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Reducere. An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir recounting a young girl's journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggl...

They are united now, two sisters who were kept apart by the cruel twists of their lives. And, despite the fact these siblings grew up at the opposi...

Initiation is a memoir that reflects on the moral and ideological changes of the last sixty years. Written in a perennial voice de Angeles, witch, ...

Reducere. Castile, Spain, 1099. Cristina is just a frightened servant girl, until she becomes a crucial player in fighting back the Berber invasion. Will she...

Castile, Spain, 1099. Cristina is just a frightened servant girl, untilshe becomes a crucial player in fighting back the Berber invasion. Willshe h...

Reducere. "I Did Not Miss the Boat" is the coming of age story of an adolescent girl who struggled to help her family's assimilation into a new country while...

Examining educational reform in Vietnamese universities, this book explore motives, current implementation, effectiveness, and challenges of these ...

Survivor, Scientist, Olympian - the Nary Ly StoryHow a Child of the Killing Fields Ran an Olympic Marathon and Inspired Her Broken Nationis a poign...

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

Reducere. An astonishing memoir for the untold number of children whose lives have been touched by bullying. Positive is a must-read for teens, their parents...

An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love...

Reducere. While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annema...

This haunting and electric coming of age memoir charts Casey Legler's broken childhood--from swimming in the Olympics at eighteen while facing crip...

Reducere. Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.For decades, Demi Moore has...

Description"Honest, insightful, and thoroughly entertaining...Mizrahi comes off in writing just like his onscreen persona: warm, witty, humble--and...

In 1998 Teresa Fazio signed up for the Marine Corps' ROTC program to pay her way through MIT. After the United States was attacked on September 11,...

Description"This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."--Laurie Halse Anderson, author o...

A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart--from the "brilliant mind" (Michae...

Reducere. "David Adjmi has written one of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself...

The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr--writer, father, alcoholic, addict Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite th...

Melissa Gould's hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.When Melissa Gould's husband, Joel, was unexpectedly h...

Reducere. Pando is an inspiring tribute to a Utah grove of quaking Aspen trees connected by their roots to form one of the world's oldest and largest living ...

"A powerful, heartbreaking, necessary masterpiece."--Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild The moving story of what one woma...

DescriptionThe Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violen...

Reducere. Grammy Awards (Spoken Word)The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic memoir, Angela's Ashes, about McC...

DescriptionIn 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual vi...

Reducere. "Mikel Jollett, the front man of indie band Airborne Toxic Event, chronicles his tumultuous life. Jollett was born into one of the country's most i...

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...

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democr...

An inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and...

Reducere. A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisisIn he...

Reducere. "Kin moved me, disturbed me, and hypnotized me in ways very few memoirs have. -Rosanne Cash A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girl...

Reducere. A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a "therapeutic" boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman fought ...