the challenges shes faced ever since. 16-page full-color photo insert.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316408226
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Three decades after her gold medal performance, Americas Sweetheart finally speaks out about her behind-the-scenes trauma and the challenges shes faced ever since. 16-page full-color photo insert.
LIFE
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Life’S Essential Primer
Author: Robert C. Trautman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503558673
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Your current level of success (or failure) is the product of the choices youve made throughout your life. Lifes Essential Primer provides a practical guide designed to help you make the choices that lead most directly to greater success and happiness. Ideally, school aged children should read, or be taught, the principles and practices detailed in Section 1. It will give them an essential framework within which they can plan and prepare their educational paths efficiently, to become successful, well-mannered, responsible adults, while avoiding the common pitfalls along the way. Unwittingly taking just such a path from an early age with meager means, the author was able to realize his own dreams. He now offers you the benefit of his experiences with the hope that your life will become filled with success and happiness, as well. Its never too late to get your life on track for greater wealth, both monetarily and emotionally. Sections 2 through 5 provide a series of amusing real-life adventures, illustrating the practical application of Section 1. Finally, Section 6 wraps it all up by showing how early choices affect events later in life. Success is a choice. Make it yours!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503558673
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Your current level of success (or failure) is the product of the choices youve made throughout your life. Lifes Essential Primer provides a practical guide designed to help you make the choices that lead most directly to greater success and happiness. Ideally, school aged children should read, or be taught, the principles and practices detailed in Section 1. It will give them an essential framework within which they can plan and prepare their educational paths efficiently, to become successful, well-mannered, responsible adults, while avoiding the common pitfalls along the way. Unwittingly taking just such a path from an early age with meager means, the author was able to realize his own dreams. He now offers you the benefit of his experiences with the hope that your life will become filled with success and happiness, as well. Its never too late to get your life on track for greater wealth, both monetarily and emotionally. Sections 2 through 5 provide a series of amusing real-life adventures, illustrating the practical application of Section 1. Finally, Section 6 wraps it all up by showing how early choices affect events later in life. Success is a choice. Make it yours!
LIFE
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Life's Highway With A Good And True Everlasting Love
Author: Jean Solbert
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477126635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Born as one of a set of twins in June of 1920 and lived a country life until after marriage. Hunting, trapping, and fishing are very necessary parts of his life until after school. Factory work was always available. His twin died at age 6. A lifetime of true love, hope,and companionship with all the trials in between, for a family of seven. A father, a mother, three boys and two girls. A family.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477126635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Born as one of a set of twins in June of 1920 and lived a country life until after marriage. Hunting, trapping, and fishing are very necessary parts of his life until after school. Factory work was always available. His twin died at age 6. A lifetime of true love, hope,and companionship with all the trials in between, for a family of seven. A father, a mother, three boys and two girls. A family.
Life's Twists
Author: Carol Fike
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 149695923X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This is a book about Page and Blake, and it takes place in Manhattan, New York. The couple plans a December eighteenth wedding as Page is already expecting, and the young couple wants to be married before the arrival of their child. The two of them buy a house because Blake is a devoted husband and father, and he wants to do the best he can for his family. They also purchase a beach house, which in Page's mind is the best and worst investment right until the very end when everything ends in tragedy. Fortunately for Page, she finds another man, Luke, and the two of them fall in love. Who knows what life will bring. It sure has a lot of twists.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 149695923X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This is a book about Page and Blake, and it takes place in Manhattan, New York. The couple plans a December eighteenth wedding as Page is already expecting, and the young couple wants to be married before the arrival of their child. The two of them buy a house because Blake is a devoted husband and father, and he wants to do the best he can for his family. They also purchase a beach house, which in Page's mind is the best and worst investment right until the very end when everything ends in tragedy. Fortunately for Page, she finds another man, Luke, and the two of them fall in love. Who knows what life will bring. It sure has a lot of twists.
Boys' Life
Author:
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.