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“About Summary & Analysis of Becoming:
Michelle Obama’s moving and intimate memoir has been topping the bestseller lists for weeks! Understand the past, present, and future of this remarkable woman with our summary of Becoming.
Targeted Age Group: ALL
Written by: ZIP Reads
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“About Trailer Trash: an ’80s Memoir:
Trailer Trash—an 80s Memoir Book Synopsis
Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who finds herself cradled in an arm of a society that would be considered anything but your paradigmatic suburban neighborhood. In 1980, Angie and her two siblings are dropped into a world of the poorest tenements—trailer parks.
But these are not your usual run-of-the-mill Florida retirement occupants—these are tenants with issues that Angie soon realizes are the same that can happen anywhere—even under her own roof.
Her place in society is further confused by the fact that she shares a postage-sized yard with a less-desired community by societal standards and attends a prestigious private school over an hour away and world’s away from her home life.
After spending a decade living in a world of indiscernible differences, Angie’s family decides it’s time to pull up stakes, sell the trailer park and buy a double-wide trailer of their own in the Carnie Capital of World, Gibsonton, Florida.
Funny at times, nostalgic throughout, Trailer Trash hits on some serious notes and undertones about societal differences and the trials of surviving childhood in the ‘80s.
Targeted Age Group: 35-55
Written by: Angela Cavallari
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“About Butterfly Child, a Mother’s Journey:
Butterfly Child is the story of a mother’s journey through grief and incredible challenges. From the stillbirth at full term of her first baby, followed by a miscarriage, to the birth of her son Nicky, diagnosed with Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare skin blistering disorder that requires extensive wound care and is considered life threatening. Challenges include Insurance Companies refusal to cover the most basic needs for any Eb patient to Silvia’s trying to make sense of her situation, from a divorce to a remarriage and another scary pregnancy. Her youngest son, Connor, is 100% healthy and she never, ever, takes it for granted.
Targeted Age Group: 14+
Written by: Silvia Corradin
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“About European Politics on Drugs: A True Story of How Shameless Political Corruption Destroyed a Brilliant Product:
Winston Churchill was one of the first to call for a “United States of Europe” after the Second World War. He envisioned a multinational project based on a common market, one that would create prosperity for all Europeans and prevent future wars. However, the English Brexit and a looming trade war between the United States and the European Union indicate that the EU is currently facing an existential crisis.
2019 is an election year in the EU and may prove pivotal to the fate of Europe. People are starting to realize that the power centered in Brussels has become an uncontrollable monstrosity and is largely dominated by German economic interests. In the background, a growing EU political elite, determined to wield its influence over Europe’s destiny, is increasingly acting without regard for the national sovereignty of EU member states and their elected leaders. These developments have frighteningly little to do with democracy. While serving large economic interests by defending industrial monopolies, the EU is also pursuing a policy of protectionism that is ultimately undermining the rule of law. This is manifesting in the manipulation of global trade, where investment security and legal certainty have become anything but certain. Slowly but surely, the European Union is betraying its own raison d’être.
European Politics on Drugs is a memoir based on the ongoing scandal known as the “atmed Affair,” coined by the former Portuguese European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in 2007. It is the story of how a seemingly innocent sales ban over public health concerns in Bavaria has prevented a simple invention from gaining access to world-wide markets. A real-life economic thriller that is far from over, the scandal continues to reveal the ugly truths hidden in the EU system. In recounting his 25-year Odyssey, the German inventor Christoph Klein documents a dysfunctional EU, exposing the blatant corruption at its core.
In the early 1990s, Christoph Klein developed an improved inhaler actuator for asthma sprays that realized tremendous savings on pharmaceutical drugs. After the initial excitement surrounding his invention subsided, the device was soon denounced as dangerous by the pharma industry and the German authorities followed suit. Banned in 1997 with the active support of the European Commission, Germany, and Upper Bavaria in particular, these authorities have succeeded in keeping this effective medical device off of the global market for over two decades. In 2012, the European Parliament estimated that the ban on Klein’s inhaler had already cost European health insurance programs and their contributors approximately 50 billion euros.
Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Christoph Klein
Illustrated by: Karen Ulrich
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“About I Was Just a Radioman:
Their hearts were strong, and their courage endless.
Pearl Harbor survivor, Black Cat radioman, and decorated WW 2 veteran. ARM H. P. Lawrence, tells the true story of the fight against the Japanese in this compilation of his memoirs.
One of only a handful of non-Native American code-talkers, H. P. Lawrence became a member of an elite fighting force, the Black Cats. Flying in their nocturnal missions, the Cats claws were sharp and their aim deadly.
From devastation to victory, the story of these brave men−the deadly, mysterious, and illusive Black Cats is a journey into the past where nightmares came true and hatred reigned. A time in history we should never, ever forget.
The day which will live in infamy…was just the beginning.
Targeted Age Group: 25 to 85
Written by: Pamela Ackerson
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“About Is it about that boy? The Shocking Trauma of Aversion Therapy:
Jeremy is a gay boy brought up in a Catholic Household in Yorkshire, UK, where sex and love are taboo subjects. Sex on TV is deemed to be sinful; homosexuality especially so. He feels unloved and fears his parents finding out he is gay.
At school in 1970 aged sixteen, he falls in love with Stephen. For Jeremy, Stephen is the most beautiful boy in the world. With Stephen, he finds love and acceptance.
In 1972, Jeremy realises their relationship will finish at the end of their final school year and he has a stress breakdown at school. He admits to a Catholic priest he is homosexual.
Hoping for understanding, Jeremy receives condemnation from the Catholic Headmaster and staff. They convince him he is sinful, sick and diseased. The Headmaster gives Jeremy a choice. If he wishes to continue to be a homosexual, he will be expelled immediately and not allowed to take his A Levels. Jeremy knows this will ruin his life. He has a couple of offers from universities if he passes two A levels. He fears his parents will kick him out. The first option is rejected, the second is taken. He must volunteer to be treated for his ‘disease.’ The Headmaster tells Jeremy to inform his GP that he is a homosexual and wishes to be cured.
Electric shock aversion therapy at a mental hospital, is prescribed. The treatment starts on the morning of sitting his second A level; he subsequently fails his exams and has to do another year at school. With the threat of expulsion still hanging over him, he keeps going for treatment for six months. The purpose of the electric shocks become a desire to stop him loving Stephen. The therapy traumatises him. To escape the torturous treatment his brain creates images of Stephen dying in a road accident.
The story is not a misery memoir as it leads the reader through the lows and highs, of his life as he struggles to live with the memory of Stephen’s death. At work, he finds he is excellent at practical work but when he has to concentrate on anything academic, only traumatic memories appear. Moving from job to job in search of peace, he finally achieves this through self-employment. Dry stone walling is his salvation.
Jeremy has to split himself in two to keep it together. Jeremy, the younger, is kept hidden and becomes hated by the adult Jerry. Jerry blames his younger self for being weak and giving in to the priests demands.
Twice in his life, Jerry is diagnosed with PTSD. The first in 1998 relates to Stephen’s death. He receives over forty one-hour sessions of psychotherapy and bereavement counselling. The second time in 2010 relates to the traumatic after-effects of the aversion therapy.
Between these diagnoses the book follows Jeremy during the happiest decade of his life as he works as a dry stone waller in the Lake District and Scotland. He discovers his spiritual self through a new understanding of a gift that Stephen gave him the last time they had met in 1972.
In March 2011, during a psychotherapy session, a brief thought flashes through his mind that maybe he didn’t see his boyfriend die. Following this revelation, Jerry proves it to be true and tries to find Stephen. He finds that Stephen died in a road accident in 1983.
To help him understand his past, Jerry researches the various aspects of psychology which relate to how the false memory could have been formed: Dissociation, cognitive dissonance, body memories, and PTSD. He receives EMDR, ‘Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It was after this treatment in 2016 that Jerry realises that his younger self was not to blame for anything that happened and, re-united with himself, Jeremy finds peace.
Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Jeremy Gavins
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