Diary Biography

Usha Uthup, India's undisputed icon of pop music, has enthralled an entire generation of listeners with her unforgettable voice and continues to do so. Completing fifty years as a professional singer in 2020 was just another milestone in her fabled career. In this vivid biography, which was originally written in Hindi, Vikas Kumar Jha captures the entire arc of Uthup's career in music.

The real love story of Frankenstein! Released from a promise to keep portions of her journey secret, Mary Shelley lays her soul bare in the intimacy of love, loss, and betrayal, the search for a mother's validation, and inspiration as a woman artist discovering her voice.

Diego Gómez Pickering nos regala en este libro sus apuntes de los días que vivió como embajador en Reino Unido. Historia, paisajes, retratos, literatura y política son sólo algunos de los recorridos que encontraremos en Diario de Londres, unas deliciosas viñetas que nos despertarán el deseo de saber más sobre la Gran Bretaña.

My book details the life, both early and later, of Pat Welsh, who found fame in 1982 as the voice of E.T. in Steven Spielberg’s immortal film classic about an alien who was left behind on Earth. The narrative includes entries from Pat’s personal diary (written in 1931, at the age of sixteen), stories of an adult Pat, and contemporary perspectives. The diary provides the framework for the book, and beginning with New Year’s Day, 1931, Pat writes with beauty and clarity about many aspects of her life.

Narrated by the teenage girl who lived it, Closet Full of Coke tells the true story of how a New York suburban fifteen-year-old girl's savvy and wit helps turn the small-time drug business of Armando, a Colombian drug dealer, into a multi-million-dollar cocaine operation that puts them on the DEA's Wanted List. This intimate diary gives readers a fast-paced glimpse of the couple’s speedy rise to riches, and their inevitable descent.

The Lockdown Diaries records a year in the life of Dawn, Rod, their kids, cats and garden. We will all identify with their daily struggles with the pandemic. She takes us from the beginning of the lockdown, as we all became used to wearing masks, turned into teachers and hairdressers and found that nail technicians were like gold dust. She touches on the everyday struggles too - being apart from her six children, missing friends, and getting fat. On the plus side, Dawn has contributed to glass-bottle recycling on a global scale and performed miracles for Smirnoff shares.

President Donald Trump thought it was a hoax, but it turns out COVID-19 exists. Thousands of people died. First, it was reported that seniors were susceptible to the disease.... These are the diary entries I started typing in May, 2020. Learn about how life changed after March 13, when the virus, originally known in China as the coronavirus, came to the United States

Sarah's diary was discovered in a home amongst the gruesome carnage of three badly decomposed bodies. She was nowhere to be found. Many years have passed since those horrible murders took place, and now, her story has been released to the public for review. The accounts of the diary have not been confirmed to be fiction or truth. Some question if Sarah Brown is real. Some question the accounts detailed in the diary.

During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record, the only daily Presidential diary in American history, is available for the first time.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Este Diario de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es el fruto de años de trabajo, de tenaces investigaciones, que han hilado una madeja de incontables sucesos para darnos una imagen amplia de la totalidad de la guerra. No solo es extraordinario el alcance de esta obra, que cubre seis años de un conflicto que se extendió por los cinco continentes, también lo es el método que emplea para capturar de manera concisa sus distintos aspectos.

La Correspondance de Marcel Proust avec sa mère constitue à la fois une véritable biographie de l'écrivain, mais aussi et surtout une porte ouverte sur tous les éléments d'une vie sublimée par l'œuvre à la "Recherche du temps perdu", où on retrouve le narrateur sous un aspect parfois drôle, et souvent provocateur. La sélection de lettres que proposent les Éditions Thélème dresse le portrait vif d'un auteur pour qui "la littérature, c'est la vie".

Au travers d'une trentaine de lettres absolument inédites en français, ce premier volume des lettres de Lovecraft, offre l'opportunité de se forger sa propre idée du Maître de Providence.

Rahel Levin Varnhagen, geboren vor 250 Jahren in Berlin, war eine ausgesprochene Netzwerkerin. Als Salonnière empfing sie regelmäßig bekannte und unbekannte Gäste verschiedener Stände. Als exzessive Briefeschreiberin reflektierte und kommentierte sie kritisch wie humoristisch ihre persönliche Gegenwart. Dennoch erlebte sie als deutsche Jüdin immer wieder Antisemitismus, was nicht zuletzt Hannah Arendt zu einer Biografie über Varnhagen bewegte.

Have you ever thought about becoming an exchange student or living abroad? When I was 16 and living in the 1980s, my dream was to travel to France with my high school class. But, I missed the deadline to apply and my dreams were crushed. Until I learned about an opportunity to travel to Japan as a youth exchange student. Spending six weeks with two Japanese host families was not only a surprise, it was life-changing. Listen about my daily travels as an American exchange student to Japan in the summer of 1985.

From homelessness to humanity, this is a memoir from the heart.

Im November 1974 bricht Werner Herzog zu einer Wanderung von München nach Paris auf. Sollte er die französische Hauptstadt erreichen - das ist seine feste Überzeugung -, würde die von ihm verehrte Filmhistorikerin Lotte Eisner am Leben bleiben. Vom Gehen im Eis ist eine große, zu Herzen gehende Meditation über Leben und Tod - ein Wortfilm, der neben den mehr als vierzig Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen von Werner Herzog eine ganz eigene Ausstrahlung und Magie besitzt.

Friedrich Schlegel nannte sie eine "politische-erotische Natur", und ihr Wohnhaus wurde zum literarischen Epizentrum der Romantik: Caroline Schlegel-Schelling war einer der faszinierendsten Frauen ihrer Zeit. Sigrid Damm präsentiert eine ausgewählte Sammlung der schönsten Briefe von Caroline Schlegel-Schelling - Ein wunderbarer Essay über ein widerspruchreiches Leben.

Shamba Shenanigans is a collection of riveting true-life experiences. Some of the stories are hilarious, others are thought-provoking, while others are likely to evoke different emotions as the story unfolds. Each story has one or more life lessons.

Paule a grandi étouffée par une mère rigide. Maintenant sa mère est vieille, et Paule doit s’occuper d’elle. Les migraines ne mentent pas: le passé irrésolu gruge le corps de Paule comme une maladie.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868-1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1927. Zwei Freunde sterben: Isadora Duncan und Maximilian Harden. Der Schwerpunkt in diesem Jahr ist die Zusammenarbeit mit den Künstlern. Arbeit als Mäzen und für seine Projekte. Mit Kurt Weill, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Valery, George Grosz, Aristide Mailoll, Markus Behmer, Gordon Craig. Mit dem deutschen Botschafter in Rom tauscht er sich über den Faschismus aus und kommentiert die Hinrichtung Sacco und Vanzettis.