Destine controversate vol.8: Mihaela Ursuleasa - Dan-Silviu Boerescu

Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert

Serving as a perfect introduction to this well-known French writer, Flaubert scholar Meryl Tyers’ work covers the remarkable life of the renowned author of Madame

Machiavelli. Secretarul florentin si cartea blestemata

Arta de a guverna nu este numai o arta de a face, dar si arta de a te preface. Principele, spune Machiavelli, nu e necesar

File de jurnal. Memorii

Marta Trancu-Rainer (1875-1950) a fost prima femeie chirurg din Romania, medic obstetrician de seama din prima jumatate a secolului XX.   Mobilizata in Primul Razboi

Razboiul nostru in note zilnice, Vol.2

Cine s-a daruit cu atata pasiune neamului sau ca Nicolae Iorga? Cine a fost cu atata genialitate interpretul istoriei poporului roman? Cine a inteles mai

Razboiul nostru in note zilnice, Vol.1

O personalitate covarsitoare   In istoria politica Nicolae Iorga stie atat de multe, a calcat cu mintea lui atatea documente, incat memoria lui insasi va

Caragiale. Tragicul destin al unui mare scriitor

Tone de hartie s-au scris, de-a lungul timpului, despre Caragiale, lucruri povestite de el, de familie sau consemnate de prieteni si relatate de biografi si

American wild

'American Wild' is a literary anthology that captures the raw, untamed spirit of the American landscape and its diverse, multifaceted narratives. Edited by an illustriou...

Agent dublu in Razboiul Rece. Autobiografia lui Oleg Gordievski

Oleg Gordievski a fost ofiterul cel mai inalt in rang din KGB care a fugit vreodata in Marea Britanie. Prin faptul ca a furnizat institutiilor

Sissi. Imparateasa Austriei

Trista poveste de viata a celei care avea sa ajunga  Imparateasa Austriei – fara a visa la marirea aceasta –  incepe la varsta de doar

The Sky Is Your Oyster

This is collection of poems, discussion themes and meditations is designed for individual or group study, and can be used as a resource for public

Standing on My Brother's Shoulders

A suicide loss survivor tells her story. Tara Lal's childhood was battered by her father's mental illness and by her mother's death when she was

A Hell for Heroes

Theodore Knell went through hell in the SAS - but his biggest battle began when he left. A Hell for Heroes is a searingly honest

The Father, the Son and the Ghostly Hole

A hilarious memoir of a lapsed catholic who can't quite fully escape I remember thinking when I was about 14, 'I hope God doesn't find

The Infiltrator

Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob

Company I Keep

In his much-anticipated memoir, entitled The Company I Keep, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business

Song of the Sea

Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a

All Quiet on the West End Front

War Horse is the most successful show in the National Theatre's history. After two seasons at the NT it transferred to London's West End and

Gunpowder and Geometry

In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles

Free Spirits

The love triangle portrayed in François Truffat's film Jules et Jim was based on a novel by, and indeed the life of, the writer Henri

Roth Unbound

Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus , which won the

Only : A Singular Memoir

Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the

I Am Not A Label

This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present.

National Geographic Kids Chapters: Courageous Canine

National Geographic Kids Chapter books pick up where the best-selling National Geographic Readers series leaves off, offering young animal lovers who are ready for short...

Great Bales of Fire

But while his responsibilities are changing fast, almost everything else in Malcolm's life stays the same. Despite facing his fair share of car accidents, house

Dad's Maybe Book

In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O’Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had

The Desert and the Sea

Michael Scott Moore, jurnalist și autorul cărții Sweetness and Blood, încorporează narațiunea personală și jurnalismul de investigație riguros în aceste memorii profunde...

Another Side of Bob Dylan

A vivid, first-hand account of Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, an...

Wife's Tale

The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman - and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. A new Wild SwansA hundred years ago,

Churchills Legionnaire Edmund Murray

In the hallowed halls of history, amidst the echoes of valor and the resonance of indomitable spirit, there exists a figure whose very name evokes

Jailbirds

Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons... During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job

Baby Snatchers

— Sunteți toate femei căzute. Ai semănat sămânța lui Satana. Tu esti nimic.' Mary Creighton avea doar 15 ani când s-a trezit însărcinată în afara

Three Mothers

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been

Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

At the time of its original publication by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was a pioneering work of literary investigation. Sallis's subjects of Himes,

Getting Away with Murder

In March 1969, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gangland killings of George Cornell and Jack 'the hat' McVitie.

Ray & Joan

The movie The Founder, starring Michael Keaton, focused the spotlight on Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonald’s. But

Cissie's abattoir

A memoir that serves as both a record of the author's hometown and a humorous remembrance of his entertaining, fashion-conscious, poker-playing Grandmother.

Source of the Nile

The source of the River Nile was one of the great mysteries of the Victorian age. On an expedition with Richard Burton which reached Lake

The Girl on the Wall

Jean Baggott is 'the girl on the wall' - a 1948 photograph taken of her when she was eleven - whose life was never going

The Secret Ingredient

Gigi Butler of Gigi’s Cupcakes shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that she’s gained from a challenging li...

Homage to Catalonia

The C-word

The frustrating, life-altering, sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28' laid bare. What do you do when you discover you have advanced

The Time In Between

A beautifully written first hand account of a 20-year old's battle with eating disorders. When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to

Tai Woffinden

Double Speedway World Champion and former captain of the Great British speedway team, Tai Woffinden is one of the sport’s biggest stars. Following in his

Rani Padmavati

Padmavati is the most beautiful queen Chittor has ever had. Everyone who sees her is enthralled by her grace and goodness. When the greedy gaze

Inventing Joy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an incredible business force and an inspiration to

Best of Me

'Best of Me' by David Sedaris is a compelling anthology of personal essays that delve into the intricacies of human relationships, familial dynamics, and the

The Alice Behind Wonderland

Deftly engaging with Dogson's published writings, private diaries, and photography, Winchester weaves together the poignant, turbulent, and entirely fascinating story be...

Everything Beautiful in Its Time

Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandpar...

Mother's Ruin

Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hopsital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school...

Wartime Summer

We take summer holidays for granted but, back in the 1940s, the picture was very different. War had gripped Britain. Wave after wave of bombs

Growing Up

Russell Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. “Magical….He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching mater...

Inventory

A lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson’s grandfather

Things You Get for Free

Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. At the age of thirty-four,

Radiant

Part hidden history, part love letter to creative innovation, RADIANT, is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a dancer, Loie Fuller, and a

Single Journey Only

Ursula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in

Prisoner

Kerry Tucker seemed to be a typical suburban mother of two, but she had a terrible secret- she had been stealing money from her employers.

Geezers

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, vir...

Plunder

For readers of Philippe Sands and Jonathan Safran Foer, this is an unputdownable tale of one man's quest to recover his family's property, plundered by

My Shitty Twenties: A Memoir

The baby's father's parting shot was 'Enjoy your impending shitty, snotty, vomity twenties.'When Emily Morris was 22 and half way through university, she found out