Author : David Meyer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : 9780916638542
The author describes his passion for book collecting, which has taken him around the world in search of rare books, finding treasures and meeting interesting people along the way.
Author : Augusten Burroughs
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429902523
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.... Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
Author : Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" by Siegfried Sassoon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Maureen Reagan
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316736312
A memoir of Maureen Reagan's relationship with her father President Reagan covering his political and private life.
Author : Achut Deng
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0374389713
In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up. I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past.
Author : John Warren
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1825
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sam Dann
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780896723917
Members of the Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry discuss what it was like to participate in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April of 1945.
Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439188580
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.
Author : Leo Janos
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 031624693X
This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. "Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author : N. O. Body
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812220612
The first translation into English of a startling 1907 memoir of a writer who was born a boy, was raised as a girl, and who lived as a man. Who was the real N.O. Body, and why did he go to such lengths to hide not just his name but his Jewish identity?
