Memoirs

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society.

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author shares her rough journey to adulthood in a book that “should be read by every American” (Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette).

A new memoir from internationally renowned musician Liona Boyd.

Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir's life and work.

The Battle of Arnhem remains a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it.

"e;Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation.

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering.

Fans of memoir will appreciate the honest portrayal of growing up between rebellion and tradition in Love, Sex, and 4-H.

A SHEERLUXE READING LIST PICK FOR 2025 'Fans of Bridget Jones will love Lizzie Frainier's tales from the dating front line' Sunday Times Style'Lizzie Frainier is admirably frank and deeply likeable.

2023 Living Now Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner for Mature Living/CaregivingI found it unique and inspiring that the couple worked hard to keep their love alive and their sex life active while facing serious health challenges.

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix showMindhunterdelves deep into the lives and crimes offour of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategiesused to crack some of Americas most challenging cases.

White Witch in a Black Robe is a memoir about how secret high-level mind control is performed throughout victims' lives and the ways heads of governments and religious organizations participate in this, as well as the healing process and how the mind becomes whole again.

"e;A powerful, often heart-wrenching collection of essays tackling the history of the American South.

Once upon a time, there lived a happy family called the Maitlands.

The captivating, untold story of the great explorer, David Livingstone: his abiding faith and his heroic efforts to end the African slave tradeSaint?

A Jehovah's Witness' Painful but Liberating Realization that She Must Give Up Her Faith';An inherently compelling and candidly revealing memoir .

The first extensive treatment of the mandrill''s reproductive and behavioural biology, focusing on mechanisms of sexual selection and evolution.

2023 Best Indie Book Award Winner, MemoirAn unforgettable memoir about the turmoil of antidepressant withdrawal and the work it takes to unravel the stories we tell ourselves to rationalize our suffering.

Ehrlich und humorvoll verwebt die britischen Journalistin und Podcasterin Dolly Alderton in ihrer Autobiografie persönliche Erlebnisse und witzige Anekdoten mit scharfsinnigen Reflexionen darüber, was es heute heißt, eine Frau zu sein.

In Casting Off we met Emma Bamford.

The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J.

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician.

So much of our world today is crying out for welcome, refuge, and belonging.

In December 1967, Chuck Robb was catapulted onto the national scene when he married Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B.

The apostle Paul's theology of glory has its foundations in the biblical drama of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation, and in the identity of Jesus as revealed in his teachings, life, death, and resurrection.

IMMER EIN NEUES LAND: SISONKE MSIMANG KÄMPFT FÜR GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG, UNABHÄNGIGKEIT UND IHR RECHT AUF EINEN PLATZ IN DER WELT.

A first-hand account of the defense of Outpost Harry, a strategic position in Korea's Chorwon Valley brutally contested by the US and Chinese armies as they jockeyed for advantageous positions in anticipation of peace negotiations in Panmunjom.

From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end.

The poems includetouchingly romantic and sad expressions of Steffi's youthful idealism and morerecent humorous epistles.

When Lise Weil came out in 1976, she came out into a land that was all on fire.

Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition.

UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONOffering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations from his time spent incarcerated in 1995 reveals the artist and activist as never seen before.

During the 1930s the Soviet Union launched a major effort to create a modern Air Force.

In this down-to-earth, fun and empowering book, Joe Wells talks about his teenage experience of OCD and all the coping mechanisms and treatment options that have worked for him.

The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917.

Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era.

**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama.

#1 New York Times bestseller With a new afterwordNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothee Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan ';A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom.

Homethe place where we were born, where we learned our first lessons, where family was defined.

As the 'second city of empire', Liverpool and the surrounding region played a pivotal role in the First World War.

The sharp and surprising true story of a woman who finally sets out to understand her past, and the mother she had one day hoped to forget.

No one could have imagined how as a child Beverly Engel could have managed to become who she is todayan internationally known expert on abuse recovery and the best-selling author of twenty-two self-help books.

You can be raw, real, and messy and still build a successful career and life.

An inspiring, rags-to-riches guide to achieving success in life and business by the founder of Myprotein .

An Esquire Best Book of 2021 A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.

A thoughtful, hilarious, and compulsively readable memoir by an Ivy League graduate-turned-pornographer who sets out to bring sophistication and equality to sexual cinemaonly to find that he can't change porn, but porn can certainly change him.

Winner: Byron Caldwell Smith AwardBetween the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those fields of bluestem, cattle grazeand tending the cattle, someone like Jim Hoy, whose people have ranched there from, well, not quite time immemorial, but pretty darn close.