Books written by male authors (3568)
1991.
Pageboy : A Memoir by Elliot Page EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
'Can I kiss you?' It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first-ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. The unthinkable. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself. But for Elliot two steps forward always came with one step back. With Juno's phenomenal success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors - but at what cost? Now he was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, ... continue
1992.
Pai Rico, Pai Pobre by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter, Maria José Cyhlar Monteiro PT
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Um dos livros mais falados da última década, abriu os olhos do mundo para a necessidade de pensar o planejamento de finanças pessoais. PAi Rico, Pai Pobre foi o primeiro best-seller de Robert T. KYiosaki e Sharon Lechter, e deu origem a uma série de enorme sucesso. SEu conceito é muito simples: com maior inteligência financeira muitos problemas comuns da vida cotidiana podem ser resolvidos. SAiba o que os ricos tratam como ativos geradores de renda, e como se livrar de pagar impostos demais. A Cada dia, a cada nota você escolhe ser rico, pobre ou classe média. A Melhor maneira de preparar seus... continue
1993.
País de nieve by Yasunari Kawabata ES
JapanDescription:
Shimamura regresa al Pais de nieve atraido por la belleza de la estacion y eltradicional estilo de vida. Pero vuelve especialmente por Komako, una jovenaprendiz de geisha que conocio en un viaje anterior. El es un hombre rico, demediana edad, que intenta escapar de un matrimonio sombrio y de su vida enTokio. Ella, una bellisima mujer vulnerable a sus propias emociones, que maduraante los ojos de su amante.El amor apasionado que Shimamura despiera en Komako le plantea un dilema: incapaz de corresponderlo, pero a la vez fascinado por su intensidad, optara porrepetir y prolongar su estadia en las... continue
1994.
Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris EN
Country: South America / 
Guyana
Guyana
Description:
In his tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana, first published in 1960, Wilson Harris revealed the unique poetic vision and laid out the themes and designs, not only of his famous work, The Guyana Quartet, but of all his future work. The Palace of the Peacock displays that vision in all its hallucinatory vividness, given additional impact by its rejection of the conventions of the twentieth-century novel and the uncompromising energy of its use of language in its response to character and landscape. The compelling adventure story of the narrative is para... continue
1995.
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz EN
EgyptDescription:
Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching in... continue
1996.
Palace: My Life in the Royal Family of Monaco by Christian Louis de Massy EN
MonacoDescription:
The nephew of Prince Rainier and Charles Higham, the bestselling author of The Duchess of Windsor, tell what really went on behind the glittering fairy tale walls of the palace. Brimming with scandal, romance, and treachery, this is a shocking memoir complete with candid photos.
1997.
Pale Fire by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov EN
RussiaDescription:
The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This text contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a foreword by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
1998.
Palestine by Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said EN
MaltaDescription:
Based on years of research and extended visits to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, "Palestine" is the first major comics work of political nonfiction by Sacco.
1999.
Palestine : A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha EN
IsraelDescription:
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine's multicultural past has been distorted and mythologised by Biblical lore and the... continue
2000.
Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba by Mazen Maarouf, Tasnim Abutabikh, Emad El-Din Aysha, Selma Dabbagh, Saleem Haddad, Anwar Hamed, Majd Kayyal, etc EN
PalestineDescription:
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches – from SF noi... continue