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"Viver não pode ser só isso" é uma investigação lítero-poético-filosófica sobre o que é o viver. Com crônicas que passeiam pelas memórias do autor, desde a infância até os dias atuais, Lucão nos convida a viajar pelos quintais das casas dos avós, pela infância saborosa nas...

An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our man's best friend from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of From the Corner of the Oval Office, written and read by Beck Dorey-Stein. The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love...

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing while the ‘Lionel of Flanders’, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium.

John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft, he must first confront his brother's death from tuberculosis and then the imminent prospect of his own, tormented by the fear that he will not live to consummate his relationship with Fanny Brawne.

All six volumes of 'The Essential Letters from America', brought together for the first time in this definitive chronological collection of Alistair Cooke's finest broadcasts Alistair Cooke was the doyen of foreign correspondents and a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over...

The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records, let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact....

Bloomsbury presents In Their Own Words: Letters From History, from the National Archives, read by Daniel Mays, Miriam Margolyes, David Haig, Indira Varma, Arthur Smith and Robert Bathurst The way we communicate has changed. Today, many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing...

Pore over the letters of Eve Babitz—queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. Eve Babitz was a pure product of Los Angeles. The goddaughter of the avant-garde composer Igor Stravinsky, she made the scene of just about every midcentury California scene there was: from the...

Memorie di un libraio è un ironico, colto, originale viaggio nel mondo dei libri in compagnia di uno dei più grandi autori del Novecento. George Orwell descrive le lunghe giornate trascorse come commesso in una libreria dell’usato, tra volumi polverosi e clienti stravaganti; ci fa apprezzare...

Is it evil not to be sure? is a collection of entries from Lena Dunham's diary--or what she called her "Creative Snippets and Observations Journal"--from the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006. It is a candid, chaotic, and occasionally poetic snapshot of a young person becoming an adult. Read...

Spontan sein, etwas Verrücktes unternehmen, ohne lange darüber nachzudenken. Sich trauen und das Unbekannte wagen. Genau das habe ich getan. Ich habe mich auf ein Abenteuer eingelassen, welches ich nie wieder vergessen werde. Als Englischlehrerin für Grundschulkinder in Thailand erlebte Nicole-Kristin in zehn Wochen aufregende, lustige und bewegende Augenblicke.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE The arc of literary giant John Updike’s life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers—a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days. As James...

Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Written between 2015-16, with color images of well-known old...

The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks...

C.S. Lewis novamente comunica sabedoria profunda, desta vez por meio de vinte e duas cartas entre correspondentes fictícios nas quais compartilha sua compreensão do papel da oração em nossa vida e as maneiras pelas quais podemos imaginar melhor nosso relacionamento com Deus. Em Cartas a...

A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Literary Hub Electric Literature The Los Angeles Times The New Statesman Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet...

"Berlant adds that extra pizazz, so you really get a window into the creative mind as it shifts quickly from moments of despair to lightbulbs of insight to incidents of sexual desire to the recollection of totally random literary facts."—Vulture on Alphabetical Diaries "Heti's candid...

This program is read by the author. The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman). A singular...

An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful...