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  • Queen Bee of Tuscany

    The Redoubtable Janet Ross

    de Ben Downing ...
    "Quite simply one of the best books of the year." —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostBen Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, ... Leer más

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  • The Butler

    A Witness to History

    de Wil Haygood ...
    This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen—a White House butler who served eight presidents over the course of thirty-four years.During the presidencies of Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, Eugene Allen was a butler in the most famous of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

    de Maya Angelou ...
    Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Amish Confidential

    de "Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, Ellis Henican ...
    Go behind the beards in this daring insider’s look at the curious Amish subculture of Pennsylvania Dutch Country!Is the “plain and simple” life really so plain and simple? How do the Amish live without cars? Electricity? NFL football? The truth is, they don’t. More than fifty million people have watched “Lebanon” Levi Stoltzfus in Discovery Channel’s hit show Amish Mafia, where he dispenses ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Thailand Confidential

    de Jerry Hopkins ...
    "Wanna stand in the face of a charging elephant, get hit by a motorcycle, eat giant water bugs, blowtorch your mouth on some of the hottest chili peppers on earth, then go watch a sex change operation? Of course you don't, but, happily, Jerry Hopkins has done all that and more—lots more—in this darkly humorous, deeply affectionate, clear-eyed but never patronizing portrait of Thailand, his adopted ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Bangkok Babylon

    de Jerry Hopkins ...
    In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters.In 25 vivid profiles, Hopkins explores what motivates people to leave home and the unforeseen adventures that can befall them once abroad. Hopkin's knack for the biography is evident in his coverage of individuals ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Haldol and Hyacinths

    A Bipolar Life

    de Melody Moezzi ...
    With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.Born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland, Melody Moezzi was bound for a bipolar life. At 18, she began battling a severe physical illness, and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • In The Shadow of Crows

    de David Charles Manners ...
    When Bindra contracts leprosy, she is driven from her home in the Himalayan foothills with her two small sons and embarks upon a seemingly impossible course in search of salvation. David's first journey to India is driven by devastating loss, and yet he finds unexepected solace in the discovery of an exceptional family legacy, and insights offered by an unorthodox mountain tradition. As these ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • I RISE-THE TRANSFORMATION OF TONI NEWMAN

    de TONI NEWMAN ...
    I Rise is the true story of Toni Newman’s transformation from an internally conflicted male to a proud, pre-operative transsexual. Born the eldest son into a strict Christian family, Toni admits knowing from her earliest days that she “was a different bird born in the wrong body.” With laser-guided sincerity, curiosity, and above all, humor and compassion, Toni tells her story of being a “sissy ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • My New Orleans, Gone Away

    A Memoir of Loss and Renewal

    de Peter Wolf ...
    Written with humor and telling detail, My New Orleans contains rare insight about the social structure of New Orleans; student life at Exeter, Tulane and Yale; the thrill of original scholarship; around the world travel before jets; medical school trauma; ingrained southern racism, and anti-Semitism; and American students’ role in anti-Vietnam uprisings in Paris. In the background, he traces the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Daughter of Heaven

    A Memoir with Earthly Recipes

    de Leslie Li ...
    In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China.Leslie Li’s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China’s first democratically elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Irish Paradox

    How and Why We Are Such a Contradictory People

    de Sean Moncrieff ...
    What does it mean to be Irish?'We've been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We're friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We're proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we're great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We're a paradox.'There's something about ... Leer más

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