Биографии и Мемуары
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За последние семь лет посетила 22 города России, два из них меня покорили навсегда. К их числу относится Рязань, которой принадлежит моя душа. О своем восприятии и своих ощущениях я написала книгу под названием «Город, которому принадлежит моя душа».
| Автор | Екатерина Юрьевна Николаева |
Книга рассказывает о Людмиле Алексеевне Вербицкой, жизнь которой стала частью истории Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета (СПбГУ). В книгу вошли беседы автора с Л. А. Вербицкой, в которых Людмила Алексеевна рассказывает о себе и своей семье, о сложностях и радостях жизни, о блокаде Ленинграда, о перестройке общественной жизни в стране, о достоинствах и недостатках системы советского и российского образования, о встречах с интересными людьми, о языке чиновников разного уровня –...
| Автор | Неонилла Степановна Ямпольская |
Леонид Алексеевич Исаенко писал эту книгу больше двадцати лет. И практически тридцать лет она ждала своего часа. Сейчас он пришел.Удивительный, совершенно незнакомый большинству из нас волшебный мир моря. Книга написана чистым и спокойным русским языком, языком настоящего не только ихтиолога, но и писателя.
| Автор | Леонид Алексеевич Исаенко |
Part 1 of 3Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case.Determined to get to the root of Sam’s behaviour, Casey is committed to uncover his mysterious past only to find out something far darker than she ever imagined…Having recently said goodbye to their last foster child, Miller, the Watson...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
Six-year-old Darby arrives on Casey’s doorstep terrified and hysterical. As Casey tries to soothe the little girl she realises that this is likely to be one of the most difficult placements she had ever had to deal with…Casey is shocked to answer the door on a Sunday afternoon, the week before Christmas, to find John Fulshaw on her doorstep – unannounced and looking very serious. John explains why’s he’s come, and the Watsons sit and listen, shocked and sickened, as he describes the most recent...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
Part 2 of 3Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case.Determined to get to the root of Sam’s behaviour, Casey is committed to uncover his mysterious past only to find out something far darker than she ever imagined…Having recently said goodbye to their last foster child, Miller, the Watson...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
Part 3 of 3Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case.Determined to get to the root of Sam’s behaviour, Casey is committed to uncover his mysterious past only to find out something far darker than she ever imagined…Having recently said goodbye to their last foster child, Miller, the Watson...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
Лион Моисеевич Измайлов прожил очень интересную и долгую жизнь, богатую на события и знакомства. Разумеется, он общался почти со всеми, как и он сам, звёздами эстрады: неподражаемым Аркадием Райкиным, остроумным Михаилом Жванецким, любимцем публики Михаилом Задорновым и многими, многими другими – но этим не ограничивается обширный список его приятелей, друзей и просто знакомых ему интересных личностей. Так, Лион Моисеевич был на короткой ноге с легендарным Иосифом Прутом, выступал в одной...
| Автор | Лион Измайлов |
В данном произведении автор, повествуя о своих современниках, стремится нащупать корни и истоки тех значительных общественных перемен, которые произошли в истории нашей страны. Он не хулит прошлое, не восхищается настоящим, а дает возможность читателю самому поразмыслить над этим. В основе его произведения – собственный жизненный материал, опыт. В эссе судьбы отдельных людей переплетены с историей народа и страны. Наряду с лирикой в нем присутствуют: эпическое начало, элементы публицистики,...
| Автор | Владимир Коломиец |
На тринадцатом этаже Москва-Сити встречаются две молодые женщины. Нумеролог Кристина верит, что судьба каждого предопределена датой рождения. Бизнесвумен Ясмина, напротив, всю жизнь борется за свою свободу. Ей, разведенке с прицепом и кавказскими корнями, в Москве пророчили лишь разносить обеды по офисам. Но она добивается всего: ученой степени, карьерных высот, успехов в бизнесе и, кажется, уже перехитрила саму судьбу. Вот только Кристина ясно видит, что именно таков и был замысел Фортуны. ...
| Автор | Марияна Анаэль |
Книга основана на реальных событиях и создана за три дня. Я писала ее в первую очередь для себя, и для людей, которые окажутся в похожей ситуации.На протяжении всей книги я ищу ответ на вопрос ЗАЧЕМ!? Это попытка рассказать о том, что если ты с Богом, то в твоей жизни все будет хорошо – и тебе во Благо.Господь ведет к Себе каждого человека тем путем, который нужен именно ему.
| Автор | Алена Агат |
Документально-публицистическая повесть, рассказывающая о Турции, затрагивает темы куда более широкие, нежели простое описание отельного отдыха. Память этой замечательной страны порождает размышления о корнях и путях развития мировых религий, о сущности писательского творчества и о многих других вещах, которые невозможно описать двумя предложениями, а куда лучше прочитать самостоятельно.
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| Автор | Виктор Улин |
Britney Spears – the Princess of Pop – is making a comeback, and there isn't a person out there who hasn't heard about it. In this, a fully up-to-date and authoritative biography, Steve Dennis reveals all there is to know about the much-loved star.Hitting our radios for the first time in 1998 with '…Baby One More Time', Britney Spears quickly became a pop idol. Now, at just 27 years of age, she has racked up five number one albums, seven top-ten singles and seven sell-out world tours, as well...
| Автор | Steve Dennis |
Little Drifters can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 4 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 4 (Chapters 7-10 of 24).The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in this terrible place. For all those I consider my brothers and sisters; the ones who died, the ones who lost their...
| Автор | Kathleen O’Shea |
The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.From as early as three years old, Juliana, Celeste and Kristina were treated as sexual beings by their 'guardians' in the infamous religious cult known as the Children of God. They were made to watch and mimic...
| Автор | Kristina Jones |
Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous,...
| Автор | Оскар Уайльд |
A heartwarming short story from bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson.A digital-exclusive short story from Casey Watson, plus a sneak peek chapter from Casey’s highly anticipated next title, Breaking the Silence, and sample chapters from each of Casey’s five moving and inspirational titles.Although he isn’t with them for long, Cameron immediately touches the hearts of Casey’s whole family. A sweet boy with a great sense of humour, he seems different from the other children she’s cared...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
The compelling story of Britain’s best-ever cyclist – one of the most enigmatic, complex and contradictory athletes in any sport – and the unravelling of the puzzle surrounding his sudden and dramatic disappearance.Cyclist Robert Millar came from one of Europe’s most industrialised cities, Glasgow, to excel in the most unlikely terrain – over the high mountain passes of the Pyrenees and the Alps. He was crowned King of the Mountains during the 1984 Tour de France and remains the only ever Briton...
| Автор | Richard Moore |
The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER II, Jake La Motta in RAGING BULL and Travis Bickle in TAXI DRIVER are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro...
| Автор | John Baxter |
He was my religious teacher. I should have been able to trust him. But he made me do unspeakable things…At seven years old, Nabila Sharma began her lessons at the mosque as every good Muslim girl does. But from the minute she looked up at her Imam, the man who held her spiritual future in his hands, she knew something was wrong.Over the next five years Nabila’s life became unbearable. While she was behind the doors of the mosque, the most sacred of places, the Imam brutally molested her on the...
| Автор | Nabila Sharma |
An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.Animals have accompanied man into battle since war first waged.Gander, faithful friend to WWII Canadian soldiers, was smuggled onto a troop ship in 1940, where he was given a personal kit bag, awarded the rank of Sergeant and allowed to drink beer. In return for the kindness and admiration of his fellow soldiers, the huge Newfoundland dog gave his life to save the injured men he lived alongside.Extracted from the...
| Автор | Isabel George |
The author of the bestselling Please Daddy No reveals more harrowing experiences of his neglected childhood.Having survived the terrible abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Stuart has to reach within himself again to live through the degradation of prison. He is released back into the world without any support or counselling from the authorities.The child abuse and numerous court cases had almost destroyed him, and Stuart became reliant on drugs and alcohol. With his life spiralling out of...
| Автор | Stuart Howarth |
An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.Eleven tracker dogs left their Army life in Australia to serve in the war in Vietnam – black Labrador Caesar was one of them.He had been rescued from death row, conscripted to serve his country and sent to fight in a war that would test every tracking skill he possessed.The binding loyalty to his handler, Peter Haran, saved the lives of man and dog many times over, despite the fact the odds were stacked against them. And...
| Автор | Isabel George |
The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in this terrible place. For all those I consider my brothers and sisters; the ones who died, the ones who lost their minds, the ones who drown their memories everyday in a bottle of whisky, I tell this for you.Because in the end we are all brothers and...
| Автор | Kathleen O’Shea |