Night: A Memoir

DescriptionAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Ro...

Reducere. Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a haunting and ultimately triumphant memoir about growing up poor and undaunted in the South. With an unflinching...

Reducere. " Chen's] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit."--The New York Times Book...

Reducere. Upon meeting Sara Pyszka, most people think they know what it's like to be her, regardless of what they actually know about her.They see her wheelc...

From awkward schoolgirl to Caterer to the Stars, Mary Giuliani weaves together a collection of hilarious memories, from professional growing pains ...

Reducere. When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in Ja...

Reducere. The memoir of a young American soldier who became the most powerful man in a remote rural district of Vietnam In the spring of 1969, First Lieutena...

Reducere. Rosa Fleming motors her way to Bennett's Island in the dark of the night, fleeing her divorce, her philandering husband and the gossipmongers of he...

Reducere. "Gentlemen Put your hands together and welcome Cassidy to the stage " It wasn't the life Marci Warhaft envisioned for herself. A good student who h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul MooneyForeword by: Dave ChappelleOTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty years--w...

Reducere. A childhood memoir that recalls events from the life of a Cuban boy. A chilling account of trust and achievement, deceit and failure, and faith in ...

Reducere. Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michig...

Reducere. "TAKE A RIDE IN THE FRONT SEAT OF SOCIETY'S ROLLERCOASTER""That was it. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be a cop."When Rob Rothwell is a naï...

Reducere. In this "wonderful and courageous" (Jeannette Walls) memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and--slowly, painfu...

Reducere. In his second memoir, David Alan Arnold takes us on a Life and Death Adventure, in his helicopter, flying for Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch...

Reducere. Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Mary Cappello['s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed." --MARK DOTY, author of...

Reducere. There is nothing remarkable about finding a penny on the sidewalk or bumping into an old friend on the street, but what if you stumble upon a lifel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. J. ParsellWhen seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and...

Feeling Blue is a unique fan memoir. Struggling with the challenges of childhood, Dickie Denton finds refuge in Manchester City. For 30 years he ca...

Reducere. DescriptionAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH. For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman rising above an unimagina...

Reducere. DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Nan Rossiter weaves a poignant, empowering novel in which three sisters gather to celebrate their moth...

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...

Reducere. "A stirring and timely book." --New York Times Book Review After her father was murdered, Mar a escaped in the middle of the night with her mother....

Reducere. There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gang...

Reducere. From the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, the masterly novellas that estab...

Reducere. Where were the heads? On June 27, 1990, that was the question of the hour. The night before, the evening quiet had been shattered by the bloody aft...

Reducere. By relating one man's amazing tale of triumph over death on multiple occasions, this book brings a fresh perspective to near death experience liter...

Reducere. "What on Earth are these souls doing in the middle of the night" I thought. It wasn't as if I said black or African or whatever. Immediately what p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah OrdoThe road to sobriety is hard, and I don't intend to sugar coat any part of it for you. In this book I will take i...

Reducere. Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, "Momma Zen" distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom. Drawi...

Reducere. DescriptionOn his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blin...

Reducere. When you hit rock bottom, it isn't rainbows and butterflies that you need--it's the words to express your deepest emotions without being judged for...

Reducere. Now in paperback--Grammy Award-winning icon Rick Springfield shares the startling story of his rise and fall and rise again in music, film, and tel...

Reducere. LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSLLER - "In a world full of spiritual seekers, Megan Griswold is an undisputed all-star. What a delightful journey "--Elizabe...

Reducere. For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forgi...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoirof a young New Yorker's daring dual life--advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag...

Reducere. DescriptionA christian mother comes to terms with her son being gay through a personal journey that starts with the Church and ends at the Pride Pa...

Reducere. Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol a...

Reducere. We all dream about it, but Wade Rouse actually did it. Discover his journey to live the simple life in this hilarious memoir. Finally fed up with t...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the misfits, there will always be music. As the sound track to basement parties, late-night drives, and solitary rituals of self-pit...

Reducere. DescriptionIn June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10, 000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus work...

Reducere. Dave Krehbiel's fast-moving memoir, Through the Door: A Horn-Player's Journey, relates the adventures of a young musician who uses his musical tale...

#1 Amazon New Release ─ Memoir and Portrait of a Family at Its Worst and BestSome memoirs shock. Some entertain. Some take us places we're afraid t...

Reducere. College soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friend's pickup truck when his friend got...

Reducere. Under Big-Hearted Skies is an affectionate yet piercing account of working on the prairies, mountains, lakes, and oceans. Stories of adventure and ...

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller by poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, is ``a stunning...hear...

Reducere. An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrate...

Reducere. A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr's writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the At...

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconv...

Reducere. Carol Weis bares herself (sometimes literally) in her debut memoir, where she unveils her two lives, before and after, in a collection of alternati...

Reducere. From beloved spiritual writer and Catholic leader Gregory Floyd comes a moving meditation on the power of memory and how God is often more clearly ...

Reducere. From David Carr (1956-2015), the "undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist" (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bests...

Reducere. A legend after a bullet killed him at the age of twenty-five, Tupac Shakur was the most riveting rap musician of his day. Far from being the insole...

Reducere. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pi...

Reducere. On January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia - a thousand foot long luxury cruise ship, twice the size of the Titanic - ventured into shallow water and...

Reducere. To honor the twentieth anniversary of beloved comedienne Gilda Radner's death from ovarian cancer comes a commemo- rative edition of her memoir, It...

If you're ready to get cerebral while also being hypnotized by prose, this slim memoir is perfect. Golberg writes about isolating herself in the ni...

Reducere. "Like some twisted love child of Mae West and Keith Richards, Storm Large is a force of nature. Her ballsy, heartbreaking, hysterical, tour de forc...

Reducere. We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto the top of the house, each piece different but all out of the same can. So begins a book u...

A woman's faith in herself is scorched to the core when she flees a California firestorm in the dead of night without alerting a single neighbor. H...

Reducere. In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here B...

Emerging out of the 1940-1941 London Blitz, the drama of these two short works by Inez Holden, a novel and a memoir, comes from the courage and end...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Leonard ReeseCover Design by: Leonard Reese IVThe Nam Within, by Leonard Reese, is a narrative non-fiction memoir that spea...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback The brutally honest breath of fresh air on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, known for her d...

Reducere. Teresa Giudice, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, has seen it all but nothing could compare to the media firestorm that ensued after she w...

Reducere. Winner of 5 national awards, Recipes for a Sacred Life is now available in a new, expanded edition."Recipes for a Sacred Life left us moved--and ch...

Reducere. On the night following the terrorist attack that killed eighty-three tourists on the beach at Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea and writes a comp...

Reducere. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020 "Sager is a master of the twist and the turn. . . . You have to read to...

Reducere. Most people likely know of Mother Teresa's great faithfulness to God's call as she started her ministry to the poor in Calcutta. But at the time, f...

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no ...