When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (Santiago Esmeralda)(Paperback)

When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir (Santiago Esmeralda)(Paperback)

One of The Best Memoirs of a Generation (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading (Mangan Lucy)(Paperback)

A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia. When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She

Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir (Smith Lisa F.)(Paperback)

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Lawson Jenny)(Paperback)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy... When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor

Thicker Than Water - History, Secrets and Guilt: a Memoir (Flyn Cal)(Paperback / softback)

Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but played a dark role in Australia's bloody

When She Was Good (Robotham Michael)(Paperback)

It Was Me All Along: A Memoir (Mitchell Andie)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best

When Memory Comes: The Classic Memoir (Friedlnder Saul)(Paperback)

A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedl nder was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939,

Widowish: A Memoir (Gould Melissa)(Paperback)

Melissa Gould's hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.When Melissa Gould's husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel's condition tragically worsened, she offered

When Time Stopped - A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains (Neumann Ariana)(Paperback / softback)

When She Was Good (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her: especially her incompetent mama's boy of a

Book of Emma Reyes - A Memoir in Correspondence (Reyes Emma)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary, posthumously published memoir in letters of a Colombian artist whose writing was championed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 'startling and astringently poetic' The New York

Consent: A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence - Vanessa Springora

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen ‘Dazzling’ New York Times ‘A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife’ Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora

Writer's Notebook (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and

Last Asylum - A Memoir of Madness in our Times (Taylor Barbara)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This memoir tells the story of author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir (Newman Kristin)(Paperback)

A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the 'vacationship'--the inspiration for the upcoming Freeform series While You Were Breeding'What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding is kind of like if Eat, Pray, Love were written by your funniest friend.'--Rachel Dratch

A Light That Never Goes Out: A Memoir (Shanley Keelin)(Pevná vazba)

When journalist Keelin Shanley passed away in February aged 51, it was hard to grasp that someone so filled with life was gone. But a light so bright never really goes out, especially since, in her last few months, Keelin wrote a fantastic record of her life.Charting the twists and turns of both a

Beautiful (Piper Katie)(Paperback)

A harrowing but ultimately inspiring memoir of how one girl's beautiful face and spirit was destroyed after a vicious acid attack'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered . . . then I realised it was me.'When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists. While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami decided to keep a journal of

Krishnamurtis Notebook (Krishnamurti Jiddu)(Paperback)

When Krishnamurti -s Notebook first became available in 1976, it was soon realized that it was a spiritually unique document giving his perceptions and experiences and describing his states of consciousness. It is a kind of diary but one that is little concerned with the day to day process of

Elective Affinities (Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von)(Paperback)

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its

When Grandad Was a Penguin (Hood Morag)(Paperback)

Last time I went to see Grandad, he seemed a little different. What do you do when your Grandad starts acting VERY much like a penguin? Find out in this brilliantly funny and heartwarming story. Children will love the witty, sweet and brilliantly surreal depiction of everyday settings and

Ecofeminism (Shiva Vandana)(Paperback)

This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published. Two of Zed's best-known authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of

Saving Danny (Glass Cathy)(Paperback)

The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass.Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he couldn't understand why his parents no longer loved or wanted him, and were sending him away.While Danny's parents have everything they