A memoir you read with the same breathlessness as you read the most gripping of novels - iNews Astonishing a story that brims with life and hard-won hope - Sunday Times Fantastic.
In "Schaub Lorenz heisst meine Frau" nimmt uns die Autorin an die Hand und führt uns in eine Demenzabteilung eines Alters- und Pflegeheimes in der Schweiz.
The life of a person was a continuous thread of moments, as birth was at the beginning and the deadly at the end of it, and the stories he was going through and the faces he met represented the permanent contract of this thread.
2024 WINNER Autobiography/Memoir Best Book Awards2025 Nautilus Award Winner | Silver | Death & Dying / Grief & Loss2025 Foreword INDIES Award Winner | Bronze | Grief/Grieving (Adult Nonfiction)A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable This will be one of those rare books that people re-read, think about, and encourage others to read.
The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite.
Durch die Wüsten und Kulturstätten Syriens (Through the Deserts and Cultural Sites of Syria) is a German translation of the travelogue written by Gertrude Bell, an English writer, traveler, archaeologist, and political officer in the early 20th century.
Winner of the Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award and the Jeanne Crdova Prize This powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays ';reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma' (The New York Times Book Review).
The beloved New York Times bestsellers that inspired the popular BBC series—from a Yorkshire veterinarian and a “wise and wonderful writer” (The Boston Globe).
Regina Lampert erlebt als «Schwabengängerin» und Dienstbotin das dörfliche Schnifis, die bittere Realität auf einem Gut in Oberschwaben und die städtische Betriebsamkeit im kleinbürgerlichen Feldkirch.
A psychotherapist's candid memoir of addiction and recovery, exploring the intersection of Asian culture, mental health, and assimilating into American culture as an ethnic minority.
Shortly after graduating high school, Megan purposefully conceives a child in one of many failed attempts to secure the acceptance she desperately wants from anyone who would offer.
Be prepared to embark on a journey of a young girl who faced insurmountable challenges while growing up in a remote village, bereft of any luxuries in life.
Excerpt: "e;I have made no attempt in these pages to review the splendors of the past, or to probe the many vital questions which concern the present, of this wondrous City of the Sea.
Excerpt: "e;If the average student of Western American History in our schools were asked to recall those names which loom large for him during the four decades from the purchase of the Louisiana Territory to the coming of the settlers, he would doubtless think of Lewis and Clark, Lieutenant Pike, Major Long, and General Fremont, with perhaps one or two others.
Excerpt: "e;Through the quiet night, crystalline with the pervading spirit of the frost, under prairie skies of mystic purple pierced with the glass-like glinting of the stars, fled Antoine.
Excerpt: "e;There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in people's memories, that once again the old ship has been brought forth, staunch as ever, to perform, it is hoped, faithful service on the outer seas.
Excerpt: "e;His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles.
Excerpt: "e;Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it.
Excerpt: "e;The history of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the year of the peace with Russia, when the new racing Cunard paddle-steamer Persia of three thousand tons was making thirteen knots an hour between England and America, and all the world wondered at the advance of civilization and progress Any officer of the English Army, Navy, Reserve or Volunteer forces, from a duke to a negro, can wear on his left breast the little ugly bronze Maltese cross with the crowned lion atop and the inscription "e;For Valour"e; below, if he has only "e;performed some signal act of valour"e; or devotion to his country "e;in the presence of the enemy.
Excerpt: "e;It is narrated (and God knows best the true state of the case) by Abu Ali Jafir Bin Yakub-ulisfahani that when, in His determinate Will, The Benefactor had decided to create the Greatest Substitute (Adam), He despatched, as is known, the faithful and the excellent Archangel Jibrail to gather from Earth clays, loams, and sands endowed with various colours and attributes, necessary for the substance of our pure Forefather's body.
Excerpt: "e;"e;We were a jolly pair, we two, and ladies at that; and we had decided to go, amid the protestations of the towns-people and the remarks of Madam Grundy that it was not proper, and that there were so many tramps it was not prudent for two ladies to take a trip with their horse and carriage along the North Shore.
No fue hasta los 32 años, tras enfrentar una gran crisis existencial y recibir el diagnóstico de síndrome miofascial, cuando se dio cuenta de que no se conocía realmente y que había construido un personaje condicionado por creencias y paradigmas desde su infancia, lo que la limitaba para vivir con plenitud y felicidad, impidiéndole disfrutar de la libertad que sentía interiormente.
