Knihy so štítkom autobiography

A Promised Land
Barack Obama A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man viac

Acid for the Children
Flea The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, of an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Acid for the Children takes readers on a deeply personal tour of Flea's formative years. His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose make viac

Beam Me Up, Scotty
Peter David   James Doohan Montgomery Scott, the endlessly resourceful chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise, has been a familiar presence in our collective imagination for over three decades. All around the world, everyone knows "Scotty" - but far fewer know the true story of actor James Doohan, who h viac

Becoming Myself
Irvin David Yalom Irvin Yalom, světoznámý psychiatr a talentovaný autor, který se ve své praxi i díle zabýval smyslem života, strachem ze smrti a umíráním, v podobném duchu pokračuje i svoji poslední knihu, kterou tentokrát věnuje sobě. Yalom, ve svých 86 letech, touto knihou zakončuje svou kariér viac

Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in comme viac

Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
Myeongseok Kang Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS, including unreleased photos, QR codes of videos, and all album information. After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th an viac

Challenging years
Stephen Samuel Wise THE best compliment which one can pay Rabbi Wise's autobiography is that the flavor of his life is reproduced with remarkable fidelity in these pages of retrospect, completed shortly before his death. There is no morbid preoccupation with self in the pages, but also no disingenuo viac

Crisis
Karin Boye Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers’ college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith, Malin plunges into a depression and a paralysis of will. Oscillating between poetic prose, social realism, fragments of correspo viac

Dare to be kind
Lizzie Velasquez Born with a rare genetic condition, Lizzie Velasquez always knew she was different, but it wasn't until she was older that she understood what that meant to herself and others. In this daring, inspirational book, Lizzie reveals the hidden forces that give rise to self-doubt and viac

David Suzuki
David Suzuki David Suzuki's autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in "Metamorphosis" and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life -- and his hopes for the future. The book begin viac

Delirious - My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers Martin Smith
Craig Borlase   Martin Smith Martin Smith shares his story, his insight, and his challenge to change the world. For seventeen years, Smith held the microphone for Delirious?—the mega-selling, Dove Award-winning, Grammy-nominated band that helped bring the modern worship movement into existence. Here Martin r viac

Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature" (Time)—now in a new edition Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life—the period tha viac

Eat a Peach
David Chang In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in Manhattan's East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, served ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know viac

Elvis and Me
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley The New York Times bestseller that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it. Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Pr viac

Everything to Live For
Turia Pitt V září 2011 se Turia Pitt, krásná 25-letá těžební inženýrka z Austrálie, rozhodla zúčastnit běžeckého závodu na 100km napříč nehostinou australskou krajinou, ktreý ji navždy změnil život. Pořadatelé závodu podcenili přípravy a několik účastníků ultramarathonu, včetně Turie, byl viac

Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
Naoki Higashida Naoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult. In concise, engaging pieces, he shares hi viac

Fifty Years with the Golden Rule
James Cash Penney James Cash Penney was born in 1875 and died in 1971 at age 95. His father was a farmer and preacher, never financially successful, but a role model that inspired his son throughout his life. He taught his son to work hard, giving 110% to whatever job he was doing. He also taught viac

Growing Pains
Emily Carr This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest... in a literary sense, ever written in Canada." Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her tr viac

I Am Not Spock
Leonard Nimoy Leonard Nimoy, the actor, recounts his experiences acting the role of Mr. Spock, Star Trek's unflappable Vulcan, his reactions to his fame, and his continuing identification with Spock viac

I Love the Bones of You
Christopher Eccleston ‘A beautiful book’ Zoë Ball ‘My father was an “ordinary man”, which of course means he was extraordinary.' Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, One man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccle viac

I Love This Game
Andy Mitten The long-awaited autobiography of Patrice Evra, former captain of Manchester United and France viac

I Saw It
Keiji Nakazawa 8:15 am, August 6, 1945. Six miles above the city of Hiroshima, bomb day doors snapped open to release "Little Boy", a code-name for the world's first atomic bomb. In an instant thousands of lives were destroyed, while the city's buildings, books and paintings caught fire and bur viac

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McC viac

Last Days in Old Europe
Richard Bassett Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and Spectator In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of ano viac

Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this ex viac

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass In this, first and most frequently read of his autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. viac

Not Fade Away
Rebecca Alexander Autobiografický příběh psychoterapeutky, extrémní atletky a aktivistky za práva handicapovaných osob, která se narodila se vzácnou genetickou vadou způsobující postupnou nezvratnou ztrátu zraku a sluchu. V knize popisuje, jak se s touto nepříznivou diagnózou vyrovnávala (vyrovnáv viac

One Perfect Day
Diane Burke The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core. Memories of a past she had buried more than forty years ago suddenly resurfaced and she wasn't prepared to de viac

Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctio viac

Ordesa
Manuel Vilas An autobiographical novel by a Spanish literary icon, written with the intimacy of a diary, Ordesa is a beautiful, redemptive meditation on identity, grief and the passing of time. viac

READ MY PINS
Madeleine Albright Part illustrated memoir, part social history, "Read My Pins" provides an intimate look at Albright's life through the brooches she wore. Her collection is both international and democratic--dime-store pins share pride of place with designer creations and family heirlooms. Include viac

Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis   Larry Sloman The New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. wit viac

Scars and Stripes
Tim Kennedy   Nick Palmisciano From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself. Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feel viac

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity become viac

The Boys
Ron Howard   Clint Howard Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the ’60s and ’70s. Join award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviv viac

The Flowering
Judy Chicago In this provocative and resonant autobiography, world-renowned artist and feminist icon Judy Chicago reflects on her extraordinary life and career Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installati viac

The Instant of My Death, Demeure
Maurice Blanchot   Jacques Derrida This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than viac

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Adrian Tomine n this heartfelt and beautifully crafted work, Adrian Tomine presents the most honest and insightful portrait you will ever see of an industry that I can no longer bear to be associated with. -- Alan Moore A wonderful book about feeling morbidly self-conscious while also longi viac

The Maddie Diaries
Maddie Ziegler Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star - she just didn't know how soon that day would come. At only eight years old, she was cast on the hit reality show Dance Moms and quickly won the hearts of fans everywhere with her natural talent and determination. The rest, as they say, viac

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
Barbara K. Lipska All we think, feel and dream, how we move, if we move, everything that makes us who we are, comes from the brain. We are the brain. So what happens when the brain fails? What happens when we lose our mind? In January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma sprea viac

The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On The Road. viac

Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley to take up a job at a d viac

Unnatural Causes
Richard Shepherd As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. When death is sudden or unexplained, it falls to Shepherd to establish the cause. Each post-mortem is a detective story in its own right - and Shepherd has performed viac

Walk Through Walls
Marina Abramović The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, Marina Abramović was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, she lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeyin viac

Walking to Jerusalem
Justin Butcher BRIAN ENO 2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician Justin Butcher - along viac