Biography & Autobiography : Women

Albertine Gaur shares with the reader her childhood memories of the period just before, and during, the Second World War in Austria, her homeland. She relives this time of great social and political upheaval, depicting it through the eyes of a childhood as she passes from infancy to adolescence. It is a unique story, full of naïve poignancy, told with a poetic simplicity which helps us have a better understanding of how “events” were seen and interpreted by a young person, struggling with the many diverse problems of “growing up”. Incidentally, the book gives us an insight into child psychology and how children came to terms with fear, horror and violence but were to bear the scars of the trauma throughout their lives. It is a moving narrative, individual but, at the same time, universal in its appeal. She relates a personal drama, often with tragic implications, in which the characters are “ordinary people” but who, in their different ways, portray the very passions and emotions which motivate society. To read about it is an enriching experience. more...

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“I am woven through your past, as you are through mine—-and both of us through theirs, the sea-peoples’.” Hugo- and Nebula Award-winner Charnas has written a book about humans, her own past, and how our lives have always been intertwined with the creatures of the seas. “Strange Seas” is Charnas’ first nonfiction book, and her first e-book. An investigation into personal questions about herself and her writing grew to encompass not just her past, but the pasts of all of us. “I saw a lot of closed doors inside the house of myself, labeled ‘I don’t care,’ ‘I don’t know,’ and—-the majority—-I don’t remember.’ But one stood open, the one that Miriam’s words had unlatched and flung wide—‘I don’t believe.’ There was no denying what lay beyond. The whales had souls, and I had been a killer of whales.” more...

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In her previous bestselling books, Jen Lancaster peeled back the veil on upward mobility and big city living. Now she's sumo-wrestling the biggest, stickiest topic of them all: her own fat ass. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Jen decides she needs to make some changes in her life so she doesn't, you know, die. So she's embarked on a six-month weight loss program, kicking, screaming, and swearing all the way to the gym. The question is, can our heroine lose her ass without ditching the qualities that make her who she is. more...

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Five flamboyant, “full-blooded" women had a chance to rule Russia. How did it happen, and how did they do? In today’s debates about male-female parity, much goes unsaid. Troyat’s book brings back the past, when women really had political power. A realisti more...

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As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans. Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as a wife and stay-at-home mom and strike out on her own in search of a more fulfilling life. more...

Price: $13.95