Memoires and personal reflections

The Small Pleasures of Life

The author describes thirty-four brief sequences on common situations of daily life which go by unnoticed, but which give us those little pleasures of life accessible to almost everyone. The simple yet...

To Sir, With Love

After looking for a job for many months and not finding it because he is black, the protagonist is offered a teaching position in the East End, one of the poorest neighborhoods of the English capital. He is...

A Three Dog Life

Abigail Thomas was born in Boston in 1941. She currently lives in New York. In her autobiography "A Three Dog Life" she tells us about her intense life, during the five years after her husband Rich's...

Home Cooking

It is a pleasant book, in which the author tells her culinary experiences. It must be assumed that she likes to cook and knows how to do it. She offers numerous recipes and narrates her experiences, with...

Little Brother

This story begins "I am in Europe but I didn't want to come to Europe". Ibrahima Balde was born in Guinea, but was forced to leave his home to find his younger brother. He did not leave to pursue a dream....

Born to run

Christopher McDougall. American writer, journalist and runner (Philadelphia, 1962). A graduate of Harvard University, he worked as a journalist and correspondent for the Associated Press in various conflict...

Led by Faith

The book is a continuation of the bestseller (Left to Hell), published in 2006. The author's goal is to tell more of her story, especially the episodes most relevant to her spiritual growth. The subtitle...

The story of my life

The autobiography of this extraordinary deaf-blind woman was written while she was in college with the help of her governess Anne Sullivan and her husband John Macy. Helen Keller (1880-1968) narrates her...

Memoirs

It is a great and shocking book. Perhaps one of the most dramatic testimonies about half a century of European history. Cardinal Mindszenty (1892-1975), Primate of Hungary after many years of silence and...