Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai, Hardcover - Saumya Roy

Reducere. 'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives, ' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behi...

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.Publisher: Profile Book...

Reducere. Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a ...

Reducere. Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas Ever since Eva Sauliti...

Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of t...

Reducere. DescriptionMumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss Maura Finkel...

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DescriptionWhen I had finished the old lady spoke softly: "It takes great strength to open such a heavy door." At the start of the twentieth centur...

This is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mani...

Reducere. About the AuthorChuck Kinder is the author of four novels--Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners, and Last Mountain Dancer--and three collect...

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Reducere. They knew the trip would be difficult, but they didn't bargain on hell.The shout "giddap" starts the oxen down a path to the end of the world. For ...

Tilingual album - French, Mi'kmaq, & English.This Mi'kmaq legend tells the story of how a certain mountain, and other highlights of the Chaleur are...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but ...

An astonishing and brave memoir of life, love, and assisted death, from the author of White Houses.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Amy BloomNumbe...

Reducere. A young American's timely account of endurance and enlightenment after being caught up in Lebanon's summer of siege. Ashe Stevens is a rising actor...

Shot through with hope, purpose and an unflinching love, it's a story that must be read.--Newsweek Award-winning columnist and author David Magee a...

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 ...

DescriptionJenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny ...

Reducere. In her first anthology from the UNSTUCK Writer's Collective, author Shani Godwin has compiled a collection of beautiful stories from nine aspiring ...

Reducere. From the joy of naming a child or blessing a home to the sadness of ending a marriage or the dignity of a simple funeral, here are the words and se...

The fifth book in the popular 'Lessons of a LAC' series, Tree is a gentle story of loss that helps children to learn how to say goodbye and process...

Beverley Ward expands on her widely-read blog }Swimming Through Clouds{ in this memoir on the subject of her unconventional love affair with a moor...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the age of 14 years old, Roy found himself homeless due to domestic violence. He moved from house to house to survive. With only a du...

Reducere. PERMISSION TO FLY tells the true story of boy born into a kind and happy family who grows to realize the executive world his father inhabits may no...

All the Love: Healing Your Heart and Finding Meaning After Pregnancy Loss is a book dedicated to supporting and empowering women and their partners...

Reducere. In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he w...

The Fire of Christ's Love: Meditations on the Cross, Paperback

DescriptionFrom the author of the modern classic and bestselling phenomenon The Invisible String comes a tender story about permanent loss that als...

Reducere. In this deeply emotional memoir, a longtime ESPN writer reflects on the suicide of his son Max and delves into how their complicated relationship l...

Researcher and activist Sahba Husain has been working in Kashmir for two decades, and in this personal, passionate account of that state and its pe...

DescriptionA heartfelt memoir of motherhood as a spiritual practice by a longtime yoga and dharma teacher. Sutra is the Sanskrit name for a short s...

DescriptionDiana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish re...