Zbirka: Avtobiografije: splošno
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How to Be Black(2012) THURSTON, BARATUNDEWhen did you first realize you were black? How black are you? Can you swim? This guide challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all black people.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Nobody Nowhere(1998) WILLIAMS, DONNANobody Nowhere is an account of the soul of someone who lived the word 'autism' and survived in an unsympathetic environment despite intense inner chaos and incomprehension. It describes how, against the odds, Donna came to live independently, achieve a pVezava: Mehka33,56 € -
Everyday Matters(2007) GREGORY, DANNYAn illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power and beauty.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Remind Me Who I Am, Again(2011) GRANT, LINDA'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline ... It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that "Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself"Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Stairways to Heaven(2011) BYRNE, LORNAFrom the internationally bestselling author of Angels in my HairVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Common Years(1999) COOPER, JILLY, OBEDuring the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. The book is a distillation of those diaries: an affectionate and enthralling portrait - warts and all - of life on Putney Common. more tellinglVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Cold Cream(2009) MOUNT, FERDINANDA pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty yearsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
All Of Me(2011) NOBLE, KIM,HUDSON, JEFFThe extraordinary story of Kim Noble who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or 'multiple personality disorder', in her own words.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Mukiwa(2007) GODWIN, PETERThe award-winning memoir of a white boy growing up in Rhodesia as it went through a bloody transition to majority ruleVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew(2006) HARE, BERNARDAn eye-opening, jaw-dropping account of Britain's dispossessed youth and inner city wastelands by an insider, as funny and inspiring as it is heartbreaking. 'Another CITY OF GOD, this time for Britain rather than Brazil.' ObserverVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dancing with Dementia(2005) BRYDEN, CHRISTINEChristine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype by campaigning for self-advocacy, writing articles and speaking at natVezava: Mehka31,69 € -
Rockhopper Copper(2011)The life and times of the people of Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island on Earth.Vezava: Mehka16,55 € -
Along the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania(2010) WILLIAM BLACKERVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sky Burial(2005) XINRANAs a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Lost In Translation(2008) HOFFMAN, EVAA memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragediesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sort of Life(1999) GREENE, GRAHAMGraham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Moments Of Being(2002) WOOLF, VIRGINIAVirginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. In 'Reminiscences' Virginia Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, 'the greatest disaster that could happen', and its effect on her father, theVezava: Mehka18,21 €
