Биографии и Мемуары
35106 кн.
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 |
Невероятно смелый, неожиданный и точный анализ афганской эпопеи, сделанный офицером ГРУ, служившим в Афганистане! Многие выводы автора просто ошеломительные, они переворачивают наше представление о той войне, сквозь адское пламя которой прошло почти 1 миллион граждан СССР. Книга, наполненная жесткой правдой и убойными аргументами, доказывает, что социалистический Афганистан был обречен задолго до ввода туда советских войск. Да и сам Ограниченный контингент был обречен, потому как вынужден был...
| Автор | Олег Брылев |
| Жанр | История, Биографии и Мемуары, Военное дело |
| Год | 2014 |
Noike’s journey begins when the Einsatzgruppen, a Nazi death squad, descends upon his hometown of Maciejow, Poland in 1942, and murders his family and thousands of their neighbors. Noike escapes deep into the Polish forests and assumes the identity of an orphaned Polish Catholic boy. Although Noike wore a cross and attended church, he could never fully hide his past. His only hope was to outlast the war and outwit his enemies.
| Автор | Suzanne Ginsburg |
Mama is a true life story about growing up under difficult circumstances. Marijke is ten years old when her beloved Mama dies. The many changes in her life that ensue send her into turmoil. Hurt, angry, confused, she rides an emotional roller-coaster through adolescence trying to come to grips with the loss of her mother. Told with subtle humour, this little personal drama is a joy to read.
| Автор | Marijke Lockwood |
At the end of the 1970s, Keith Haring decorates the walls of the subway tunnels in New York with simple, two-dimensional characters. His tag is "The Radiant Child.” In contrast to the graffiti scene, which consists of little more than repetitions of such tags, Keith develops a diverse language of symbols. They seem to be mystic messages. In 1990 Haring dies, aged 31, from AIDS.
| Автор | Willi Bloess |
Take one part bloodsucker, one part magician, one part ruthless huntress, and throw in a little bondage. What do you get? An all-out battle where arrows fly, teeth gnash, and magic spells clash. Who will survive? Find out in "50 Shades of the Twilight Games,” the new graphic novel parody from TidalWave Productions.
| Автор | CW Cooke |
This new comic series has been featured in «Rolling Stone,» «E! Entertainment Television,» «Elle Magazine,» and thousands of other sites. Is it the costumes? The music? The voice? Maybe it's all that stage blood. Whatever the reason, Lady GaGa has become one of pop music's biggest stars. TidalWave Comics examines the impact Lady GaGa has had on her growing legion of fans. Is there room for everyone in the Haus of GaGa?
| Автор | CW Cooke |
Wizards of the moon, called Loam, are desperate to rid themselves of an eldritch djinn threatening their peaceful existence. They are so desperate, in fact, that they are willing to trick one god and kidnap another in order to solicite their assistance. Isis and 10th Muse are thrust together and are forced to make a choice with the fate of an entire society hanging in the balance.
| Автор | Darren G. Davis |
Нелегко быть дочерью Великой Шанель, тем более когда тебя не считают дочерью, а выдают за племянницу. Но Катрин Бонер давно привыкла к причудам матери и почти смирилась… Шанель, мадемуазель Шанель, должна быть свободна от семьи. От детей, от мужей. Она художник, она творец. Катрин же просто женщина. Она ни на что не может претендовать. Ей положено вести самую простую жизнь: помогать больным — ведь она врач; поддерживать Коко — ведь она ее единственный родной человек. Как бы ни были они далеки...
| Автор | Катрин Шанель |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2014 |
Bible stories are exciting. Many kids don't understand the big words written in the Bible. Having a book that is Bible based but puts words on their levels would be great. Children can watch the pages of the Bible come to life through illustrations and words they can understand. There's no reason why ever child wouldn't want a book about a man being eaten by a fish or a little boy killing a giant.
| Автор | Speedy Publishing |
TidalWave Productions spotlights one of the icons of American politics, Edward «Ted» Kennedy, in the latest edition in the wildly popular line of POLITICAL POWER biography comics. Often overlooked as a child, and in constant competition with his highly successful brothers, Ted Kennedy has survived the «Kennedy curse» and triumphed over tragedy and scandal to become the «lion of the Senate» and the voice of modern Democratic politics.
| Автор | Brent Sprecher |
Walk along side of three of the most amazing Native American Women as they journey across the United Sates: Sacagawea, Watkuese and Marie Dorion, whose adventures are intertwined. Each lived on the edge,loved family and friends and led the way with wisdom and action. You will be inspired by this account, to journey through life as courageously as they did.
| Автор | None |
In a partnership spanning four decades, Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have been the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art. From Raw magazine to the New York, where she serves as art editor, Mouly and Spiegelman have revolutionized the art. In Love with Art profiles the pair and interviews Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Adrian Tomine and more.
| Автор | Jeet Heer |
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, no Canadian band rocked harder, louder or to more hardcore fans than Teenage Head. This high-energy quartet – consisting of four guys who'd known each other since high school – were a balls-to-the-walls sonic assault. And they almost became world-famous. Almost. This is their story, told for the first time.
| Автор | Geoff Pevere |