Jean Young was a respected advocate in the civil rights and children's rights movements. She was the wife of former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor, Andrew Young. Their daughter,...9999903276142Andrea Young
Tarcher
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
Winston Churchill's Mother and Her WorldIn this sensational new book, bestselling author Charles Higham draws from previously overlooked sources in America and Britain to tell the fascinating story of Jennie Jerome, moth...9999903276135Charles Higham
Virgin Books
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
A Writers MemoirA literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life.Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the w...9999903276098Mary Lee Settle
W. W. Norton & Company
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
Elegy for an Obsessive Love'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight, ' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object of his affection was not a young woman, but a house -- ownershi...9999903276074Miranda Seymour
Charles Scribner's Sons
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
An Afghan Woman's Struggle for FreedomZoya grew up during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan and lost both her parents in a mujaheddin bombing raid on Kabul. She joined the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afgh...9999903276067Zoya John Follain Rita Cr...
Headline Review
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
A MemoirFrom India to Sudan to England, and finally to the island of Manhattan, this book traces the author's growth as a writer and a woman over borders, through decades, and across cultu...9999903276029Meena Alexander
The Feminist Press at CUNY
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
Joy Melville's major biography of the Russian impresario brings to life a brief and daring age of sophisticated and hedonistic pleasure set against the backdrop of a swiftly changi...9999903276012Joy Melville
Haus Publishing
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
The Search for Dare WrightA glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With i...9999903276005Jean Nathan
Holt Paperbacks
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
It Is 1925 And India'S Struggle For Independence Is In Disarray, Impeded By Factionalism Among Its Leaders And Rising Incidents Of Communal Disharmony Across The Country. Meanwhile...9999903275992Sudhir Kakar
Viking
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and MurderIn the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against...9999903275978Stephen Elliott,
Graywolf Press
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
A Kid in the NewsroomA New York Times bestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President ??s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, reca...9999903272779Carl Bernstein
Henry Holt
viernes, 7 de febrero de 2025
Secret Diaries of a Junior DoctorWelcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye...9999903272755Adam Kay
Picador
viernes, 7 de febrero de 2025
Part memoir, part comic monologue, this is an ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes that, taken together, reveals the ups and downs of one woman's life. Relentlessly self-deprecating, ...9999903267942Sylvia Smith
Canongate Books Ltd
viernes, 24 de enero de 2025
Confessions of a Cuban BoyPublisher's description: In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of...9999903262275Carlos Eire
Charles Scribner's Sons
sábado, 18 de enero de 2025
Offers both a subjective history of our times and a true poet's journal. Spender has preserved his memories of people and events, drafts of poems, plays and stories, vivid travel n...9999903255918Stephen Spender
Faber & Faber
miércoles, 8 de enero de 2025
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, h...9999903253631Ishmael Beah
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
sábado, 28 de diciembre de 2024
As part of the 60th anniversary of the invasion of Italy, British journalist Alan Whicker was asked to participate in two World War II television pieces. This book uses these progr...9999903251569Alan Whicker
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
lunes, 23 de diciembre de 2024
In his widely praised biography of the cinema's greatest comic genius, Kenneth Lynn sets Chaplin's art, his public and private life and his controversial politics in the context of...9999903249658Kenneth Schuyler Lynn
Aurum Press
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
My Life on a PlateOriginally published as Relish, a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue Leith, judge of hit show GREAT B...9999903248545Prue Leith
Editors Varis
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
A punch in the face of the puritanism and conservatism he raged against, My Life and Loves is the highly-charged, erotic autobiography of Frank Harris (1856-1931), an Irish writer ...9999903247333Frank Harris
Prometheus Books
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
A Memoir of a ChildhoodFrank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to "Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, "...9999903245964McCourt, Frank
HARPERCOLLINS UK
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
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