Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Hardcover - Donna Florio

Reducere. A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods Growing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Green...

Reducere. What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. I...

Reducere. Retired Chicago Homicide Detective, Jack Handler, and his daughter Kate, a New York City homicide detective, with the help of Jack's new good frien...

Reducere. Growing up in Bay City Oregon is a coming-of-age historical memoir that takes place in the years between 1936 and 1953. Gordon Lee's family leaves ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Valerie Biden OwensIllustration(s): Plus two 8-page color photo insertsNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

Reducere. A CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG LIFE IRREVERSIBLY ALTERED BY ILLNESS "I know about needles." All her life, Andie Dominick adored her older sister, Den...

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 ...

Reducere. A touching and hilarious memoir about an Orthodox Jewish boy growing up in Pittsburgh in the mid-20th Century, returning as an adult to help his fa...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selma BlairIllustration(s): 30-40 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Reducere. A vivid and incisive account of a mostly unknown yet critical chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Vill...

Reducere. In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about ...

A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first rela...

Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as they navigate their asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with...

At various times throughout her adult life in the United States, Katharina Rich Perlow was asked how her family survived World War II in Vienna, Au...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

Reducere. Chasing Kites is unflinching look at growing up with ADHD at a time in which there was little to no awareness. If you want to know and feel what so...

Reducere. This enthralling story of life on "The Rock", America's only Federal prison on an island in the middle of the scenic San Francisco Bay is a window ...

A searing new memoir from Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch that shines a light into the darkness of disordered eating.Publisher: Headline Publishing ...

Reducere. In 1982, Barbara Williams Lewis became a thirty-seven year old runaway. She moved to Los Angeles with her three children. Born black and poor in Wi...

An extraordinary new memoir from Harry Potter star Evanna LynchPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Evanna LynchNumber of pages: 480Publi...

Climbing Palestine is the first comprehensive guidebook to rock climbing in the West Bank, detailing over 300 climbing routes at 9 different areas....

Reducere. Description"Consent is compelling and disturbing and a welcome expansion of our urgent conversation"--Rebecca Traister Donna Freitas has lived two ...

It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social histo...

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.

Reducere. Change comes to all who grow. Even tiny tadpoles. Follow them as they start out as small, rounded eggs, and then sprout wiggly tails, before leapin...

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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. DescriptionChapter 1--The Catfight: Do you remember how to get off this island? Festerman asked his associate, David Nacow. Not exactly, Nacow repl...

DescriptionSkydiving onto the deck of a moving freighter...at night...and then add bombs and explosions...In Superior Shoal, murder and mayhem stal...

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Reducere. Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she ha...

The No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew O'Hagan)

Reducere. DescriptionAs a nine year old, I looked back at the harness, to make sure it was secure on Queen, the large work horse, who was hitched to a black ...

Reducere. Retired Chicago Homicide Detective, Jack Handler, and his daughter Kate, a New York City homicide detective, with the help of Jack's long-time budd...

"When Mom got out of jail, it was great having her home." Mondo the Dwarf. Frankie Shots. Joseph "Little Lolly Pop" Carna. Larry "Big Lolly Pop" Ca...

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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...

Charlie and Paulie consider themselves "family" even though they are only fifth cousins. Neither of them is 100 percent legitimate but they are not...

Reducere. As president of the World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled world poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important fi...

Reducere. As a young girl, Razina Theba makes her way every day to the tiny family flat on Vorster Street in Fordsburg. It is here, just outside of the Johan...

Reducere. DescriptionMove over James Patterson and David Baldacci ... Michael Carrier is the newest great suspense author Murder on Sugar Island is an intens...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK - A TODAY SUMMER READING LIST PICK - AN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK - A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF SUMME...

Description Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about r...

Reducere. The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentra...

Reducere. While the texts are virtually identical, there are two differently illustrated versions of "A Guide To Growing Up Good." Acting on the advice of ma...

Reducere. Chronicling the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1900s through striking vintage photographs, Growing Up in Baltimore pays tribut...