Catálogo de libros: Memorias

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  • Troubled Traveler
    John Gernandt
    For anyone who has ever imagined escaping their past and taking charge of their own future, Troubled Traveler is an honest and moving testament to determination and dedication. Filled with stories both humorous and heart breaking, Troubled Traveler tells the story, from the moment sixteen year old John is dropped at an airport by his parents to what brought them all to this dec...
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    14,31 €

  • Bipolar Flames
    Mallory Beckwith
    This memoir is one woman’s story of how she struggled with addiction and bipolar 1 disorder and fell into the darkness of New Age spirituality. Mallory, who suffered gravely from spiritual psychosis, experienced hellish hallucinations, delusions, and mood episodes. Her story is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and the transformative power of faith. Mallo...
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    22,06 €

  • Relatos y cuentos de Rumincho
    Roberto Aliaga Sánchez
    'Relatos y cuentos de Rumincho, de Roberto Aliaga Sánchez, ofrece una fresca y auténtica colección de narraciones breves que abarcan desde la ficción pura hasta el relato autoficcional. Aliaga, un ingeniero convertido en escritor por pasión, nos introduce en un mundo donde la imaginación se mezcla con experiencias tanto personales como familiares y compartidas por amigos.Con un...
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    27,56 €

  • O Pano De Louça
    Carla Tümmler
    A obra conta a história de vida de um catarinense do Vale do Itajaí Valmor Fidelis Schramm, descendente de Alemães, e sua esposa alemã Helga Roswitha Schramm. O livro é um relato biográfico que tem como base o contexto histórico. A família de Helga na Alemanha viveu a primeira e a segunda guerras mundiais e o terror nazista. Já a familia de Valmor vivenciou na época as exigênci...
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    11,39 €

  • Boyhood with Gurdjieff
    Fritz Peters
    'On a par with Alice in Wonderland, a real treasure of our literature... Full of wisdom, the wisdom of life.' - Henry Miller, author of Tropic of CancerWhen Fritz first arrived at Gurdjieff’s Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, the mystic asked the boy what he wanted to learn. Fritz replied, 'I want to know everything. Everything about man. I think it is called psy...
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    15,08 €

  • Gurdjieff Remembered
    Fritz Peters
    'This extraordinary memoir. The funniest and most haunting piece of writing about its remarkable subject that has yet been attempted.' - John Raymond, London Sunday TimesThe follow-up to Peters’ beloved memoir, Boyhood with Gurdjieff. Peters emerges from military service at the end of World War II - shellshocked, lonely, and displaced - to reconnect with his father figure and s...
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    14,51 €

  • My Search for Jazzbo Jones
    Ethan Hirsh
    'Ethan Hirsh has given us a soulfully rich and vivid memoir. With its combination of subtle humor and characters, My Search for Jazzbo Jones will connect with readers early on and keep them absorbed to the end. Classic cars, camaraderie, and the coming of age, Ethan’s memoir is inspirational and beautifully written, capturing the essence of a deep friendship and the exhaustive ...
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    15,28 €

  • She Made a Way
    Nibs Stroupe
    She Made a Way is a memoir of survival and growth under the twin threats of white supremacy and male dominance. It is an intimate story of perseverance and coming of age: how a single, white working mother and her only son made their way in the patriarchal and racist world of postwar Helena, Arkansas, a Mississippi river town. It is also a story of transformation: a lifetime of...
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    20,27 €

  • Across the Pond
    Madelyn June Jorgensen
    Across the Pond Torn Between Two Worlds is a memoir, autobiography, and genealogy. It was initially written as a sequel to I Heard the Alps Call His Name but became a personal journey of resilience and a quest for belonging.Part one, Beginnings, follows the lives of two little Metis orphans Madelyn June and her twin sister, Marilyn Joan, whose Indigenous ancestors crossed the A...
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    18,44 €

  • Stuttering Through Life With a Stop in Vietnam
    Charles Sacks
    Charles Sacks grew up Jewish in the post-World War II era in Cleveland, Ohio, in a secure middle-class neighborhood. After completing his medical and psychiatric training, he was drafted into the army as a division psychiatrist. While stationed in Vietnam, he learned to deal with the stresses of war on his patients and himself. He earned a bronze star with oak leaf cluster for ...
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    23,70 €

  • Stuttering Through Life With a Stop in Vietnam
    Charles Sacks
    Charles Sacks grew up Jewish in the post-World War II era in Cleveland, Ohio, in a secure middle-class neighborhood. After completing his medical and psychiatric training, he was drafted into the army as a division psychiatrist. While stationed in Vietnam, he learned to deal with the stresses of war on his patients and himself. He earned a bronze star with oak leaf cluster for ...
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    14,40 €

  • DISPOSABLE TEEN
    Brian Pelletier
    Rejected and alienated by those closest to him, a young gay teen embarks on a harrowing journey to find a place where he can truly belong and be accepted. The raw and unfiltered true story of Disposable Teen is a powerful coming of age tale that sheds light on the painful challenges and traumatic experiences that plague so many queer youth.Born into a shattered family, tormente...
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    11,88 €

  • A Year Without a Man
    Barbara DeHart / Gayle Long
    Sometimes the darkest secrets need the power of friendship to set things right.As friends who had lost touch over the years, Barb and Gayle’s fateful reacquaintance one Halloween night revealed they had a lot more in common than either expected-including their deepest-kept secrets. The truth was, they each held romantic obsessions with married men alongside the damaging belief ...
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    15,94 €

  • The Kite That Couldn’t Fly
    Michael Menard
    In 'The Kite That Couldn’t Fly: And Other May Avenue Stories,' Michael Menard crafts a captivating memoir, weaving a narrative of resilience and hope from the threads of his challenging childhood. Raised amidst poverty and complex trauma, Menard was one of 14 siblings, each uniquely shaped by their shared experiences. His memoir transcends mere storytelling; it’s a journey thro...
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    21,60 €

  • The Kite That Couldn’t Fly
    Michael Menard
    In 'The Kite That Couldn’t Fly: And Other May Avenue Stories,' Michael Menard crafts a captivating memoir, weaving a narrative of resilience and hope from the threads of his challenging childhood. Raised amidst poverty and complex trauma, Menard was one of 14 siblings, each uniquely shaped by their shared experiences. His memoir transcends mere storytelling; it’s a journey thro...
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    25,94 €

  • Frozen Voices
    Kit Roberts Johnson
    Don’t take speech for granted. Kit Roberts knows what it is like to have a frozen voice. She knows what it is like for others to have their voices silenced, like children with Down Syndrome, or adults with stuttering. She became a speech therapist to help people with communication disorders and discovered over the span of her career that we have all been silenced in some way. W...
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    15,91 €

  • The Branch and the Vine
    Stephen D. Edwards
    Author Stephen D. Edwards became depressed as a young adult. He suffered insomnia. He lost interest in many pleasures. He was constantly tired and restless. He felt worthless and had many suicidal thoughts. There were many moments when he thought depression had gone away, but that was all circumstantial. With little hope of finding healing or freedom, he reached a crossroads. T...
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    10,14 €

  • À Espera Do 25 De Abril
    Armando Reis Eugénio
    O livro relata com a fidelidade possível, e alguma ficção para compor a história, a minha passagem pela vida militar, e intervenção na guerra de Angola, integrado numa companhia de engenharia, referindo não só as dificuldade e os perigos porque passei, mas também primeiros indícios do movimento dos capitães.A publicação prende-se com a evocação dos 50 anos da revolução do 25 de...
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    15,58 €

  • I Knew I’d Done Nothing Wrong
    Stan Blacklock
    Stan Blacklock is one of those rare people who doesn’t ask what others can do for him but what he can do for others. He’s made mistakes and experienced tragedy but his optimism and determination, his faith and his gift for friendship, have helped him get the best out of life, even in the darkest times. Growing up as a farmer’s son in the Caldbeck fells, Stan always knew he was ...
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    16,39 €

  • The Optimistics
    Richie Frieman
    The Optimistics is an inspiring true story of three strangers, Dennis, Mike, and Jim, all battling Young-Onset Dementia, who became brothers through their incurable illness. Forming a bond of optimism with one another, they dubbed themselves 'The Optimistics' as a way to share positivity through the Alzheimer’s community. Their heartwarming mantra towards dementia created an ec...
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    12,72 €

  • Tendrel
    Anne Waldman
    Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds is an examination and recollection that ventures into the heart of a unique cultural and intellectual crossroads. Anne Waldman’s profound exploration of the fusion of poetics and Tibetan Buddhist wisdom, set against the backdrop of the compelling and provocative figures of Chögyam Trungpa and the celebrated writers of the Beat literary movement, shin...
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    20,35 €

  • Live And Die For Hip Hop
    Tyler Idleburg
    'A true story of Love & Hip Hop.' - Keandra Clay'Such a thought-provoking story.' - Jerrod Williams'... displays a vivid image into the mind of a child, growing up without a father figure. With no proper guidance throughout his life, he resorted to the one thing that gave him comfort: Hip Hop--In following the culture, he was able to find great insight, a sense of direction, an...
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    24,35 €

  • Memórias E Confidências
    José Antonio Maranho
    Maranho produziu este livro como é mencionado no seu subtítulo para contar histórias não contadas por outros meios ou mal contadas, advertindo, portanto, na sua introdução, que não se trata de sua biografia, mas, sim, das histórias (verdadeiras e comprovadas) de sua atuação, como protagonista central ou secundário, em trabalhos, criações e contribuições em instituições acadêm...
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    17,46 €

  • 2020 Visions
    Alan Sasala
    AS I RIDE OFF into the sunset I would like to leave you with these thoughts. I have had the pleasure and opportunity in my life to have worked in both the public and private business sectors for over fifty years. However, my greatest pleasure has been to have met and shared those same years with my wonderful wife, Karenann. Together with our four children, we made a great middl...
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    21,24 €

  • Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
    Christopher Lee Bowen
    A picaresque story beginning 1938 in the Philippines and General MacArthur, 1942 Guadalcanal, 1941-43 FDR White House, China Mao and Revolution 1948, California dreaming 1952, Georgetown 1954, Army 1961-62, I Have a Dream and Jack and Jackie 1963, Washington riots and mayhem 1965-68, California dreaming 1977, Russia and China romance 2007-12, celebrating a score of characters a...
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    34,73 €

  • Traveling through Grief
    Cyndi Francois
    'My husband was dead. I’d lost my job and then my home-all within six vicious months. Life crumbled before my eyes. All I wanted to do was drive.'Cyndi Francois was only twenty-eight and newly married when her husband’s sudden death changed her life. Nine months after discovering his lifeless body, she tucked his ashes safely in her glovebox, bought a tent, and began her unplan...
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    22,35 €

  • Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons
    Homer B. Sprague
    'This narrative of prison life differs from all others that I have seen, in that it is careful to put the best possible construction upon the treatment of Union prisoners by the Confederates, and to state and emphasize kindnesses and courtesies received by us from them.For the accuracy of the facts stated I am indebted to a diary kept from day to day during the whole of my impr...
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    12,17 €

  • Ringo’s Rainbow Journey
    Kathy Bolte
    Kathy’s husband, George, yearned for a Border Collie. This is the story of the birth and life of their beloved Ringo, the transition out of his body and rebirth as little Nina, a female Border Collie. As Ringo, and their matriarchal cat, Solo, faced health challenges and moved toward their end-of-life, Kathy and George were referred to Amanda Reister, a gifted pet communicator,...
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    26,96 €

  • Hollow Bone
    Gretchen Ward Warren
    Dance, Culture & Self-Discovery: A Journey Through Indigenous WorldsWhen the world of classical ballet collides with the rhythmic heartbeat of indigenous dance, a transformative journey emerges. In Hollow Bone, Gretchen Ward Warren delves deep into a voyage of self-discovery, cultural exploration, and artistic creation. Stepping onto Australia’s red terrain, Warren, a celebrate...
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    64,93 €

  • You Have a Kind Face
    Joel Simmons
    You Have a Kind Face is a collection of true, firsthand accounts of what a career in firefighting can be like. Over the course of twenty-six years in the fire service, Joel has seen more than a few strange situations and difficult calls. From fighting fires in houses and apartments, to the extrication of a victim under a train, to struggling to save lives alone in the back of a...
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    20,79 €


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