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A family’s story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people.Growing up in the safety of Britain, Jonathan Wittenberg was deeply aware of his legacy as the child of refugees from Nazi Germany. Yet, like so many others there is much he failed to ask while those who could have answered his questions were still alive.After burying their aunt Steffi in the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount...
| Автор | Jonathan Wittenberg |
What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged comes a harrowing and moving memoir about tiny Harrison, left in Cathy’s care, and the potentially fatal family secret of his beginnings.When Cathy is first asked to foster one-day old Harrison her only concern is if she will remember how to look after a baby. But upon collecting Harrison from the hospital,...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
‘Poetry meets mental health in Charly Cox’s brave and beautiful She Must Be Mad.’ Stylist Magazine‘Reading this book made me feel less alone.’ MashableShe Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.Charly captures the formative experiences of today’s young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and...
| Автор | Charly Cox |
The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass.Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he couldn't understand why his parents no longer loved or wanted him, and were sending him away.While Danny’s parents have everything they could wish for in material terms, they are unable to care for their only child. This is where Cathy comes in. On a cold dark evening Danny finds a place in her home where he can be himself; away from his...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
Przerażająca, inspirująca i głęboko niepokojąca książka Sarah Helm jest wynikiem przełomowych badań historycznych. Przez dziesięciolecia historia Ravensbrück ukryta była za żelazną kurtyną i pozostawała mało znana. Wykorzystując świadectwa ujawnione po zakończeniu zimnej wojny i wywiady z ocalałymi, które nigdy wcześniej nie mówiły, Helm zagłębiła się w świat obozu i pokazała niewyobrażalny horror. W Ravensbrück przez sześć lat więźniarki bito, torturowano, zmuszano do niewolniczej pracy,...
| Автор | Sarah Helm |
Życie jest jak jazda na rowerze. Żeby utrzymać równowagę musisz się poruszać naprzód . – Albert Einstein Ètienne Klein, francuski fizyk i filozof nauki, wyruszył w podróż po Europie śladami Alberta Einsteina, zatrzymując się w czasach i miejscach, które stały się punktami zwrotnymi w losach genialnego uczonego: Aarau, gdzie szesnastoletni Einstein dumał nad tym, co by było, gdyby dosiadł okrakiem promienia światła; Zurych, gdzie w 1901 r. uzyskał dyplom inżyniera i zaczął pasjonować się fizyką...
| Автор | Ètienne Klein |
Pierwsza biografia Jonasza Kofty – piekielnie inteligentnego ironisty, poety-szydercy zdolnego do wychwycenia każdego paradoksu. Mówił, że jego warsztat twórczy to najtańszy długopis, bo często je gubi, i parę zwiniętych w kieszeni kartek, a najlepsze utwory pisze, kiedy jest czymś zaskoczony. A pisywał dla największych: Hanny Banaszak, Zdzisławy Sośnickiej, Maryli Rodowicz, Ireny Santor, Łucji Prus, Michała Bajora, Czesława Niemena, Jerzego Połomskiego i wielu innych. Dziś nikt nie chce się...
| Автор | Piotr Derlatka |
Жизнь и творческая карьера знаменитой «Бабушки мирового перфоманса». Автобиография Марины Абрамович – это вербальное высказывание, дышащее такой же силой и бесстрашием, как и ее в основном невербальные художественные перформансы. Она с присущим ей сухим юмором рассказывает о детстве и юности, которые прошли под жестким контролем авторитарной матери, о своем искусстве, пронизанном неисчерпаемым любопытством и желанием познать людей. Центральная часть аудиокниги посвящена ее отношениям и...
| Автор | Марина Абрамович |
W latach 90. ubiegłego wielu światy gangsterów i ówczesnych celebrytów mieszały się ze sobą praktycznie na co dzień. Aktorzy, sportowcy, gwiazdy estrady, a nawet dziennikarze i politycy nie widzieli niczego złego w pokazywaniu się w towarzystwie znanych przestępców. Czuli się nawet w pewien sposób nobilitowani, że znają kogoś z „miasta”. Gdyż dzięki temu mogli choćby liczyć na odzyskanie skradzionego samochodu, zmobilizowanie do efektywnej pracy ekipy remontowej czy dostawę kokainy. Gotowe na...
| Автор | Jarosław Sokołowski |
A passionate and heart-wrenching memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America’s new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick Bush was one of them. Forty-five thousand people in the US die annually from the disease, two lives lost to it were Nick’s sister and brother, three were his friends. Opioid...
| Автор | Nicholas Bush |
#1 Best Seller – Over 50,000 Copies Sold Hailed by Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, Days of Lead is a gripping best seller recounting the author’s life on the front line during Israel’s War of Independence. Exquisitely written with a poetically beautiful touch, Days of Lead is the page-turning true story of a young soldier’s brave escapades during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. This incredible account is a story of...
| Автор | Moshe Rashkes |
Renowned activist Andy Parker's account of the story that shocked America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his extraordinary ensuing fight for commonsense gun safety legislation and doing "Whatever It Takes" to end gun violence. On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award–winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam...
| Автор | Andy Parker |
‘Ignored, abused and underpaid, the unsung heroines of the food chain are suddenly in the spotlight thanks to French till tapper Anna Sam.’ The Sun Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour? Can you smile and say ‘thanks’ 500 times a day? Do you never need to go to the toilet? Then working at a supermarket checkout could be just the job for you. Anna Sam spent 8 years as a checkout girl. Checkout: A Life on the Tills is a witty look at what...
| Автор | Anna Sam |
The hilarious, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas. Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have read, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is for...
| Автор | Matt Lucas |
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 |