Résultats pour "Lost" dans Biographies et mémoires

The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them?

In this book, author Keith Giles offers a look at both texts through the lens of shared Divinity. His thesis is that both of these lost Gospels provide a window into the revolutionary teachings of Jesus that point to a Quantum spiritual reality that we are all connected to God and to one another.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.

Read by the author. An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England’s forgotten Queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, historian and host of History Hit ‘I loved this...

Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.

Part narrative, part practical, this adventure takes you to the foothills of Ethiopia and the ‘town of runners’; to the training grounds of world-record-holding marathon runners in Kenya; racing across the Arctic Circle and the mountains of Europe, through the sweltering sands of the Sahara and the hostility of a winter traverse of the Pennine Way, to witness the incredible natural movement of runners in these environments.

In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins.

As tantilizing new evidence mounts, Hartigan and her fellow investigators descend deeper into a world of conspiracy and obsession. Through its irresistible characters and prodigious research, Lost reveals not just why we remember Amelia Earhart as a trailblazer and adventurer, but why unsolved mysteries keep us forever searching for answers.

In July 1973, Bob Tininenko, his wife Linda, and his brother in-law Jim Fisher set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a 31-foot trimaran, down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but 10 days into the cruise, the party encountered a freak storm off the coast of Northern California. When gale-force winds and 50-foot waves capsized their boat, the voyage became a nightmare. For 72 days, the trio was lost at sea. Challenged by nature and compromised by a bitter rivalry, their courage and will to live was put to the ultimate test.

They’re known as the bebés robados, or “stolen babies”–children stolen at birth from their mothers and sold to wealthy families around Spain. For decades, European reporters and activists have tried to penetrate the secretive networks responsible for the crimes, typically with little success. Until now. In The Lost, veteran journalists Matteo Fagotto and Matilde Gattoni investigate the story of a woman named Ana Belén Pintado, a middle-aged woman from a small village in Central Spain.

Después de descubrir el origen de La Nieta del Maharani, Maha Akhtar nos muestra sus emociones al saber quien fue su abuelo. También nos cuenta la relación con su madre después de muchos años de estar separadas, y como su vida ha sido impactada no solo por el carácter de su madre, sino también por la mujer que tuvo a su lado durante su adolescencia, su tía Hafsah.

From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. ​ As a park ranger with the National...

A college town. Four young lives. One killer's deadly obsession. The true story of the Idaho murders that captivated America.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A “profound and beautiful” (Marilynne Robinson) account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker’s Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “I will stake my reputation on you being blown...

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave rise to more questions: How had this one Dutchwoman come to possess the majority of the master's work? And why have these images defied explanation for so long?

Detailing full story of the Moors Murders and the search for Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's fifth victim, Keith Bennett, whose grave has never been found, this new edition of The Lost Boy sets out the proof that the police always knew there were five victims, and that Brady and Hindley had a system—one decoded by officers at the time—by which they recorded where all their victims were buried.

Includes a new epilogue narrated by the author exclusively for the audiobook edition. What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views of love, politics, liberty, democracy...

Kurz vor seinem 30. Geburtstag steckt Filmemacher Hubertus Koch in einer weiteren ausgebrannten Episode seines Lebens. Enttäuscht von den Klischees der Medienwelt und den leeren Glücksversprechen einer Leistungsgesellschaft kündigt er von einem Tag auf den anderen seinen Job und steigt in ein Flugzeug Richtung Osteuropa. Weit weg von zu Hause - in Bosnien, Montenegro und Albanien -, wo ihn niemand kennt und niemand etwas von ihm will, versucht er, sich selbst einzuholen.

Lost Innocence pulls back the curtain on the chaos, fear, and institutional failure that plagued a city in crisis. With meticulous research and powerful storytelling, Marissa Grant revisits the lives stolen, the families shattered, and the controversial investigation that left more questions than answers.