Memorias

NANNY (SALZ, NANCY)

"A probing, heartfelt memoir about the true meaning of family" Kirkus Reviews "Powerful... wrenching" New York Arts "A beautiful memoir from the heart..." Melana Watrous, author of If You Follow Me "Beautifully written, poignant ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough." Alice Kahn Ladas, Ed.D., psychologist focusing on early childhood trauma; co-author of The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality In Nanny: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Nancy Salz reveals the pain of conflicted love for her mother and the longtime nanny who raised her. While searching for her late nanny's life story, Salz recovers their intense bond that survived derision and death and unearths secrets kept for nearly fifty years. A few days before Nancy Salz was born, her nanny, Elizabeth Hanna, a small, forty-five-year old former orphan with olive skin, a long nose and a short forehead, arrived on the stoop of the Salz family's home, a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Her only space was a freezing, former bathroom connected by French doors to Salz's much grander room. Salz's parents were only t

THE SACRIFICIAL TRUCKER (CRAM, OLE R.)

An inspirational and captivating daily journal of suspense, surprise, success, setbacks, and sacrifice as experienced by the author from the first day of trucking school in November 2012 until ending his trucking career in January of 2014 with a dramatic accident. Through all the fears, struggles, and trials, he always kept a positive outlook and was grateful for the many blessings God provided each day. Now you too can take that journey with him through reading The Sacrificial Trucker.

COP IN THE CLASSROOM (POTTER, JIM)

Cop in the Classroom is a memoir about a deputy sheriff's career. The 33 personal stories are organized by chapters in which students ask the officer questions about his job. "Is your gun loaded?" "Have you ever arrested a drunk driver?" "Have you ever shot anyone?" "Did you ever have to watch anyone die?"You will discover: What character traits are important for being a police officer;?what it's like to make arrests and work fatality wrecks;?how safe our schools are;?the role of a school resource officer (SRO); what SROs do if they suspect child abuse; why sharing lunch and recess builds relationships; and ?the importance of support systems for youth."Jim Potter has accomplished something I didn't think anyone in law enforcement would do during my lifetime . . . write a 'first class' book about police officers from a totally new and extraordinarily insightful perspective. The stories take you through a rollercoaster?of emotions, as they are hilarious, heart-breaking and inspiring."--Neal Trautman, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Ethics"This book is a unique insight into the special rapport that can d

SEXTOY (LAYAC, DANIEL & GLORIA)

Mama no, I don't want to do that! SEXTOY is a riveting new memoir, a story of incest survival that you won't soon forget. The chilling truth about the chameleon that lurks within a family. September 30, 1943 was the day, Micheline, entered a private clinic where her son was born. He was named Jean Marie but later?he came to use the name Daniel. Jean Marie was born in Paris into a wealthy, bourgeois?family, and into a social class where image and reputation were everything. Micheline was a stylish, classy, socially prominent young woman, but behind that image she did what ever she needed to do in order to protect her dirty little secret.? ?? This true story will sweep you across two continents, beginning in Auvergne, a rustic, unspoiled region of France, to Paris, the city of light?and enchantment, and on to North America, where a young man tries to run away from who he was... a sextoy. "This tale of a young man's life journey is full of dramatic tension and novelty that will sustain the reader's attention. The incest passages are searingly honest and grip the reader's imagination, as do the narratives of

THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIMSELF FOR THE MESSIAH (DITMARS, BRYN GENELLE)

This book, though not without a genuine sense of humour, contains the account of one man's life, before, during, and after severe psychosis. Tragic at times, and nothing short of heroic at other times, the story that is told outlines his experience of schizophrenia, in extensive detail. This memoir gives a voice to those who suffer from the disease, while also educating those who may not be familiar with any of it.

LES MEVES CONFESSIONS (MANYÀ I ACOVERRO, JOAN BAPTISTA)

El canonge tortosí mossèn Joan B. Manyà és un dels pocs pensadors originals de la nostra terra al segle XX. Les meves confessions, de les quals presentem la tercera edició, és un llibre de memòries interessant per molts conceptes que ens permet de completar la biografia intel•lectual i religiosa del doctor Manyà i ens dóna nova llum sobre la història contemporània del nostre país.

MEMÒRIES LITERÀRIES (MOYÀ GILABERT, LLORENÇ)

Llorenç Moyà fou un dels poetes insulars destacats de la generació del 50. Essencialment poeta, conreà tots els gèneres literaris i assolí una considerable significació tant en la lírica com en el teatre de la segona meitat del segle XX. L’edició d’aquestes Memòries literàries, publicades parcialment a la revista Lluc l’any 1971, pot ser una manera d’endinsar-se en la seva prosa i d’omplir el buit crític que hi ha per tenir una visió global i completa de la seva obra.

PASANDO A LIMPIO (TUSQUETS BLANCA, OSCAR)

Pasar a limpio, nos dice Oscar Tusquets, no es reescribir ni redibujar, es convertir las cuatro frases o el croquis que sólo tienen sentido para su autor en algo comprensible para los demás y, así, compartirlo. Aprendimos a valorar las afueras de las ciudades estadounidenses gracias a que Hopper las «pasó a limpio», y a contemplar la belleza de la Gran Vía madrileña gracias a los siete años que Antonio López dedicó a observarla y recrearla sobre el lienzo. También es posible pasar a limpio los pensamientos, y esto es lo que hace el diseñador, pintor y arquitecto barcelonés en este personalísimo libro: plantea algunas de las ideas que lo han acompañado durante una buena parte de su vida, deja constancia de los interrogantes que persisten al cabo de los años e incluso admite con franqueza sus lias y sus fobias.

PORQUE LO DIGO YO, QUE SOY MAMÁ . REPERTORIO DE UNA MAMÁ MOLONA (MARTÍNEZ FERREIRO, NOE)

¡Porque lo digo yo, que soy mamá! es un relato en primera persona que narra la experiencia de la autora tras haber sido madre de dos niños. Con particular estilo humorístico Noe relata, de una manera muy gráfica, multitud de situaciones de la vida cotidiana que son comunes en la mayoría de las madres. Madres que antes eran amigas, confidentes, novias, hijas o trabajadoras, que tenían tiempo para salir, arreglarse, ir de compras, ir al gimnasio o recrearse en todas sus actividades sin estrés, permitiéndose incluso el lujo de tener una pizca de caos e improvisación en sus vidas; y ahora tienen que dedicar las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana y los 365 días a ser madres.

HILOS DE TIEMPO (BROOK, PETER)

LA AUTOBIOGRAFÍA DE PETER BROOK Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Artes 2019 «No siento ningún respeto por esa escuela de la biografía que cree que, con sumar todos los detalles sociales, históricos y psicológicos, aparece un retrato auténtico de una vida. Más bien me pongo del lado de Hamlet cuando pide una flauta y clama contra el intento de hacer sonar el misterio de un ser humano como si uno pudiera conocer todos sus orificios y registros». PETER BROOK Durante más de medio siglo, las puestas en escena de Peter Brook para ópera, teatro y cine han sorprendido y embelesado al público. Su dirección visionaria ha creado algunos de los montajes más deslumbrantes e influyentes del teatro contemporáneo. Esta autobiografía es un texto luminoso, inspirador, en el que medita sobre sus vicisitudes artísticas, sobre las personas que admiró o que más le enseñaron durante su amplia y vital trayectoria, y que él convierte en este texto en un viaje filosófico. Hilos de tiempo recoge la evolución y experiencia de una inteligencia artística extraordinaria, revelando las fuentes heterogéneas que subyacen en una pasión de toda una vida por hallar el modo más expresivo de contar una historia. «El más importante director de escena del mundo anglosajón.» The New York Times «Una leyenda viva del teatro.» London Times

FLAT ASS CALM (MCMULLEN, AMY M)

FLAT ASS CALMBlack and White EditionWhen author Amy M. McMullen was young, she wasn?t preoccupied with dolls, dresses, or boys like other little girls; instead she was fixated on a Maine island called Monhegan. In this memoir, illustrated with black &?white photographs and art, Amy covers a segment of her life, beginning as a very small child and ending in her early twenties. ?She describes growing up in an unusual family on Cape Cod during the1960s, her early teenage years in California, and finally her life as a homesteader on a small island off the Maine coast. She delves deeply into the psyche of a child who became unwittingly caught up in the destructive upheavals caused by her parent?s divorce and her mother?s spiral down into alcoholism, and how this scripted her life choices later.Her family?s connection to the idyllic island of Monhegan, where she often summered as a child, planted a seed of longing in a little girl whose family life was out of control. This soon developed into recurring dreams that couldn?t be shaken until she ran away from home at the age of sixteen to live on Monhegan with an old

MEMOIR OF A SLIGHTLY MAD MYSTIC (FURMAN, LAWRENCE)

Memoir of a Slightly Mad Mystic is the fascinating story of a midwestern boy who began having out of body journeys when he was nine years old. But the freedom and joy those flights provided faded when he began sinking into a quagmire of mental illness. After he was tossed into the antiseptic world of drugs, electroshock, and enforced isolation that was the 1960s mental health care system, his condition only worsened. Trapped as he was between wildfires raging in his head and a narrow-minded version of therapy, a cure seemed out of the question?until he died? three times. This is the story of how he survived death, and how three journeys through the transformative portal of death?s doorway awakened his soul and restored his sanity. This strange but true adventure speaks to the resilience of the human spirit and our immortality, and reminds us of just how mystical the world we live in truly is. ?