Four Years Above the Earth: A Memoir, Paperback - Field Morey

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. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearA daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war ...

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...

Reducere. Ivan Doig's companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky--inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II--is "a lyrical evoc...

Reducere. "A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED reviewA primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard's acclaimed geologistHow well do you kno...

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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...

Reducere. DescriptionA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recol...

The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer's life. Petro twines ...

Reducere. Armenian Aram Haigaz was only 15 when he lost his father, brothers, many relatives and neighbors, all killed or dead of starvation when enemy soldi...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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

DescriptionA Shadow Above chronicles the return of the raven and the people who have made that comeback possible.For centuries, the raven Corvus Co...

Reducere. One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer's commitment to another. --The New ...

Reducere. As a 17-year old Italian American from New Jersey, Debbie became obsessed with the idea of traveling to Italy, and during the summer after completi...

Reducere. Over nearly six decades, Nicholas Smith has amassed an astounding compendium of historical and ethnographical information about the Algonquian-spea...

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This fourth edition builds on the success of previous editions and for the first time is produced in full colour throughout with improved photos an...

Reducere. In Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir, author Mike Keren gives his readers an inside look at his unexpected foray into caregiving to his sick and...

Reducere. DescriptionBehind the Scenes (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife ...

Reducere. "Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for...

Reducere. Book three for the Far Forest Scrolls series. The world tips into a barbarous conflict that threatens to drown the world in agony and bloodshed. Th...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's the 80's just before the advent of AIDS, and we are behind the scenes at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater, which gonzo journ...

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AwardsMidwest Book Award (MIPA)DescriptionBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in No...

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

Reducere. DescriptionMeshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s - ...

DescriptionA Field in Flux chronicles the extraordinary journey of industrial and labor relations expert Robert McKersie. One of the most important...

Reducere. Against the sweeping history of the 20th century, two people from different worlds find each other and create a unified life. In Two Lives on Four ...

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Reducere. "Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful...