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  • Easter Rising (20th Anniversary Edition)

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

    “Whether you grew up in South Boston, Belfast, Brooklyn, or somewhere else entirely, you'll recognize something familiar in his search for identity, purpose, belonging, and home.”—Ken Casey of The Dropkick Murphys, from the forewordIn All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald chronicled a heartbreaking saga of familial loss amid Irish South Boston's culture of silence. In Easter Rising, he tells the ... Læs mere

    121,36 kr.

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  • Easter Rising

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

    An "alternately funny and heartbreaking" memoir of leaving—and finding—home, by the author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie ( Newsweek).In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out.Desperate to avoid the "normal" life of ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • All Souls

    A Family Story from Southie

    The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching ... Læs mere

    121,36 kr.

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Læs mere

    891,61 kr.

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    Easter Rising (20th Anniversary Edition)

    A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

    Uforkortet

    6 timer

    “Whether you grew up in South Boston, Belfast, Brooklyn, or somewhere else entirely, you'll recognize something familiar in his search for identity, purpose, belonging, and home.”—Ken Casey of The Dropkick Murphys, from the forewordIn All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald chronicled a heartbreaking saga of familial loss amid Irish South Boston's culture of silence. In Easter Rising, he tells the ... Læs mere

    221,94 kr.

    FORUDBESTIL

  • Lydbog

    All Souls

    A Family Story from Southie

    Uforkortet

    8 timer 32 min

    The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching ... Læs mere

    221,94 kr.

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  • What Doctors Feel

    How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

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  • The Secrets of Station X

    How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war

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    The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze.No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts. Using recently released secret files, along with personal interviews with many of ... Læs mere

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  • Marie Curie and Her Daughters

    The Private Lives of Science's First Family

    "Emling offers an intimate look at Curie's relationship with her children . . . [a] fascinating, moving story." — The Boston GlobePublished to widespread acclaim, in Marie Curie and Her Daughters, science writer Shelley Emling shows that far from a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, the famed scientist and two-time Nobel prize winner was nothing short of an iconoclast.Emling draws on ... Læs mere

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  • Miracles from Heaven

    A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven and Her Amazing Story of Healing

    Annabel Beam is one of three sisters raised in the Texas countryside by loving parents. But what should have been a happy, carefree childhood was blighted when Annabel developed a painful and seemingly incurable digestive disorder. Her parents spared no expense in the search for a cure, but medical experts assured them there was none.On a rare day when Annabel felt well enough to play outside, she ... Læs mere

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