In Byron's Wake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 (2) Bazându-se pe surse noi, Seymour prezintă modul în care Byron, la mult timp după moartea sa, a continuat să modeleze viețile și reputațiile soției și fiicei sale. În tim... Verifica stoc
The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues : A Memoir ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Rosie Mercado, vedetă latină și prezentatoare de televiziune, spune povestea vieții sale incredibile. Când Rosie Mercado avea doar 19 ani, tatăl nou-născutului ei a ple...
Brothers and Keepers ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture
You're on an Airplane ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Posey as your seat companion, perhaps? In this
A book of secrets ♡ 16 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second
A fish supper and a chippy smile ♡ 17 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 As Hilda works in the chippy six days a week - cutting the potatoes and frying the fish, yesterday's rag becoming today's dinner plate -
Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have
Unconquerable: The Invictus Spirit ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 'You are all Invictus, you are now ambassadors for the spirit of these games. Never stop fighting and do all you can to lift up
That Good Night ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own
Aaronsohn's Maps ♡ 17 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at
Before Scarlett ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Originally published: Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, c2000.
Varina ♡ 9 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on? In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold
Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 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
The Cure for Good Intentions : A Doctor's Story ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie gave up her job as an editor at a prestigious literary magazine and put
James Monroe ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 James Monroe served as the centre of abolition and reform in the American West when he attended Oberlin College, Ohio, in the 19th century. This
The World According to Razor ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The new book from England's 'hardest footballer' Packed full of anecdotes from life on and off the pitch, The World According to Razor is, by
Inside a Pearl ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The celebrated author of The Flâneur traces his relocation to 1983 Paris in spite of his unfamiliarity with the language and culture, tracing how he
Lee Rigby: A Mother's Story ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Lyn Rigby's story charts the unfathomably difficult time she has endured since May 2013 when her son, 25-year-old Fusilier Lee Rigby, was butchered on a
Touch and Go ♡ 16 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War
Bud and Bill ♡ 17 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Grace from the Rubble by Jeanne Bishop tells the riveting true story of how tragedy destined two men to become enemies - the father of
Judas: How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal ♡ 8 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the
The Murray Edwards Duse Collection ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that
John Steinbeck ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Examines Steinbeck's life and work and analyzes his 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
Love in the Blitz ♡ 18 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 With the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz: - The sex,
On the road ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the story of his early life through a series of significant driving episodes. He's a child in the back
The Old Man and the Swamp ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 I have nothing against snakes, provided that they’re hundreds of miles away from me. And I have nothing against my dad, given the same set
September 1 1939 ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work
Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...
Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The first modern biography of this notable politician 'Mach's detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressiv...
Shine on ♡ 18 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Though she had written poetry for many years, it was only in her last year that professional record producers expressed interest in setting some to
An Army of Ex-lovers : My Life at the 'Gay Community News' ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 This is a vivid, funny portrait of the four tumultuous years a young editor spent working in the gay press. Boston's weekly 'Gay Community News'
Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments ♡ 17 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses
The late child and other animals ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the
Why I Left America And Other Essays ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him
The Soundtrack to My Life ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The Soundtrack to My Life is Dermot's personal memoir of a life in music told through the songs that were playing at key moments in
What Can I Do? ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster
My Friend, Julia Lathrop ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for
Langston Hughes ♡ 22 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
The Rat That Got Away : A Bronx Memoir ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional
Lenin's Laureate Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Drawing on extensive archival research and the author's own discussions with Alferov, Lenin's Laureate offers a unique account of Soviet science, presented against the ba...
John Cranch : Uncommon Genius ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 John Cranch was born in a small Devonshire town in the same year that Gray's Elegy was published and he might so easily have been
Breaking the Silence ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Jo Milne trăise deja o viață înconjurată de tăcere, fiind surdă profund din naștere, când a început să-și piardă vederea. Cu puțin timp înainte de
The Poet and the King ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as 'the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of
Lessons from a Sheep Dog ♡ 18 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Follows the story of Lass, who is transformed from a believed-worthless and untrainable animal into a valuable sheepdog by a man's love, explaining how Lass's
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both
Eternal Wonder ♡ 6 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Chris Hamilton developed his love of nature while living by the River Lea in Wheathampstead from the age of 15, canoeing up and down the
I belong to no one ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Rape, teen pregnancy, illegitimacy, domestic abuse - in 1970s Australia all were shameful secrets that trapped women in poverty, loss and ongoing emotional trauma. This
Alger Hiss ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Documents the story of a State Department official charged with spying for the Soviets, arguing the case was shaped by missed chances and poor judgments,
Labyrinths ♡ 8 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Emma Jung era inteligentă, ambițioasă și extrem de bogată, una dintre cele mai bogate moștenitoare din Elveția când, la vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, l-a cunoscut
The Brother ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 'The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003?including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet
J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 O biografie concludentă a unuia dintre cei mai cunoscuți și mai cumpărați autori. Catcher in the Rye a vândut mai mult de 65 de milioane
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank ♡ 6 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 În această nouă biografie definitivă, Carol Ann Lee oferă răspunsul la una dintre cele mai sfâșietoare întrebări ale timpurilor moderne: cine a trădat-o pe Anne
Forty Three Years Ago ♡ 23 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 A respected translator and author of over fifty books, Sangharakshita began studying BUddhism at the age of 16. After 20 years studying in India he
The Poisoner ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Taking a fresh look at the infamous doctor's life and disputed crimes, and drawing on previously undiscovered letters and new forensic evidence, this first major
Life ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation s treasure, sage of The Voice and
O the clear moment ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with
Feel Good 101 ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE But it might just help you change it yourself Only you can take the steps you need to help
Forget About Today ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Forget About Today shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people - from fans to skeptics - have never seen. Rather than another gossipy
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so
You're on an Airplane ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 From the 'Queen of the Indies' and star of Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, Woody Allen's Cafe Society and Irrational Man