Biography Memoir

Sep142019 by adminNo Comments

Once We Were Sisters eBook Download

Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Cultural, Nonfiction

Once We Were Sisters eBook DownloadONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS "A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." --The BBC "An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." --People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood--one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back

May122019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos eBook Download

Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Glbt, Nonfiction, Writing

Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos eBook DownloadFor readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped by love and loss.In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment.In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection -- with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own li...

Mar162019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks

Audiobook, Biography, Biography Memoir, History, Nonfiction, Politics

Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks eBook DownloadFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would

Feb262019 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs

Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Death, Memoir, Nonfiction

The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs eBook DownloadAn exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air.“We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.”Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two sons, ages seven and nine, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal.How does one live each day, “unattached to outcome”? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and hone

Feb142019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif

Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Feminism, Memoir, Nonfiction

Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif eBook DownloadA ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women’s right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother’s boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenties she was a computer security engineer, one of few women working in a desert compound that resembled suburban America. That’s when the Saudi kingdom’s contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male coll

Dec62018 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Long Haul by Finn Murphy

Adult, Audiobook, Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel

The Long Haul by Finn Murphy eBook DownloadMore than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.

Oct282018 by Free eBookNo Comments

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

Biography, Biography Memoir, Historical, History, Nonfiction

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley eBook DownloadOn the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights, Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster, in fact, had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

Sep112018 by Free eBookNo Comments

Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin

Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir, New York, Nonfiction

Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin eBook DownloadAn endlessly entertaining illustrated memoir, time-traveling to the Greenwich Village of the author’s bohemian 1970s childhoodTamara Shopsin, the acclaimed New York Times and New Yorkerillustrator, takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Whole Foods and luxury condos. The center of Tamara’s universe is Shopsin’s, her family’s legendary corner store/restaurant/hangout, run by her inimitable dad, Kenny—a brilliant, loquacious, contrary, huge-hearted man who, aside from dishing up New York’s best egg salad on rye, is Village sheriff, philosopher, and fixer all at once. We follow Kenny as he pursues his

Aug92018 by Free eBookNo Comments

Happiness by Heather Harpham

Adult, Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir

Happiness by Heather Harpham eBook DownloadA shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her, "Get dressed, your baby is in trouble."This is not ...

Jul312018 by adminNo Comments

Jell-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom

Audiobook, Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Business, Family, History, Memoir, Nonfiction

Jell-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom eBook DownloadA memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege - but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments.More than 100 years after that deal was struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had

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