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Author : Patrick White
Release : 2019-06-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 422/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Many in One by : Patrick White
Download or read book Memoirs of Many in One written by Patrick White. This book was released on 2019-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
Author : Fan Shen
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 366/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gang of One by : Fan Shen
Download or read book Gang of One written by Fan Shen. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of Shen, age 12 at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, recounts being complicit in arduous Red Guard activities that directly or indirectly led to several gruesome deaths of political "enemies"--And later falling in love with and marrying the daughter of a man brutally tortured and killed by one of his fellow Red Guards.
Author : Patrick White
Release : 2019-06-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Many in One by : Patrick White
Download or read book Memoirs of Many in One written by Patrick White. This book was released on 2019-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
Author : Wayne A. Warner
Release : 2012-03-07
Genre : Air pilots, Military
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One Trip Too Many by : Wayne A. Warner
Download or read book One Trip Too Many written by Wayne A. Warner. This book was released on 2012-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Trip Too Many, A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam, is an autobiography about my life as a pilot in Southeast Asia during the conflict in Vietnam. It is primarily a story to share with family and friends about my personal involvement in the conflict and the turbulent decade of the 60s and does not attempt to question the politics of the era. It begins with a brief description of my quest to gain admittance to the United States Air Force Academy, my four years at the Academy, and the subsequent year of pilot training. I flew three different types of aircraft in combat and the book provides insight into the training that took place for the C-130 Hercules, the F-105 Thunderchief, and the A-1 Skyraider. Each of the three tours in combat over Laos and Vietnam is described with emphasis on the more memorable flights including a bailout in the A-1 and the final crash on takeoff that ended my active duty Air Force career. My time in various hospitals is described at the end of the book and the epilogue tells briefly of my life after retirement from the United States Air Force. The book has been described as a combination of Band of Brothers, Top Gun, and Forrest Gump.
Author : Tara Westover
Release : 2018-02-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 51X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Educated by : Tara Westover
Download or read book Educated written by Tara Westover. This book was released on 2018-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University “Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. “Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • Time • NPR • Good Morning America • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsday • New York Post • theSkimm • Refinery29 • Bloomberg • Self • Real Simple • Town & Country • Bustle • Paste • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • LibraryReads • Book Riot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library
