Solito: A Memoir
The writer Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador, in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was one year old, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents migrated because of...
Memoires and personal reflections
Goldie, adventures in a vanishing Australia
Jack Goldie Goldsmith has now been told his story to Bill Swampy Marsh. t a great story full of adventure, misadventure, narrow escape and drama.
Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment
An account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda.
My left foot
It is the autobiography of Christy Brown (1933-1981), an Irishman, who was born with severe cerebral paralysis that immobilized him and prevented him from having a normal life. He became a figure of...
Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir
The biracial daughter of an American father and a Thai-Chinese mother, Duckworth faced discrimination, poverty, and the horrors of war—all before the age of 16. As a child, she dodged bullets as her family...
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...
Who Believes Is Not Alone: My Life Beside Benedict XVI
This work is the English translation of Archbishop George Ganswein's original work in Italian, memories of the many years he spent at the side of Pope Benedict XVI first, as one of the consultors in the...
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...