Memoirs

When she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us.

April is a thoughtful yet sarcastic mother of two who tries her best to be a caring, connected mom in a middle-class culture where motherhood has become relentless.

Alan and Joanne marry in midlife and live a happily-ever-after existence until, at sixty-nine, Alan is diagnosed with a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative illness.

Die Migränepatientin erzählt, ihr Neurologe gibt Ratschläge - gemeinsam schreiben sie einen Ratgeber, in dessen Fokus nicht medizinisch-wissenschaftliche Aspekte, sondern die persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Migräne und deren Bewältigung stehen: Die Journalistin Praxedis Kaspar-Schmid berichtet von ihrem Leben, das von schwerer Migräne, aber auch von deren Folgen wie Kopfschmerz bei Medikamentenübergebrauch geprägt war.

A vibrant, honest, and unique travel memoir for readers who think they're too old to ';eat, pray, love,' My Marriage Sabbatical captures marital therapist Leah Fisher's journey to maintain her marriage without forfeiting her own independence.

À travers les étapes marquantes de sa vie d’aviateur, l’auteur témoigne ici de la réalité du monde à partir d’épisodes désormais inscrits dans l’Histoire.

A harrowing and heartbreaking account of survival and legal system failure, this book recounts a personal story of sexual assault and the lifetime impact it made on the victim and her family.

»Wann ist es denn endlich so weit?

Qui est réellement Mansour Kamardine ?

Ali, narrateur et personnage principal, est un jeune cadet d’une école militaire dans le Sud-Est marocain.

Briser les chaînes de la pauvreté retrace le parcours exceptionnel d’André François Carvalho depuis son enfance à Ziguinchor, au Sénégal, jusqu’à une brillante carrière
internationale au sein des Nations Unies.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards, The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book AwardShortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Social Impact Book of the YearStan Grant is talking to his country in a new way.

Some say that a life can be measured by the quantity of stories accumulated throughout.

Wenn sich die eigenen Gedanken, Gefühle und Emotionen auf einen Aspekt fokussieren, dann entsteht ein Bild im Kopf, welches über allen selbst gesteckten Prioritäten steht.

Just how improbable can one man's survival story be?

In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith was sent to Auschwitz and endured unimaginable experiences.

This is a Marine infantryman's combat memoir from the Invasion of Iraq to the Battle of Fallujah.

This is a Marine infantryman's combat memoir from the Invasion of Iraq to the Battle of Fallujah.

Growing up in a small rural town with a population of just a little more than one thousand residents, AT Chavez became an elite US federal agent for the Department of Energy, whose mission was to safeguard and transport the nation's nuclear weapons, components, test assemblies, and strategic quantities of weapons-grade nuclear materials from Department of Energy facilities to military installations within the continental United States.

Memoiric essays on who we were and how we have changedWhat happens when who you are is different to who you imagined youd be?

Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris'A lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty.

Jo Kelly's dream was to be a famous jazz singer, but instead, she became a stripper, owning her own burlesque club in Sydney, Australia.

In 1969, at age twenty, Martina moves to San Francisco.

'An optimistic and wryly funny book.

When Kelly met Luke years ago, she believed he was everything she wanted in a man.