Educated: A Memoir

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKYPublisher: HarperC...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of a tumultuous life that started in one of America's most infamous cults and took the author, Mikel Jollett,...

DescriptionPsychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly...

Reducere. MEET MR. GRIZZLY A Saga on the Passing of the Grizzly Bear Reprint of British Edition, 1950. Includes b&w historic photos. The memoirs of a one-arm...

Reducere. Dr. Neil Spector, one of the nation's top oncologists, led a charmed life. He was educated at prestigious universities, trained at top medical cent...

Together, learning from each other, they save and change lives - the lives of millions of people just like Waheed. For readers of Educated and War ...

Reducere. How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and the secrets lodged in their past? Judy Bolton-Fasman's fascinating saga, Asylum: A Me...

In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I tesamuddin, a Bengali secretary employed by the East India Company, traveled on a mission to Britain to seek protection for...

A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worldsleading woman novelist, about four women copingwith the insular, oppressive society of an unnameddes...

Reducere. "A passionate, lyrical, tough-minded account of an extraordinary life in art, revolution, and love. It's a book to relish, to read and re-read. Unf...

Reducere. OCCUPY THIS BODY: A Buddhist Memoir is the story of Religious Studies Professor Sharon A. Suh's struggle to overcome a childhood of forced-feeding,...

Reducere. Black Salt for White Eyes was a title that came to Nasihah in a vision one day after critically thinking about his journey from an incarcerated tee...

Reducere. "Inspiring reading for aspiring journalists and students of civil rights." -- Kirkus Reviews Wanda Smalls Lloyd's Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow...

A Notable Memoir by the New York TimesWith echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an ...

Reducere. This volume brings together two delightful books--Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town--by one of our most beloved food and travel writers. ...

Reducere. Providing a unique glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Days of a Russian Nob...

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

DescriptionAn intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in Calif...

Reducere. Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood of St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act ...

Reducere. A "New York Times "Notable BookDaring and fiercely original, "The Women" is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, an...

"With its keen attention to the language and tactics of the church, Hall's memoir is unique among the assortment of Scientology reports and expos s...

Reducere. Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a "raw and deeply honest" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) true story...

Reducere. A gripping literary memoir of life inside an extremist political group. Invaluable . . . honest . . . intelligent. --Doris Lessing "If you want to ...

Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated ...

"An entertaining memoir that reads like a sitcom.""Made me laugh until tears were coming down my face."In Growing up Greenpoint, Tommy Carbone capt...

Reducere. The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh (1847) is a memoir by George Copway. Written while he was living with his wife and daughter in ...

Reducere. Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir. With richness an...

Reducere. My name is Brett. I'm a college educated man who once was a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actua...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeffrey A. ParksStronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic...

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts ...

Gut-wrenching and absorbing...in the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle--BOOKLIST - A story of redemption and forgiveness--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK R...

Reducere. The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds cate...

Reducere. A woman composer, much less one with an international classical footprint, is a rare jewel in a world populated with Mozarts, Bachs, Rachmoninoffs,...

Reducere. DescriptionFor fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We ...

Reducere. For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call ...

Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starringChiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, andLupita Nyong o, and...

Reducere. DescriptionHistory will mark the twentieth century as the age that brought forth the revolution of air travel, and few played a more integral role ...

Reducere. This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffens...

Reducere. DescriptionThe renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive c...

Reducere. Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-1896), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largel...

Reducere. Say I'm Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships. F...

Reducere. What does it cost to live an inauthentic life?If anyone knows, it's Alon Ozery. Born in Toronto to an Orthodox Jewish father and a British mother, ...

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Reducere. In late 2018, in the wake of the Me Too Movement and midterm elections deemed the Women's Wave, two Harvard-educated woman writers, Kerry Garvin an...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you se...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you se...

In Growing up Greenpoint, Tommy Carbone captures what it was like to be a kid during the 1970s and 80s in Brooklyn. This funny, and sometimes emoti...

Reducere. In 1975, author Elizabeth Jacks Scott was a young matron from New York with a husband and two small children and the new owner of an old sail loft ...

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

Reducere. In 1975, author Elizabeth Jacks Scott was a young matron from New York with a husband and two small children and the new owner of an old sail loft ...

Reducere. Have your dreams ever been shattered, leaving you lost, wishing you could reset your life? Then you must read Botija! It is a story about a well-ed...

Reducere. "We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of A...

Reducere. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Y...

Reducere. DescriptionPart biography/spiritual memoir, part adventure tale, Her Name Was Elizabeth, by Eva M. Brewster is the inspiring story of Elizabeth Fis...

Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman AwardFinalist, 2017-2018 Founders Award, American Civil War MuseumFinalist for Memoir, Historical, 2018,...

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

Reducere. I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. Th...