Bebo: A Portrait of My Mother, Paperback - David Chandler

Reducere. For this absorbing portrait of his mother, David Chandler drew on hundreds of letters that she sent and received, on his own warm memories, and the...

Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told ...

Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman's struggle for identity against a hostile backd...

Reducere. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Fo...

DescriptionIn rural Ireland in 1950, a respectable widow has an affair with a visiting stranger. To conceal her pregnancy, she travels to Belfast, ...

For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood, and a love letter...

The "graceful, loving, " (The New York Times Book Review), never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood's glamorous life, sudden death, a...

Reducere. It's happened again and again: Somebody we know is diagnosed with cancer, they undergo surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy - and then they die. ...

Reducere. "She was like a storm." --Leonard CohenJoni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century...

Reducere. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2015, my mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Overnight, I went from being her daughter to serving as her caregiver, all while tr...

On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A s...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how she had been tricked away from her mother as a ...

Reducere. This classic and award-winning picture book was written and illustrated by the celebrated Vera B. Williams and was named a Caldecott Honor Book by ...

Reducere. "A story that lingers in the heart long after the last page is turned." --HOPE EDELMAN, bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Possibil...

The inspirational life story of the trailblazing nurse born to an Irish mother and a Nigerian father during the 1940s, and raised by nuns at the Na...

A funny and frank memoir about a long distance mother-daughter relationship.Publisher: Sandstone Press LtdAuthor(s): Cynthia RogersonNumber of page...

Reducere. A stunning visual exploration of Canada's most recognized building accompanied by a comprehensive study of its history, in a coffee-table worthy vo...

Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as h...

In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian na...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colourful career, changing his style and ev...

Publisher: Sigma PressAuthor(s): Andy OwensNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 208 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. Mother Teresa's life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an "Angel of the ...

Reducere. Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazin...

Reducere. Honoria Keyes isn't the gawky, impressionable fifteen-year-old girl she was when she first met Simon Fairchild. Twelve years have passed, and she's...

Publisher: Signal Books LtdAuthor(s): Barry HattonIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 214 x 141 x 2...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A K nstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intelle...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Janis TomlinsonIllustration(s): 35 color + 46 b/w illus.Number of pages: 448Publication date: 2022D...

Reducere. Every family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, George decides to tell his daughter the story of his mother and the Turk. This initia...

Reissue of a wonderfully evocative book that reflects a place and a taste never to be forgotten once sampled: the perfect book to curl up with in f...

"I had to understand that grief would be a constant in my life, and that it would be different every time it returned to me: the same face hidden b...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "...a cleansing narrative that should inspire mothers--and other caregivers--to rise up, unite, and breathe hot new life into the drooping cause of...

In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse have made a case study of one of its most colourful cities, the...

Reducere. "...a cleansing narrative that should inspire mothers--and other caregivers--to rise up, unite, and breathe hot new life into the drooping cause of...

Everything I Couldn't Tell My Mother is a coming-of-age story for any woman who has ever questioned her sexual maturity and readiness, stayed silen...

Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck's intensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, who s...

Kodokan judo, one of the most well-known martial arts in the world today, was originated by Jigoro Kano (1860-1938). Kano was a martial artist and ...