Биографии и Мемуары
35106 кн.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
| Автор | W/ G. Krivitsky |
Six thousand mile travel journal through the Southwest United States of a couple and their six loveable burros to places you will never go.
| Автор | Howard Ph.D West |
The story of Bill Narasnek's record setting trans-Canada ride in 1991. The book describes how Bill and his support team overcame the many challenges and obstacles that confront any adventurer when attempting an endeavour of this magnitude. Bill tells the story in his own words with humour and honesty.
| Автор | Bill Psy.D. Narasnek |
The purpose of this book is to provide concise biographical information about 400 notable blind persons. The people in this volume are but a small sample of many thousands of notable blind persons in history. Most of the information about their lives comes from secondary sources. Where feasible, some of the subject's own words were used.
| Автор | Clifford E. Olstrom |
Life and legends of Eugene Jacques Bullard, the first black American military aviator… from his childhood to WWI hero, 47 chapters of his life from the time he ran away from home, alone at the age of eight to find freedom and equality in France. This is based on a true life. It is a series of fictional interviews with a man whom I never met.
| Автор | Henry Scott Harris |
Stirring memoir combines prison diaries.<br><br>This book provides a unique glimpse into what justice of Indiana was like, and describes harrowing experience with Indiana Justice and Judicial Systems.
| Автор | Young Boone's Koo |
Жеребцова родилась и выросла в Грозном. Ее дневники охватывают детство, отрочество и юность, на которые пришлись три чеченские войны. Учеба, первая влюбленность, ссоры с родителями – то, что знакомо любому подростку, – соседствовали в жизни Полины с бомбежками, голодом, разрухой и нищетой. Девочка с русской фамилией и в платке, повязанном на мусульманский лад, оказалась между двух огней. Она видела смерть, боролась за жизнь и за то, чтобы остаться собой. Уехав из Грозного, Полина окончила...
| Автор | Полина Викторовна Жеребцова |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Проза о войне, Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2014 |
"No poet of recent years has possessed this need of expressing his life to others, more imperatively, pitifully, or tragically than Paul Verlaine, because no other poet was so weak to the press of destiny."<br><br>From prominent writer Stefan Zweig comes the biography of one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry â?? Paul Verlaine.
| Автор | Стефан Цвейг |
The Kelly Gang: Or, The Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges was produced by George Wilson Hall, the owner of the Mansfield Guardian in 1879. It is the first and rarest book on Ned Kelly, there being only four copies known to exist, with none in private hands. Hall was close to several informants and appears to have exceptional first-hand accounts of Stringybark Creek and other Kelly encounters. This new edition includes rare photographs of the participants from the period.
| Автор | George Wilson Hall |
Somewhere within Arthur Upfield's travelling dray were the clues to uncovering three acts of murder involving the grifter, Snowy Rowles. Once Upfield had published his crime thriller, The Sands of Windee, West Australian police gave chase, starting with the esteemed author of Bony…
| Автор | Arthur W. Upfield |
Новая книга Джулиана Барнса, написанная сразу после смерти его любимой жены, поражает своей откровенностью. Каждый из нас кого-то теряет, мы ссоримся с друзьями, расстаемся с любимыми. Эта боль остается с нами навечно, но с годами она притупляется. Однако бывают потери другие — необратимые, когда точно знаешь, что в земной жизни больше человека не увидишь.
Что чувствует тот, кто пережил потерю? Ведь оставшемуся надо продолжать жить…
| Автор | Джулиан Барнс |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2014 |
Life often turns on the flip of a coin. That's how it was for the author who tells a story of a chance meeting at a roundabout in the seaside village of Byron Bay in 1997 that changed her life forever.
| Автор | Jan Murray |
Makeup Couldn't Cover These Scars is a true story about how I fell in love with a man who ultimately abused me every chance he could.
| Автор | Wavy Buchman |
From an unhappy childhood to successful careers as a professional actress, counselor, author/speaker, and now stand-up comic, Joyce Putnam Eblen shares her journey of faith. At the end of this memoir, the author includes helpful suggestions and additional resources to aid readers facing their own personal struggles.
| Автор | Joyce Putnam Eblen |
Voice To Be Heard shows young people that we aren't just surviving the teenage years but preparing for the most exciting time of our lives. This book uses personal inventories to help young people evaluate where they are and where they want to go. Get ready for an amazing journey that frees you to explore your truest self.
| Автор | John Grant Burdette |
