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The Roots of the Guava Tree
A debut contemporary memoir about a young woman struggling to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Christian Palestinian father, coming of age in Colombia as increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s engulf her country. Sonia Daccarett grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father in Colombia during the drug-war 1980s. When she asks her parents questions about their family’s ethnicity and religion they answer evasively, defining their family religion and ethnicity as “nothing.” Grandparents and family members who speak Yiddish, Hebrew, and Arabic and fled from places called the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Bethlehem, and the Ottoman Empire, does not sound like “nothing” to Sonia. At the same time, Sonia grapples with her American education at school. She is both enchanted and challenged by the tropical landscape of her childhood in a remote suburb of Cali, which is rapidly changing as cocaine trafficking and drug cartels begin to dominate the city’s life. As she tries to discover what her family is, Colombia begins unraveling around her through violence, kidnappings, and the death of acquaintances and friends. At the same time, her parents’ marriage and their personal identities are rocked by the faraway Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Soon, she will have to decide whether to stay in Colombia with her family or leave them behind to find the answers she seeks.
I Swear
From the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome: a fascinating, complex condition that’s more common than most of us think ( 1 in 100 schoolchildren have the condition) , and yet is chronically misunderstood.Born in the 1970s on the Scottish Borders, John’s was ten when his tics first arrived, as if from nowhere. Previously a happy, popular, football-mad boy he was labelled disruptive, rude, and even mad. As his condition progressed, from blinks and jerks to involuntary rude and obscene shouting, John was bullied, rejected - alienated from his family and a society that had no idea what to make of him.Hospitalized and drugged for months, it was only an extraordinary and transformative friendship, and John’s dogged optimism, that turned his life around, making I Swear an inspirational story of triumph over adversity.Through John’s eyes, we see Tourette’s not just as a medical condition, but as a lens through which we can all better understand the importance of human connection. And how essential, as well as ultimately rewarding, it can be to keep going and never give up.
Adele Is Life
Welcome Daydreamers to this all-encompassing superfan book on everything there is to know and love about the modern icon that is Adele.From being raised by a superwoman single mother in South London who introduced her to music, to when she discovered her favorite blues singer, Etta James, to recording her first album 19, to becoming the Queen of Heartbreak, Adele is one of the most popular soulful performers of her time. Gathering her incredible life story, music, and fan culture all in one place, Adele Is Life details everything you need to know and cherish about her.This Daydreamer’s essential guide includes: A full biography, encapsulating her early life through becoming a mother and one of the most soulful singers of her generation.A full discography of Adeles’s music, including tours, and inspirations for her songwriting for some of her most popular songs like “Rolling in the Deep,” “Someone Like You,” and “Hello.”A very Adele A to Z, covering her alter ego, famous fans, tattoos, music videos, hair secrets, and more.Other incredible details and unfiltered moments, including her love for simple things such as wine and McDonald’s and her love for Queen Bey.Her favorite music and playlist go-tos.Hold on to your hearts as biographer Kathleen Perricone takes you on a fan-tastic journey through everything Adele. The Modern Icons series takes you on a journey through the lives and legacies of cultural icons who have shaped our world, from fashion to music to media. With original illustrations and meticulously crafted prose, this series captivates and enlightens, offering a glimpse into the personalities whose unparalleled charm and authenticity have left an indelible mark on popular culture.The series includes: Beyoncé Is Life, Harry Styles Is Life, Rihanna Is Life, Zendaya Is Life, Lady Gaga Is Life, Adele Is Life, Timothee Chalamet Is Life, and Billie Eilish Is LIfe.
Chasing Salah
Despite his consistency, his achievements and more-so, his visibility, he has never written an autobiography and a biography has never been written about him. He remains an enigmatic figure. We barely know how his teammates really feel about him and we do not know what he thinks of them. We do not really know about the world around him: how the events of the past decade in Egypt have impacted on his own life. We barely know what really motivates him. And we also know very little about where he is heading: whether a deal to join the exodus of high level European-based footballers in Saudi Arabia really interests him. This biography seeks to answer those questions by attempting to speak to the people who know him best through a mixture of on-record and off-record interviews. A definitive biography to remember.
Housle na moll
Životopisná kniha Housle na moll je zpovědí profesionální houslistky bojující se zákeřnou závislostí na alkoholu.
Talent, píle, neúnavné cvičení už od dětských let vedou k úspěchům a přivedou Kamilu až na konzervatoř. Po jejím absolvování vyhraje konkurz do filharmonie a zdá se, že nic nebrání tomu, aby se věnovala hudbě profesionálně. Jedinou překážkou je tréma, či spíše psychický blok, který ji paralyzuje při hraní pomalých a tichých pasáží, při každém jeho útoku prožívá peklo, přestávají ji poslouchat ruce, není schopná na veřejnosti hrát. Obrací se na psychology, ale ti jí nedokážou pomoci. Náhodně zjistí, že ji ze zahanbujícího stresu pomůže alkohol, odbourává psychické překážky. Kamila nalézá v jeho uvolňujícím účinku zalíbení a útěchu nejen při koncertech, ale i v jiných situacích, nakonec ani záminku nepotřebuje. Pije čím dál tím víc, během několika let propadá závislosti.
V upřímné a nemilosrdné výpovědi houslistky Kamily budete svědky jejího zoufalého zápasu o cestu z pekla ven. Její vítězství jsou krátkodobá, znovu a znovu se propadá do sebezničujícího alkoholismu, který ji připraví o milovanou profesi elitní houslistky, ztrácí důvěru přátel, přichází o dceru, o zdraví, přestává jíst…
Droga, která jí vzala kus života, je na rozdíl od jiných, všudypřítomná, láká pestrými vinětami v každém obchodě s potravinami, reklamách, málo či více pije alkohol většina obyvatelstva. O to těžší je boj léčících se alkoholiků, kteří jsou vystaveni ataku vlezlé nabídky na každém kroku.
Vyhraje Kamila nad destruktivním monstrem závislosti?
Hlava 21
Někdy stačí odečíst jedno číslo a vše je zcela jinak. Když Hellerův román Hlava XXII dobyl svět, jeho název se v hlavách lidí udomácnil jako označení pro situace ztráty, kdy má člověk na výběr, ale žádné z jeho rozhodnutí nevede k úspěchu. Hlava XXI má zela jiný rozměr. Je o propojení svobodného ducha s nesmírnou inteligencí, schopností sjednocovat a vůlí konat. Je o čísle univerza, prosperity a úspěchu, které nadanému studentu matematiky vydělalo první milion a posunulo ho k miliardám. Magie čísla 21 ovlivnila život Karla Janečka natolik, že ho v roce 2016 vyhlásil za číslo našeho vesmíru. Jednadvacítka se stala jeho podpisem. Vnáší ji do všeho, co dělá.
Hlava XXI zřejmě nejvýstižněji zrcadlí obraz Karla Janečka, kterého máte možnost poznat jako člověka. Netradiční a nepřehlédnutelnou osobnost, která už nevsadí svůj život na čistou náhodnost. O svou mysl a tělo pečuje kalokagathií. Neustále posouvá své hranice. Otevřeně vyjadřuje názory. Bojuje proti nesvobodě, nespravedlnosti a korupci. A v mnohém předběhl svou dobu. Jeho hlava nikdy nespí. Proto dnes říká: „Jednadvacítkou to začíná…“
Fetishized
A deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women?from Kaila Yu, former pin-up model and lead singer of Nylon Pink.No one fetishized Kaila Yu more than she fetishized herself. As a young girl, she dreamt of beauty. But none of the beautiful women on television looked like her. Growing up as a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, Asian representation was scarce, and where it existed, the women were often reduced to overtly sexual and submissive caricatures?the geishas of the book turned film Memoirs of a Geisha; the lewd twins, Fook Mi and Fook Yu, in Austin Powers films; Papillon Soo Soo?s sex worker character in the cult Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket; and pin-up goddess Sung-Hi Lee. Meanwhile, the "girls next door" were always white. Within that narrow framework, Kaila internalized a painful conclusion: the only way someone who looked like her could have value or be considered beautiful and desirable was to sexualize herself. Blending vulnerable stories from Yu?s life with incisive cultural critique and history, Fetishized is a memoir-in-essays exploring feminism, beauty, Yellow Fever, and the roles pop culture and colonialism played in shaping pervasive and destructive stereotypes about Asian women and their bodies. Yu revisits the formative moments that shaped her identity. She reflects on the women in the media who influenced her, the legacy of U.S. occupation in shaping Western perceptions of Asian women, her own experiences in the pin-up and import modeling industry, auditioning for TV and film roles that perpetuated dehumanizing stereotypes, and touring the world with her band in revealing outfits. She recounts altering her body to conform to Western beauty standards, allowing men to treat her like a sex object, and the emotional toll and trauma of losing her sense of self in the pursuit of the image she thought the world wanted. Raw and intimate, Fetishized is a personal journey of self-love and healing. It?s both a searing indictment of the violence of objectification and a tender exploration of the broken relationship so many of us have with beauty, desire, and our own bodies.
The Forbidden Experiment
The true story of the nineteenth century?s so-called ?Wild Boy of Aveyron??an abandoned French child who lived for years alone in the wilderness before being brought under the care of an innovative young physician.?Before dawn on January 8, 1800, a remarkable creature came out of the woods near the village of Saint-Sernin in southern France...?So begins Roger Shattuck?s book about the Wild Boy of Aveyron?a child tragically abandoned by his caretakers and captured years later while scavenging food from a local garden. The Wild Boy could not speak, refused all clothing, and repeatedly tried to escape from captivity. Sent to the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris and declared a hopeless case, he was left to run wild until, one day, a medical student arrived on the scene.Jean Itard, young and from the provinces, began spending time with the boy and imagining ways to help him. He hired a woman named Guérin to care for him and gradually introduced him to social interaction, engaging his senses and imagination with games, toys, and other forms of training. For a while Victor (as Itard named him) made progress, but by 1805 their sessions together had reached an impasse. Victor died in obscurity, still cared for by Madame Guérin, in 1828.The Forbidden Experiment tells the story of a troubled young man and the extraordinary doctor who tried, however imperfectly, to help him. It is also, in Shattuck?s thoughtful, accessible, and compassionate prose, a book that explores essential questions about the human condition. What separates us from animals? What is language, and how do we acquire it? Can children who have been neglected or abused learn to trust the world?First published in 1980?and inspired by François Truffaut?s film The Wild Child?The Forbidden Experiment is now back in print for the first time in more than a decade.
Once You Cross a Street You’re on the Edge of a Cliff
Prostitution is the oldest “profession” in the world—that’s what they say. According to Havocsope, total prostitution revenue is $186 billion worldwide, with 40-42 million women prostituted. The number itself is staggering, but the reality is hard to grasp with the statistics only. Bomnal’s memoir Once You Cross a Street, You’re on the Edge of a Cliff is a personal record of her twenty years in prostitution and a firsthand report of the industry people call “sex trade” with a clear statement that prostitution is not a profession, but oppression. Bomnal’s personal history starkly presents a larger picture of the prostitution industry: how the pimps trap women with “advance payments”; the physical and sexual abuse of the “clients”; and the close relationship between the police and brothels. This system built upon the exploitation of women makes it so easy for women to take a step into the industry and much harder to seek escape from it. At this point, the boundary between “forced” versus “voluntary” prostitution is pointless—all it takes is one misstep. With an honest and brave voice, Bomnal not only revisits her past but also calls for hope and solidarity. “When I crossed a street, I never knew I would be standing on a cliff. I couldn’t avoid the plunge, but I found people waiting down there. It took a long time until I climbed back, and I’m still in the middle of the process. But the point is, some people reached out their hands to me and helped me get back on my feet,” said Bomnal in an interview. Beyond all the myths surrounding the “sex trade”, there is truth resounding in her trace: prostitution is not a choice and should never be one. And there’s always a way out.
One In a Billion
When Sonal C Holland left her high-paying corporate job, she knew she what she didn’t want—a boring nine-to-five—but not exactly what she wanted. Enter wine, a drink enjoyed only by the elite in India, but with immense potential for growth. Wine communication and teaching would play to Sonal’s strengths as a communicator and a networker, she and her husband Andrew rightly identified. The goal was set: to become India’s first wine communicator by winning the title of Master of Wine, the highest certification in the wine world and held by barely 400 people around the world.
A Man For All Seasons
K.M. Panikkar was a multifaceted man, one of India’s first public intellectuals as India won its independence. His imprint is all over India’s colonial and post-colonial history: from constitutional reform in the princely states, where he was a strong advocate for India’s current federal model to charting India’s maritime policy as a free country. He believed in an essential Hindu culture that held his land together, yet he was a committed secularist. He was Gandhi’s emissary and the founder of the Hindustan Times. He was independent India’s first and most controversial ambassador to both Nationalist China and the People’s Republic of China. He was Nehru’s man in Cairo and France and a member of the States Reorganisation Commission.
Collateral Stardust
WARREN BEATTY WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR...In this offbeat memoir, Nikki Nash tells the story of an obsession that starts with a young girl’s movie-star fantasy. At fourteen, longing for excitement and something of her own, Nikki fixates on superstar Warren Beatty. She’s determined to find him and have him in her life forever. She creates a solid plan that she initiates four years later at the age of eighteen when she gets a job as a restaurant hostess where Beatty frequents. A year later, on a warm Sunday evening in April, after breaking a finger in a judo class and looking her worst—dirty hair pulled back, no make-up, broken finger in a glass of ice—Warren Beatty walks through the door and her plan comes to fruition. In this entertaining and genuine account of the inner workings of Hollywood, Nash pursues a vibrant career as a TV associate director, comic, writer, and actress. Her celebrity-infused journey is also a dance with drugs, religion, Hollywood culture, and other volatile mysteries in the city of angels, including her own metamorphosis.
Děkovačky Libuše Švormové
Libuše Švormová je dáma s neskutečně otevřeným srdcem, do kterého se vejde láska, pochopení, touha, radost i velký dar humoru. Stačí, aby se na vás podívala a usmála, a vy hned víte, že jste se potkali s dobrotivou královnou českého herectví. Dojme vás a pobaví v první knize o svém životě, která vychází v edici populárního pořadu regionálních stanic Českého rozhlasu Humoriáda.
Najdete v ní historky z dětství, příhody z divadelních šaten, vyprávění o natáčení oblíbených seriálů a vzpomínky na slavnou Angeliku. Libuše Švormová v ní děkuje za veselé příběhy, které prožila s Vlastou Fabianovou, Miroslavem Horníčkem, Václavem Voskou, Petrem Nárožným nebo Květou Fialovou.V knize také popisuje natáčení slavných filmů a legendárních pohádek a vyznává se ze své lásky divadlu.
Libuše Švormová vás obohatí tím, co přinesl její devadesát let dlouhý život.
Mdeilmm
Weaving together history, literature, and personal experience, this recent book from a master of literature crafts a mesmerizing exploration of language, loss, and the enduring power of the spirit world. The strange word “Mdeilmm” was reported to have been uttered by the spirit of Shakespeare when called up during a séance in 1854 at the instigation of the French poet Victor Hugo. Hugo was then living in exile on the island of Jersey where he took part in several such séances. Hélene Cixous weaves this scene into a rich tapestry that draws from many corners of her world, both real and fictional: Dostoevsky’s Idiot, Hugo’s Last Day of a Condemned Man, Poe’s story “The Gold Bug,” but also film footage of the assassination of Itzhak Rabin and many layers of memories of her Algerian childhood. Transcribed communications from spirits of the departed, her father and grandfather among them, provide a fascinating glimpse into past spiritual practices. Cixous’s unique narrative style enhances the book’s enchanting quality, ensuring that readers are not only engaged by the content but also captivated by the beauty of the prose. Meanwhile, the reader falls under the spell of the author’s incomparable “mole speech,” the language in which poets communicate.
Baldwin: a Love Story
Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work.
Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer's personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin's most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin's last great love is explored in these pages for the first time.
Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships-geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic-and alchemized them into novels, essays, and plays that speak truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. Richly immersive, Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer's creative journey between Harlem, Paris, Switzerland, the southern United States, Istanbul, Africa, the South of France, and beyond. In so doing, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.
Patriot
V knize najdete život Alexeje Navalného popsaný jeho vlastními slovy. Dočtete se o jeho dětství v Sovětském svazu, o politickém prozření, o milované rodině, o upřímném a zapáleném odporu proti zkorumpovanému režimu, a hlavně o lásce k Rusku a k jeho lidu. Travičský atak ze strany ruské tajné služby se v roce 2020 stal celosvětovou událostí. V roce 2024 Navalnyj zemřel za brutálních
podmínek v sibiřském vězení. Knihu Patriot začal psát v době, kdy se zotavoval
z pokusu o vraždu. Text končí zápisky z vězení, které jsou zde publikovány vůbec poprvé.
Jsme svědky nárůstu Navalného mezinárodní podpory. S rozechvěním sledujeme autorova opakovaná zatčení, osobní perzekuci a v děsivých detailech i přímé pokusy o jeho fyzickou likvidaci. Teprve nyní pochopíme, proč ho cosi nutilo k návratu do Ruska. I ve vězení však projevoval psychickou odolnost a nezlomný smysl pro humor. Poznáváme v něm i optimistu a rozeného vůdce, který Rusům poskytl to, co nedokázal nabídnout nikdo jiný: naději.
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Seeing Through
The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos." At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon’s life; through it, he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to capture the depths of his emotion in song. It is this strength, this technical and visceral genius, that has made him one of our generation’s greatest composers.In Seeing Through, Gordon writes with humor, insight, and incredible candor about his life and work: a tumultuous youth on Long Island, his artistic collaborations and obsessions, the creation of his compositions (including The Grapes of Wrath, 27, Orpheus and Euridice, Intimate Apparel, Ellen West, and more), his addictions and the abuses he endured, and the loss of his partner to AIDS and the devastation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As Gordon writes of that period: “We were, thousands of us, Lazarus. We had to rise from the ashes. We didn’t have to rebuild our lives, we had to build new ones.” Gordon has succeeded in building a remarkable life, as well as a body of work that bears witness to all he survived in the process—one that will endure as a pivotal chapter in America''s songbook.
Život na krídlach dobrodružstva
Život plný dobrodružstva, adrenalínových zážitkov, ale poznačeného aj dramatickými a tragickými udalosťami. Starostlivosť o ťažko chorého syna, veselé študentské časy, vrcholový šport, práca v zahranienom obchode a začiatok podnikania v turbulentných 90-tych rokoch. Stretnutia so zaujímavými ľuďmi a prežité neuveriteľne situácie spojené s podnikaním doma aj v zahraničí. Kniha je autobiografiou života autora od jeho detských liet po súčasnosť. 2. časť knihy je venovaná dobrodružným cestám - Sibír, Keňa, Skalnaté hory v Kanade, Pantanal, množstvo národných parkov v USA. Cesty na vlastnú päsť a kreatívne riešenie veci ako a kde prespať, ako sa stravovať, ako riešiť hygienu a podobne. Stanovanie medzi medveďmi grizly na Aljaške a blízke stretnutia s rôznymi divo žijúcimi živočíchmi a ich filmovanie v divej prírode.
My Glorious Defeats
Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. This is his story.After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power. With inimitable wit and style, palpable anger and conviction, he exposes the incompetence and injustices that plague media and politics, reflects on the successes and failures of the transparency movement, and shows the way forward in harnessing digital communication tools for collective action.But My Glorious Defeats is more than just the tale of the clever and hilarious Brown; it’s also a rigorously researched dissection of our decaying institutions and of human nature itself. As Brown makes clear, institutions are made of people—people with personal ambitions and personal vices—and it is people, just like him, just like us, who hold power. As optimistic as it is heartbreaking, My Glorious Defeats is an entertaining and illuminating manual for insurgency in the information age.
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
