Virginia - Biography & Memoir 6

For author Virginia Kiernan, February 2003 is a month, though more than ten years past, that remains vivid in her memory. It was the month her husband, Verner Kiernan, a father of six, was deployed ……続きを見る

Stories of women of peace, justice and rights, who have distinguished themselves in a world ruled by men. Women who have made a decisive contribution to the vindication of rights or the drafting of ……続きを見る

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If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love ……続きを見る

The experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War II Just nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia Hansen Holmes heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Har……続きを見る

There are muddled lives that never manage to undo those knots formed even earlier than the umbilical cord. Sad, rather unlucky lives, for which the wheel never seems to turn. Angry lives, shaky live……続きを見る

Le difficoltà e le gioie del suo processo creativo; le tecniche narrative; i consigli ad amici scrittori impegnati nella stesura dei loro libri; i giudizi sull'opera di colleghi illustri, da Proust ……続きを見る

¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants. ¡Cuéntamelo! began as a cover story for SF Weekly, and, eventually in 2014 with local grant support, Juliana Delgado Lopera was able to publish……続きを見る

El gran poeta e intelectual chileno Armando Uribe Arce dialoga con la escritora Virginia Vidal abordando temas álgidos y provocadores, revelando aspectos inéditos de su vida y pensamiento. Este Colo……続きを見る

My story will start in 2000. Im a funeral director by profession, and I was employed with a prominent funeral home in San Francisco, for several years. I had a nice home, money, nice vehicle, and al……続きを見る

This novel is a story of a young girl, Camila, who defied poverty through self-sacrifice, strong determination, and perseverance in order to succeed in life. Camila is a dreamer, but in her journey ……続きを見る

First published in 1929, "A Room of One's Own" is a classic text of the feminist movement. It is an expanded treatment of issues that Virginia Woolf presented in two essays she read to audiences at ……続きを見る

A forty-year-long correspondence with a pen pal provided a record of the remarkable life of Mercedes Marinーa Filipino woman who overcame a Cinderella-like childhood and adolescence to elope with he……続きを見る

First published in 1962, this is a wonderful biography of General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925), one of America’s most celebrated generals. Author Virginia W. Johnson covers General Miles’ career; fro……続きを見る

Winner of the 2020 Silver Nautilus Book Award On a cold winter night in February of 1967, a large rock shattered a bedroom window in Virginia Walden Ford's home in Little Rock, Arkansas, landing in ……続きを見る

Anthropological Lives introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work anthropologists do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologi……続きを見る

Too Strong to Be Broken explores the dynamic life of Edward J. Driving Hawk, a Vietnam and Korean War veteran, chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, former president of the National Congress of Ameri……続きを見る

Tudo o que aqui é contado acontece mesmo. As aventuras são reais, como as da vida de cada um de nós. Trata-se de um livro autobiográfico febril e impetuoso, como um rio; às vezes devastador, mas che……続きを見る

È tutto vero! L'avventura qui è reale, quella della vita di ognuno di noi: un libro autobiografico febbrile, fluviale, a tratti devastante, ma pieno di arguzia, stimoli, mordente. Da leggere d'un fi……続きを見る

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackv……続きを見る

Forty-four and pregnant coupled with divorce proceedings. Things couldn’t get more complicated….until I received a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. How was I to take this journey alone? A single……続きを見る

"Nicolás lleva más tiempo muerto que vivo, pero esa proporción se invierte en mis escritos, donde regresa una y otra vez, sin cesar, porque lxs muertxs también se resisten a quedarse quietxs, fijxs,……続きを見る

From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with ……続きを見る

Many Roads to Home: New York to California reveals Virginia Wink Hilton’s inner and outer journey from the 1950s to the 1980s as she rears her three children and embraces an exciting, fulfilling voc……続きを見る

In 1920, my mother and my aunt, who were just thirteen and fourteen years old, went on an all-summer odyssey with a group of artists, led by their art teacher, renowned Texas artist Frank Reaugh, tr……続きを見る

This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mother Julia Stephen in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant a……続きを見る

La construcción de grandes presas ha desarraigado a millones de personas en el mundo rural. En España no hay datos oficiales, pero se estima que han desaparecido bajo el agua cientos de pueblos e in……続きを見る

Tomboy: Remembering a Family-Farm Childhood, 1934-1948 In 1934, Virginia Evans was introduced to the world of Sharon View Farm with a birth announcement in the Ayrshire Digest, the journal of the na……続きを見る

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under for……続きを見る

**The rediscovered memoir of an American gossip columnist turned “amazingly brilliant reporter” (The New York Times Book Review) as she reports from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and World……続きを見る