Memoir | Biography and Memoir
Nov.11.2008
Like A Year of Magical Thinking, this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss.
The phone rang. It was my husband Arron telling me that he was at Windows of the World in the World Trade Center. “There’s been a bomb...
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Nov.11.2008
MORE THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING THE DOG is the second collection of the best columns written over the past several years in a continuing series for The Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, CA. These columns touch on topics that concern us all: women’s potential in our changing world, the idiosyncrasies of...
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Nov.11.2008
THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING THE DOG is a selection of the best columns written over the past three years in a continuing series for The Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, CA. These columns touch on topics that concern us all: women’s potential in our changing world, the idiosyncrasies of society and the...
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Nov.10.2008
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...
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Nov.08.2008
It is the 1960s in California and Sharon is a typical California girl who has gone off to college...until she meets and marries an Iranian stucent and moves with him to Iran. Her naive dreams of living as a Persian Princess turn into a living nightmare when she finds herself traped in Tehran,...
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Nov.06.2008
Hoffman here proves herself a first-rate guide to Eastern Europe, offering vivid snapshots of conditions in the former Soviet satellites. Visiting her native Poland, she spends time with the co-editor of one of the country's most successful newspapers, who describes her hellish past hiding in the...
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Nov.05.2008
This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.
From Publisher's Weekly:
Daughter of Holocaust survivors, the author, a New York...
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Nov.05.2008
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she...
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Nov.05.2008
How fast can a person's life change? Have you ever thought about how one event in a person's life can alter the path of not only that person, but the lives of those they encounter? Have you reached a point where it hurts to even hope anymore? Do you find yourself simply dissatisfied with life,...
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Oct.24.2008
A riveting modern heart of darkness full of Communist operatives, backpackers, and pancakes.
In 1986, fresh out of college, Gilman and her friend Claire yearned to do something daring and original that did not involve getting a job. Inspired by a placemat at the International House of Pancakes,...
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