Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life, Paperback

Reducere. This memoir celebrates the Sicilian life in America, while providing a sociological portrait of the immigrant experience in the US. The author remi...

Reducere. His grief was as familiar as a crease in his palm. Rising above it took the strength of a lifetime.James LaVeck knew emptiness intimately. After se...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is a little-known fact that in California during World War II, Italian Americans were subjected to an 8: 00 p.m. to 6: 00 a.m. curfew...

A clergyman in a very public role struggles to deal honestly with a crisis of faith. The book tells the story of the loss of 21-year-old Tom from c...

Reducere. Description"For much of his life, Howie has assembled the lore and language of his native people, supplementing his own copious writings (more than...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the l...

Reducere. Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationin...

Reducere. This book is for every person who suspects and hopes there is a better way to live responsibly and compassionately in the complex world we share. I...

DescriptionA farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C.,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hank UmemotoIn 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhoue...

Reducere. A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherles...

An anthology of true stories, edited by Paul Auster and chosen from 4, 000 entries sent in to his programme on National Public Radio, which come to...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

Reducere. LifeVesting empowers readers to create an abundant, impactful future by the choices they make today. Through thoughtful encouragement, biblical tea...

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of...

Part memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's ...

Reducere. The Holocaust in American Life, Paperback

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 ...

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films sta...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Laura GaoNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperbac...

DescriptionLosing a loved one is difficult enough but when it happens in stages with a degenerative disease or a time of progressive impairments, t...

The memoir of an award-winning News Corporation sports journalist who arrived in Australia as a post-war immigrant and became part of the growth of...

Publisher: Mount Orleans PressAuthor(s): Simon CourtauldIllustration(s): 14 colour and b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 164Publication date: 2021D...

From a diagnosis of advanced stage cancer, to competing in a triathlon at the age of 68Dr. Gilkis' unique memoir and life-changing message is: phys...

Reducere. Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audien...

DescriptionThis is the first book by a founding member of Little River Band: the first Australian band to achieve a gold album in the US.'Every Day...

Vow. A Memoir of Marriage - Elizabeth Gilbert

A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centenni...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionSerendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Jo...

"This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." - The New Republic; "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biogr...

A survivor of a Japanese internment camp, the first person to cross the Atlantic in a kayak, and para-glider that jumped off of Mt. Everest in a ma...

Reducere. Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic...

DescriptionThis inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family's pursuit of the Am...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For years, people have been asking Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanu...

Reducere. Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did du...

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 ...

Reducere. Shrimp Italian, Crabmeat Contessa, StuffedArtichokes-in New Orleans, Italian cooking means a unique combination ofspices, sauces, and flavors. Comp...

Reducere. A Fractured Life, a true story, reveals Jane's childhood of loneliness, hunger, isolation, shame, and abandonment. When her mother died instantly a...

Reducere. Italian women don't always speak with their hands and cook with cheese. They use their eyes, legs, and fresh parsley too. They race around the kitc...

Reducere. Bill Medley's indelible baritone adorns some of the biggest hits of the twentieth century and is prominent on the soundtrack of an entire generatio...

Reducere. Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America's most beloved and controversial political figures. Now wi...

Publisher: Mount Orleans PressIllustration(s): 10 b/w photosNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 235 x 36Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the...

Reducere. Domenica Calabrese Tedeschi's The Most Beautiful Rose is a delightful, yet heartbreaking memoir of an Italian girl growing up in a rural village in...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian McMillanNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 198 x 20Cover type: Hardback...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Josie GeorgeNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 38Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. First published in 1952 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the First Catholic Slavic Ladies Association, "The Slovak-American Cookbook" remains...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Elissa WaldNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 x 228 x 24Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...