Jack London: an American novelist, journalist, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, poet, socialist, an oyster pirate, war correspondent, alcoholic, a rancher.
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the SeasonThe work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues-political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.
This fascinating memoir recounts two years of adventure, hardship, and life lessons as a woman moves her family to the Camelsfoot Commune in BC, Canada.
This "e;brilliant and heartrending"e; memoir recounts one of the bloodiest battles of WWI-with a new introduction and a forward by the author's son (John Keegan).
All of Us Together in the Endis a lyrical, elegiac affirmation of the awesome, strange, otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us, even when they are out of reach, by a writerThe New York Timescalls irresistible and utterly convincing.
** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 **A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art'Who would have thought that the outstanding art book of you would have been written not by a curator or an art historian or even an artist - but by a museum guard?
The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost 26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport.
The Indian Health Service was an unlikely place for Emily Hartzog to land after specialty medical training in New York City, but caring for the quiet, unfathomable Navajo in Shiprock, New Mexico became the focus of her life.
This memoir by Anne Heche is as personal as it gets, offering a peek inside the mind of the late Emmy-award winning actress, director and author of the New York Times best seller Call Me Crazy.
THE LADY BEST BOOKS OF 2024A haunted record of a life devoted to the visual art of the cinema and the written word, by Ireland's greatest director and one of her finest novelists.
This book attempts to recall and preserve the linkage and relationships of a person to his or her parents by recalling their influence and example in specific events where positive and meaningful outcomes were realized after the fact.
Throughout foster homes and sitting fire's with only the need to get back home and then many hardships because of bad choices the journey started in Gainesville Ga.
Bill Cicansky highlights the trials, tribulations, and tears he faced when he turned his back on Jesus and allowed Satan to take over his life in this autobiography.
Throughout the ten years Amber Gabrielson struggled with anorexia and obsessive compulsive disorder, she battled insecurities, self-doubt, and self-hatred that sent her down a dark path of desperation.
Der beliebte niederländische Musiker setzt allen Müttern mit diesem Buch ein Denkmal - ein wunderbares Geschenk für Mütter, nicht nur zum MuttertagHerman van Veen hatte stets ein sehr enges Verhältnis zu seiner Mutter.
Für die einen ist er ein lebendes Gesamtkunstwerk, das sich immer weiter vervollkommnet, für die anderen ein Popstar, der partout nicht lockerlässt, für die dritten wiederum ein unerschrockener Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes der Kulturindustrie: Andreas Dorau – viel bewundert, eigensinnig, genial.
Die Schamanin erzählt in ihrer spannenden Spurensuche, wie sich über die tiefe Verbindung zur Natur das heilige Wissen unserer Ahninnen und Ahnen offenbart.
