For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldstein'Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity' - John RobinsThis is a book about mistakes.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time.
THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS is a circling of grief following the death of the author's older son when he was 21, a horror that was compounded by her younger son's drug use, the country's slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and reckoning the author had to do regarding her own story.
Tausche Sportschuhe gegen Gummistiefel: Eine Familie wagt den Neuanfang als SelbstversorgerAls Sara und Michael ihre Karriere als Leistungssportler beenden, ahnen sie noch nicht, dass sie schon bald knietief in Erde und Schlamm stecken.
For years, Johanna Reiss' American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland.
THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS is a circling of grief following the death of the author's older son when he was 21, a horror that was compounded by her younger son's drug use, the country's slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and reckoning the author had to do regarding her own story.
A Wall Street Legend Recounts His Fifty Years in the Stock Market, Hedge Funds, and PhilanthropyWall Street mogul Leon Cooperman provides a brilliant business memoir encompassing a quarter-century with Goldman Sachs and then the management of his own successful hedge fund, Omega Advisors.
THE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIMIn January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby.
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.
From ';weird, scary, ingenious' (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and ';laugh-out-loud funny' (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systemsfrom Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.
Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.
A primera vista, la historia de Beatriz Elena Satizábal Escobar puede resultar similar a la de muchos: estudió una carrera universitaria, trabaja de lo que la apasiona, vivió en diferentes partes del mundo (África, Medio Oriente, Europa, América Latina).
En El placer de servir encontrará el lector escritos del doctor Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco desde cuando era profesor de la Facultad de ]Salud de la Univarsidad del Valle hasta cuando fue elegido, en dos opotrunidades, alcande de Cali.
My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me is the story of how an adorable, spunky, gray-and-white kitten helped the author regain the courage to face life's challenges and realize that none of us is truly alone.
My One-Eyed, Three-Legged Therapist: How My Cat Clio Saved Me is the story of how an adorable, spunky, gray-and-white kitten helped the author regain the courage to face life's challenges and realize that none of us is truly alone.
Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.
After first meeting over sixty years ago while filming a costume drama for the BBC, Prunella Scales and Timothy West have enjoyed a partnership like no other; from appearing together in hit sitcoms to bringing up two children, they have chalked up an almost endless list of professional triumphs.
'A gripping narrative, strengthened by Wheeler's longstanding connection to the story' Financial Times'Moving, angering' The TimesThe definitive account of the NHS infected blood scandal from Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2024In the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 haemophiliacs were infected with HIV or hepatitis C after being given contaminated NHS blood products.
Amazing Grace: Memoirs of a Transformational Journey is about one man's struggle to discover his soul in a soulless world, in which he argues that a new kind of human being needs to emerge if our society is to be healed.
This memoir of buying and transforming an abandoned olive farm “describes life in the South of France with lush, voluptuous appreciation” (Publishers Weekly).
