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
My Quest to a BeardI guess we should start at the beginning. I was born on 2 November 1995. The doctors in the hospital took one look at my genitals and slapped an F on my birth certificate. 'F' for ...9999903256793Alex Bertie
Pat a Cake
miércoles, 8 de enero de 2025
Memoirs of a BroadcasterDavid Attenborough's career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned almost five decades and over the last 25 years he has become a leading natural history programme maker. In t...9999903255789Attenborough, David
Editors Varis
miércoles, 8 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
A Biography of Peter Sellers Peter Sellers was a genius, whose unique mastery created enduring comic characters. But behind the man that could make the world laugh was a tragic sadness. Employing his creation...9999903255413Sikov, Ed
Pan Books
martes, 31 de diciembre de 2024
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
A Midlife ReckoningBlazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself. ??One of my favorite books of...9999903251323Claire Dederer
Anchor Books
domingo, 22 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
The Russian YearsBiografie van de Russisch-Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1977) over de periode 1899-1940.9999903249528Brian Boyd
Chatto & Windus
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carr re embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rura...9999903248644Emmanuel Carrère
Jonathan Cape
martes, 17 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 Memoir'Leon's elegant, witty prose . . . is a joy. One of the best European novelists around' Amanda Craig In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon n...9999903248453Donna Leon
Vintage
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
From Afghanistan to the UK, a story of conflict, survival and saving livesAS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCS'A riveting story of loss, exile, and rebirth.' KHALED HOSSEINI, author of The Kite Runner'One of the most incredible life stories you will ever hear...9999903247425Waheed Arian
Black Swan
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
A classic family story, told with exceptional restraint and tenderness, John McGahern presents an intense and haunted memoir of childhood love and loss.9999903245858John McGahern
Editors Varis
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
A Black Man's Tribute to His White MotherAn African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and Black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity9999903244776McBride, James
Riverhead Trade
miércoles, 11 de diciembre de 2024
A Memoir of AfricaAfter his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent v...9999903244547Peter Godwin
Little, Brown and Company
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
A Memoir of ZimbabweThrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny,The Last Resortis a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseveranc...9999903244530Douglas Rogers
Vintage
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF TH...9999903244523Barack Obama
Random House
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
A Story of Sisters and Africa"A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia--now Zimbabwe--behind her. T...9999903244462Wendy Kann
Picador
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
Young & Depressed in America : a MemoirThis memoir, both harrowing and hilarious, gives voice to the high incidence of depression - especially among America's youth. Prozac Nation is a collective cry for help, a generat...9999903242383Wurtzel, Elizabeth
Quartet Books
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
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