Memoir genre books (766)



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Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed EN

Rating: 4 (9 votes)
Description:
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it al... continue

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Wild Animals I Have Known (Yesterday's Classics)

Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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This book describes the lives of eight or so animals from Canada, the United States, and England.

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Wilding : The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, this is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free-roa... continue


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Wintering : The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being “Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert "Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and accurate—capturing the sense, the beauty and the latent power of our resting landscapes." —Wall Street Journal From the author of the New York Times b... continue

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Wir Kinder Von Bahnhof Zoo by Christiane F. DE

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
I selvbiografisk form fortæller den 15-årige Christiane, hvordan samfundsmæssige forhold, dårlige familie- og boligforhold, samt manglende venner får hende til at blive heroin-junkie og barneluder som 13-årig

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Women Are the Future of Islam by Sherin Khankan EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
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A remarkable woman challenges the idea that Islam should be defined by masculinity and conservatism. Named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016, and the subject of a Guardian interview, Sherin Khankan is one of the very few female imams in the Western World. In addition she has founded the first mosque for women in Europe. In her revelatory book, she addresses such issues as the place for modern women in Islam, fundamentalism, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, Sufism...and she also describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist. Women Are The Future of Islam shines a femin... continue

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Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh : Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia EN

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Country: Asia / Bangladesh flag Bangladesh
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Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan.

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Worm : A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez EN

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Country: North America / Cuba flag Cuba
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From “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family’s passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or “wor... continue