Biography & Memoir 94

The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike Left paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan village, movi……続きを見る

Part of the outstanding biographical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling t……続きを見る

The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to……続きを見る

In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--t……続きを見る

"Journeys of Hope and Love" is a memoir of the author's experiences during the final six months of his wife's life as they took two journeys together; the first in search of a miracle cure for her t……続きを見る

Indiscreet Memories is one Englishman’s true account of life in Singapore from 1901 to 1904. We learn about balls at Government House, rickshaw strikes, and tigers causing havoc in Chinatown; and ho……続きを見る

Eva Pendleton Henderson, a member of the historical Chisum family, recounts her life on the windy border country of southern New Mexico in the 1890s when it was still a territory. Growing up in a ti……続きを見る

A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father, who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life, gluttonous personality and found logical explanations fo……続きを見る

Ce livre parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo regroupe l'intégralité des"Mémoires" écrit par François de la Rochefoucauld. Vous pourrez passer d'un volume à un autre aisément……続きを見る

The world’s bestselling cowboy poet and author of Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy is back in the saddle with a hilarious roundup of essays, commentaries, and campfire verse that speaks to the cowb……続きを見る

This book is the memoirs of "A Driven Class American." The author uses his own life to characterize the after "Boomers" generation (X Y and Millennial's) and their traditional middle class aspiratio……続きを見る

On June 22, 1973 Nancy Feusi’s body was found dumped on the side of a river road in Sutter County. She was 23 years old and the mother of five children. Signs showed that she had been sexually assau……続きを見る

In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perr……続きを見る

At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983, Carmen Bugan’s father left the family home, alone. That afternoon, Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father’s protest against the ……続きを見る

In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Derek Lambert discovers the charms and idiosyncrasies of Spain as he experiences the rewards and frustrations of beginning a new life th……続きを見る

Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen’……続きを見る

These intimate memoirs of one of the greatest composers of classical music, Ethel Smyth, are first-hand accounts of the remarkable woman’s life in music and in the suffragette movement. Ethel Smyth ……続きを見る

For ten years of Sunday mornings, readers of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s newspaper column, “The Rest of Us,” have been calling their mothers, boyfriends and sisters to say, “See? That’s exactly what I mean……続きを見る

Neil seemed like a dream come true for Rachel: a handsome, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed of meeting. By the time Neil and Rachel Entwistle w……続きを見る

"Charming . . . . [Kurt Timmermeister] narrates his personal journey with an open, straightforward spirit." ーWall Street Journal When he purchased four acres of land on Vashon Island, Kurt Timmerme……続きを見る

An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years. Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the ……続きを見る

The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Half a century before Dodi and Diana, another Prince of Wales would be involved in a deadly love triangle with a fabulously wealthy ……続きを見る

When Wade Rouseーa rural, public school graduate who grew up more Hee Haw than Dynastyーwas hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job was……続きを見る

Die Lebenserinnerungen des herausragenden deutschen Opernregisseurs Hans Neuenfels ist einer der profiliertesten deutschen Opernregisseure, dessen Inszenierungen, zuletzt „Lohengrin” in Bayreuth, st……続きを見る

The career of a horse trainer comes with a revolving door of horses. In my relatively short lifetime, I've ridden more horses than I can remember. Some of them have carved their own little place in ……続きを見る

"Eva Cassidys story if one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful and probing biography Johan Bakker re-evaluates her brief performing career and the fa……続きを見る

From the author of The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune and the Story of My Father comes a major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack ……続きを見る

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Cong……続きを見る

Glamour, Alkohol, rücksichtsloses und sorgloses Verhalten - alle Themen von einem großen F. Scott Fitzgerald Roman? Ja. Aber im Fall von Fitzgerald imitiert die Romanliteratur das Leben. Fitzgeralds……続きを見る

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