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Lisa Marie Presley's memoir, 'From Here to the Great Unknown,' cowritten with her daughter Riley Keough, has many wise words on Elvis, Graceland, addiction, and loss. Here are our favorites.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius received widespread critical acclaim. Time and San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the best books of 2000. [5] [6] In addition to its commercial success, the memoir was nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2001. Critics praised the book's ...
"You must not pity me in this last turn of fate. You should rather be happy in the remembrance of our love, and in the recollection that of all men I was once the most famous and the most powerful, and now, at the end, have fallen not dishonorably, a Roman by a Roman vanquished." [8] [note 11]
Image credits: Beautiful_Life437 #8. My Grandmother raised me. My dad died of a sudden heart attack when I was 8. My mom never got over it, started drinking, so my grandmother, who was 74 at the ...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, often simply called Bartlett's, is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its 19th edition, published in 2022.
Her only book was Black Beauty, written between 1871 and 1877 in her house at Old Catton. During this time, her health was declining, and she could barely get out of bed. Her dearly loved mother often had to help her with her illness. She sold the book to the local publishers, Jarrold & Sons. The book broke records for sales and is the "sixth ...
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.