A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary MindDaniel sees numbers as shapes, colours and textures and can perform extraordinary maths in his head. He can also learn to speak a language fluently from scratch in a week. He has S...9999902902073Tammet, Daniel
Editors Varis
sábado, 15 de octubre de 2022
The Leadership of George WashingtonWhat does it look like to be the very first? Did you learn much about George Washington in school? Should the father of the United States be considered as a valid example of leader...9999902896693David Zanotti
Editors Varis
viernes, 30 de septiembre de 2022
Describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic, east to west9999902891377Beryl Markham
San Francisco : North Point Press, 1983.
jueves, 15 de septiembre de 2022
A Life-in-progress'The prospect of taking over the 'Regarding Ireland' column scared me witless. If they'd changed the title to 'Regarding Reality TV' or even 'Regarding Róisín', I might have been s...9999902885246Róisín Ingle
Coronet Books
sábado, 20 de agosto de 2022
Face to Face in MaasailandDiscover the multifaceted culture of the African Maasai through the journal entries and photos of a young Western woman who lived among them.9999902881989Joni Binder
Editors Varis
miércoles, 17 de agosto de 2022
A MemoirIn this unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, we meet the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce...9999902881088Tobias Wolff
HarperCollins
martes, 16 de agosto de 2022
A Boy's Escape from Wartime BurmaIn 1942, as war spread in the Far East and the British, Japanese and Chinese fought ferocious battles on Burmese soil, an 11-year-old Anglo-Burmese boy and his family found themsel...9999902870839Brookes, Stephen D.
Editors Varis
viernes, 15 de julio de 2022
"So there we are, a father and two sons in a household without role models, males together in a home different from anything I'd known???an idyllic Lost Boys' world with a house fu...9999902866238Simon Carr
Vintage
jueves, 7 de julio de 2022
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Little Girl who Just Wanted to be LovedAged 13, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules th...9999902866184Martha Long
Mainstream Publishing
jueves, 7 de julio de 2022
In Lucky, a memoir hailed for its searing candour and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutall...9999902865125Sebold, Alice
Picador
martes, 5 de julio de 2022
the diary of a retiring actorOne of the most outstanding & beloved actors of his generation, now in his eighties, shares an eighteen-month diary of his present life. Although the entries focus a keen eye on co...9999902862063Alec Guinness
Editors Varis
martes, 28 de junio de 2022
The BiographyMaeve Binchy's novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and when she died on 30th July 2012, she did so as Ireland's best-loved writer. In books such as Circle of Friends...9999902860885Piers Dudgeon
Biteback Publishing
sábado, 18 de junio de 2022
Inspired by Eric Rohmer's film Autumn Tale, Jane Juska, a smart, energetic divorce, decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed a personal ad in a newspaper. The response was ...9999902851364Jane Juska
London, [England] : Vintage, c2004.
viernes, 20 de mayo de 2022
A SelectionI should detest, wrote Dorothy Wordsworth, the idea of setting myself up as an author. Protesting to Lady Beaumont she explained I have not the powers which Coleridge thinks I have...9999902839799Dorothy Wordsworth
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 20 de abril de 2022
The Story of a Marriage The story of a marriage of true minds and spirits--a brilliant writer's tribute to lasting love. 9999902837139Madeleine L'Engle
HarperCollins
viernes, 15 de abril de 2022
Half a Life StoryA child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret -- from himself and...9999902835043Paul Monette
Harvest Books
miércoles, 13 de abril de 2022
Imperfectly Sane is a raw and explicit account of bravery and self discovery on a journey of daring the world, with a whole lot of truth. A young girl with a fierce defense of esca...9999902833346Stacy Lee Hoch
Editors Varis
martes, 12 de abril de 2022
ÿþ1. In the first chapter, Conway writes of the "bush ethos which grew up from making a virtue out of loneliness and hardship" (p. 8). Stoicism and self- sufficiency are the ideals...9999902821084Jill Ker Conway
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
martes, 22 de marzo de 2022
ÿþ 'Over the last three years, since I left the office, clutching my department store voucher and bouquet of flowers, I have had ample time to ponder, in snatched moments, why ...9999902820650Alison Walsh
Macmillan
martes, 22 de marzo de 2022
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