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Mating in Captivity: A Memoir
Биографии и мемуары

Mating in Captivity: A Memoir

Автор: Zuman Helen
Язык: английский
Год: 2018
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When recent Harvard grad Helen Zuman moved to Zendik Farm in 1999, she was thrilled to discover that the Zendiks used go-betweens to arrange sexual assignations, or “dates,” in cozy shacks just big enough for a double bed and a nightstand. Here,...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика

The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter

Автор: Eldin Mikail
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naïve arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a concentration...
Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Автор: Кристева Юлия
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, "Teresa, My Love" follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed...
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
Биографии и мемуары, История

A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States

Автор: Ujifusa Steven
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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THE STORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time,...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Автор: Боби Жан-Доминик
Язык: английский
Год: 1998
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In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of...