Brave(ish). A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist, Paperback - Margaret Davis Ghielmetti

An intrepid traveler sets off at forty to live the expatriate dream overseas-only to discover that she has no idea how to live even her own life. P...

"Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorat...

Reducere. Three women, two generations, one family-a story of trauma, resistance, healing, and loveIn 1959, in Garrison, Minnesota, a twenty-six-year-old wom...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce upon a simpler time, a child's fun included an intense interaction within its environment, whether on a bus to a beach, swimming le...

Reducere. Start preparing for your future...today Develop the test-taking skills you need to prepare for your certification examination and build the knowled...

Reducere. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details ...

Reducere. " P]rofound...a triumph--a full-throated howl to the moon to remind us why we choose to survive and thrive." --Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestse...

Reducere. Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world and freed her...

Reducere. In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie--the original lead singer of '70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways--powerfully recounts her year...

A Memoir of a Buddhist is a captivating and honest story detailing Nong's experiences as a young girl who grew up in Thailand and then moved to the...

Reducere. "An absolutely breathless read. Nowhere Girl is a courageous, heart-breaking, and beautifully written story of a girl doing everything in her power...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remissi...

Reducere. WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR World-class free climber Steph Davis delivers a "thrilling and infectiously interesting" (San Francisco Book Revi...

FINDING ME is the deeply personal, brutally honest account of Viola's inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present-day car...

Reducere. When author and historian Bob Royalty fulfilled his dream to walk the Roman ruins of Hadrian's Wall, across northern England from the North Sea to ...

Reducere. Description"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled Peo...

Reducere. For Eileen Dowd, the journey with cancer was not only the fight for her life but the mental toll of becoming and being a childhood cancer survivor ...

Reducere. Donald Hall's remarkable life in poetry -- a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 -- comes alive in this richly detailed,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon VreelandAfter three decades of living in the sandy beach suburbs of Huntington Beach, Jon Vreeland's heroin addiction h...

Reducere. The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film.This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. J. ParsellWhen seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and...

Presents Madhur Jaffrey's memoir of her childhood in India. With recipes drawn from memories of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, weddings, and picnics...

A brave, honest, unforgettable memoir about mental illness that breaks the silence and shatters the taboos to give hope to all those struggling to ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): A. J. VerdelleNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 217 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Viola DavisNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis.Precious Brady-Dav...

Reducere. Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration o...

Publisher: Merrion PressAuthor(s): Seamus KeltersNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 213 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the l...

Contributor(s): Author: Maxene RaicesIn 1964 the Vietnam War was heating up, drafting young men into battle. It was an era in which sex was not dis...

Reducere. Thoughtful, Revealing, Insightful A unique narrative takes us from the sandy beaches of the Jersey Shore and post-war real estate boom to charterin...

A personal journey - part anecdotal, part impressionistic - through London's constantly shifting cityscape by BBC Radio London's Robert Elms

Reducere. Love across cultures is tested when Antonio, a penniless university student, and Evelyn, a strong-willed Peace Corps volunteer, succumb to their at...

DescriptionIn this remarkable sequel to his critically acclaimed memoir Watching the Door, Irish journalist Kevin Myers reflects on his roller-coas...

The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories--between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and ...

Reducere. Finding Ma ana is a vibrant, moving memoir of one family's life in Cuba and their wrenching departure. Mirta Ojito was born in Havana and raised th...

Reducere. DescriptionThis 160 page book serves as a memoir of a lawman (Harry Spiller) from Williamson County, Illinois and tells of his stories and ventures...

Roxanna Bina shares her captivating stories about her early days as an exotic dancer - fascinating memories of sugar daddies, fellow strippers, and...

At various times throughout her adult life in the United States, Katharina Rich Perlow was asked how her family survived World War II in Vienna, Au...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough her eyes, the moving story of a young Rwandan girl born with clubfeet and the risk she takes for the chance to walk on the botto...

Reducere. How Much Big Is the Sky is a mother's searingly melodic and eloquent love song to her teenage son, Ryan, following his sudden death resulting from ...