This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies.
This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies.
Acclaimed novelist, editor, and critic Eric Miles Williamson, with the publication of his first book of nonfiction, establishes himself as one of the premier critics of his generation.
Acclaimed novelist, editor, and critic Eric Miles Williamson, with the publication of his first book of nonfiction, establishes himself as one of the premier critics of his generation.
The extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea in an all-male world, paving the way for the female sailing superstars of today.
When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.
When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.
**Twentieth anniversary edition of Farrant's beloved memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time**The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960.
A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.
MORE STUFF contains "e;Virginia City,"e; a reminiscence of the author's three-month stay in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1976; eight poems; and "e;That Was New York,"e; an essay based on a trip to New York City in 1983.
All the furniture in the house got wrecked except this one old wooden china cabinet in my grandmother's kitchen, which somehow remained standing despite all odds.
A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii.
Overweight and stressed out, award-winning vocalist, speaker, and author Sandi Patty was teetering on the edge of a meltdown when her trusted doctor and friend issued an ominous warning: "e;You are cheating your family if you die too soon-and trust me, Sandi, if you don't do something, you're going to.
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why Rick Stein's childhood in 1950s rural Oxfordshire and North Cornwall was idyllic.
My roots - from my grandfather born in poverty in India, migrating as a child with his uncle to South Africa the discrimination he encounter, then my father + my experiences in S.
A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha Val Hennessy, Daily Mail[An] eloquent and innovative memoir The TimesThe extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japans foremost geisha.
