Memoirs
The Line becomes a River
15.00€
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction 2019 Finalist Author: Francisco Cantu Published:5 Feb 2019 Description Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeFrancisco Cantu was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to...
Heavy : An American Memoir
10.95€
2019 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction Author: Kiese Laymon Published:3 Oct 2019 Description 'So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift' JESMYN WARD'Wow. Just wow' ROXANE GAY'Unflinchingly honest' RENI EDDO-LODGE'An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of' ALEXANDER CHEEA TLS BOOK OF THE YEARThe...
Sea Stories : My Life in Special Operations
32.07€
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having orchestrated some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. SEA STORIES begins in 1963 at a French Officer's Club in Paris, where Allied officers and their wives...
Life Will Be the Death of Me : . . . and you too!
For ordering and price information please contact info@coocoovayia.com #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler's year of self-discoveryfeaturing a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants, and a lot of edibles A SKIMM READS PICK *; ';This will be one of your...
The Unwinding of the Miracle
16.66€
Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia planned by her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
19.23€
Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times-bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). When a personal crisis causes her world to come crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a...
Another Planet : A Teenager in Suburbia
19.23€
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERIn a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving. Before she became an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of...
Out of the Woods
21.79€
A fierce, poignant and highly original memoir about sexuality, shame and the lure of the trees'A brave and beautiful book, electrifying on sex and nature, religion and love. No one is writing quite like this. I'm so glad Luke Turner exists' OLIVIA LAING, author of THE LONELY CITY and CRUDO'Refreshing, frank, edifying, courageous . . . I was quite emotional...