Résultats pour "A" dans Culturel et régional

„Vierzig Jahre nach ihrem Verschwinden erfahre ich endlich, warum meine Mutter sich nicht von mir verabschiedete.“Manchmal braucht es vierzig Jahre, bis eine Wahrheit endlich ans Licht kommt. Nach dem spurlosen Verschwinden ihrer Mutter bleibt ein Mädchen zurück, das nie erfährt, warum es verlassen wurde. Kein Abschied. Keine Erklärung. Nur ein Schweigen, das Jahrzehnte lang wie ein Schatten über ihrem Leben liegt. Vierzig Jahre später ist die Mutter alt, krank und gebrochen. Die Tochter holt sie zu sich–und plötzlich öffnen sich Türen, die ein halbes Leben verschlossen waren.

Edmond Biré retrace la destinée d’Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890) et la place de ses écrits dans les lettres françaises. Entre biographie et étude critique, il suit le parcours d’un homme de plume au cœur du XIXe siècle, éclaire ses choix, son style et les idées qui traversent son œuvre, et interroge leur résonance.

Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In The Irish Americans, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative.

Sunday Always Comes! is the triumphant and deeply personal memoir of Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson, chronicling his rise as a young, defiant leader and his pivotal role as one of the "Tennessee Three." Sunday Always Comes! traces Justin Pearson’s evolution from a student...

How long can you go on without breaking into a million pieces? Sara-Fay Tarlin, in this heartbreaking memoir that she dedicated to her daughter, will show you how. Follow her life’s story in Life’s Ups and Downs where she unfolds how she adopted her daughter, loved her as if she was her own...

How do you move forward when life doesn’t go as planned? Such is Life?: Framing a Positive "Next" Mindset in the Wake of Life's Setbacks by Bobby Steffens, thoughtfully narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman and Lauren Henry, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful and deeply personal memoir about resilience, healing, and finding purpose after life’s most difficult moments.

This story begins, at the age of 14... in the closet of my Grandma's old bedroom... in my childhood home... which was now my room. I was getting ready to go into my freshman year of high school and knew I would be showering in the football locker room after practice... this terrified me because I knew everyone would see my huge scar that I received from a major childhood surgery.

En su debut, Miriam Casco Benard y sus hermanos emergen como sobrevivientes, relatando sus extraordinarias experiencias en sus recuerdos Tender Memories of Fire and Dust: Earthquakes, Revolution, and Family. Esta no es solo una historia de supervivencia, es una narrativa que palpita con la intensidad de superar el catastrófico terremoto de 1972 que asoló Nicaragua, navegar por el peligroso derrocamiento del gobierno por parte de los sandinistas y el arduo proceso de reconstruir una nueva vida en Estados Unidos.

A tender and quietly powerful memoir tracing one man’s life through changing times, from rural Ireland to Apartheid-era South Africa, love, loss, and resilience.

This book offers a personal inquiry, not a political treatise, into the consequences of allowing labels to define both individuals and societies. It asks: What remains when these labels are stripped away? What is the danger in neglecting to examine our core identity beneath them? My exploration culminated in a singular insight: unexamined collective labels profoundly influence not only the self but entire communities.

A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West—that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time. “To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise...

Earl Lovelace is a major Caribbean writer, one of the few of his generation to have lived in and written almost exclusively from the region. With sharp observation and even sharper wit, his writing pulses with the rhythm, flow, and vibrancy of the lives of “ordinary” people, whose culture and language he champions. In this brief but rich biography, Funso Aiyejina explores the writer and his work with the intimacy of a friend and the perceptiveness of a scholar.