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How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings
By Liana Finck. 2024
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A wryly personal and deeply relatable graphic memoir skewering the &“traditional&” parenting book to chronicle the absurdities, frustrations, and soaring…
joys of new parenthood—from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and authorHow do you know if you&’re ready to have a baby? How do you know if you might be pregnant? And how do you deal with peeing all the time and being hungry all the time and fielding well-meaning but kind of insulting advice and finding a doula and being dropped by your old friends and learning why it&’s called mom brain and not dad brain and the tyranny of the milestones you&’re not meeting and negotiating boundaries with in-laws and realizing that your heart now exists outside of your chest and in the body of this tiny little being whose entire existence depends on the quality of your care? To tackle these questions and many others, award-winning cartoonist and memoirist Liana Finck began illustrating her early years of motherhood, giving images and language to her insecurities, frustrations, and wild joy. In How to Baby, Liana takes her witty and lacerating cartoons (&“Hobbies for Pregnant Women: Waiting on Hold with the Insurance Company&”) and weaves them together with comic essays (&“You Married a Brute. Worse. You&’re a Nag: Go Ahead and Argue with Each Other&”), handy lists (&“Nesting. The Comprehensive List of What to Buy and Why Getting Things Used Is Dangerous and Unamerican&”), and profound observations. Together, these brilliant pieces form an immersive and comprehensive narrative whole—a baby book, a resource, and an emotional balm—for our time.Adieu vive clarté
By Jorge Semprun. 1998
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"Ce livre est le récit de la découverte de l'adolescence et de l'exil, des mystères de Paris, du monde, de…
la féminité. Aussi, surtout sans doute, de l'appropriation de la langue française. L'expérience de Buchenwald n'y est pour rien, n'y porte aucune ombre. Aucune lumière non plus..."You're sending me where?: dispatches from summer camp
By Eric Dregni. 2017
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Stories from author Eric Dregni about his experiences as the Director of the Italian Concordia Language Village in northern Minnesota. Adult
Tacomba
By Nicole Caligaris. 2000
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C'est une idée fixe : hobby, manie du voyage, nous partons, promis à la tristesse océanique des pèlerins du dimanche…
qui vont au bord du quai se faire une idée de l'horizon, alors que la contemplation du large nous rend non pas méditatifs mais malheureux profondément, mais objets d'un spleen sans mesure. Notre regard n'est pas fait pour courir hors limites, non. Notre regard est fait pour les immeubles, pour les toits de la ville, pour les parois montagneuses où accrocher ses rêves et ses ambitions. Et nous partons voir le désert, nous partons voir l'océan. -- 4e de couvWhat to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
By Candia McWilliam. 2010
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The British literary sensation—“the most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious and heart-rending of memoirs ” (The Telegraph)—the story of a…
celebrated writer’s sudden descent into blindness, and of the redemptive journey into the past that her loss of sight sets in motion. Candia McWilliam, whose novels A Case of Knives, A Little Stranger, and Debatable Land made her a reader favorite throughout the United Kingdom and around the world, here breaks her decade-long silence with a searing, intimate memoir that fans of Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, Mary Karr’s Lit, and Diana Athill’s Somewhere Toward the End will agree “cements her status as one of our most important literary writers beyond question” (Financial Times).