A compelling, often funny, inspirational boxing memoir charting one womans incredible determination to achieve fitness goals that smash all expectations of her age and gender....Lasīt vairāk
When a stressed-out Wolf tells his four-year-old daughter Nina that he can only spend ten more minutes reading her bedtime stories before getting back to work, she wishes that they could have a million minutes together on the really good thing...Lasīt vairāk
A warm and funny and honest...genuinely unputdownable (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what its like to live in todays world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 poun...Lasīt vairāk
The funny, heart-breaking, wonderfully told story of love, family and overwhelming loss which led one woman to find hope and healing in the dog she always wanted....Lasīt vairāk
A stunning literary memoir about the authors relationship with her complicated mother and childhood for fans of WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?...Lasīt vairāk
Joan Didion at a startup Rebecca Solnit The prescient, page-turning account of a journey into Silicon Valley: a defining memoir for our digital age....Lasīt vairāk
When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the familys Orthodox Jewish household she would encounter endless rules - never come on a Friday, never shake hands...Lasīt vairāk
How do you teach a mother to love her child, when shes still a child herself? A baby girl is found abandoned on the steps of a church. Foster super-gran Jeanie Doyle takes the mother and her little girl into her own care. But while she trie...Lasīt vairāk
In 2017 Susie Kennaway asked her son Guy to kill her. 88 years old, with an older and infirm husband, Susie wanted to avoid sliding into infantilised catatonia. The son immediately started taking notes and Time to Go is the result. In turns a...Lasīt vairāk
When leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for an interview, this request turned into a joint expedition to Greenlands unexplored Lemon...Lasīt vairāk
From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planets hit sho...Lasīt vairāk
Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her familys history through early 20th Century to present day. The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over...Lasīt vairāk
An important story. Harrowing, and suspenseful, yes-but its also a deep dive into a complex and egregiously misunderstood country with two very different faces. There is no better time to know more about Iran-and Jason Rezaian has seen both o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008306014)
The gripping memoir of 98-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor Justus Rosenberg, who risked everything to join the French Resistance and smuggle people out of Nazi territory during World War II....Lasīt vairāk
Love affairs, grief, unhappiness, the mess at the bottom of your handbag. This is a book about the things we hide from other people, and how we might find new ways to think about love and intimacy in the twenty-first century....Lasīt vairāk
This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard. RUSSELL BRAND A millennials answer to David Sedaris. No writer is funnier than Joel Golby. DOLLY ALDERTON...Lasīt vairāk
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the absurdities and anxieties of being Black in America For Damon Young...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487504014)
These interwoven stories and articles provide essential insights into the medical world of premature birth, and into what happens to these babies and their families when things dont go as planned....Lasīt vairāk