Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob, Hardcover - Russell Shorto

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up know...

Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town AmericaPublisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Russell S...

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DescriptionAt a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those prin...

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Accompanying the hit TV series, My Family and the Galapagos.

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Michael Rosen embarks on a journey into the truth behind the fate of his relatives who disappeared during the Second World War, interspersing this ...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael RosenNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha...

Two women, two daughters, two families whose lives will be changed forever...

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The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, whic...

Publisher: Maria Dismondy IncorporatedAuthor(s): Cindy L. RodriguezIllustration(s): 32 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 32Publication dat...

Reducere. 914From the time I was old enough to form my first memory, my childhood was already headed down the inevitable path of disfunction. With divorce in...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Alix SharkeyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

10 year old twins Ivy and Ash persuade their dad, an 'experimental' chef, to move to Grave Grange, a crumbling-down higgledy-piggeldy hotel, but de...

I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy.Jimmy and I, ...

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A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthoodPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): ...

Ten years ago, Helen Naylor discovered that her mother, Elinor, had been faking debilitating illnesses for thirty years. Everything Helen knew abou...

Household Names is all about the iconic Russell Hobbs automatic kettles of the 1950s and 60s and the people who invented, designed and made them, s...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

DescriptionHere is the oh-so-hilarious and adorable story of a blended family-- using just a few words in various configurations-- from the pets' p...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Steffi WalthallIllustration(s): Full colourNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 264 x 262...

Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, a leading Christian activist recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenn...

At just twelve years of age, Kathy met Kris, age fifteen, and it was love at first sight. Before her lay the journey of engagement and marriage to ...

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Life for Judith Summers and her son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their lives. A loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel ...