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  • Clever Girl

    Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge, a mercenary and a grandstander. To others she was a true American heroine—fearless, principled, bold and resolute. Congressional committees loved her. The FBI hailed her as an avenging angel. The Catholics embraced her. But ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Raising the Barre

    Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams -- along with her youthful self-assurance -- and she stepped away from the barre.Fast forward four decades. Lauren -- suddenly, powerfully ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Free

    Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    95 percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens to them?There's Arnoldo, who came of age inside a maximum security penitentiary, now free after nineteen years. Trevor and Catherine, who spent half of their young lives behind bars for terrible crimes committed when they were kids. Dave, inside the walls for 34 years, now about to reenter an ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Grip of Time

    When Prison Is Your Life

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    "The book provides insight into life inside a maximum-security prison while illuminating the benefits of the craft of writing. . . . compassionate." — Publishers WeeklyA Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about—a maximum-security prison—and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

    One Daughter's Hopeful Story

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    "An excellent book…an emotional and ruminative anchor...She leaves her readers with hope.”-- San Francisco ChronicleOne journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer'sNearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Everything Changes Everything

    Love, Loss, and a Really Long Walk

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    A resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief**.**After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist, felt compelled to move—to do something, to be somewhere else. So she set out alone on the famed Camino de Santiago, walking across Spain to create space between the life she’d lived and the life ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $19.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

  • My Teenage Werewolf

    A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    A veteran journalist navigates the mother-daughter relationship at its most crucial momentWith the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open (and sometimes wounded) heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler embeds herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter's life. In seventh- and eighth-grade classrooms, at home, online, at the mall, and at summer camp, ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Counterclockwise

    My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-Aging

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    At this moment, one in three Americans is entering midlife, and many are wondering, "How did I get to be this old?" Plenty will turn to miracle creams, injections, fillers, and surgery to reverse the hands of time, but Kessler investigates the largely unexplored side of anti-aging: what it takes to be younger, not just look younger. Guided by an open but pleasantly skeptical mind, a thirst for ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Happy Bottom Riding Club

    The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

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    Dancing with Rose

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    Lu par Ruth Ann Phimister ...

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    9 heure 54 min

    An acclaimed biographer, Lauren Kessler immerses herself in her work to construct compelling portraits of her subjects. In Dancing with Rose, she recounts her time at a West Coast Alzheimer's facility. Working as an unskilled resident assistant, Kessler learns important lessons about humanity while conducting interviews with patients in various stages of the disease. ... En savoir plus

    $28.84 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Livre audio

    The Happy Bottom Riding Club

    The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    Lu par Hollis McCarthy ...

    Version Longue

    12 heure 26 min

    Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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    Stubborn Twig

    Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

    par Lauren Kessler ...
    Lu par Christine Williams ...

    Version Longue

    12 heure 52 min

    Stubborn Twigis the true story of immigrants making their way in a new land, a moving saga about the promise and perils of becoming an American.Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with big dreams and empty pockets. He worked on the railroads, in a cannery, and as a houseboy before settling in Oregon to open a store, raise a large family, and become one of the area's most successful orchardists. ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD