Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Reducere. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, the author and other women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Wes...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Gohar (Visiting Board Member, Sigmund Freud Museum) HomayounpourNumber of pages: 176Collection: The MIT PressPub...

Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today's headlines -- a taut thriller about one American diplomat's year of living dangerous...

Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today's headlines -- a taut thriller about one American diplomat's year of living dangerous...

DescriptionDecorated current CIA analyst Mark Henshaw continues the "authentic, compelling, and revealing" (Jason Matthews) Red Cell series followi...

DescriptionA city of stories--short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory--Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the capital city ...

A stunning coming-of-age memoir of obsession, passion and manipulation, shining a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerabilit...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Namdar NasserIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 64Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 201 x 16C...

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Reducere. Roman tradus in 32 de tari, aflat 117 saptamini pe lista The New York Times a celor mai vindute cartiIn Republica Islamica Iran, Azar Nafisi, o pro...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Minnie DriverNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 218 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate stude...

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Publisher: Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonAuthor(s): Timothy C. BakerNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 211 x 20Cover type...

Description"Davies' collection of essays soars.... It's a memoir that locates the profound within the ordinary." --Entertainment WeeklyIf you're lo...

Reducere. One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer's commitment to another. --The New ...

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Reducere. Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer's journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The story-told through short memoirs, essays, lists, l...

Reducere. Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door....

From Noelle Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivating, honest illustrated memoir that finds her t...

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A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restau...

Reducere. Wife Daughter Self investigates identity and the writing life through the perspective of one of the nation's top memoir teachers and critics. Curio...

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Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyXiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her ge...

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

An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live"About seven years ago, not too long before our daug...

An entertaining and moving memoir about coming out, looking inwards, and the search for connection, inspired by the responses to a personal ad. In ...

Reducere. A Body Across Two Hemispheres is a timely book, one many of us need and will be grateful to have read. --Shara McCallum A Body Across Two Hemispher...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Christina Joyce HauserNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 222 x 34Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. Roman tradus in 32 de tari, aflat 117 saptamini pe lista The New York Times a celor mai vindute carti In Republica Islamica Iran, Azar Nafisi, o pr...

In Republica Islamica Iran, Azar Nafisi, o profesoara curajoasa si inzestrata, invita acasa sapte dintre studentele ei preferate. Uitand de teroare...

Roman tradus in 32 de tari, aflat 117 saptamini pe lista The New York Times a celor mai vindute cartiIn Republica Islamica Iran, Azar Nafisi, o pro...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mira JacobNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 202 x 34Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sha...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--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...

Appetite is a memoir by Ed Balls told through his favourite recipes.Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Ed BallsNumber of pages: 336Publicati...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Ed BallsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softb...

A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America Julayne Lee was born in So...

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Reducere. In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conver...

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Reducere. This is the personal story of a modern-day mystic and prophet that will inspire seekers from all faiths. The memoir begins with a childhood mystica...

Reducere. An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American e...