Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Books
Hanover Square Press Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane
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Hanover Square Press The Way of the Hermit
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Hanover Square Press Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sht Sandwiches
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments
Book SynopsisUsing the Icelandic context, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for scholarly research. Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments successfully makes the case for egodocuments being an intriguing part of the material culture of their time, with ample consideration given to the role of the book within individual households and the impact a source such as autobiography has had on people's daily lives. Magnússon also provides an insightful historiographical account of how the egodocument has been used in historical works both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world since the 19th century.
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Left of Brain Books Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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John Murray Press I Seek a Kind Person
Book Synopsis''A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it'' EDMUND DE WAAL''Tender, evocative and deeply moving'' JONATHAN FREEDLAND''Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it'' PHILIPPE SANDS''Compelling'' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEK''I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.'' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death.Eighty-three years later, Guardian journalist Julian Borger comes across the advert that saved his father, Robert, from the Nazis. Robert had kept this a secret, like almost everything else about his traumatic Viennese childhood, until he took his own life. Drawn to the shadoTrade ReviewOne extraordinary story after another... not only forensically well-researched but tender, evocative and deeply moving -- Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape ArtistA powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it -- Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare With Amber EyesJulian's book is profoundly affecting, part memoir, part detective story, part history, at once elegiac and fascinating, it is so deeply relevant for our times, I zipped through it withy the deepest personal interest -- Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetIncredible... and so beautifully told. One of those books that reminds you that great sweeps of history are made up of individual human lives, as real and hopeful as any of us -- Hadley FreemanA compelling account of love, loss and great courage... Beautiful, powerfully told and deserving of the widest possible audience -- Fergal Keane, author of The MadnessA terrifying and enthralling dissection of Europe's greatest crime. Part memoir, part detective story - Borger ensures we know the full horror of the Holocaust, through his own family's experience. This work is a crucial part of the Holocaust testimonies - a dark story which we need to keep front and centre -- Alan RusbridgerA moving account of the life changing impact of acts of kindness to strangers in need... a salutary reminder for our own times -- Martin Sixsmith, author of The Lost Child of Philomena LeePoignant beyond measure. In this dark telling, there is also light -- Lyse DoucetIntensely moving... an utterly absorbing read -- Fiona Hill, author of There Is Nothing for You HereRemarkable stories told with love, insight and respect... This book is more than a poignant eulogy - it has important lessons for the modern era -- David MilibandAn extraordinary book... a work of meticulous investigation... You may think you've read everything you need to about the Holocaust, but you haven't -- Lindsey Hilsum, author of In ExtremisMagnificent... One of the best books I have read on the "second generation" literature -- Christophe Boltanski, author of The Safe HouseRaw, unflinching and honest -- Baroness Arminka Helic of Millbank, former Special Advisor to the UK Foreign SecretaryAn astonishing, moving and unflinching work of courage -- David Rohde, author of In DeepA book for anyone interested in social history and the nature of humanity... It brings a sweeping slice of history down to the very personal, the story of a father, of the decency of ordinary people. It shows that if people are given a start in life and a bit of security they can achieve great things, even in the face of terrible emotional damage -- Mick LynchMagnificent... a beautiful, heart-breaking, amazing book -- Eric Schlosser, author of Command and ControlA family memoir, a collective biography and a gripping detective story rolled into one * Guardian *'Borger's splendid narrative is as much that of a world now vanished - Habsburg Vienna and the Jews of central and eastern Europe - as it is that of survivors and the terrible burden they carried' * Irish Times *This is a compelling story, desperately sad yet shot through with moments of selflessness, hope and kindness, and Borger skilfully weaves the different strands of the narrative together * Daily Mail, Book of the Week *A family memoir, a collective biography and a gripping detective story rolled into one. * The Guardian *
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Zulu Books Becoming a Good Ancestor
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Random House USA Inc Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAyn Rand’s books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the Libertarian movement, influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond, and inspired the Tea Party movement. Yet twenty-eight years after her death, readers know very little about her life. In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author’s life from her childhood in Bolshevik Russia to her years as a Hollywood screenwriter, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that worshipped her in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on original research in Russia and scores of interviews with Rand’s acquaintances and former acolytes, Ayn Rand and the World She Made is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and impr
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Random House USA Inc Operating Instructions
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Bird by Bird brings her brilliant combination of humor and warmth to a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood (Los Angeles Times Book Review).It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life.Lamott is a wonderfully lithe writer .... Anyone who has ever had a hard time facing a perfectly ordinary day will identify. —Chicago Tribune
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Thomas Nelson The Senior
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HarperCollins Focus The Farmers Wife
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Xlibris Us Grandma Ann
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Xlibris Corporation A Sailor at War
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Xlibris Corporation A Sailor at War
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Xlibris Us Powdered Peas and Other Blessings
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Xlibris From My Bakery Perch
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Hyperion Breaking Night
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Hachette Books The Moth
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IndyPublish.com We of the NeverNever
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Read Books JS Bach Volume 1
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Read Books Paul Robeson Negro
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University Press of the Pacific What I Remember
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University Press of the Pacific Makarenko His Life and Work Articles Talks and
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University Press of the Pacific Memoirs of Talleyrand
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University Press of the Pacific The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
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Lulu.com A fine day in Hurstpierpoint the diary of Thomas Marchant The Diary of Thomas Marchant 17141728
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Xlibris Marcel Singer
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Xlibris They Also Served
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Xlibris Corporation Nagasaki Woman
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Xlibris The First African Diplomat
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Xlibris In Quest For Life Ave Pax
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Xlibris Corporation Riding the Honeysuckle Horse
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Xlibris Turnpike Trooper
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Xlibris Corporation Defiance
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Xlibris Corporation Defiance
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Xlibris The Hand of God
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Xlibris Corporation Dragomi
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Xlibris Corporation Dragomi
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AuthorHouse Demons phantoms and me
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Author Solutions Inc Being Black At The Sharp Point
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Tyndale House Publishers Son of Hamas
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Tyndale House Publishers SEAL of God
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Simon & Schuster The Woman Who Cant Forget
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Simon & Schuster Out of Sync
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Abrams Press Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex
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