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For Sarah Miles,childhood wasn't easy.Dyslexic with a severe stammer,rebellion was her means of expression,animals and trees her friends.After she was sacked from Roedean and Crofton Grange,her mother lost all patience and packed her off toRADA.But RADA shared her mother's view-Sarah was impossible. On the loose in London,Sarah revealed a special talent for getting into trouble and an equal talent for acting.She landed herself a prestigious agent,fell in love with his son,lived with a prostitute and met and fell in love with Laurence Olivier. The first volume of Sarah Miles's three volume autobiography reveals a fresh and original voice.She tells her story with self-deprecating humour and beguiling honesty.No-one is spared,least of all herself.
Sarah Miles was illegitimate, and of distant royal descent. Her childhood wasn't easy - she was dyslexic with a severe stammer - and rebellion was her means of expression. In London she revealed a talent for acting. This book is the first part of a two-volume autobiography.
In the first volume of her acclaimed autobiography,A RIGHT ROYAL BASTARD,Sarah Miles described a childhood marked by dyslexia and the need to rebel against every institution in sight.While she was at one of them-RADA-she made a list of dreams and to her amazement found them coming true.Not only did she become a film star first time round with TERM OF TRIAL,but she was acting opposite the very manshe'd adored since her childhood memories of WUTHERING HEIGHTS,Laurence Olivier,and during filming in Paris,Sarah finally became Heathcliff's Cathy.The stress of keeping their relationship a secret finally took its toll,until her agent,frustrated because she was becoming a recluse,took her to a party where she met her knight in shining armour,Robert Bolt.
With courage and humour, Sarah reveals Robert Bolt the man and the brilliiant writer whose atlesnt was so cruelly tested. She shows his brave recovery and how he learned to speak and write again. This is an amazing love story, and no-one can tell it like Sarah Miles.
Jesus tells his followers to feed the hungry, heal the sick, raise the dead, but often we’ve tamed this calling. Sara Miles, a passionate, funny, undomesticated Christian, tells what happened when she decided to follow Jesus into the messy diversity of human life and do exactly what he asked.
The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information Age and power-hungry Washington insiders that will shape the politics of the twenty-first century. Packed with exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting, How to Hack a Party Line chronicles a high-stakes experiment: the creation of Silicon Valley's first political machine. The book explores the often contradictory forces behind Silicon Valley's political awakening -- a mixture of naive libertarian sent...
The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread is not only a spiritual memoir but a call to action. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and writer. Then one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. She ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed, embracing a faith she’d scorned and which would lead to feeding others in a way that she’d never imagined. Sara started a food pantry giving away literally tons of food from around the same altar where she’d first received the body of Christ, and providing hundreds of hungry families with free groceries each week. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and gangsters – all blown into Miles’ life by the relentless force of her new-found calling. Here, in this beautiful, passionate book, is Christ’s living communion.
This third volume of Sarah Miles' autobiography opens with a vision which convinces her that death is not the end of everything.
City of God is a moving, prophetic account of the divine in daily life. It tells the story of one day in Sara’s ministry: Ash Wednesday, when she carries ashes out of church to public places. Sara explores the profound meanings set loose by touching the forehead of a stranger and paints an unforgettable picture of the search for God all around us.
From New York Times bestseller Kody Keplinger comes an astonishing and thought-provoking exploration of the aftermath of tragedy, the power of narrative, and how we remember what we've lost. It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith. But it's not true. I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the record straight . . . but I'm not the only survivor with a story to tell about what did--and didn't--happen that day. Except Sarah's martyrdom is important to a lot of people, people who don't take kindly to what I'm trying to do. And the more I learn, the less certain I am about what's right. I don't know what will be worse: the guilt of staying silent or the consequences of speaking up . . .