Night: A Memoir

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...

With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, Alan Zweibel traces the history of American comedy Alan Zweibel started his comedy c...

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...

DescriptionA late-night call leads Uday Aurora to find Lavinia, his beloved daughter, about to meet a gruesome end. Uday wants justice. His son dem...

Reducere. Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely ...

Called such a sad, tough story, but finally so life-affirming, filled with spirit and love by Anne Lamott, this is a raw and intensely affecting me...

Reducere. From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and ...

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

Reducere. In 1968, why did a gently raised southern girl quit collage, run away to sea, and join a scurvy crew of pirates, searching for sunken treasure and ...

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

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

Reducere. If you are a single parent and have ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or just downright ready to quit, you just picked up the right book The Three ...

Reducere. An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz In th...

Reducere. In the spirit of Night by Elie Wiesel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son ...

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

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

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

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...

Reducere. Books for a Better Life*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cockt...

From his hardscrabble post-World War II Ontario childhood and coming of age to Mad Men-era New York City and the creative pinnacle of advertising, ...

Reducere. Law school was never Anna Dorn's dream. It was a profession pushed on her by her parents, teachers, society... whatever. It's not the worst thing t...

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

Reducere. Eternal Love is the memoir of Nellie and Lou Moore - a uniquely American love story that stood the test of time in a racially torn world.In 1946, L...

It’s time to talk books—and the conversation starts here. Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biogra...

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. 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...

Reducere. Do you often find yourself struggling with life's important decisions? Are you waiting for someone to come into your life and guide you on the path...

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. Laura Nyro was a beloved and pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s, whose songs were covered with great success by the Fifth Dimensio...

Reducere. DescriptionBy the early 1970s, an active bohemian colony had developed in Santa Fe and it became a cultural boom town. The number of art galleries ...

Reducere. Synonymous with the golden age of Broadway, the dazzling lights of Hollywood, and the rise of television arts, Farley Granger's charm and talent ca...

Reducere. "My husband wanted to be a girl "Imagine discovering the love of your life, the father of your three children, the person you devoted your life to ...

Reducere. Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood Raina just wants to be a normal sixth ...

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

Lightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably in...

The book The Grip of the Past is the memoir of an exile that shaped the destiny of a man who could not let go of his regrets for what had been take...

Reducere. When Catherine da Costa, a wealthy Manhattan matron, learns she has only a short time to live, she realizes that her family tree will die unless sh...

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

A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the ...

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

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. "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...

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 ...

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...

#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. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth FournierWhen Elizabeth Fournier was eight, her mother and grandparents died. She spent a lot of time in funeral h...

Reducere. She was supposed to teach Daisy how to be a good dog...but Daisy taught her to be a better person. When Sharron Luttrell joins a weekend "Prison PU...

Be Straight with Me is an unforgettable memoir-in-verse about a love that blurs the boundaries of gender and sexuality--told from the perspective o...

Reducere. An unflinchingly honest memoir, The Dancer from Khiva is a true story that offers remarkable insights into Central Asian culture through the harrow...

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. An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and...

AN INSPIRING MEMOIR FOR ANYONE WHO'S BEEN KNOCKED DOWN AND CAME UP SWINGINGAs a young girl growing up in Newberg, Oregon, Paige Sletten was all ene...

Xoana is the descendant of hard-working women, starting with Pepa the Mole, her great-great-great-grandmother, who went around with a peddler, Mari...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Essays. A blend of literary criticism and memoir, Jennifer Moxley's FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, DO NOT DESTROY THE BIRDS recounts a l...

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. 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. 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. "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. A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his...

Reducere. In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32, 000 of student ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mai DonohueThis vivid, compulsively readable memoir of courage, grief and redemption illuminates the life of Mai, a young g...

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...

JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands comm...

The author of The New York Times bestseller Escape returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she'...

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...