Биографии и Мемуары
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In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. Includes letters by: Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi, Oscar Howe, Martin Scorsese, Henri Matisse, Mick Jagger, Augusta Savage, Vincent van Gogh & many more
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, Rachel Zucker trains her relentless attention on marriage, motherhood, grief, the need to speak, depression, sex, and many other topics. Part poetry, part memoir, part lyric essay—and not limited by any of these categories—<em>SoundMachine </em>is a book written out of the persistent feeling that the human voice is both a meaningless sound and the only way we know we exist.
| Автор | Rachel Zucker |
In this remarkable memoir, Athol Fugard, author of The Road to Mecca, A Lesson From Aloes, Master Harold…and the boys, Valley Song and numerous other works for the stage, paints a moving study of his early years in South Africa. Cousins focuses on Fugard's relationship with his two cousins and their impact, which led the author to a lifelong pursuit of a writing career.
| Автор | Athol Fugard |
A fascinating look at both famous and not-so-famous dogs from down under. There's the 'Red Dog', celebrated in a movie in 2011, and 'Bob the Railway Dog', which has a bestselling book written about him. There are assistance animals and guide dogs, war heroes and everyday ones, dogs that save lives and dogs whose lives are saved. All loyal, loving, brave in their ways and with doggy hearts of gold.
| Автор | Paul Bugeja |
"Fugard registers and captures the keen images that are the very stuff of vibrant theatre."–Time
| Автор | Athol Fugard |
Major General Arnold Punaro, USMC (Ret.), served 35 years in uniform. He spent 24 years in the U.S. Senate, becoming Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was a top industry executive and is currently CEO of a small business. He serves on numerous boards and commissions related to national security.
| Автор | David Poyer |
Melitas Forster was born in 1918 and you will enjoy these wonderful vignettes of her exciting life. Melitas began writing at the young age of 91 and began blogging by the time she was 93. Come discover this amazing woman who definitely broke the mold when she was born!
| Автор | Melitas Forster |
Three kinds of sex; professional, abusive, and meaningless. Using the power of poetry Maddox takes you on a journey through his life and everyone «in» it. The boy who became a sex worker at seventeen overcomes the cycle of abuse and addiction in this very dramatic telling of what trauma does to the brain. «Break my back like you broke my heart.» It's fast, blunt, and intense. Buckle up.
| Автор | Jakk Maddox |
Through the adventures (and misadventures) of a rogue elephant, Clinton Pfingsten makes a powerful impression:* Wild stories – unbelievable but true* Hilarious adventures* Life lessons for the young (and the young at heart)* A great example of what God can do for someone, and the difference he can then make in the lives of others.
| Автор | Posey - Wilson Publishing Group |
Compelling and raw, Grace Through Addiction is the author's personal story of life with a narcotic addict. It offers insightful personal experience combined with her expert knowledge as a Nurse Practitioner. Providing vivid accounts of addictive behavior, Martin takes you inside her life with an addict, illuminating the addict’s effect on the entire family, and showing how to get out of these unhealthy relationships.
| Автор | Christa Martin |
A biographical account of extraordinary events in the career of Leo W. Stach, an expatriate geologist, during war and peace in the Western Pacific region, based on official documents as well as personal written records, together with his recollections, as narrated to the author, Kerry B. Collison, during a series of recorded interviews from December 1996 to June 1997.
| Автор | Kerry B Collison |
A fascinating personal account of walking solo all 2,184 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Atlanta Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, which took five months and two pairs of boots
| Автор | Hazel Edwards |
In Brisbane's maximum-security prison awaiting trial, Joe Tog composed a series of short narratives for his defence-barrister. The barrister said that the notes gave him a clarity that he did not normally get from cold, hard facts and dates. Out of that comment grew this story.
| Автор | Joe Tog |
'Journey of a Lifetime, Volume Two' is the second chapter in the author's life, offering reflections of his life with a family of eight. The reader is taken across four continents until Martin and his family finally settle contentedly in Australia.
| Автор | Martin Kari |
In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect than a chowhound communications professor? Crofts concocts a multimedia feast of photos, “sketchnotes,” and vignettes, inviting us to everything from Thanksgiving in Germany to a Lunar New Year dumpling party in Seattle. The result is a truly beautiful meditation on how food nourishes community.
| Автор | A.V. Crofts |
On March 7, 1986, the seven men and one woman of the Steger International Polar Expedition set out by dogsled to reach the North Pole. Their spectacular feat of daring, courage, and commitment was deemed by National Geographic to be a "landmark in polar exploration." The melting of the polar ice cap makes it unlikely that anyone will repeat their achievement.
| Автор | Will Steger |
With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people's great strength and continuity.
| Автор | Ignatia Broker |
Joseph A. Amato follows his own poor, obscure, and truly "mongrel" family through seven generations, revealing their place in the key events of America's past. Using powerful family traditions to clarify his personal connection to the larger stories of our nation, Amato advocates for the power of the history closest at hand in building personal identity and resisting mass culture.
| Автор | Joseph Amato |
The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Douglas when, in 1943, her young husband moved her and their baby, Anne, from suburban St. Paul to a western Minnesota stock ranch to help his parents stave off financial disaster. With wit and wisdom Douglas's memoir describes a Midwestern way of life of 50 years ago.
| Автор | Marjorie Myers Douglas |
The first study in English of Solzhenitsyn’s entire corpus of prose Addressed to an academic audience as well as the general reader Solzhenitsyn’s portraits of Lenin and Stalin as twin monsters of an utterly modern kind The Russian revolution as a catastrophic turning point in world history that was both terrifying and farcical Solzhenitsyn’s erotic codes His polemical relationship with Western culture, from Plato and Nietzsche to modernism and rock music
| Автор | Richard Tempest |
Describes in historic detail life as a Holocaust survivor in Soviet-occupied Hungary Describes life in post WWII Germany from the vantage of a Holocaust survivor Describes the opportunities of life in America as a new immigrant Offers a vivid first-hand account in the context of both history and society Is in the truest sense, a love story that had impossible odds
| Автор | Zsuzsanna Ozsváth |