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4522 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 181 | 2017-11-22 22:42:20 | All the Gallant Men: An... | THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers an "epic,"* "powerful,"** and "intimate"** eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight. A TOP-TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor's flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack--the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona-- ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates--approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors' advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America's Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of five living survivors of the Arizona , offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable--and remarkably inspiring--memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. * New York Post ** Library Journal |
0062645366 | 9780062645364 | $11.66 $15.99 | William Morrow & Company | 2017 | English | |
4529 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 182 | 2017-11-22 22:42:22 | Beyond Band of Brothers: The... | On D-Day, Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to get off the beaches and reach the solid ground of Normandy. The plane carrying many of the commanding officers was shot down, leaving Dick Winters suddenly in command of his company. But during the drop he, and many of his men, had been separated from his equipment and was unarmed except for a trench knife. In this remarkable World War 2 memoir, Dick Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose in his 1992 epic Band of Brothers. Starting with an account of the gruelling training designed to make the 506th the most elite unit in the US Army, Beyond Band of Brothers is fascinating account of one man's experience of commanding Easy Company from D-Day, to the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany. Dick Winters gives real insight into leadership under the most difficult conditions - every man in the company had been injured by the time they reached Germany - and tells the real story of the Allies' final defeat of Hitler, from the point of view of someone who was really there. |
009194158X | 9780091941581 | $0.99 $18.00 | 320 | Ebury Press | 2011 | |
4548 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 183 | 2017-11-22 22:42:23 | The Heart of Everything That... | Map of Red Cloud's territory at the height of his power on lining papers. | 1451654685 | 9781451654684 | $7.99 $17.00 | Simon & Schuster | 2014 | English | |
4552 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 184 | 2017-11-22 22:42:27 | Bill O'Reilly's Legends and... | "From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, [this book examines] the often little known stories behind the battle lines of America's bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its greatest figures"--Amazon.com. | 1250109841 | 9781250109842 | $19.87 $35.00 | Henry Holt & Company | 6/6/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4370 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 232 | 2017-11-22 22:43:48 | You Don't Have to Say You... | The Instant New York Times Bestseller One of the most anticipated books of 2017-- Entertainment Weekly and Bustle A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian . Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection that they so desperately craved. She wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. It's these contradictions that made Lillian Alexie a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated, and very human woman. When she passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook Sherman and his remembrance of her. Grappling with the haunting ghosts of the past in the wake of loss, he responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is a stunning memoir filled with raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine, much less survive. An unflinching and unforgettable remembrance, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME is a powerful, deeply felt account of a complicated relationship. |
031627075X | 9780316270755 | $16.47 $28.00 | Little Brown and Company | 4/4/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4376 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 234 | 2017-11-22 22:43:51 | Lab Girl | 'The perfect Christmas book for those already restless for spring' - Tim Adams, Guardian Best Biographies of 2016Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work.Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are. |
0349006202 | 9780349006208 | $5.18 | 384 | Fleet | 03/02/2017 | |
4380 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 236 | 2017-11-22 22:43:52 | Persepolis: The Story of a... | Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. ["A] self-portrait of the artist as a young girl, rendered in graceful black-and-white comics that apply a childlike sensibility to the bleak lowlights of recent Iranian history . . . [Her] style is powerful; it persuasively communicates confusion and horror through the eyes of a precocious preteen."QVillage Voice. |
1435275624 | 9781435275621 | $14.79 $21.95 | Paw Prints 2008-05-09 | 05/2008 | English | |
4381 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 237 | 2017-11-22 22:43:55 | The Color of Water: A Black... | As a boy in Brooklyn, James McBride knew that his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say, "I'm light-skinned". Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. "You're a human being", she snapped. "Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" When James asked what the colour of God was, she said, "God is the colour of water". As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell the story. Her story was of a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put 12 children through college. This is James McBride's tribute to his eccentric and determined mother, and an exploration of what family means. |
1611763509 | 9781611763508 | $20.70 $35.00 | Penguin Audiobooks | 2014 | English | |
4385 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 238 | 2017-11-22 22:43:58 | Orange Is the New Black: My... | A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison, Orange Is the New Black tells Piper Kerman's dramatic story of her fifteen months behind bars. | 1410472124 | 9781410472120 | $17.49 $30.99 | 561 | Thorndike Press | 09/2014 | English |
4392 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 239 | 2017-11-22 22:44:00 | Kitchen Confidential:... | "A New York restaurant veteran takes a cup of Down and Out, adds a dash of Fear and Loathing, and whips up a gonzo memoir of what's really going on behind those swinging doors."--Newsweek The mega-bestselling classic, Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential is available in a new pocket-sized Insider's Edition. Bourdain's deliciously funny, delectably shocking, wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade are now hand-annotated throughout by the author himself, with Bourdain's updated insights and commentary--and a new Afterword about the radically changing food and restaurant industry a decade after the book's original publication. The drugs, sex, and haute cuisine are still here, but given a fresh new perspective from the bona fide super-celebrity chef, star of TV's No Reservations, and bestselling author of Medium Raw, Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and A Cook's Tour. No matter if it's your first time in Tony's Kitchen or if you've experienced the heat before, this sensational Insider's Edition is a treat worth savoring! |
1408845040 | 9781408845042 | $10.08 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2013 | ||
4394 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 240 | 2017-11-22 22:44:03 | My Stroke Of Insight: A Brain... | On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side of her brain -- the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side -- swung in an out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric Nirvana of the intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical left brain, that realized Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely. In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Taylor brings to light a new perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery that she gained through the intimate experience of awakening her own injured mind. The journey to recovery took eight years for Jill to feel completely healed.Using her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insight gained from her right brain that December morning. |
0452295548 | 9780452295544 | $7.99 $16.00 | Penguin Books | 2009 | English | |
4402 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 251 | 2017-11-22 22:44:07 | Shattered: Inside Hillary... | It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign; the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom of the campaign, political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss. |
0553447084 | 9780553447088 | $17.40 $28.00 | English | |||
4404 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 252 | 2017-11-22 22:44:09 | Unbelievable: My Front-Row... | The NBC news correspondent assigned to cover the Trump campaign for the 2016 presidential election shares her perspective on witnessing Trump's unexpected campaign successes. | 0062684922 | 9780062684929 | $15.33 $26.99 | Dey Street Books | 9/12/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4413 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 253 | 2017-11-22 22:44:10 | First They Killed My Father:... | From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes a narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. While her mother worried that she was a troublemaker, her beloved father knew Loung was a clever girl. When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung's family fled their home and moved from village to village to hide their identity, their education and their former life of privilege. Eventually, the family dispersed in order to survive. Because Loung was resilient and determined, she was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, while her other brothers and sisters were sent to labour camps. As the Vietnamese penetrated Cambodia and destroyed the Khmer Rouge, Loung and her surviving siblings were finally reunited. Bolstered by the shocking bravery of one brother and the vision of the others, and sustained by her sister's gentle kindness amid brutality, Loung forged on to create for herself a new life. |
1452653275 | 9781452653273 | $22.68 | Tantor Audio | 2011 | English | |
4416 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 254 | 2017-11-22 22:44:13 | We Were Eight Years in Power:... | NEW YORK TIMES #2 BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2018'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni MorrisonPowerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and MeFrom 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama's presidency reshaped America and transformed the international conversation around politics, race, equality. But it attracted criticism and bred discontent as much as it inspired hope - so much so, that the world now faces an uncertain future under a very different kind of US President.In this essential new book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of the Obama era, speaking authoritatively from political, ideological and cultural perspectives, drawing a nuanced and penetrating portrait of America today. |
0241325242 | 9780241325247 | $12.16 | 384 | Hamish Hamilton Ltd | 10/5/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4422 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 255 | 2017-11-22 22:44:15 | The Power Broker: Robert... | The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of New York by `the greatest political biographer of our times' (Sunday Times) - chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time and by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. Now also a Sunday Times Bestseller. The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one. First published in 1974, this monumental classic is now widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest books of its kind. |
184792364X | 9781847923646 | $27.03 | 1312 | The Bodley Head Ltd | 2015 | |
4436 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 257 | 2017-11-22 22:44:18 | Our Revolution: A Future to... | 'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones Bernie Sanders stormed to international headlines after running an extraordinary campaign for the Democratic primaries that saw over 13 million people turn out to vote for him, and changed the global discussion surrounding US politics. But how did a complete unknown and a democratic socialist make such waves? In Our Revolution, Sanders provides a unique insight into the campaign that galvanized a movement, sharing experiences from the campaign trail and the ideas and strategies that shaped it. Sanders' message resonated with millions. His supporters are young and old, dissatisfied with expanding social inequality, struggling with economic instability and fighting against a political elite which has long ignored them. This global phenomenon is driving movements from Syriza in Greece to Podemos in Spain and the support for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. Drawing on decades of experience as an activist and public servant, Sanders outlines his ideas for continuing this revolution. He shows how we can fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages and protects the planet. Searing in its assessment of the current political and economic situation, but hopeful and inspiring in its vision of the future, this book is essential for anyone tired of 'same as usual' politics and looking for a way to change the game. |
1781258546 | 9781781258545 | $8.18 | 464 | Profile Books Ltd | 6/1/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English |
4437 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 258 | 2017-11-22 22:44:20 | The Audacity of Hope:... | Barack Obama's success in becoming President-Elect of the United States means he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world. In this bestselling book Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed. With intimacy and self-deprecating humour, Obama describes his experiences as a politician, about balancing his family life and his public vocation. His search for consensus and his respect for the democratic process inform every sentence. A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father,a Christian and a sceptic, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power that will inspire people the world over. |
0307237702 | 9780307237705 | $9.99 $16.00 | Broadway Books | 2014 | English | |
4442 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 259 | 2017-11-22 22:44:22 | Infidel | Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next. An international bestseller, her life story INFIDEL shows the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright, curious, dutiful little girl evolves into a pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely, or more significant. |
1416526242 | 9781416526247 | $0.99 | 384 | Simon & Schuster | 03/03/2008 | |
4449 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 260 | 2017-11-22 22:44:24 | A Full Life: Reflections at... | Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride,humour, and a few second thoughts.At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, and how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines and his amazing interview with Admiral Rickover. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn't emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect. In A Full Life, Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world. This is a wise and moving look back from this remarkable man. Jimmy Carter has lived one of our great American lives-from rural obscurity to world fame, universal respect, and contentment. A Full Lifeis an extraordinary read. |
1501115642 | 9781501115646 | $5.56 $16.99 | Simon & Schuster | 08/10/2017 | English | |
4471 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 261 | 2017-11-22 22:44:25 | Tears We Cannot Stop: A... | Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. | 1250135990 | 9781250135995 | $14.51 $24.99 | St. Martin's Press | 1/17/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4473 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 262 | 2017-11-22 22:44:27 | The Gatekeepers: How the... | "What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States--as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others. The chiefs of staff, often referred to as 'the gatekeepers,' wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and--most crucially--enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world"--Amazon.co |
0804138249 | 9780804138246 | $17.91 $28.00 | Crown Publishing Group (NY) | 4/4/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4482 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 264 | 2017-11-22 22:44:30 | Long Walk to Freedom: The... | Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the ANC and head of the anti-apartheid movement, he has been instrumental in moving South Africa toward black-majority rule. Throughout the world he is revered as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. In this autobiography Nelson Mandela details the development of his political consciousess and describes his pivotal role in the formation of the ANC Youth League. He brings to life his dramatic years underground, which lead to a sentence of life imprisonment in 1964, and sheds new light on his surprisingly eventful quarter century behind bars. And he takes us inside the momentous events of the 1990s, leading up to South Africa's first-ever multi-racial elections, and his feelings about his near landslide victory as president. |
7549554900 | 9787549554904 | $98.68 | Tsai Fong Books | 2014 | Chinese | |
4369 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 266 | 2017-11-22 22:44:33 | Killing Reagan: The Violent... | From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan , a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power -- and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable -- or so it seemed. But Reagan was grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he silently overcome his traumatic experience while at the same time carrying out the duties of the most powerful man in the world? Told in the same riveting fashion as Killing Lincoln , Killing Kennedy , Killing Jesus , and Killing Patton , Killing Reagan reaches back to the golden days of Hollywood, where Reagan found both fame and heartbreak, up through the years in the California governor's mansion, and finally to the White House, where he presided over boom years and the fall of the Iron Curtain. But it was John Hinckley Jr.'s attack on him that precipitated President Reagan's most heroic actions. In Killing Reagan , O'Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the scenes, creating an unforgettable portrait of a great man operating in violent times. |
1627792414 | 9781627792417 | $5.18 $30.00 | Henry Holt & Company | 2015 | English | |
4468 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 276 | 2017-11-22 22:44:34 | Profiles in Courage | The Pulitzer Prize-winning account of men of principle, integrity, and bravery in American politics is now available in a handsome, illustrated format. 150+ photos, paintings & drawings. | 0062564633 | 9780062564634 | $9.99 | Harper Perennial | 2016 | English | |
4476 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 277 | 2017-11-22 22:44:37 | Killing Kennedy: The End of... | More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal muder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader. This may well be the most talked about American book of the year. |
1250136148 | 9781250136145 | $7.04 $9.99 | St. Martin's Press | 8/29/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4488 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 278 | 2017-11-22 22:44:40 | Destiny of the Republic: A... | The extraordinary "New York Times"-bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of "The River of Doubt." | 0525492844 | 9780525492849 | $16.39 $19.99 | Random House Audio Publishing Group | 2017 | English | |
4516 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 279 | 2017-11-22 22:44:43 | No Ordinary Time: Franklin &... | Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a brilliant narrative account of America during wartime. of photos. | 0684804484 | 9780684804484 | $0.99 $24.63 | Simon & Schuster | 01/01/1995 | English | |
4517 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 280 | 2017-11-22 22:44:46 | Five Presidents: My... | Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Gallery Books. | 1476794146 | 9781476794143 | $5.56 $16.00 | Gallery Books | 2017 | English | |
4518 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 281 | 2017-11-22 22:44:48 | JFK and the Unspeakable: Why... | James W. Douglass sheds new light on the Kennedy assassination and its significance, taking listeners from the Oval Office to the fateful presidential motorcade in Dallas and exposing the "Unspeakable" forces behind it all. | 1439193886 | 9781439193884 | $16.51 $20.00 | Touchstone Books | 2010 | English | |
4538 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 282 | 2017-11-22 22:44:50 | Thomas Jefferson: The Art of... | In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Lion" and "Franklin and Winston" brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things--women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris--Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity--and the genius of the new nation--lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President's House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. Advance praise for "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" "Jon Meacham resolves the bundle of contradictions that was Thomas Jefferson by probing his love of progress and thirst for power. This is a thrilling and affecting portrait of our first philosopher-politician."--Stacy Schiff " " "This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today."--Doris Kearns Goodwin |
0812979486 | 9780812979480 | $8.49 $22.00 | Random House Trade | 10/2013 | English | |
4572 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 283 | 2017-11-22 22:44:54 | Obama: The Call of History | Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills." With vivid color photographs by New York Times photographers and others of the events, major and minor, public and behind-the scenes, that defined Barack Obama's eight years in office, Obama: The Call of History is a portrait in full of America's first African-American president against the background of these tumultuous times. |
0935112901 | 9780935112900 | $29.89 $50.00 | Harry N. Abrams | 6/27/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4379 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 291 | 2017-11-22 22:45:12 | Martin Luther: The Man Who... | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey." --The Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther's now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas, acclaimed biographer of the bestselling Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery , paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched, Martin Luther tells the searing tale of a humble man who, by bringing ugly truths to the highest seats of power, caused the explosion whose sound is still ringing in our ears. Luther's monumental faith and courage gave birth to the ideals of liberty, equality, and individualism that today lie at the heart of all modern life. |
0525558225 | 9780525558224 | $14.66 | 416 | Viking Press Inc | 10/5/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4387 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 292 | 2017-11-22 22:45:15 | The Seven Storey Mountain | Tells the story of Thomas Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly. Complete and unedited edition. | 028107366X | 9780281073665 | $17.11 | 448 | SPCK Publishing | 12/11/2014 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4390 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 293 | 2017-11-22 22:45:17 | Autobiography of a Yogi | Paramahansa Yogananda was the first great master of India to live in the West for an extended period. Sent by his guru, Sri Yukteswar, to America in 1920, he was to introduce tens of thousands of students to the science of yoga. Since its first publication in 1950, Autobiography of a Yogi has been translated into many languages round the world and has become an undisputed classic in its field. Paramahansa Yogananda's story is interwoven with scholarly reflections on the religious and scientific foundations of both Eastern and Western culture, and with descriptions of his meetings with such spiritual leaders as Mahatma Gandhi, Babaji, Therese Neumann and Rabinranath Tagore. A man who explored and taught about the most subtle mysteries of reality, Paramahansa Yogananda continues to inspire readers all over the world. |
1374877476 | 9781374877474 | $25.23 | Pinnacle Press | 5/24/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4397 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 294 | 2017-11-22 22:45:21 | Kisses from Katie: A Story of... | Katie was a normal American teenager when she decided to explore the possibility of voluntary work overseas. She temporarily 'quit life' to serve in Uganda for a year before going to college. However, returning to 'normal' became impossible and Katie 'quit life' - college, designer clothes, her little yellow convertible and her boyfriend - for good, remaining in Uganda. In the early days she felt as though she were trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper, but has learnt that she is not called to change the world in itself, but to change the world for one person at a time. By the age of 22 Katie had adopted 14 girls and founded Amazima Ministries which currently has sponsors for over 600 children and a feeding program for Uganda's poorest citizens - so it is no wonder she feels Jesus wrecked her life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together making it more beautiful than it was before. |
1780780893 | 9781780780894 | $9.52 | 288 | Authentic Media | 2013 | |
4435 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 296 | 2017-11-22 22:45:22 | To Heaven and Back: A Doctor... | A doctor's account of her own experience of death, heaven and return to life with a new realization of her purpose on earth. Dr Mary Neal, an orthopaedic surgeon, was on a kayaking holiday in Chile. Sceptical of near death experiences, she was to have her life transformed when her kayak became wedged in rocks at the bottom of a waterfall and was underwater for so long that her heart stopped.To Heaven And Back is Mary's faith-enriching story of her spiritual journey, her first-hand experience of heaven and its continuing life-enhancing effects. |
0307731715 | 9780307731715 | $0.99 $14.99 | Waterbrook Press | 2012 | English | |
4448 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 297 | 2017-11-22 22:45:23 | Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus:... | In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, former Muslim Nabeel Qureshi provides an intimate window into American Muslim life, describing how a passionate pursuit of Islam led him to Christ through friendship, apologetics, dreams and visions. *Expanded edition now includes an updated epilogue and new bonus content. | 0310527236 | 9780310527237 | $11.24 $17.99 | Zondervan | 05/2016 | English | |
4472 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 298 | 2017-11-22 22:45:25 | Confessions | One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today. |
014139689X | 9780141396897 | $3.92 | 576 | Penguin Classics | 2015 | English |
4526 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 299 | 2017-11-22 22:45:28 | 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True... | Baptist minister Piper tells of experiencing heaven for the 90 minutes he was pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident. After miraculously coming back to life and working through a long and painful recovery, friends and family finally convinced him to share his remarkable story. | 0800759494 | 9780800759490 | $0.99 $13.99 | Fleming H. Revell Company | 01/09/2004 | English | |
4528 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 300 | 2017-11-22 22:45:29 | Zealot: The Life and Times of... | #1 New York Times Bestseller..Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the 'Kingdom of God'. The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God...Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against historical sources, Aslan describes a complex figure: a man of peace who exhorted his followers to arm themselves; an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity secret; and the seditious King of the Jews, whose promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his lifetime. Aslan explores why the early Church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary, and grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself...This is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel, and a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time and the birth of a religion...'riveting biography' - The New Yorker..'compulsively readable' - Publishers Weekly. .'A vivid, persuasive portrait of the world and societies in which Jesus lived and the role he most likely played in both' - Salon |
1908906294 | 9781908906298 | $5.80 | 318 | The Westbourne Press | 2014 | |
4553 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 301 | 2017-11-22 22:45:30 | Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson... | Gifted Hands dose not just shed light on a ghetto youth with failing grades who became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Univesity Hospital at age 33. It takes readers into the operating room to watch incredibly complex, delicate, life-saving surgeries. "He is a model to all the youth of today".--Jesse Jackson. | 0310332907 | 9780310332909 | $7.99 $18.99 | Zondervan | 2011 | English | |
4555 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 302 | 2017-11-22 22:45:33 | The Surrender Experiment: My... | Michael A. Singer, author of The Untethered Soul, tells the extraordinary story of what happened when, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to let go of his personal preferences and simply let life call the shots. As Singer takes you on this great experiment and journey into life's perfection, the events that transpire will both challenge your deepest assumptions about life and inspire you to look at your own life in a radically different way.Spirituality is meant to bring about harmony and peace. But the diversity of our philosophies, beliefs, concepts, and views about the soul often leads to confusion. To reconcile the noise that clouds spirituality, Michael Singer combines accounts of his own life journey to enlightenment - from his years as a hippie-loner to his success as a computer program engineer to his work in spiritual and humanitarian efforts - with lessons on how to put aside conflicting beliefs, let go of worries, and transform misdirected desires. Singer provides a road map to a new way of living not in the moment, but to exist in a state of perpetual happiness. |
147362150X | 9781473621503 | $9.40 | 272 | Yellow Kite | 9/22/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4371 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 338 | 2017-11-22 22:47:05 | Hidden Figures: The American... | Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future. |
0062363603 | 9780062363602 | $8.29 $15.99 | William Morrow & Company | 12/6/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4373 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 339 | 2017-11-22 22:47:08 | The Immortal Life of... | Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - become one of the most important tools in modern medicine. Taken in 1951, these cells became the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture. They were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered the secrets of cancer, viruses and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilisation, cloning, and gene mapping, and have been bought and sold by the billions. Put together, her cells would now weigh more than 22 million tons and placed end-to-end would wrap around the earth five times. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "coloured" wards of Johns Hopkins in the 1950s to poverty stricken tenements of East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's children are unable to afford health insurance, and struggle with feelings of pride, fear and betrayal. Their story is inextricably linked to the birth of bioethics, the rise of multi-billion dollar biotech industry, and the legal battles that determine if we own our bodies. Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
1509854428 | 9781509854424 | $8.08 | 448 | Pan Books | 05/2017 | |
4403 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 341 | 2017-11-22 22:47:10 | The Undoing Project: A... | How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. | 0393354776 | 9780393354775 | $8.70 $16.95 | W. W. Norton & Company | 10/31/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4419 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 342 | 2017-11-22 22:47:12 | Einstein: His Life and... | NOW A MAJOR SERIES 'GENIUS' ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, PRODUCED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING GEOFFREY RUSHEinstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius. He was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days. His character, creativity and imagination were related, and they drove both his life and his science. In this marvellously clear and accessible narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered. Einstein's success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marvelling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a worldview based on respect for free spirits and free individuals. All of which helped make Einstein into a rebel but with a reverence for the harmony of nature, one with just the right blend of imagination and wisdom to transform our understanding of the universe. This new biography, the first since all of Einstein's papers have become available, is the fullest picture yet of one of the key figures of the twentieth century. This is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.Praise for EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson:- 'YOU REALLY MUST READ THIS.' Sunday Times 'As pithy as Einstein himself.' New Scientist `[A] brilliant biography, rich with newly available archival material.' Literary Review `Beautifully written, it renders the physics understandable.' Sunday Telegraph `Isaacson is excellent at explaining the science. ' Daily Express |
1471167941 | 9781471167942 | $5.43 | 704 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 2017 | |
4498 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 345 | 2017-11-22 22:47:14 | Women in Science: 50 Fearless... | A gloriously illustrated celebration of trailblazing women. Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, from both the ancient and modern worlds. The book also contains fascinating infographics and an illustrated scientific glossary. The extraordinary women profiled include well-known figures like the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, as well as lesser-known pioneers such as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Women in Science celebrates the achievements of the intrepid women who have paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, biologists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, physicists and beyond ... |
1526360519 | 9781526360519 | $10.36 | 128 | Wren & Rook | 2017 | |
4521 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 346 | 2017-11-22 22:47:15 | The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind | SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR. When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm - they could no longer afford his fees. This is his story of how he found a way to make a difference, how he bought light to his family and village, and hope to his nation. Malawi is a country battling AIDS, drought and famine, and in 2002, a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its knees. Like the majority of the population, William's family were farmers. They were totally reliant on the maize crop. By the end of 2001, after many lean and difficult years, there was no more crop. They were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months until they would be able to harvest their crop again. Forced to leave school at 14 years old, with no hope of raising the funds to go again, William resorted to borrowing books from the small local library to continue his education. One day, browsing the titles, he picked up a book about energy, with a picture of a wind turbine on the front cover. Fascinated by science and electricity, but knowing little more about the technology, William decided to build his own. Ridiculed by those around him, and exhausted from his work in the fields every day, and using nothing more than bits of scrap metal, old bicycle parts and wood from the blue gum tree, he slowly built his very own windmill. This windmill has changed the world in which William and his family live. Only 2 per cent of Malawi has electricity; William's windmill now powers the lightbulbs and radio for his compound. He has since built more windmills for his school and his village. When news of William's invention spread, people from across the globe offered to help him. Soon he was re-enrolled in college and travelling to America to visit wind farms. This is his incredible story. William's dream is that other African's will learn to help themselves - one windmill and one light bulb at a time - and that maybe one day they will be able to power their own computers, and use the internet, and see for themselves how his life has changed after picking up that book in the library. |
0147510422 | 9780147510426 | $5.52 $8.99 | Puffin | 2016 | ||
4533 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 347 | 2017-11-22 22:47:16 | My Family and Other Animals | My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?''Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu.But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies.Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood.'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph'A bewitching book' Sunday TimesGerald Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India, in 1925. He returned to England in 1928 before settling on the island of Corfu with his family. In 1945 he joined the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper, and in 1947 he led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. He later undertook numerous further expeditions, visiting Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Mauritius, Assam and Madagascar. His first television programme, Two in the Bush which documented his travels to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya was made in 1962; he went on to make seventy programmes about his trips around the world. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park, and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. He was awarded the OBE in 1982. Encouraged to write about his life's work by his brother, Durrell published his first book, The Overloaded Ark, in 1953. It soon became a bestseller and he went on to write thirty-six other titles, including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, Encounters with Animals, The Drunken Forest, A Zoo in My Luggage, The Whispering Land, Menagerie Manor, The Amateur Naturalist and The Aye-Aye and I. Gerald Durrell died in 1995. |
0246132450 | 9780246132451 | $0.99 | 256 | Grafton | 1987 | English |
4562 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 348 | 2017-11-22 22:47:21 | Who Was Albert Einstein? | Traces the life and work of the famous physicist, from his childhood in Germany through the development of his theories of relativity to his campaign for peace after World War II. | 0448424967 | 9780448424965 | $3.12 $5.99 | Grosset & Dunlap | 2/1/2002 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4393 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 362 | 2017-11-22 22:47:59 | The Tb12 Method: How to... | Quarterback Tom Brady offers the principles behind pliability, which is at the heart of a new paradigm shift and movement toward a more natural, healthier way of exercising, training, and living, and one that challenges some commonly held assumptions around health and wellness. Filled with lessons learned from Brady's own peak performance training, and step-by-step action steps to help readers develop and maintain their own peak performance, this book also advocates for more effective approaches to strength training, hydration, nutrition, supplementation, cognitive fitness, recovery, and other lifestyle choices. |
1501180738 | 9781501180736 | $16.48 $29.99 | Simon & Schuster | 9/19/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4411 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 363 | 2017-11-22 22:48:02 | Into Thin Air: A Personal... | Last spring, Jon Krakauer, the acclaimed author of "Into the Wild", undertook a magazine assignment about expensive adventure/thrill trips around the world. And, in May, he went with an expedition to Mt. Everest, investigating how wise or safe it is to tackle the world's tallest peak. When disaster struck, killing eight climbers, Krakauer survived by luck, skill, and discipline. Now, he has written the definitive account of this headline-making tragedy. |
0307475255 | 9780307475251 | $7.79 | Anchor Books | 2009 | English | |
4421 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 364 | 2017-11-22 22:48:03 | The Stranger in the Woods:... | *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This is the extraordinary story of the last true hermit - Christopher Knight. 'This was a breath-taking book to read and many weeks later I am still thinking about the implications for our society and - by extension - for my own life' Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'A wry meditation on one man's attempt to escape life's distractions and look inwards, to find meaning not by doing, but by being'Martin Sixsmith, bestselling author of Philomena and Ayesha's Gift 'Not all heroes wear capes. My latest one is a man called Christopher Knight - a silent idol for anyone who has felt the urge to just sack it all off and live the life of a hermit' Lucy Mangan, Stylist 'An extraordinary story about solitude, community, identity and freedom' Guardian 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival. It is also, unexpectedly, a tribute to the joys of reading' The Wall Street Journal In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not speak to another human being until three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Christopher survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store food and water in order to avoid freezing to death in his tent during the harsh Maine winters. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothes, reading material and other provisions, taking only what he needed. In the process, he unwittingly terrified a community unable to solve the mysterious burglaries. Myths abounded amongst the locals eager to find this legendary hermit. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life and the challenges he faced returning to the world. The Stranger in the Woods is a riveting story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude and what makes for a good life.Above all, this is a deeply moving portrait of a man determined to live life his own way. |
1471152111 | 9781471152115 | $9.95 | 224 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 3/1/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4426 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 365 | 2017-11-22 22:48:06 | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life | WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZESurfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf; and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he considers the intense relationship formed between man, board and water.Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, a social history, an extraordinary exploration of one man's gradual mastering of an exacting and little-understood art. It is a memoir of dangerous obsession and enchantment. |
1472151410 | 9781472151414 | $4.16 | 512 | Corsair | 2016 | |
4450 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 366 | 2017-11-22 22:48:09 | Wooden: A Lifetime of... | Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performance as for their success on the court, this unique and intimate work presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling passages, Wooden shares the important personal philosophies that helped make him the winningest college coach of all time. of photos. | 0809230410 | 9780809230419 | $12.96 $20.00 | McGraw-Hill Education | 1997 | English | |
4484 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 367 | 2017-11-22 22:48:11 | The Blind Side: Evolution of... | Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, "The Blind Side" tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen who, with the help of his new family, coaches, and tutors, becomes a star football player and first-round NFL draft pick. | 039306123X | 9780393061239 | $10.99 $24.95 | W. W. Norton & Company | 2012 | English | |
4500 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 369 | 2017-11-22 22:48:13 | Courage to Soar: A Body in... | Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, passion, and perseverance have made her one of the top gymnasts in the world, as well as a four-time winner of Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro. But there is more to Simone than the nineteen medals - fourteen of them gold - and the Olympic successes. Through years of hard work and determination, she has relied on her faith and family to stay focused and positive, while having fun competing at the highest level and doing what she loves. Here, in her own words, Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team. Along the way, Simone shares the details of her inspiring personal story - one filled with the kinds of daily acts of courage that led her, and can lead you, to even the most unlikely of dreams. This official autobiography includes an embossed cover and 8-page, four-color photographic insert. |
0310759668 | 9780310759669 | $18.14 $24.99 | Zondervan | 2016 | English | |
4368 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 391 | 2017-11-22 22:48:45 | Incidents in the Life of a... | 'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl describes Jacobs's treatment at the hands of her owners, her eventual escape to the North, and her perilous existence evading recapture as a fugitive slave. To save herself from sexual assault and protect her children she is forced to hide for seven years in a tiny attic space, suffering terrible psychological and physical pain. Written to expose the appalling treatment of slaves in the South and the racism of the free North, and to advance the abolitionist cause, Incidents is notable for its careful construction and literary effects. Jacobs's story of self-emancipation and a growing feminist consciousness is the tale of an individual and a searing indictment of slavery's inhumanity. This edition includes the short memoir by Jacobs's brother, John S. Jacobs, 'A True Tale of Slavery'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
1546428380 | 9781546428381 | $6.48 $7.49 | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform | 5/1/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4383 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 394 | 2017-11-22 22:48:49 | An Unquiet Mind | This work is a personal testimony from Kay Redfield Jamison: the revelation of her struggle with manic depression since adolescence, and how it has shaped her life. The book follows her through college, a love affair, her battle with the illness, bouts of madness, violence and attempted suicide. | 1447275284 | 9781447275282 | $7.01 | Pan Macmillan | 1/1/2015 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4405 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 398 | 2017-11-22 22:48:50 | She Persisted: 13 American... | Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey. | 1524741728 | 9781524741723 | $10.67 $17.99 | Philomel Books | 5/30/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4444 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 402 | 2017-11-22 22:48:53 | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of... | Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry. | 0679721886 | 9780679721888 | $7.93 $15.00 | Vintage Books USA | 2015 | English | |
4451 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 403 | 2017-11-22 22:48:54 | Love Warrior: A Memoir | "Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out--three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list--her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life"--Dust jacket flap. |
1250075734 | 9781250075734 | $13.67 $16.99 | Flatiron Books | 2017 | English | |
4452 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 404 | 2017-11-22 22:48:56 | Empty Mansions: The... | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. When Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark's cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic . Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette's copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. Praise for Empty Mansions "An amazing story of profligate wealth . . . an outsized tale of rags-to-riches prosperity." -- The New York Times "An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol ." --The Daily Beast "Fascinating . . . [a] haunting true-life tale." -- People "One of those incredible stories that you didn't even know existed. It filled a void." --Jon Stewart, The Daily Show "Thrilling . . . deliciously scandalous." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
0345534530 | 9780345534538 | $3.89 $17.00 | Ballantine Books | 2014 | English | |
4456 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 405 | 2017-11-22 22:48:58 | The Complete Persepolis | Satrapis groundbreaking two-part graphic memoir of her unforgettable girlhood within a large family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution--now available in one volume--has been transferred to the big screen in a major animated film from Sony Picture Classics. | 0375714839 | 9780375714832 | $15.12 $25.95 | Pantheon Books | 2013 | English | |
4459 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 408 | 2017-11-22 22:49:01 | Let's Pretend This Never... | Every teenager wants to fit in and be just like everybody else. So imagine how hard that is when your father runs a taxidermy business out of the family home, your mother runs the student cafeteria, and your sister has just been elected high school mascot, which means she walks the halls in a giant bird costume. But as Jenny Lawson grows up, falls in love, gets engaged -- in a way that is as disastrous as it is romantic -- and starts a family of her own, she learns that life's most absurd and humiliating moments, the ones we wish we could pretend had never happened, are the very same moments that make us who we are. This is an often poignant, sometimes disturbing, but always hilarious book from a writer that dares to say your deepest and strangest thoughts out loud. Like laughter at a funeral, it is both highly irreverent and impossible to stop once you've started ... |
0399159010 | 9780399159015 | $5.24 $25.95 | 318 | Amy Einhorn Books | 04/17/2012 | English |
4365 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 417 | 2017-11-22 22:49:22 | Proof of Heaven: A... | THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF A NEUROSURGEON'S OWN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE.Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But all this was set to change. One morning in 2008 he fell into a coma after suffering a rare form of bacterial meningitis. Scans of his brain revealed massive damage. Death was deemed the most likely outcome. As his family prepared themselves for the worst, something miraculous happened. Dr Alexander's brain went from near total inactivity to awakening. He made a full recovery but he was never the same. He woke certain of the infinite reach of the soul, he was certain of a life beyond death. In this astonishing book, Dr Alexander shares his experience, pieced together from the notes he made as soon as he was able to write again. Unlike other accounts of near-death experiences, he is able to explain in depth why his brain was incapable of fabricating the journey he experienced. His story is one of profound beauty and inspiration. |
1410458806 | 9781410458803 | $3.37 $30.99 | Thorndike Press | 2013 | English | |
4407 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 425 | 2017-11-22 22:49:41 | Many Lives Many Masters | A practicing psychiatrist and past-life skeptic is amazed when one of his patients recounts past-life experiences and astounded when he personally undergoes regression and recalls detailed previous lives of his own. | 0671657860 | 9780671657864 | $0.99 $15.99 | Simon & Schuster | 06/01/1988 | English | |
4508 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 499 | 2017-11-22 22:51:59 | Carry On, Warrior: The Power... | Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award The inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and founder of Momastery.com whose new memoir Love Warrior is an Oprah's Book Club selection. Glennon Doyle Melton's hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they're not alone. In Carry On, Warrior , she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud-funny new essays and some of the best-loved material from Momastery.com. Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they're not hard. In this one woman's trying to love herself and others, readers will find a wise and witty friend who shows that we can build better lives in our hearts, homes, and communities. |
1451698224 | 9781451698220 | $7.99 $16.00 | Scribner Book Company | 2014 | English | |
4567 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 501 | 2017-11-22 22:52:00 | Gift from the Sea: 50th... | In time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a spectacular hardcover reissue of one of the most beloved books of our time. Since it was first published in 1955, Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and contentment. | 0679732411 | 9780679732419 | $1.28 $11.00 | Pantheon Books | 1991 | English | |
4378 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1022 | 2017-11-22 23:16:23 | Smile | Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. | 3833226544 | 9783833226540 | $11.13 | Panini Verlags Gmbh | 05/2013 | English | |
4520 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1058 | 2017-11-22 23:18:10 | Chasing Lincoln's Killer | Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia. "This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books and other documents. What happened in Washington, D.C., that spring, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during the next twelve days, is far too incredible to have been made up." So begins this fast-paced thriller that tells the story of the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth and gives a day-by-day account of the wild chase to find this killer and his accomplices. Based on James Swanson's bestselling adult book MANHUNT: THE 12-DAY CHASE FOR LINCOLN'S KILLER, this young people's version is an accessible look at the assassination of a president, and shows readers Abraham Lincoln the man, the father, the husband, the friend, and how his death impacted those closest to him. |
0545220912 | 9780545220910 | $7.99 | Scholastic | 2010 | English | |
4524 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1204 | 2017-11-22 23:23:48 | Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey... | Scott and Kimberly Hahn put their story into print, recounting their spiritual journey "back home" into God's worldwide family, the Catholic Church. | 0898704782 | 9780898704785 | $0.99 $16.95 | Ignatius Press | 1993 | English | |
4455 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1436 | 2017-11-22 23:33:44 | Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled... | -Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine--until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a 'cork dork'---Amazon.com. |
0143128094 | 9780143128090 | $10.89 $17.00 | Penguin Books | 2017 | English | |
4485 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1762 | 2017-11-22 23:46:06 | Bringing Up Bebe: One... | When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play. Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and they have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy. Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is. |
0143123580 | 9780143123583 | $5.78 | PENGUIN Group (USA) Inc | 1/3/2013 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4557 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 2534 | 2017-11-23 00:07:39 | The Immortal Irishman: The... | "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York--the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. Meagher's rebirth in America included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade from New York in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War--Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg. Twice shot from his horse while leading charges, left for dead in the Virginia mud, Meagher's dream was that Irish-American troops, seasoned by war, would return to Ireland and liberate their homeland from British rule. The hero's last chapter, as territorial governor of Montana, was a romantic quest for a true home in the far frontier. His death has long been a mystery to which Egan brings haunting, colorful new evidence"-- |
0544944836 | 9780544944831 | $11.66 $15.99 | Mariner Books | 2017 | English | |
4570 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 2536 | 2017-11-23 00:07:45 | Secondhand Time: The Last of... | Alexievich charts the decline of Soviet culture and speculates on what will rise from the ashes of communism. Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating [an] alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals. | 0399588825 | 9780399588822 | $14.71 $20.00 | Random House Trade | 2017 | English | |
4367 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 2583 | 2017-11-23 00:08:08 | Empire of the Summer Moon:... | In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend. S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. |
1508229554 | 9781508229551 | $17.00 $19.99 | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2016 | English | |
4491 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 2710 | 2017-11-23 00:13:23 | A Street Cat Named Bob: And... | When London street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. | 1250048672 | 9781250048677 | $13.02 $15.99 | St. Martin's Griffin | 10/2014 | English | |
4409 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 3094 | 2017-11-23 00:24:51 | Left to Tell: Discovering God... | Her life ripped apart by the bloody genocide that broke out in Rwanda in 1994, Ilibagiza forged a profound and lasting relationship with God through prayer and discovered a love so strong she was able to seek out and forgive her family's killers. | 1401944329 | 9781401944322 | $10.08 $15.99 | Hay House | 2014 | English | |
4433 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 3134 | 2017-11-23 00:25:29 | Tattoos on the Heart: The... | Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years working with gangs. | 1439153159 | 9781439153154 | $10.04 $16.00 | Free Press | 2011 | English | |
4536 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 3549 | 2017-11-23 00:37:45 | Recovery: Freedom From Our... | `I believe that we are all on the addict spectrum, that the object of addiction is less important than the condition, and that in recovering as individuals, we can change the world. This book describes the way I work my programme and how it can work for anyone' A definitive guide to the disease of addiction from an addict who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, it will help anyone who is an addict (or loves an addict) make the first tentative steps into recovery. Russell Brand gently and humorously recounts his story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained from his thirteen years of recovery. Brand wants to speak to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction - from the serious, life-threatening misuse of substances to the more subtle but still troubling crutches, such as getting trapped in unhealthy and destructive relationships to avoid difficult feelings. This is a book for everyone. |
1509844953 | 9781509844951 | $15.61 | 288 | Bluebird | 2017 | |
4415 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4204 | 2017-11-23 01:13:22 | Endurance: Shackleton's... | Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas.ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. |
0465062881 | 9780465062881 | $10.93 $16.99 | Basic Books | 2015 | English | |
4519 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4215 | 2017-11-23 01:14:33 | Eat Pray Love 10th... | A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. | 0143038419 | 9780143038412 | $0.99 $17.00 | Riverhead Books | 30/01/2007 | English | |
4575 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4275 | 2017-11-23 01:18:47 | Going Into Town: A Love... | "For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?) was surreal. But she recognized that for her kids, the reverse was true. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange world of Manhattan: its gum-wad-dotted sidewalks, honey-combed streets, and 'those West Side Story-things' (fire escapes). Their wonder inspired 'Going into Town, ' part playful guide, part New York stories, and part love letter to the city, told through Chast's laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons."--Amazon.com. |
1620403218 | 9781620403211 | $16.17 $28.00 | Bloomsbury UK | 2017 | English | |
4563 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4292 | 2017-11-23 01:20:02 | The Corfu Trilogy | The trilogy that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise - My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell - are available in a single edition for the first time in The Corfu Trilogy.Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.Durrell's memories of those enchanted days gave rise to these three classic tales, loved by generations of adults and children alike, which are now available in one volume for the first time.'He has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentrics' Sunday Telegraph'A delightful book full of simple, well-known things: cicadas in the olive groves, lamp fishing at night, the complexities of fish and animals - but, above all, childhood moulded by these things' New York Times |
0141028416 | 9780141028415 | $13.02 | 768 | Penguin Books Ltd | 8/3/2006 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4537 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4329 | 2017-11-23 01:21:51 | Vacationland: True Stories... | Presents a memoir of the author's cursed travels through the woods of Massachusetts and coastal Maine, describing his midlife transformation from an idealistic youth to an eccentric family man. | 0735224803 | 9780735224803 | $14.91 $25.00 | Viking | 10/11/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4401 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4401 | 2017-11-23 01:22:27 | The Fire Next Time | First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the "land of the free." Now, James Baldwin's rich, raw, and ever relevant prose is reprinted in a letterpress edition with more than 100 photographs from Steve Schapiro, who traveled the American South with Baldwin for Life magazine. The encounter thrust Schapiro into the thick of the movement, allowing for vital, often iconic, images both of civil rights leaders-including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Jerome Smith-and such landmark events as the March on Washington and the Selma March. Rounding out the edition are Schapiro's stories from the field, a new introduction by civil rights legend and U.S. Congressman John Lewis, captions by Marcia Davis of The Washington Post, and an essay by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart, who was with her brother James in Sierra Leone when he started to work on the story. The result is a remarkable visual and textual record of one of the most important and enduring struggles of the American experience. Marking the year of the original publication of the book and Schapiro's photographs, The Fire Next Time is limited to 1,963 copies including: Collector's Edition of 1,813 numbered copies, each signed by Steve Schapiro, featuring: Silk-screened hardcover with an embossed paper case. Letterpress printed text on a natural uncoated paper. Facsimile reproductions of ephemera from the era. |
3836551039 | 9783836551038 | $227.00 | 272 | Taschen GmbH | 2017 | |
4406 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4406 | 2017-11-22 23:56:20 | Brain on Fire: My Month of... | Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden and mysterious illness put her on descent into a madness for which there seemed to be no cure'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out.This is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back.'With eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever face: the loss of mind, body and self ... a mesmerizing story', Mira Bartok, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory PalaceSusannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker, Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites. |
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4412 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4412 | 2017-11-23 01:22:57 | A Child Called It | Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him, care for him, call him their son. It took many years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dream and then to make something of himself in the world. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting and inspirational look at the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive despite the odds. |
0757319106 | 9780757319105 | $28.56 | Health Communications | 2015 | English | |
4417 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4417 | 2017-11-23 01:23:00 | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. |
0618871713 | 9780618871711 | $9.72 $15.99 | Mariner Books | 2007 | English | |
4418 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4418 | 2017-11-23 01:23:02 | Complications: A Surgeon's... | In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is-uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theatre. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. |
1846681324 | 9781846681325 | $8.61 | 288 | Profile Books Ltd | 03/2008 | English |
4431 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4431 | 2017-11-23 01:23:05 | H is for Hawk | Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize Winner of the 2014 Costa Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize `In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers' dark grail.' As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for GBP800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. `To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what it will do next. Eventually you don't see the hawk's body language at all. You seem to feel what it feels. The hawk's apprehension becomes your own. As the days passed and I put myself in the hawk's wild mind to tame her, my humanity was burning away.' Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love. |
1594139318 | 9781594139314 | $3.89 $16.00 | Large Print Press | 2016 | English | |
4440 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4440 | 2017-11-23 01:23:08 | Rising Strong | The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. This is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and Rising Strong, our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom and hope. | 0091955033 | 9780091955038 | $10.67 | 336 | Vermilion | 8/27/2015 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4443 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4443 | 2017-11-22 23:56:35 | Dying to be Me: My Journey... | In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body-overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system-began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth... and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was able to be released from the hospital within weeks... without a trace of cancer in her body! Within these pages, Anita recounts stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. As part of a traditional Hindu family residing in a largely Chinese and British society, she had been pushed and pulled by cultural and religious customs since she had been a little girl. After years of struggling to forge her own path while trying to meet everyone else's expectations, she had the realization, as a result of her epiphany on the other side, that she had the power to heal herself . . . and that there are miracles in the Universe that she had never even imagined. In Dying to Be Me, Anita freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being! This is a book that definitely makes the case that we are spiritual beings having a human experience . . . and that we are all One! |
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4446 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4446 | 2017-11-23 01:23:37 | Appetites: A Cookbook | Brash, wild, original and badass. This is Anthony Bourdain's interpretation of a normal cookbook. As a restaurant professional, Bourdain spent his life on the fringes of normality - he worked while normal people played, and played while normal people slept. Since then he has settled (kind of) into family life and is cooking for the people he loves rather than people who pay. These are the recipes he turns to when called in for pancake service at sleepover parties or when preparing a violence-free family dinner. Each and every word is informed by his years in the industry and a life dedicated to food. This is a man who has declared the club sandwich as America's Enemy and wants you to understand the principles of Bad Sandwich Theory. He has distilled his views on dessert to this: it should always be Stilton. With a striking Ralph Steadman illustration for the cover and photography that somehow manages to be both strangely beautiful and utterly grotesque, this cookbook - Bourdain's first in ten years - is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other. |
140888383X | 9781408883839 | $15.56 | 304 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2016 | English |
4453 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4453 | 2017-11-23 01:23:40 | Furiously Happy: A Funny Book... | The humorist and journalist explores her lifelong battle with crippling depression and anxiety. | 1250077028 | 9781250077028 | $10.02 $15.99 | Flatiron Books | 2/7/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4460 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4460 | 2017-11-23 01:23:42 | Dreams From My Father: A... | The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, "Dreams from My Father" is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are. |
1782119256 | 9781782119258 | $8.47 | 464 | Canongate Canons | 12/1/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4462 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4462 | 2017-11-23 01:23:43 | Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | 'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.'New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be. |
$4.78 | Corsair | 2017 | ||||
4465 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4465 | 2017-11-23 01:23:45 | The Reason I Jump: The Inner... | "Originally published in Japanese by Escor Publishers Ltd. in 2007"--Title page verso. | 081298515X | 9780812985153 | $10.01 $16.00 | Random House Trade | 2016 | English | |
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