Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parents worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years th...Loe edasi...
A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her time.With a new introduction by Sophie HannahTHREE-A-PENNY describes what it is like to be a woman in a...Loe edasi...
The story of Henry VIIIs queens - as seen through the eyes of Jane Rochford, sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and cousin to Katherine Howard.Outstanding ... fascinating and moving Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of THE DUCHESSJane Rochford was sist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Head of Zeus, ISBN-13: 9781789543919)
Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born - in 1866 - of Victoria and Alberts children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mothers exten...Loe edasi...
Yossi Beilin was a seminal figure during the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. As deputy foreign minister in the second Rabin government, he was responsible for leading the Oslo process, which was the most important attempt to end the conflict betwe...Loe edasi...
Yossi Beilin was a seminal figure during the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. As deputy foreign minister in the second Rabin government, he was responsible for leading the Oslo process, which was the most important attempt to end the conflict betwe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Dec-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691194400)
Aaron Burr fells Alexander Hamilton in a duel in July, but Jefferson, caring little for either adversary or for disruptive partisan warfare, gives the event only limited notice. He contends with the problem of filling the offices necessary for the es...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Alabama Press, ISBN-13: 9780817392680)
An exquisitely written memoir-combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing-that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spiritJudith Paterson was just nine years old in 1946 when her mother died of a virulen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781472155566)
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Brooms mother Ivory Mae...Loe edasi...
En este libro de memorias llenas de humor y sentimiento, la comediante, escritora y productora Cristela Alonzo comparte relatos personales de su formacin como una mexicoestadounidense de primera generacin que creci en Texas y persigui sus sueos para...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226610115)
The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only cr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226610115)
The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only cr...Loe edasi...
Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary Compelling Carr re has the gift of speaking simply and directly of the essentials Evening Standard Beset by a...Loe edasi...
The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of historys most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washingtons first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubbo...Loe edasi...
Discover the inspiring spiritual legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Sharing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life of this notoriously private monarch, The Faith of Queen Elizabeth features intimate stor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Spark, ISBN-13: 9780316426732)
In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "e;darkly funny"e; (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital.Welcome to 97-hour...Loe edasi...
At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith."e;She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller."e; --Oprah...Loe edasi...
Gratitude and happiness go hand-in-hand -- and The Thank-You Project provides an easy-to-follow approach for creating more of both.Who helped you become the person you are today? As Nancy Davis Kho approached a milestone birthday, she decided to answ...Loe edasi...
An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose le...Loe edasi...
