Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending almost twelve years later on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park, Hallow This Ground revolves around monuments and memorials-physical structures that mark the intersection of time and place.
We all have memories of family vacations: the cross-country marathon drive, the camping trip, a couple lazy weeks at the lake, a helter-skelter month in Europe, four days in Disneyland.
In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in NonfictionJoanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.
Lake of the Old Uncles recounts a trip that began three-quarters of a century ago in a small village inn nestled in the Laurentian hills of French-speaking Quebec.
Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision.
In PR: Fifty Years in the Field, Jack Donoghue brings together the results of a lifetime in public relations - in the military, public, and private sectors.
2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature - Longlisted2016 RBC Taylor Prize - LonglistedThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "e;Canada's first multicultural writer.
From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone, comes a comic narrative about an over-anxious mother and her twenty-something over-adventurous son.
Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in NonfictionJoanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.
Winner of the 2009 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, short-listed for the 2008 Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters.
Mujeres congoleñas, sudanesas, kenianas, etíopes y ugandesas comparten con dolor y valentía uno de los hechos más cruciales de sus vidas: el ser viudas.
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERGrieving his fathers sudden passing, a film scholar and father of two boys finds solace in the picturesque idyll of Ireland's East Clare region, where he discovers and adopts an enigmatic border collie from an abandoned farm.
A book for anybody who has, or works with, children (of any age) with 'out of control' behaviour, including parents, teachers and healthcare professionals.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DARA McANULTYTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His writing is as impressive and as enjoyable as his TV programmes and there can be no higher praise' Daily Express'A marvellous book .
Pee Wee King's birth on February 18, 1914, into a Milwaukee working-class Polish family named Kuczynski was hardly an indicator that he would grow up to become a pioneer and superstar of country and western music.
Si la decouverte d'un gisement de charbon a Jrada n'avait pas bouleverse les choses, des peres et des freres de toutes les regions du Maroc subsisteraient.
Dans les annees 1980, il a eu l'honneur et le grand plaisir de cotoyer les plus grands du monde entier comme Albert Raisner, Larry Adler, Dany Kane, Claude Garden, Jean-Jacques Milteau, Toots Thielemans et bien d'autres cites dans cet ouvrage, qui ont fait la promotion de cet instrument que l'on nomme l'harmonica et que certains ont considere comme un jouet d'enfant !
Dans ce premier volume de Science et sentiment - Journal d'une scientifique, Lou Daniel decrit son parcours universitaire, ses difficultes, ses succes et, entre autres, ses moments de joie.
Racontee avec delicatesse et elegance, l'histoire singuliere et personnelle de Nourdin vous fait voyager dans les coulisses d'une existence pleine de rebondissements.
