Category: Memoir

By Scott Thorson, Alex Thorleifson

ISBN-10: 0988349485

ISBN-13: 9780988349483

During this strangely frank booklet Scott Thorson tells all: the nice, the undesirable, and the grotesque truths a few mythical entertainer who went to outrageous extremes to avoid public wisdom of his homosexuality. Liberace's unsatisfied adolescence, ruled via a mom decided to strength him right into a live performance profession, serves because the prologue for a narrative that is going directly to element Liberace s early appearances in honky-tonks, his stream to big apple to hunt status, and, eventually, his first reserving in Las Vegas, the place he was once courted by means of the Mafia. His successes create a vibrant counterpoint to a darker story of a guy hungry for strength, given to each extra. Liberace's credo "too a lot of a great factor is wonderful" is mirrored the following in his acquisition of latest fans, sumptuous houses, a wide choice of pornography, and a complete of twenty-six condominium canine. in the back of the Candelabra additionally finds the main points of the essentially soft love affair among Liberace and Thorson whom Liberace despatched to his personal plastic health care provider to have his face reworked in Liberace's personal picture! This fast moving tale, sprinkled with anecdotes approximately recognized entertainers reminiscent of Michael Jackson and Shirley MacLaine, ends with an intimate examine Liberace's ultimate days as he lay loss of life of AIDS and his deathbed reconciliation with Scott.

By Stanis?aw Lem

ISBN-10: 0156004720

ISBN-13: 9780156004725

A “delightfully seriocomic memoir”(New York instances) from the distinguished technological know-how fiction author that summons up a mischievous boyhood in Poland prior to international conflict II. Translated through Michael Kandel.

By Jonathan Bate

ISBN-10: 000811823X

ISBN-13: 9780008118235

A magisterial lifetime of Ted Hughes – acclaimed lately because the merely English poet because the First global struggle with a declare to real greatness and one in every of Britain's most crucial writers – to be released on nationwide Poetry Day by means of prize-winning biographer Jonathan Bate.

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was once one of many maximum writers of the 20th century. he's one in all Britain's most crucial poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and Crow. occasion and animal are became to fable in his paintings. but he additionally a poet of deep tenderness, of restorative reminiscence steeped within the English literary culture. A poet of movement and strength, of rivers, gentle and redemption, of beasts in brooding landscapes.

With an equivalent reward for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet who has lived, he was once additionally a prolific children's author and has been hailed because the maximum English letter-writer considering John Keats. along with his magnetic character and an insatiable urge for food for friendship, for romance and for...

By Ann Mah

The memoir of a tender diplomat’s spouse who needs to reinvent her dream of dwelling in Paris—one dish at a time

When journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year project in Paris, Ann is extremely joyful. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she instantly starts plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is termed away to Iraq on a year-long post—alone. by surprise, Ann’s imaginative and prescient of a romantic sojourn within the urban of sunshine is grew to become upside down.

So, no longer in contrast to one other diplomatic spouse, Julia baby, Ann needs to discover a existence for herself in a brand new urban. visiting via Paris and the encircling areas of France, Ann combats her loneliness by way of looking for the appropriate discomfort au chocolat and studying the way in which the andouillette sausage is basically made. She explores the historical past and flavor of every thing from boeuf Bourguignon to soupe au pistou to the crispiest of buckwheat crepes. And someplace among Paris and the south of France, she uncovers some of life’s truths.

Like Sarah Turnbull’s nearly French and Julie Powell’s manhattan occasions bestseller Julie and Julia, gaining knowledge of the artwork of French consuming is interwoven with the energetic characters Ann meets and the conventional recipes she samples. either humorous and clever, it is a tale approximately love—of foodstuff, relations, and France.

By Micheline Morisset

ISBN-10: 276441949X

ISBN-13: 9782764419496

À l’occasion du décès de leur ancienne amante, deux hommes se remémorent, chacun à leur façon, leur relation commune avec cette femme. Louise, Grégoire et Francis constituent ce triangle amoureux. Un à un, les souvenirs remontent à l. a. floor et permettent aux lecteurs de pénétrer le territoire de l’intime, là où les secrets and techniques sont bien gardés.

Pour son most advantageous roman chez Québec Amérique, Micheline Morisset nous suggest une histoire d’une touchante intériorité qui exprime nos soifs et nos vertiges amoureux. Un portrait actuel rythmé par une écriture tout en finesse et en poésie.

Un jour, parmi fleuve, brume et sable, trois êtres se croisent. Et l. a. vie n’est plus pareille. Louise, Grégoire, Francis. Croire au meilleur. Y consentir. Superposer les regards, ouvrir les bras plus grand. Déplacer les vies maigres qui s’atrophient, qui quittent los angeles path, faute de rires et d’étoiles. Louise, Grégoire, Francis. Ne rien se promettre, tout espérer. Croire que le temps jamais n’altérera los angeles half de mystère qui rendait le quotidien envoûtant.

Mais une nuit, les bras se referment sur le vide. Les jambes en fuite, le cœur un peu ailleurs, rivé aux blessures de l’enfance, on se quitte pour le besoin de se retrouver seul, pour los angeles folie d’un autre regard ou l. a. beauté rieuse d’un coin de soleil sur une terre loin de tout. Et l’on se refait los angeles peau.

Puis les souvenirs se mêlent, s’édulcorent. Pas complètement. Voilà qu’un matin, on ouvre le magazine; un avis de décès fait remonter à los angeles floor l’essentiel de nos vies. Alors on se dit qu’on a jamais cessé d’aimer, que nos histoires les plus tenaces sont celles où on a vibré.

By Jessica Fechtor

ISBN-10: 0698161297

ISBN-13: 9780698161290

An beautiful memoir approximately how meals connects us to ourselves, our lives, and every other.

At 28, Jessica Fechtor used to be fortunately immersed in graduate university and her younger marriage, and brooding about beginning a relations. Then at some point, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her mind. She approximately died. She misplaced her feel of odor, the sight in her left eye, and used to be compelled to the sidelines of the existence she loved.
Jessica's trip to restoration begun within the kitchen once she used to be capable of stand on the stovetop and stir. There, she drew energy from the restorative strength of cooking and baking. Written with intelligence, humor, and heat, Stir is a heartfelt exam of what it potential to nourish and be nourished."
Woven in the course of the narrative are 27 recipes for dishes that convenience and pleasure. For readers of M.F.K.Fisher, Molly Wizenberg, and Tamar Adler, in addition to Oliver Sacks, Jill Bolte Taylor, and Susannah Cahalan, Stir is bound to encourage, and ship you directly to the kitchen

By John Donoghue

ISBN-10: 1848766858

ISBN-13: 9781848766853

Ever puzzled what rather occurs behind the curtain within the police? What extraordinary 999 calls are made to the emergency providers? Why can donning pairs of socks make you a suspect? what's the hyperlink among police and vampires? Which Royal arrest by no means made information headlines? What covert signal do officials make after they now not desire to seek advice from you? After profitable careers in either the army and company, John Donoghue realised that the better you get in any organization, the fewer enjoyable you've gotten. So, after handing again his cost account and corporate automobile, he joined the police looking for pleasure and thrills... and found a few brilliant solutions to those complicated questions. notebook John Donoghue unearths all in his attention-grabbing and hilarious precise account of a yr within the lifetime of a entrance line reaction officer. Names and areas were replaced to guard the guilty... but when you name the police, possibly, simply probably, it may be Police Constable John Donoghue turning up at your door. This booklet will entice an individual attracted to crime and police, in addition to enthusiasts of autobiographies and humour.

By Clark Kerr

ISBN-10: 0520223675

ISBN-13: 9780520223677

One of many final century's such a lot influential figures in larger schooling, Clark Kerr was once a number one visionary, architect, chief, and fighter for the collage of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the collage from 1958 to 1967, Kerr observed the college via its golden years--a time of either nice development and nice clash. This soaking up memoir is an fascinating insider's account of the way the collage of California rose to the height of medical and scholarly stature and the way, lower than Kerr's specific management, the college developed into the establishment it's today.
during this first of 2 volumes, Kerr describes the personal lifetime of the college from his first stopover at to Berkeley as a graduate scholar at Stanford in 1932 to his dismissal below Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967. Early in his tenure as a professor, the Loyalty Oath factor erupted, and the college, rather the Berkeley campus, underwent its such a lot tough upheaval till the onset of the loose Speech circulate in 1964. Kerr discusses many pivotal advancements, together with the influence of the GI invoice and the evolution of the much-emulated 1960 California grasp Plan for better schooling. He additionally discusses the move for common entry to schooling and describes the institution and progress of every of the 9 campuses and the forces and visions that formed their specific identities.
Kerr's standpoint of greater than fifty years places him in a distinct place to evaluate which of the educational, structural, and scholar lifestyles ideas of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties have confirmed winning and to contemplate what classes approximately better schooling we would research from that interval. the second one quantity of the memoir will deal with the general public lifetime of the collage and the political context that conditioned its surroundings.

By Lucy Knisley

ISBN-10: 1596436239

ISBN-13: 9781596436237

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A vivid, food-themed memoir from cherished indie cartoonist Lucy Knisley.

Lucy Knisley loves nutrients. The daughter of a chef and a gourmand, this proficient younger cartoonist comes via her obsession in truth. In her forthright, considerate, and humorous memoir, Lucy lines key episodes in her lifestyles to date, framed through what she used to be consuming on the time and classes discovered approximately meals, cooking, and lifestyles. every one bankruptcy is book-ended with an illustrated recipe—many of them valuable kin dishes, and some of them Lucy's unique inventions.

A welcome learn for someone who ever felt extra ardour for a sandwich than is precisely conversing right, savour is a ebook for our time: it invitations the reader to have a good time nutrition as a connection to bodies and a connection to the earth, instead of an enemy, a compulsion, or a client product.

By A. E. Hotchner

ISBN-10: 0306814277

ISBN-13: 9780306814273

Among 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled jointly from ny to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, ran with the bulls in Pamplona—and as soon as Hotchner even masqueraded as a matador and Hemingway’s supervisor in a precise bullfight. all over they went, they talked. For fourteen years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their ideas and as Hemingway reminisced approximately his formative years, recalled the Paris literary scene of the twenties, and acknowledged the genuine occasions that lay at the back of his fiction, Hotchner took all of it down. His notes at the many events he spent together with his good friend Papa—in Venice and Rome, in Key West, at the Riviera, and in Ketchum, Idaho, the place Hemingway died through his personal hand in 1961—provide the cloth for this totally profound, and in truth compassionate best-selling memoir in regards to the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. With a brand new creation by way of the writer and with by no means ahead of released photos from his own assortment, Papa Hemingway is a enchanting portrait.

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