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  • I Grew up in Broad Ripple

    A Memoir of Boyhood Mischief

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Series Book 1 - How My Life Worked
    A funny, moving Baby Boomer memoir about growing up in 1950s and '60s America—when childhood meant freedom, mischief, and learning most things the hard way.Growing up Catholic in 1950s Indianapolis meant first confessions you weren't ready for, nuns who meant business, and a father who absolutely did not want to hear about it. Russell Beck survived all of it—barely—and somehow turned it into a ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    13 Years in Chiang Mai:

    An Expat's Reflections

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - How my life worked

    Abridged

    1 hour 27 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.At 63, Russell Beck packed up his life and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand. He's still there—with stories to tell, lessons learned, friends remembered, and a few reflections.This is a memoir for anyone who's ever wondered if it's too late to make a big change."Thirteen years ago, I stood in front of my home in Florida watching a 20-foot container being ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Heed the Call

    by Russell A Beck, John A Boock ...
    In 1937, John Boock was a boy from Depression-era Minnesota with barely a hundred dollars to his name and an unshakable hunger to see the world.While his peers settled into predictable lives, John bought a one-way ticket to adventure, hitchhiking across America, working his passage across the Atlantic on a freighter, and cycling through a Europe on the brink of war.From the pastoral beauty of the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 13 Years in Chiang Mai

    An Expat's Reflections

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Series Book 6 - How My Life Worked
    At 63, Russell Beck packed up his life and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand. Thirteen years later, he's still there—with stories to tell, lessons learned, friends remembered, and a few reflections.This is a memoir for anyone who's ever wondered if it's too late to make a big change.Thoughtful, funny, and refreshingly honest, An Expat's Reflections shares what it's really like to reinvent your life ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Adventures in Paradise

    A Memoir of Chasing Paradise...and Finding Reality

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Series Book 5 - How My Life Worked
    What happens when you mistake a vacation for a vision of your future? Russell Beck found out the hard way when two blissful weeks in Kauai convinced him that paradise could become home.It was 1975, and Beck was stuck in a rut—chasing real estate commissions that never materialized.He caught Hawaii Fever hard, and by the time his flight lifted off, he was convinced he'd found his calling. So he and ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time and Chance

    A Young Man's Voyage of Discovery

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Series Book 2 - How My Life Worked
    Time and Chance is a book about how love, even a love that doesn’t last, shapes a life more than almost anything else.It’s about the roads we almost take, the ones we never return to, and the moments that divide a life before and after. With the voice of a storyteller who’s lived every word, Russell shows us that destiny isn’t just what happens to us—it’s what we make of it.A sweeping memoir that ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World of Work to 2030

    A Practical Guide to Future-Proofing Your Business and Your Career

    by Russell Beck ...
    *Winner of the Leadership Book of the Year 2024, as awarded by the UK's Institute of Leadership*A book that helps make sense of the megatrends playing out in the world today and, as a result, how individuals can future-proof their businesses and careers.In the context of work, consider two headlines that we face on a regular basis. Firstly, that the financial reality is few of us can afford to ... Read more

    $33.89 CAD

  • Life Lessons in the City of Roses

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Series Book 4 - How My Life Worked
    What if the best education you ever received didn't come from a classroom, but from the unpredictable, messy business of living?In Life Lessons in the City of Roses, Russell A. Beck takes us on a heartfelt, humorous journey through Portland, Oregon, in the early 1970s. With the eyes of a young man searching for direction and the hindsight of someone who's seen how those choices shaped a life. Beck ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 90 Miles to Richmond

    by Russell A Beck ...
    In the chaos of the American Civil War, when loyalties were tested and courage measured in blood, one woman defied the impossible.90 Miles to Richmond tells the extraordinary true story of a young woman who risked everything to save her husband—a wounded Union soldier trapped behind enemy-held territory.Only 25 years old, with a family farm to protect and children to raise, she faced an ... Read more

    $5.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    I Grew Up in Broad Ripple

    A memoir of boyhood mischief

    by Russell Beck ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - How my life worked

    Unabridged

    3 hours 26 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A hilarious and moving journey through Catholic childhood in the 1950s and 1960s.Growing up Catholic in 1950s Indianapolis meant first confessions you weren't ready for, nuns who meant business, and a father who absolutely did not want to hear about it. Russell Beck survived all of it — barely — and somehow turned it into a book.I Grew Up in Broad ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • My Wild 1970 Ride

    by Russell A Beck ...
    Series Book 3 - How My Life Worked
    An escape to 1970, when gas was cheap, hitchhiking was safe(ish) and adventure waited around every bend.I was twenty-one, broke, and itching to escape the gray slush of an Indiana winter. The Vietnam draft had been breathing down my neck for years, but with a lucky twist of fate, I was free. What I wanted next was simple: adventure.I hit the open road. Hitchhiking to Mardi Gras with just a ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Time and Chance: A Young Man's Voyage of Discovery

    When Love first felt real

    by Russell Beck ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Matt G ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - How my life worked

    Unabridged

    2 hours 3 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Time and Chance is a book about how love, even a love that doesn't last, shapes a life more than almost anything else. It's about the roads we almost take, the ones we never return to, and the moments that divide a life and can dramatically alter it's course. With the voice of a storyteller who's lived every word,Russell shows us that destiny isn't ... Read more

    Was $10.98 CAD Now $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus