Childhood Years: A Memoir, Paperback - Jun'ichirao Tanizaki

In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering ...

Reducere. When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of ...

As Beau bounds back to life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandon...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times...

Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and reb...

Reducere. When his student and close friend Oliver Smithies accepted his Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, he singled Field out as someone who was impo...

Reducere. We cannot choose our parents, but can we choose our destiny? Her faith in God and her love for her children kept Lorie Williams sane while she was ...

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. Weaving through African American music, folklore, and mores, A Newark Childhood is a coming-of-age story that journeys from the author's years in k...

Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --US...

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This book chronicles the personal journey of pioneering female winery owner Susan Sokol Blosser, from deciding on a whim to grow wine grapes in the...

Reducere. ``A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family's journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.`` --Naomi Wolf, author of The E...

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 ...

A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is...

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

Reducere. As a child and adolescent, Scott D. Stenzel suffered from emotional abuse at the hands of his adoptive parents, primarily his adoptive father. Beli...

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

DescriptionThe Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American historyChris Rush wa...

An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live"About seven years ago, not too long before our daug...

Born near a dusty cement plant in the northeast Missouri village of Ilasco, close to Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal native Gregg Andrews draws on the vo...

Reducere. This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rh...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Qian Julie WangNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

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

More than 28, 000 innocent people murdered, homes reduced to rubble. Time to escape from bombed-out London to a land of greenery and opportunity, b...

Reducere. "A frank, intriguing memoir."--People "Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos." --The New York Times Book Review "Home reflect...

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Reducere. Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds.In Unsinkable, the late great actress, comedienne, singer, an...

Reducere. Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fasc...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find...

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Reducere. The enchanting autobiography of the seven-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed actress who taught America how to cook India...

Reducere. The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom.

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Gina YashereNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 203 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...