Memoir genre books (768)
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Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin EN
SomaliaDescription:
Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills... continue
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Call the Midwife : A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth EN
EnglandDescription:
The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side. An unfortgettable story of moth... continue
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “When one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless Pe... continue
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Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A visual diary and travel sketchbook chronicles two months of the artist's wanderings through Africa and Europe.
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Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn EN
Description:
An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.
116.
Catfish and Mandala : A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham EN
VietnamDescription:
A collection of memoirs recounting the journey of a Vietnamese-American touring Vietnam and the Pacific rim in search of cultural identity.
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Checkout : A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam EN
FranceDescription:
Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour? Can you smile and say 'thanks' 500 times a day? Do you never need to go to the toilet? Then working on a supermarket checkout could be just the job for you. Anna Sam spent eight years as a checkout girl. She poured out her frustrations about the job in a blog that soon developed a massive following. Checkout A Life on the Tills is a witty look at what it's really like to work in a hypermarket: the relentless grind and less-than-perfect working conditions, along with the people watching and encounters with every kind of customer from the bizarre to the downrig... continue
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Child of the Dark : The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus EN
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
An uneducated Black woman exposes the squalid living conditions and savage human relationships that she experienced in a Brazilian slum.
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Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen EN
DenmarkDescription:
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers Tove knows she is a misfit, whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For 'long, mysterious words begin to... continue