Fatherland: A Family History, Hardcover - Nina Bunjevac

Reducere. Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in...

DescriptionThe jumping-off point of this graphic novel is the myth of Artemis and Siproites, in which a young man is turned into a woman as a punis...

DescriptionDarkness divides and enlivens opinion. Some are afraid of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what ...

Reducere. A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the wo...

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a lyrical meditation on family, place, and inheritance Names for Light traverses time and memory to ...

Publisher: Kitchen PressAuthor(s): Sarah SavoyIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 245 x 190 ...

Reducere. Growing Up Country: A Demlow Family History is the result of fifteen years of research, travel to several states, and many hours of writing and rew...

Reducere. A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in o...

A brilliantly written combination of family memoir, social history and nature writing.

'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Ho...

Reducere. Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family l...

This book is a collection of essays by various members of the Carey/Cary family regarding their history, research, and genealogy. The managing edit...

On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England. The watching crow...

Reducere. The book is the historical account of an Alsatian family that forged what lives they could in the Republic and the State of Texas. They would fight...

Explores family history research as in-family research by all ages.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): McConnell, Robin CIllustration(s): 40...

A single photograph--an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family--drives a riveting process...

Reducere. Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a swe...

Erik Smalhout's story reminds readers that place is secondary to experience and that no matter where we are or what fortunate or unfortunate circum...

Reducere. If this little suitcase could talk......it would tell how this journey began, the journey of a family, navigating the system of Apartheid in South ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Francois WeilThe quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched...

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacu...

Reducere. Twenty-three years ago--after the Soviets left and before the Taliban came to power--Kabul was a garden where seven-year-old Qais Akbar Omar flew k...

Reducere. In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in t...

Reducere. 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 ...

Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by different social...

Reducere. Did you know that one obscure sheep-herding and wool-making family in the Italian region of Tuscany went from humble beginnings to becoming one of ...

Reducere. The Bonanno Family is a well-researched book on the 100-plus-year history of one of New York's infamous La Cosa Nostra organizations. It begins wit...

DescriptionFor better or worse, what we are is often determined by our family; the events that occurred many years before we were born and the choi...

Reducere. Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. Davi...

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

Reducere. This cookbook contains a collection of recipes from people featured in the documentary, Gumbo. Each recipe is original, tells a story and has been ...

DescriptionHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no smal...

Reducere. An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Mar...

A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marque...

"A Roots for a new generation, rich in storytelling and steeped in history." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "A compelling saga that gives a voice...

Reducere. 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 ...

DescriptionEveryone has a mother and a line of female ancestors and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, ac...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Wendy LowerNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 201 x 29Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

Utterly gripping. --Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival. The story...

Reducere. The Colombo Family The Colombo Family is a well-researched book on the nearly 100-year history of one of New York City's infamous La Cosa Nostra or...

A book about a terrible photograph from the Holocaust - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family...

Reducere. Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and i...

Reducere. The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the histo...

Reducere. A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebr...

Autobiography of Major-General Rea LeakeyPublisher: The History Press LtdIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, black and whitePublication date: 2022Di...

A book about a terrible photograph from the Holocaust - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family...

_________________________'The highest form of thriller . And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, i...