Taken a step at a time - maybe just writing a few episodes of your life - you will see that writing your life story is not as daunting as it first appears; indeed it can be great fun. You need have no writing experience at all - writing at its best is simply speaking on paper.[...]
Weaves a narrative out of the 10,000-year history of the subcontinent. This book is a mixture of history and travelogue, and a portrait of India.[...]
What's haunting Kennedy? He believes that literary characters exist just like you or me, but he's getting nowhere trying to prove it. His Falstaff project is an embarrassment; Barbara's wanting a baby; there's that trouble from last autumn; he can't even tell a story. His fortunes change when he's [...]
Complete illustrated story of the legendary vessel and its catastrophic wreck.
"The Neverending Story" is Michael Ende's best-known book, but "Momo"--published six years earlier--is the all-ages fantasy novel that first won him wide acclaim. After the sweet-talking gray men come to town, life becomes terminally efficient. Can Momo, a young orphan girl blessed with the gift of [...]
Accessible, engaging, and filled with contributions by the country's most celebrated disability experts, this fascinating volume skilfully captures how intellectual disability has been understood from prehistoric times to present. Readers will discover how different societies have responded to peopl[...]
Adaptation of: Yakuza moon: memoirs of a gangster's daughter / Shoko Tendo; translated by Louise Heal. 2008.[...]
Presents a biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 11 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.[...]