Out of Place: A Memoir

A political and personal history of the aclaimed writer, academic and critic, which reveals the influences which have informed ground-breaking work...

Reducere. A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives o...

Reducere. A blend of memoir and cultural exploration, When Echoes Speak distills the defining moments of an unusual life. In August of 1944, when Dag was fiv...

Reducere. Morgan Boy is a memoir of Noah's time in South Central, LA. Dealing with racism, gentrification, and other social issues, this manuscript combines ...

Description'An emotional and compelling memoir, that left me inspired, both by her bravery in transforming her life, and by the unexpected beauty s...

Reducere. "When I got up from the Keelers' breakfast table there was something choking me besides the herrin' and golden seal, and it was not homesickness, e...

Reducere. Lost Without the River is an elegantly wrought memoir of resilience, courage, and reinvention. A portrait of nature at its most beautiful and deman...

Reducere. Have you got a story you're burning to tell - a true story from your life (not your WHOLE life story - memoir is a part of your life). The events y...

Reducere. Marilyn Carr's family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called "the plant." The quirky, isolat...

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. As Blighty, Great Britain was a qui...

Waiting for the world to tell you that you matter?In her unguarded, deeply affective, and witty memoir, Shifra shares the relatable story of being ...

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 ...

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

Reducere. Imagine a place in the 21st Century that has remained only moderately fazed by the passing of time. In the heart of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mou...

Reducere. Out of Loneliness: Murder and Memoir opens on Memorial Day 1962 when Bev Waugh, a transgender man strode down a quiet street in a small South Dakot...

"What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is . . . Like the best chefs, Phyllis Grant knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingre...

Reducere. One of Esquire's Best Cookbooks of 2020 and one of The Washington Post's Best Food Books of 2020In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . ....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert E. RobertsA trained classical musician, Robert E. Roberts forsook composing harpsichord music to become a gifted tat...

Reducere. Growing up in Bay City Oregon is a coming-of-age historical memoir that takes place in the years between 1936 and 1953. Gordon Lee's family leaves ...

DescriptionA chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of British television's most respected writers."Foreground Music is an absolut...

Reducere. In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts--a place where time an...

Reducere. The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks...

"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are faci...

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

Reducere. At the age of 24, Jordan Barnes woke up next to a lifeless body, rifled through his dead friends' pockets for any remaining heroin and went right b...

Reducere. From R. Clift comes so intimately a collection of memories, a snapshot of her heart, like nothing she has ever written or shared before. A travel m...

Reducere. The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy legend Richard PryorRain Pryor was born in the idealistic, free-love 1960s. Her mot...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader s Circle for author chats and more. From theauthor of The ...

Reducere. Amy Fusselman's first two books, The Pharmacist's Mate and 8, weave surprising beauty out of diverse strands of personal reflection. Half memoir an...

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. Once I leave my husband's house, am I still a wife? What happens when the fairy tale marriage falls apart?Ranjani flies out of Mumbai as a young, s...

Reducere. In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to tra...

"We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, w...

Reducere. DescriptionThere were no front lines in Vietnam, this nation's first full-out guerrilla war. No place in the country was ever totally safe. You nev...

Reducere. The Book Of D. Barnes: As I Walked Through The Streets Of Los Angeles is an autobiography of a young man who hails from Atlanta, Georgia. He had co...

Reducere. They were young, brilliant, and bold. They set out to conquer the world. But the world had other plans for them. Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilm...

Reducere. Diana Abu-Jaber's vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood--American and ...

DescriptionAn astonishing but true account of a pianist's escape from war-torn Syria to Germany offers a deeply personal perspective on the most de...

Reducere. If you feel like you have lost yourself in an unhealthy or traumatic relationship and want to find your way back to who you really are, if you have...

Reducere. The Upside Down Boy is award-winning poet Juan Felipe Herrera's engaging memoir of the year his migrant family settled down so that he could go to ...

Reducere. DescriptionMission Street Food is a restaurant. But it's also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventiv...

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. In 2017, Amrit Singh experienced the deaths of his grandmother and uncle. Soon after, his mother was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Rai...

Reducere. Following the tradition of Daisy Bates in the Desert and In Patagonia, Alice Thomson conjures up a country of unimaginable strangeness and beauty. ...

Reducere. Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted...

Reducere. "When the Iraq War broke out in the spring of 2003, no one knew what was going on, and no real systems were in place. Author Tenacity had his Depar...

A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast.Food writer Hannah Howard ...

A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast.Food writer Hannah Howard ...

Reducere. "Theroux's eye for landscape remains as sharp as ever . . . It's Theroux's remarkable gift for getting strangers to reveal themselves that makes go...

Reducere. DescriptionThe renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive c...

Reducere. For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos: The Hands of Fate, the "worst movie ever made" is, at its heart, a home movie that just happen...

Reducere. This is the HARDBACK version. For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos: The Hands of Fate, the "worst movie ever made" is, at its heart,...

Reducere. What time do we live in? To gain perspective on what is happening now, we need to be aware of the roots and even the detours that have led us here....

Reducere. "It's in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear, " writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye Hillman's insightful memoir. "Th...

Reducere. We live in a world of noise where everyone is so quick to speak. When we slow down and give someone our full attention, we offer them a safe place ...

Reducere. More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. Hi...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark ...

Reducere. When what you believe turns out to be a lie, how far will you go for the truth?"Just go home and pretend it never happened, " is the advice given t...

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

Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss is a memoir about a gay woman of conscience who became a fugitive, on the run for over nineteen ye...

Reducere. DescriptionHow so little can add up to be priceless, and how often so much can prove to be so worthless. Commercial Airline Pilot Douglas Andrew Ke...

DescriptionThere are nearly 1, 400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world--from altesse to zierfandler--but 80 percent of the wine we drink is...

Reducere. Chasing James Galdolfini is based on a true story. It most importantly sheds the light on the best-written show on television. . .The Sopranos. It ...

Reducere. In childhood, M.G. adores her old family house as if it were a guardian with heart and soul. After her mother dies, her father soon remarries and s...

Reducere. DescriptionFor fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We ...

Reducere. For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call ...

Reducere. The Butcher Shop Girl begins with Carmen's unique coming-of-age as she's ripped from her extended family after her Catholic parents' divorce. Learn...

"Tony Hirashiki was simply one of the best television cameramen to cover the Vietnam War. His soaring video, often acquired only at great personal ...

Reducere. A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep American South to the Mid...

Reducere. Memoir from Marc de Celle of his family's first five years in Fargo. Having always lived in either Arizona, California or Florida, Fargo was a big ...