Биографии и Мемуары
35106 кн.
Christine is in a purple patch of her life. Recently retired, she has big plans for the future and decides to keep a journal. This is her time: time to pursue her passion for gardening, time to travel with her partner Rec, time to live life to the full… and then it turns on her.
| Автор | Christine Lister |
When it was first published in 1950 The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody was on the New York Times best-seller list for four months. An hysterically funny (yet historically accurate) romp through world history by a great American humourist and raconteur.
| Автор | Will Cuppy |
This is the true story of Tiffany Beard. The trials she endured in her young life; how she fell away from God, and how her dreams and struggles brought God back into her life, as the main focal point. In this book, you will learn why it is important to depend on Christ, after you've tried to make changes on your own, but have failed your flesh.
| Автор | Tiffany Beard |
Biography of an idealistic boy from New York who joined the U.S. Air Force during the Viet Nam war, and discovered that the military and government he loved was killing innocent people and lying about it. Turns out it's not the first war Dr. Leff has with people in positions of power.
| Автор | Gabriel Constans |
The Roar of an Uncaged Lion reveals to the world the struggles of one man with the hope that a connection will be made to the struggles of a greater population. People within and without of the community can gain the understanding that change and growth are possible for people who are dealing with generational ignorance and trauma.
| Автор | Frederick Howard Jr. |
This story of how I came to study History at Portsmouth Polytechnic in the 1970s and what life was really like for students back then – the wild parties, the drugs, the sex, the motorcycles, the bands, the girls, the beaches – and the poverty, the cold, the terrible digs, the drug busts, the unhappy neighbours, the hard work, the arrests, the loneliness and the daily fight for the bathroom. The truth is out.
| Автор | Chris Rooke |
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 |
