The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir, Paperback - Marina Whitman

Reducere. One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathemati...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Elissa WaldNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 x 228 x 24Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Elissa WaldNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 152 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

A unique blend of memoir and public history, Packinghouse Daughter, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, tells a compelling story of small-town, wor...

Reducere. My father had thirteen wives and more than fifty children . . .This is the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist an...

Reducere. As a little girl, Teressa's father dotes on her and little sister, Karen, while mercilessly mocking her older sister, Debbie. Teressa thinks its De...

A memoir about a young woman holding out for love between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five and discovering the tensions that come when the boys...

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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...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

Reducere. The Diamond Cutter's Daughter: A Poet's Memoir might be thought of as a nonfiction bildungsroman. Told in short lyric pieces it gives a picture of ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Elle JohnsonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 134 x 17Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

DescriptionA Lumberman's Daughter Comes of Age in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: A Memoir by Patricia Schaut McMartin is a firsthand account of growin...

The Officer's Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotion...

Gut-wrenching and absorbing...in the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle--BOOKLIST - A story of redemption and forgiveness--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK R...

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was ...

Reducere. Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel ha...

DescriptionA riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an ...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about forever." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of U...

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Reducere. "Here is a memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love and toward a beautiful...

Reducere. Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible hu...

DescriptionMimi Bull grew up secure in the love of family, friends, and neighbors, never questioning the unusual circumstances that caused her to b...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of mem...

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...

Reducere. As a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoo...

Reducere. "Through the story of facing her fears, Abdou shows us that we are much stronger than we think." -- Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom This pers...

The fourth unforgettable historical love story set in Italy from Marina Fiorato, author of the bestseller THE GLASSBLOWER OF MURANO. For fans of Ph...

Reducere. Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breatht...

Reducere. A poignant narrative of one mom's struggle to support her transgender daughter--showing how any parent can forge a deeper bond with their child by ...

** Includes foreword from Susie Green, CEO of charity Mermaids **Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Marlo MackNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 20...

Choon-Ok Harmon was born soon after the Korean War, when South Korea was experiencing extreme poverty. This memoir describes the hardships she trie...

Reducere. DescriptionEngagingly written as a journal of fond memories, life experiences, lessons learned, and tragedies overcome, this is the story of the fa...

Reducere. "For those of us wrestling with demons--and who isn't?--Lush is a solace and as powerful as red wine." --Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Love...

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Reducere. Unsinkable is the definitive memoir by film legend and Hollywood icon Debbie Reynolds.In Unsinkable, the late great actress, comedienne, singer, an...

Reducere. Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fasc...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find...

Reducere. Vidal on Vidal--a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject. Chosen by the New York Times as No. 7 among...

This is the story of what life becomes when stripped of all that makes it worth living - of what humans become when they lose their humanity.The Ma...

Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

DescriptionLightening darkness with humor, Velya Jancz-Urban and her 25-year-old daughter, Ehris, introduce readers to their offbeat Connecticut fa...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Gina YashereNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 203 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

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Reducere. Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattlesnakes, and sand in Eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick ...

Reducere. In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maatha...