From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees.
A gripping first-person account of a happy-go-lucky kid whose innocence came to an abrupt end the day he became one more victim of an evil priest, aka Satans priest.
Mujer europea y africana a la vez, binacional, francesa y gambiana, judía con orígenes cristianos y musulmanes, animista antes de la islamización de África occidental, blanca y negra, hoy quiero mostrar todas mis cartas: me siento cómoda con mi piel.
Some of My Favorite People Are Elephants is a collection of short stories chronicling the author's four years spent traveling with a traditional American circus in the mid-1980s--first as a musician, then (quite unintentionally) as an acrobat and flying trapeze artist.
Desde el lejano Saipán en las postrimerías del Japón imperial, a la Argentina, Memorias relata en primera persona una privilegiada visión de dos culturas contrapuestas que coexisten en la persona del autor quien, a través de un relato que superficialmente parece simple –palabras de "un anciano que ha decidido escribir"– nos transporta a tiempos, lugares y paradigmas ajenos al mundo actual.
Christian Mertens begegnet einer neuen – etwas ungewöhnlichen – Nachbarin, die ganz Ohr ist für seine Lebensgeschichte und auch all die anderen Themen, die ihn bewegen.
'An ideal summer read' EVENING STANDARD'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read' YOMI ADEGOKEOenone didn't set out to become an influencer.
In this gripping family tale, Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents influential lives at the crossroads of German and Jewish national movements.
Chronicling nearly nine decades of life and work on a Maine farm, this memoir by Will and Minnie Penney presents a wonderful look back at rural life before and during the Depression, in the heady post-war years, and late, as family farms began to give way to larger industrial farms.
A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at WaterstonesA 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard'My favourite book of 2024.
From a Yorkshire veterinarian and a “wise and wonderful writer”: The New York Times bestseller and basis for the beloved BBC series of the same name (The Boston Globe).
Il y a dans les Mémoires d’un Médiateur de l’Université, au moins deux dimensions : l’une s’apparente à un journal parce qu’elle est jalonnée de dates précises, d’évènements vécus et connus de toute la communauté universitaire de Dakar; l’autre renvoie plutôt à un récit qui transforme les faits racontés en une fiction romanesque, avec la possibilité, pour l’auteur, de les amplifier et/ou de les modifier à sa guise.
En un relato tan desgarrador como revelador, un medico argentino relata con brutal honestidad su recorrido desde los anos de estudio hasta el ejercicio profesional.
