Memoirs

Steven Mack, geb.

Als Kind flog Robin Cornelius fünfmal von der Schule, später studierte er Wirtschafts- und Politikwissenschaften und gründete in Lausanne das Textilunternehmen Switcher.

Steven Mack, geb.

Als junges Mädchen träumte Ruth Binde, 1932 in Bern geboren, von einer Karriere als Schauspielerin.

In "Verborgene Liebe" erzählen Röbi Rapp und Ernst Ostertag, beide 1930 geboren, von einem Leben, in welchem sie alles, was sie öffentlich als Homosexuelle hätte erkennbar machen können, tunlichst unterlassen mussten.

Margit Fischer erzählt ihre Geschichte - und damit auch die Geschichte dieser Republik.

"Kulinarisch gesehen hat Österreich immer gewonnen", hat Sepp Forcher in seinem Bestseller "Das Glück liegt so nah" (2014) geschrieben.

Mit über 80 Jahren ist Sepp Forcher nicht nur der populärste Repräsentant echter Volkskultur in Österreich, sondern vor allem ein Mensch mit einem so reichen Erfahrungsschatz, dass es an der Zeit ist, bei ihm in die Lehre zu gehen: Wie wird man ein glücklicher Mensch?

Mit der Börne-Denkschrift reagierte Heine auf die Briefe aus Paris seines früheren Freundes, Ludwig Börne , in denen der radikal-republikanische Publizisten ihm vorwarf, die Ziele der Revolution verraten zu haben.

Fanny Lewald beschreibt hier sehr detailliert ihre Reise durch Italien zu Beginn des 19.

This book is about Jaime H.

I discover a lost aunt, separated from ourfamily due to racism and discrimination against the disabled.

My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems.

Allein gegen alle und sich selbst: die mitreißende Autobiografie des deutsch-türkischen Profi-Boxers und vehementen Erdoğan-Kritikers Ünsal Arık.

Parents would easily sacrifice their lives for their children.

When Hitchcock's The Birds began showing in the summer of 1963 at the Dolton Theater, the starlings of Riverside, Illinois launched their attacks.

The specialty of plastic surgery was developed and named by Sir Harold Gillies following his work between the two world wars reconstructing severely damaged servicemen from the First World War.

Skurrile Dates statt Kinderkriegen – ehrliche, verrückte, aber auch bewegende Einblicke in das Online-Dating-Leben mit Anfang 30»Das Leben hat sein ganz eigenes Tempo.

Nach dem Erfolg von »Tinder Stories: Ein Jahr voller Dates« das neue, überraschende Buch von Influencerin luiseliebt: schonungslos offen und maximal lebensbejahendSie hatte sich fest vorgenommen, Single zu bleiben und ihre Freiheit zu genießen.

Gewitter über Sellrain: Wie eine Katastrophennacht das Dorf zusammenschweißte.

"Ich bin noch nie einem Juden begegnet …": Diesen Satz haben die meisten der rund 200.

"Ich bin noch nie einem Juden begegnet …": Diesen Satz haben die meisten der rund 200.

A guide to harnessing the vibration that created the universe for healing and spiritual awakening*; Shares profound lessons from Swami Nada Brahmananda, a master of the yoga of sound and vibration*; Centers on three life-enhancing themes: controlling the mind, diet and practices conducive to healing and perfect health, and how music can be used to transform consciousness and enrich our spiritual life*; Also paints a vivid portrait of New York City in the 1970s and its underground arts and music sceneNot long after obtaining his Ph.

In this tender, funny, and sharp memoir-in-essays, the author of Amateur Hour examines marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss & longing shape a life.

As siento que ha sido toda mi vida: un huracn, un torbellino, un tsunami arrasador que siempre me ha trado grandes alegras, me las ha quitado, para volverme a traer ms en este incesante vaivn.

One of Bustle's Best Books of MayA feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Browns Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and bestselling authors, including Kristen Arnett, Morgan Parker, Evette Dionne, and Melissa Febos.

Jerre Wills was in his late teens when he began feeling something tugging at his shirt-tail, and finally pulling with the force of a 300 pound barn-door halibut heading for deep water on the end of a fishing line.

Douglas Avenue is the story of an immigrant Armenian family, the Stepanians, whose children grow up during the Great Depression.

'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move.

"e;I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.

We did not stay in our houses.

This soulful collection is perfect for fans ofThe MothorHumans of New York.

Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten.

Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom1974.

The stories we tell ourselves can be a source of trauma.

My mom gave birth to me, but my dad was the one that taught me life, to become the successful woman that I am today.

"e;This wonderful book is faithful both in its witness to the world's beauty and to our need to act now to preserve something of that wonder and grace.

Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his run-down New Jersey row house.

When you ask the Lord for help, things have a way of working out.

Vom "Todeszug von Buchenwald", der Befreiung in Dachau und einem neuen Leben in Las Vegas: die bedeutsame Biografie des Überlebenden Ben Lesser.

Vom "Todeszug von Buchenwald", der Befreiung in Dachau und einem neuen Leben in Las Vegas: die bedeutsame Biografie des Überlebenden Ben Lesser.

This is a journey through doubt, fear, pain, and joy.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you're reading about a dream or a nightmare.

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This memoir of life as a committed pedestrian in a beautiful Southern city explores the many joys and benefits of walking as a way of life.

Lesbian.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

From the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club comes a warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing friendship over the course of forty years.