Биографии и Мемуары
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Enjoy visits to the presidential homes and sites associated with every one of our past American Presidents. Each house is unique and each has illuminating tales to tell about the men who lived in them. Clark Beim-Esche, a long-time teacher and speaker, invites his readers to join him and his wife, Carol, as they go Calling on the Presidents.
| Автор | Clark Beim-Esche |
In 1970 Jerry Della Femina wrote this gossip-filled, insider's account of working on Madison Avenue during the golden age of advertising. It caused a sensation, became a bestseller and established itself as a cult classic. Years later, it inspired the multi-award-winning drama Mad Men.
| Автор | Jerry Della Femina |
’n Onwillige Anthony Feinstein word ingedeel by die weermag se psigiatriese eenheid al het hy net weke se opleiding in dié veld. Hy behandel seuns wat met die hemelliggame praat of dink hulle is Jesus, troepe met post-traumatiese stressindroom, en vrouens van gewelddadige soldate. Sy openhartige verhaal sal enige leser ruk.
| Автор | Anthony Feinstein |
Anthony Feinstein was thrust into the army’s psychiatric unit with only a few weeks’ training in this field. This is his revealing account of treating soldiers – and their families – who suffered from all manner of war-induced psychoses. This honest account sheds light on the widespread but seldom talked about fall-out from the Border War.
| Автор | Anthony Feinstein |
Aher Arop Bol is a boy of three or four when his uncle carries him from the bush into an Ethiopian refugee camp. This remarkable account tracks this Sudanese boy’s journey through one camp after another, through good times and bad, until he begins a vast journey through Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe which finally ends in South Africa some ten years later.
| Автор | Aher Arop Bol |
Cay Garcia was given only a few hours to pack up her belongings and leave Riyadh for good. She had dared to confront her employer, a young Saudi princess, about the treatment of her staff. In this book, she shares the intrigues of Riyadh's expat community and exposes the nasty underbelly of the extravagant lives of Saudi Arabian royalty. This candid and vivid account of her time in the service of the princess is part travelogue, part romance and part exposé.
| Автор | Cay Garcia |
Jaun Truter was 'n gangster in die ergste graad. Noem dit maar: dwelms, aanranding, afpersing, en betrokkenheid by die Russiese mafia in Kaapstad. God gryp in op sy lewe op 'n baie tasbare en hoorbare manier en Jaun gaan tronk toe. Hier leer hy om van voo
| Автор | Jaun Truter |
In hierdie boek vertel Rykie van Reenen boeiend en in sprankelende styl Emily Hobhouse se verhaal. Dit is toeganklike leesstof wat getuig van vertelvernuf. Die boek is met die Scheepers-prys bekroon.
| Автор | Rykie van Reenen |
With this singular book Nataniël tells the story of a childhood in three small towns and one large suburb, in an era during which rules were seldom questioned and of a young boy’s overwhelming fear of the ordinary. Look At Me is Nataniël's first full-length memoir.
| Автор | Nataniël |
Koopman brilliantly wades through the flotsam and jetsam of generations, among shipwrecks and sunken treasures in an attempt at familial and collective healing. She faces up against her insecurities as a brown relatively privileged 'elder millennial'. An artist, a daughter, a queer woman in love, she is in pursuit of healing and always and forever trying to lose that last 5kgs to the great disappointment of her feminist self.
| Автор | Kelly-Eve Koopman |
Not Child's Play brilliantly traverses the Muller's nightmare of seven weeks in captivity by Renamo child soldiers, in Mozambique after their yacht runs aground near the Bazaruto Islands. Plagued by intense mental and emotional strain, with the fear of violence and death a constant, as the days drag slowly by, uncannily the hostages and captors begin to bond.
| Автор | Dave Muller |
In July 2016, Letshego Zulu set off with her husband, SA racing champion Gugulethu Zulu, to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro. She had no idea that she would return to South Africa days later with her husband’s body in a coffin. This is the untold story of what really happened on Kilimanjaro. Told in mesmerising detail, this is a remarkable journey of a wife’s courage and stamina as she tries to find an authentic life after Gugu’s untimely death.
| Автор | Letshego Zulu |
From Whiskey to Water is the no-holds-barred memoir by one of South Africa's most loved radio talk show hosts, Sam Cowen. Having kept her alcohol addiction well away from the public eye for over 14 years, in this tell-all tale, Sam finds the courage to talk about her struggle with her addiction to whiskey, food and finally to a passion that saved her life – marathon swimming.
| Автор | Sam Cowen |
Brutal Legacy by former TV and Radio star, Tracy Going is an account of a romantic relationship that quickly turns violent. In mesmerising detail, Going describes her bruises and battered spirit, the harrowing two-and-a-half year court process, the collapse of her career due to the highly public nature of her assault, her decline into depression, and the decades long journey to undo the damage in search of safety and the reclaiming of self.
| Автор | Tracy Going |
When Chris Hani was assassinated in 1993, he left a shocked South Africa, teetering on the precipice of civil war. But to 12-year old Lindiwe Hani, it was her Daddy, who had been brutally taken. Being Chris Hani's daughter became an increasingly heavy burden to bear, propelling Lindiwe into a downward spiral of addiction. Finally Lindiwe confronts her demons, by coming face to face with her father's killers – Janus Walusz and Clive Derby Lewis.
| Автор | Ferguson Hani |