Memoir genre books (784)
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Through the Eyes of a Foster Child : My Childhood in Over 30 New Zealand Homes by Daryl Brougham EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
In 1990, at the age of ten, Daryl Brougham was told by a social worker that he was useless and would end up in jail. By 1997, he had attended 27 schools, been through over 30 social workers and lived in more than 30 different foster homes. During his 18 years as a state ward he suffered repeated sexual, physical, emotional and psychological abuse. Imagine coming home to be told you are moving somewhere new in half an hour. Imagine being forced to eat a spider. Imagine drinking from the toilet bowl because you¿re too scared to go near the kitchen. Imagine what you would become after all those y... continue
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Through the Leopard's Gaze by Njambi McGrath EN
KenyaDescription:
In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Thirteen-year-old Njambi, fearing her assailant would return to finish her, courageously escaped, walking through the night in the Kenyan countryside, risking wild animals, robbers and murderers, before being picked up by two shabbily dressed but safe men. She buries the memories of that fateful day and night, and years later ends up in London with a British husband and children. Then one day... continue
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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart by Carrot Quinn EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.In the desert of Southern California Carrot faces many challenges, both physical and emotional: pain, injury, blisters, aching cold and searing heat, dehydration, exhaustion, loneliness. In the wilderness she happens upon and becomes close with an eclectic group of strangers- people she wouldn't... continue
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Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud EN
ChinaDescription:
Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident -- otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre -- from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all. Over 30 years ago, on April 15th 1989, the occupation of Tiananmen Square began. As tens of thousands of students and concerned Chinese citizens took to the streets demanding political reforms, the fate of China's communist system was unknown. When reports of soldiers marching into Beijing to suppress the protests reverberated across Western airwaves, the world didn't know what to expect. Lun Zhang was ju... continue
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Time Pieces : A Dublin Memoir by John Banville, Paul Joyce EN
IrelandDescription:
'If you're interested in Dublin, or if you're interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you're interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I'm all three - then Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir is a book you'll not be able to put down' The Guardian 'A trove of arresting imagery, from the lushly poetic to the luridly absurd ... utterly delightful' Irish Times 'Delicious ... Banville's soarings, like a hawk's, are both wild and comprehensive, taking in everything and imagining more' New York Times For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each ye... continue
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To My Children's Children by Sindiwe Magona EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
717.
To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, it remains one of Eurasia's oldest surviving religious melting pots. With their remote rock churches, chang... continue
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Toamna decanei : convorbiri cu Antoaneta Ralian by Antoaneta Ralian, Radu Paraschivescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
mele, dislocările. O viaţă compusă din renunţări, pasiuni, succese, deziluzii, spaime, intuiţii, angoase şi bucurii. O viaţă schimonosită de convulsii ideologice şi înnobilată de prietenii înalte. O viaţă-slalom, o viaţă-arsură, o viaţă-caleidoscop şi, de ce nu?, o viaţă-document. Antoaneta Ralian nu este – şi nu ştiu să fi fost vreodată – grefierul acru al propriului destin. Prezenţa ei destinde în loc să crispeze. Avem de-a face cu un om care vorbeşte şi scrie şampanizat, cu sinceritate, cu umor şi cu o vioiciune pe care nu i-a avariat-o nici una dintre în... continue
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Todas as Sextas by Paola Carosella PT
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
"Todas as sextas, o livro de estreia da chef Paola Carosella, combina um relato autobiográfico arrebatador e uma seleção de mais de 90 receitas que fizeram o sucesso dos menus especiais da chef às sextas-feiras em seu restaurante Arturito, em São Paulo. A prosa poética de Paola revela uma mulher batalhadora, determinada e vitoriosa, que transcendeu os percalços da vida com a ajuda da cozinha. Suas receitas, com histórias e comentários instigantes, transbordam excelência técnica, generosidade, gratidão e amor. As belíssimas imagens do premiado fotógrafo britânico Jason Lowe completam o livro de... continue
Ecuador