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A memoir of falling in love, the fallout of infidelity, and everything messy in between – and the inspiration behind the hit CBC podcast.[/i] “Beautifully and powerfully written, Alone: A Love Story left me heartbroken and inspired at the same time.” – Terry Fallis “A lyrical tribute to the intoxicating, dramatic, destructive and ultimately empowering nature of love.” – Anna Maria Tremonti “Michelle Parise is the best company. Her passion and humour leap off the page.” – Camilla Gibb The...
| Автор | Michelle Parise |
Christine Brennan, the USA Today sports columnist, author, and commentator, uses her voice to advocate for diversity and equality in the world of sports, and her wisdom to encourage future journalists. Her passion for sports was sparked by her dad, who encouraged her to participate in athletics and, as he said, “smell the game”—go watch baseball and football games together. As a child, Christine wrote daily entries in her diary and listened to play-by-play coverage on her radio. She pursued...
| Автор | Julie K. Rubini |
From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his gun-toting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk Hayhurst steps out of the bullpen to deliver the best pitch of his career–a raw, unflinching and surprisingly moving account of his life in the minors. I enjoyed the visualizations, maybe a little too much, and would stop only when I felt I'd centered myself. . .or after one of my teammates hit me in the nuts with the rosin bag...
| Автор | Dirk Hayhurst |
Roger Rosenblatt’s love song to the written word, in a collection of pieces that celebrate the art, craft, and the soul of writing, from someone who has done it joyfully and successfully all his life. Kirkus Reviews noted that he has excelled in every form. Here are essays and excerpts on the rewards and punishments of leading a life as a writer, along with thoughts on how to write, what to write, and why writing lies at the heart of human hope and experience. To the...
| Автор | Roger Rosenblatt |
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in...
| Автор | John A. Wood |
Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet “Stanland” is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank. Beginning in the mid-1990s, academic and journalist David...
| Автор | David H. Mould |
Author is a prolific and personable up-and-coming writer with a rapidly growing following and social media presence. Her successful Momsieblog.com receives up to 12,000 visitors a month and her articles have been featured on Huffington Post and Substance.com, while her essays have been published in Today’s Christian Woman, and most recently in a woman’s anthology, Aspiring to Inspire (Durham Editing, 2014). Author frequently speaks and leads workshops on writing and addiction, most recently on...
| Автор | Dana Bowman |
Addiction and recovery are, at their core, about the meaning of life. [i]Life on the Rocks is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a Western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia. It introduces some of the core concepts and vexing questions of philosophy to help addicts and those affected by their addiction examine and perhaps transform the meaning they make of their lives. Without assuming any familiarity with philosophy, Dr....
| Автор | Peg O'Connor |
Starved differs from other “dysfunctional childhood” memoirs in its theme of “filling an empty heart,” by providing a unique viewpoint on how the author turned early adversity into a strength and set of skills that would later help her deal with the demands of medical training and practice.Memoir, including childhood memoir, remains a very popular genre. Nielsen BookScan reported unit sales increases of twelve percent in 2014 for biography/autobiography/memoir. A frequent speaker and presenter,...
| Автор | Anne McTiernan |
Never Leave Your Dead will be of interest to millions of Americans whose families are touched by mental illness because it represents their greatest hope—a normal life—and their greatest fear—murder.In a Publisher’s Weekly survey of war books, Edward Nawotka wrote about the growing market. “In the long term, journalistic accounts of military action may prove less valuable to readers than books that put a human face on war and take the time to examine the emotional consequences.”Never Leave Your...
| Автор | Diane Cameron |
A conversation starter regarding the survivors of childhood sexual abuseAn estimated one in five women experience childhood sex abuse. For men, that number is one in six. While these ratios are comparable, victim narratives almost always skew female. Resources for men are fewA long-needed book on this underreported crime, particularly as told from a spouse’s perspectivePerfect access point to start debate about how to prevent childhood sexual abuse. Consider the recent papal support and...
| Автор | Shonna Milliken Humphrey |
The late Michael Foot, once leader of the Labour party, lives on as a major figure in British political history, although he is best remembered as a fiery and eloquent standard-bearer for socialist beliefs and policies. But what of the man behind the politics? In this new biography, Carl Rollyson chronicles the intricacies and intimacies of the life Michael Foot led away from the public eye. Fashioned from transcripts of more than two hundred conversations between author and subject that took...
| Автор | Prof Carl Rollyson |
'Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . . it is as successful as it is authentic' Independent on Sunday Born to an unhappy marriage and into a deeply sexist society, Nance Russell worked hard for everything she had, and while the world changed around her, she went on to university, to opening businesses and raising a family. One Life is Nance's story – and many other women's too – beautifully captured by her daughter, the bestselling novelist Kate Grenville. Kate draws...
| Автор | Kate Grenville |
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward – such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons, and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. ...
| Автор | James Rhodes |
They saved a little bird . . . And in return she saved them too After a near-fatal fall left Sam Bloom paralysed, no one – not her husband Cameron, nor their three boys – could reach her in the darkest days of her struggle. But everything changed when a new member of the family unexpectedly landed in their lives: an injured magpie chick abandoned after she fell from her nest, whom they named Penguin Bloom. Powerful and tender, Penguin Bloom is a beautifully written account of how...
| Автор | Cameron Bloom |
If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be? To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands of men: the abuse he endured as a child from his father, and the violent mugging which almost killed him as an adult. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood, and reclaim his body on his own terms. Powerful, uplifting and profound, Man Alive...
| Автор | Thomas Page McBee |
Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters – violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast – has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and...
| Автор | Ray Winstone |
An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years. Originally written in the 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, the narrator of the book is trying to come to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and the wilds of Montana. An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey walks a fine line between...
| Автор | Richard Brautigan |
NO MORE GAMES. IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH. Neil Strauss made a name for himself advocating freedom, sex and opportunity as the author of The Game. Then he met the woman who forced him to question everything. Neil's search for answers took him from Viagra-laden free-love orgies to sex addiction clinics, from cutting-edge science labs to modern-day harems, and, most terrifying of all, to his own mother. What he discovered changed everything he knew about love, sex, relationships and,...
| Автор | Neil Strauss |
This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine's death a matter of chance, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that...
| Автор | Sheila Kohler |
When the bottom fell out of Carol Masheter's life at age 50, she took up mountaineering to cope with her grief and anger. Little did she know that mountaineering would lead her to try Everest when she was 61 in 2008. "No Magic Helicopter: An Aging Amazon's Climb of Mount Everest" chronicles her preparation for the climb, the struggle to the summit, and the blind descent that nearly cost her life. Currently, Dr. Masheter is the second oldest woman in the world to...
| Автор | Carol PhD Masheter |
She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moor Show . . .she won an Oscar for her supporting role as a frustrated housewife in The Last Picture Show . . .she delighted audiences with her deliciously villainous turns as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein and Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety . . .and she earned even more award nominations playing a hard-drinking grandmother in Spanglish. Now, for the first time, the incomparable Cloris Leachman reflects on her...
| Автор | Cloris Leachman |
"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."—Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."— The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the mesmerizing stories he tells. Combining original pieces with material from his acclaimed performances, Keckler confirms his storytelling mastery, revealing still more...
| Автор | Joseph Keckler |
"This is my story and the stories of other doctors who chose to walk away. Ours is a private anguish filled with the niggling suspicion that we should have been stronger, more committed, more able to handle the daily realities of practising medicine in South Africa." As a young medical student from Soweto, Maria Phalime had high expectations for life as a doctor. Then she started to practise and was confronted with inhuman hours, overflowing emergency rooms, poor resources and little...
| Автор | Maria Phalime |