Autobiography

By Maya Angelou

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The tale of Maya Angelou’s remarkable existence has been chronicled in her a number of bestselling autobiographies. yet now, finally, the mythical writer stocks the inner most own tale of her lifestyles: her courting together with her mother.
 
For the 1st time, Angelou unearths the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite measurement belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent in the course of a lot of Angelou’s youth. while her marriage started to collapse, Vivian famously despatched three-year-old Maya and her older brother clear of their California domestic to stay with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. the next emotions of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, yet their reunion, a decade later, all started a narrative that hasn't ever prior to been instructed. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with the mummy she most popular to easily name “Lady,” revealing the profound moments that shifted the stability of affection and admire among them.
 
Delving into considered one of her life’s such a lot wealthy, profitable, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the therapeutic and love that advanced among the 2 girls over the process their lives, the affection that fostered Maya Angelou’s upward push from immeasurable depths to arrive most unlikely heights.

Praise for Mom & Me & Mom
 
“Mom & Me & Mom is brought with Angelou’s trademark strong humor and fierce optimism. If any resentments linger among those traces, if lives are partly printed with no all of the sour information uncovered, good, that's a part of Angelou’s forgiving layout. As an account of reconciliation, this little booklet is simply revealing adequate, and lovely irresistible.”—The Washington Post
 
“Moving . . . a remarkable portrait of 2 brave souls.”—People

“[The] most up-to-date, and most effective, of her serial autobiographies . . . [a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelou’s fantastic canon.”—Elle
 
“Mesmerizing . . . Angelou has a manner with phrases which may nonetheless dazzle us, and along with her mom as an issue, Angelou has a near-perfect muse and secret woman.”—Essence
 
“True to her type, [Angelou’s] writing cuts to the chase with compression and straightforwardness, and there within the heritage is a calypso smoothness, flurries and showers of musicality among the moments of wickedness. . . . A tightly strung, finely tuned memoir approximately existence along with her mother.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
“In this loving recollection of a sophisticated courting, Angelou for the 1st time information the mother-daughter trip to reconciliation and unwavering connection and help. . . . Angelou vividly portrays a lively lady. . . . [A] remarkable and deeply revealing chronicle of affection and healing.”—Booklist
 
“Written along with her known eloquence . . . follows within the episodic type of Angelou’s prior volumes of autobiography, pulling the reader alongside effortlessly. the teachings and the affection offered the following will converse to these attempting to make their method within the world.”—Publishers Weekly

“In elementary sort, Mom & Me & Mom dives deeply into Angelou’s advanced dating along with her mom. . . . At eighty four, Angelou exhibits few indicators of slowing down.”—BookPage

By Firoozeh Dumas

Within the bestselling memoir humorous in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas stated her adventures transforming into up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she back mines her wealthy Persian history in guffawing with out an accessory, sharing tales either soft and funny on being a citizen of the realm, on her well-meaning kin, and on fun cultural conundrums, all informed with insights into the universality of the human . (Hint: it may well need to do with brushing and flossing daily.)

With dry wit and a daring spirit, Dumas places her personal exact mark at the subject matters of kin, neighborhood, and culture. She braves the unusual palate of her French-born husband and learns the nuances of getting her publication translated for Persian audiences (the censors edit out all references to ham). And alongside the way in which, she reconciles her loved Iranian customs together with her Western ideals.

Explaining crossover cultural foodstuff fare, Dumas says, “The most eldritch American culinary marriage is yams with melted marshmallows. I don’t be aware of who considered this Thanksgiving culture, yet I’m guessing a hyperactive, toothless three-year-old.” On Iranian marriage ceremony anniversaries: “It simply firstly appeared strange to have fun the day that ‘our households made up our minds we must always marry even if I had by no means met you, and admittedly, it’s now not figuring out so well.’” On attempting to slot in along with her American friends: “At the time, my father drove a Buick LeSabre, a posh French notice that means ‘OPEC thank you you.’”

Dumas additionally records her first 12 months as a brand new mom, the familial chaos that ensues after she gets rid of the tv set from the home, the adventure of taking fifty-one kinfolk on a birthday cruise to Alaska, and a highway journey to Iowa with an American as soon as held hostage in Iran.

Droll, relocating, and correct, giggling with no an accessory indicates how our modifications can unite us–and presents indelible facts that Firoozeh Dumas is a stand-up comedian of the top order.

By Sonny Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman

The simply licensed, genuine booklet concerning the Hell's Angels motorbike membership by means of founding member, Sonny Barger—featuring a new introduction

Narrated through the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel presents a desirable all-access cross to the key international of the infamous Hell's Angels bike membership. Sonny Barger recounts the beginning of the unique Oakland Hell's Angels and the 4 turbulent a long time that undefined. Hell's Angel additionally chronicles the way in which the HAMC revolutionized the glance of the Harley-Davidson motorbike and outfitted what has turn into a world bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the area over.

Dozens of pictures, together with many from inner most collections and from famous photographers, offer visible documentation to this amazing story. by no means easily a narrative approximately bikes, colourful characters, and high-speed thrills, Hell's Angel is the last word outlaw's story of loyalty and betrayal, subcultures and brotherhood, and the true cost of freedom.

By Norm Stamper

By Eve Curie

By Lee Evans

Lee Evans is among the best-loved comedians within the kingdom; a Hollywood celebrity in a position to promote out arenas within the blink of eye. yet he was once now not constantly any such roaring luck. The lifetime of Lee is an completely hilarious and intensely relocating autobiography charting his ups and downs in an effort to the pinnacle. Lee takes us on a darkly funny trip via his formative years spent working wild on a Bristol housing property, his unconventional university days and during a grim teenage interval of various dead-end jobs. The publication additionally finds how as a boy Lee received his first flavor of showbiz, accompanying his entertainer father round the rowdy, unforgiving working-men's membership and theatre circuit. Desperately suffering to be authorised, this quiet younger loner consistently observed himself as an intruder. yet he ultimately met the affection of his existence and unintentionally came upon the only position the place he felt at domestic: the level.

By Karen Le Billon

Relocating her younger family members to her husband's place of birth in northern France, Karen Le Billon is ready for a few cultural adjustment yet is shocked through the foodstuff schooling she and her family members (at first unwillingly) obtain. not like her daughters, French kids feed themselves well and happily--eating every little thing from beets to broccoli, salad to spinach, mussels to muesli. The family's meals behavior quickly come lower than scrutiny, as Karen is lectured for slipping her fussing youngster a snack--"a recipe for obesity!"--and forbidden from packing her older daughter a lunch in lieu of the frilly tuition meal.

The kin quickly starts to determine the knowledge within the "food rules" that aid the French foster fit consuming conduct and strong manners--from the inflexible "no snacking" rule to common sense nutrients exercises that we used to proportion yet have one way or the other forgotten. quickly, the kinfolk treatments choosy consuming and learns to like making an attempt new meals. however the actual problem comes once they flow again to North America--where their dedication to "eating French" is placed to the try out. the result's a relations meals revolution with amazing yet chuffed results--which recommend we have to dramatically reconsider the way in which we feed kids, at domestic and in school.

By Quentin Crisp

A comical and poignant memoir of a homosexual guy dwelling lifestyles as he happy within the 1930s

In 1931, homosexual liberation used to be no longer a movement—it was once easily unthinkable. yet in that yr, Quentin Crisp made the brave selection to "come out" as a gay. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was once harrassed, ridiculed and overwhelmed. however, he claimed his correct to be himself—whatever the implications. The bare Civil Servant is either a comic book masterpiece and a different testomony to the resilience of the human spirit.

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By JeanDavid Blanc

As a baby, JeanDavid Blanc consistently dreamt of flying. A profitable entrepreneur, he took up powered paragliding once he had the ability; on the drop of a hat, he may head off to event the original sensation of floating over the main distant and breathtaking surroundings within the world.

In January 2011, he left Paris for Nepal for an excursion around the Himalayas. through the process a paragliding flight in Nepal, the elements all at once grew to become, and amid a thick cloud conceal, he crashed into the face of a mountain. keeping directly to little greater than a bush, he discovered his scenario was once precarious, but—fortunately—the fog avoided him from seeing simply how steep and sheer the drop underneath him was once. He despatched an SOS again to camp together with his GPS coordinates, however the climate used to be going to make any rescue test tricky. As he waited for aid and attempted to regulate to his perilous state of affairs, he started to obtain textual content messages on his phone from oblivious associates again in Paris.

What supplies the power to maintain going in case you have not anything left? What do you assert on your final textual content message on your daughter?

Three Days in Nepal is via turns exciting, relocating, nail-biting and humorous—the story of a guy who was once striking over a precipice, dealing with demise in a single of the main appealing areas on the planet, and was firm, opposed to all odds, to outlive and go back domestic.