Showing posts with label Memoir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memoir. Show all posts

Book Trailer: Fighter Pilot's Daughter by Mary Lawlor

 

Watch the Book Trailer for Fighter Pilot's Daughter
 
 
 
Book Blurb

 

Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War tells the story of Mary Lawlor’s dramatic, roving life as a warrior’s child. A family biography and a young woman’s vision of the Cold War, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter narrates the more than many transfers the family made from Miami to California to Germany as the Cold War demanded. Each chapter describes the workings of this traveling household in a different place and time. The book’s climax takes us to Paris in May ’68, where Mary—until recently a dutiful military daughter—has joined the legendary student demonstrations against among other things, the Vietnam War. Meanwhile her father is flying missions out of Saigon for that very same war. Though they are on opposite sides of the political divide, a surprising reconciliation comes years later.

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Fighter Pilot’s Daughter is available at Amazon.

╰┈➤Book Details

  • Genre: Memoir
  • Sub-genre: Women in History / Military Leaders Biography
  • Language:English
  • Pages: 323
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1442222007
  • Kindle ISBN: 978-1442222014
  • Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
  • Format: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook

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╰┈➤Here’s What Readers Have To Say!

“Mary Lawlor’s memoir, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War, is terrifically written. The experience of living in a military family is beautifully brought to life. This memoir shows the pressures on families in the sixties, the fears of the Cold War, and also the love that families had that helped them get through those times, with many ups and downs. It’s a story that all of us who are old enough can relate to, whether we were involved or not. The book is so well written. Mary Lawlor shares a story that needs to be written, and she tells it very well.” ―The Jordan Rich Show
 
“Mary Lawlor, in her brilliantly realized memoir, articulates what accountants would call a soft cost, the cost that dependents of career military personnel pay, which is the feeling of never belonging to the specific piece of real estate called home. . . . [T]he real story is Lawlor and her father, who is ensconced despite their ongoing conflict in Lawlor’s pantheon of Catholic saints and Irish presidents, a perfect metaphor for coming of age at a time when rebelling was all about rebelling against the paternalistic society of Cold War America.” ―Stars and Stripes

╰┈➤Read if you love…

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=✪=Military Family

๐ŸŽ–️Life as a Military Brat

๐Ÿ—บ️⁀เชœ✈︎Travel

✌️The Sixties and the Cold War

✈️Fighter Pilots


Fighter Pilot’s Daughter is available at Amazon.

Book Trailer: Being Present by Keith Sykes

 

Watch the Book Trailer for Being Present by Keith Sykes


Being Present details my life growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, the youngest of 8 children. It gives the reader an intimate look at the relationship between me, my parents, and my siblings. It discusses life and death, joy and pain, and strength and perseverance. The book talks about love and loss and is an optimistic look at overcoming the obstacles of life.

Being Present talks about how I dealt with life after my parent’s death and how joining the military completely changed my life. It gives a glimpse into how the military inspired my love for travel and the many places that I was able to visit as a result. Read about my life after the military and the challenges I faced that shaped the man I am today. Lastly, the book will provide samples of my photography and discuss how it was inspired by my travel.

Release Date: ‎ January 5, 2023 

Publisher: Chosen Pen Publishing

Kindle: ASIN: ‎ B0BRT7CRWH; eBook $1.99 

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3jWFLpw

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076FS7CXW