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Author : Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000115104
Author : Joshua Fields Millburn,Ryan Nicodemus
Publisher : Asymmetrical Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938793196
What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism…and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn’s best friend of twenty years.
Author : Carole Radziwill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743277181
The author traces her life and marriage to Anthony Radziwill, President Kennedy's nephew, in an account that describes her work as a journalist, her friendship with JFK, Jr., and his wife, and her husband's struggle with terminal cancer.
Author : Sally Mann
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316247740
This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.
Author : Jonathan GLYDE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026374847
Author : Andrew A. Bonar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10064802
Author : Ariana Neumann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982106393
In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review). In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. A “beautifully told story of personal discovery” (John le Carré), When Time Stopped is an unputdownable detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life, and this “gripping, expertly researched narrative will inspire those looking to uncover their own family histories” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Karen Von Hahn
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487000400
A funny, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir about one mother and her love of beautiful objets — and how it ultimately proved destructive. Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn’t quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan — a mercurial, grandiose, Guerlain-and-vodka-soaked narcissist whose search for glamour and fulfillment through the acquisition and collection of beautiful things ultimately proved hollow. A tale of growing up in 1970s and 1980s Toronto in the fabulousness of a bourgeois Jew-ish family that valued panache over pragmatism and making a design statement over substance, von Hahn’s recollections of her dramatic and domineering mother are exemplified by the objects she held most dear: from a strand of prized pearls, to a Venetian mirror worthy of the palace of Versailles, to the silver satin sofas that were the epitome of her signature style. She also describes the misunderstandings and sometimes hurt and pain that come with being raised by her stunning, larger-than-life mother who in many ways embodied the flash-and-glam, high-flying, wealth-accumulating generation that gave birth to our modern-day material culture. Alternating between satire and sadness, von Hahn reconstructs the past through a series of exquisitely impressionistic memories, ultimately questioning the value of the things we hold dear and — after her complicated, yet impossible-to-forget mother is gone — what exactly remains.
Author : Andrew A. Bonar
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547362326
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne" by Andrew A. Bonar. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : James Fox Longmire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000356991
Author : Plum Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780143191872
Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading® Evergreen Award™ After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents—first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother—author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, which hasn’t been de-cluttered in more than half a century. Twenty-three rooms bulge with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.
Author : Andrea Couture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578928264
Embracing What Remains is the story of a daughter and her father. Andrea, a mother of three young children, and Richard, a 65-year-old recently retired surgeon, begin to spend more time together and share a connection that Andrea had longed for her whole life. When Richard is diagnosed with a devastating and terminal disease only two short years into retirement, Andrea's dream of the future with her father is crushed. Through witnessing her father decline into the depths of Alzheimer's, Andrea learns to balance motherhood with daughterhood in a new light. Watching her father transform from doctor to patient affects Andrea in unexpected ways as she copes with mourning a man who is still here. Through tears, frustration, laughter, irony, and surprising joy, Andrea embarks on a journey to love and accept and, most of all, embrace this New Dad. Andrea and her family discover how to navigate the ups and downs of a disease that steals memories all the while providing hope from the lasting ones that remain.
Author : ANDREW A. BONAR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John Sacret Young
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429998826
When John Sacret Young's cousin, Doug was killed in Vietnam, Young learned that the remains of every Vietnam casualty fell into one of two official categories: Viewable or Non-Viewable. He also discovered that such categories applied to how his New England family faced its own history. This compelling narrative is the haunting story of a man coming to terms with himself, with his family's past, with what he knows and will never know, and with his own future. Remains: Non-Viewable traces the close-knit lives of four men in Young's family: his uncle George, his cousin Doug, his father, and the author himself. In lyrical yet pungent prose, it illustrates how their seemingly tranquil existence on the Massachusetts shore is affected over the years by war, alcoholism, fading friendships and shifting memories of events gone by. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, Remains: Non-Viewable, a powerful and persuasive examination of fathers and sons, of war and remembrance, and of family and self.
Author : Robert Murray MACCHEYNE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017325506