A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her imperfection.
Called "e;one of the rawest specimens of classic Nawlins spitfire you'll ever find"e; by Newsweek, and featured in Spike Lee's HBO documentary When the Levees Broke, Phyllis Montana-Leblanc gives an astounding and poignant account of how she and her husband lived through one of our nation's worst disasters, and continue to put their lives back together.
A hilarious romp from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood with beloved Emmy Awardwinning actor, playwright, popular and laugh-out-loud funny Instagram icon, and gay legend.
It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades.
At long last, the first serious biography of entertainment legend Lena Horne -- the celebrated star of film, stage, and music who became one of the first African-American icons.
From the former chief of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office comes the bestselling thriller featuring a New York City prosecutor unraveling a terrifying and brutal murder mystery.
With millions of copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our timethe definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning actress Marlee Matlin reveals the illuminating, moving, and often surprising story of how she defied all expectations to become one of the most prolific and beloved actresses of our time in this powerful celebrity memoir.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal first years of rebirth - Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future.
The New York Times bestselling memoir from legendary comedienne Carol Burnett is a loving, poignant (People) tribute to her eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton.
When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the Washington Post bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible.
On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for.
Afeni Shakur, one of the most visible figures in both the hip-hop and civil rights movements, reveals her moral and spiritual development in an innovative memoir spanning four decades.
In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West.
A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction.
In this beautiful reissue, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.
The matriarch of Australia's most violent and notorious criminal family, and allegedly the inspiration for the award-winning film Animal Kingdom, tells her side of the story.
In der Buchreihe »Die Krise der bürgerlichen Ideologie und die Lehre der Denkweise« behandelt der dritte Band die Krise der bürgerlichen Naturwissenschaft.
Pocos se atreverían a afirmar que Platón sea el único padre de la filosofía, pero eso es lo que se defiende en este libro, siguiendo la línea del filósofo inglés Alfred North Whitehead cuando afirmó que «la historia de la filosofía occidental no es más que una serie de notas al pie de página de Platón».
Alfredo HOYUELOS ha tenido el valor y el mérito de estructurar, organizar, sintetizar contenidos y propuestas –pensamientos y prácticas– que han surgido a lo largo de los años de la mente lúcida, viva y dispersa por su gran riqueza, de Loris Malaguzzi.
'Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo ViceMakoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights.
En el presente que vivimos, donde el capitalismo voraz engulle cualquier esperanza de los de abajo por cambiar el mundo, se hace más urgente que nunca partir de Gramsci para tomar impulso, heredar su espíritu y actualizar su filosofía.
