No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home, Paperback - Chris Offutt

In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. He envisi...

For anyone who has spent a significant time abroad, coming home can be incredibly stressful. The Art of Coming Home shows you how to minimize the s...

Reducere. "A riveting, can't-put-it-down story of how one American-born woman made her way from the darkness of childhood abuse to claiming the life she was ...

Reducere. At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home ...

Following Donald W. Stroup's productive and stimulating life, his golden years offered opportunity to 'come home' to the simpler comforting days of...

Reducere. A truely unique love story, "Our family Outing" is riveting in its honesty and openess as a family faces its reality their husband/father is gay. T...

From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe ...

The story of a school shooting and its awful aftermath; a psychologically convincing study of grief, loss and guilt and their effects on young lives

Reducere. Originally published in 1970, under the title Times and Places, this book is a collection of twenty-three of her articles from the New Yorker, publ...

When Kate Thomas travels to Saudi Arabia with her young son and daughter to join her architect husband who is already working there, she lands a te...

Brown Baby is a powerful exploration of fatherhood, grief, racism and hope. It is also a love letter to the author's daughters that is as heartbrea...

A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the fifties and sixties, privately fostered by white families, then taken to Nigeria by t...

Author Hans Moederzoon van Kuilenburg was a 10-year-old girl living in Amsterdam when German soldiers invaded Holland in the spring of 1940. The Du...

Contributor(s): Author: Chris OffuttKentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These r...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Julia WattsEditor: Larry SmithAuthor: Chris OffuttIn turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gatheri...

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which...

Reducere. There's a steep learning curve for every American soldier who deploys to the Middle East war zone. Much of that involves culture shock, and the exc...

Reducere. A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which...

A gripping first-hand account of life at home after World War One. When underage soldier, Joe Henry, returns from the war in 1918, the England that...

Includes all-new material for this edition: the latest intelligence from the man who came forward with the truth about Waco.After a career that spa...

Reducere. For a mother and her three daughters, this Christmas is a time to share secrets--and find hope for the future . . . As a young girl, Carmen Appleto...

Reducere. Bronze Medal Winner from the Military Writers Society of America! There's a steep learning curve for every American soldier who deploys to the Midd...

Reducere. What happens when a regular person accidentally finds themselves lost in the middle of a war?In 1991, BBC journalist Chris Woolf travelled to Afgha...

A timely, passionate call for class consciousness in a time of staggering inequality.

Reducere. Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew u...

Reducere. "A frank, intriguing memoir."--People "Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos." --The New York Times Book Review "Home reflect...

Reducere. In her debut memoir, MOTHER LOAD, Wendy Adamson shared her story of landing in county jail after shooting her husband's mistress and ultimately fin...

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Reducere. The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom.

Reducere. Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving hou...

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. DescriptionFrom bestselling author, T.I. LOWE comes an emotional family saga like no other. I've lost myself. Where did I go? Can I find myself? I ...

Reducere. Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone kn...

Memoir about a British citizen imprisoned in Dubai

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...

Reducere. Now in trade paper Written with the same spirit and wit as the bestselling Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls, Coming Ashore is the third a...

Reducere. From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship...

A family story in the vein of Penelope Lively following an English couple 'coming home' from India in 1944, attempting to make their way in a chang...

Reducere. This summer, Ami Chi is taking a trip to far off Vietnam, where the streets are crowded with zipping scooters and fruit is shaped like dragons and ...

Reducere. Now that her brother's best friend has moved back to their quirky small town, will this shy librarian finally find love with her childhood crush?Em...