A History of My Times

Reducere. Retrace Western North Carolina's cultural and natural history with one of its most beloved storytellers and folklorists, John Parris. This second c...

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A Child's History of England is a classic fiction novel by Charles Dickens. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the firs...

Ninety-one-year old Harry Leslie Smith became an internet sensation in late 2013 when his article for the Guardian website``This year, I will wear ...

Reducere. In Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Elie Wiesel reenters, like an impassioned pilgrim, the universe of Hasidism. "When I am...

Reducere. DescriptionYou become who you follow. It's time to upgrade the voices in your life. Many times we forget that others have went before us and faced ...

Reducere. Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy...

Reducere. No one knows why they write a book, and this is not even trying to be one.Put it this way, at times one feels the need to put certain memories in o...

DescriptionA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR " A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and dec...

Reducere. "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy ...

Reducere. If this little suitcase could talk......it would tell how this journey began, the journey of a family, navigating the system of Apartheid in South ...

Reducere. "It is silent now, the blizzard has paused and left the moment still. I think about them both at such times -- roaming the shadowlands of remembran...

Reducere. No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story--until now. "Many say I was the best g...

Reducere. Economic Thriller! An incredible story of power, romance, revenge and international finance spanning three centuries. The issues could not be more ...

Reducere. "Anya Seton's portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible . . . The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background ...

Reducere. This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native Amer...

Reducere. In his #1 New York Times bestseller, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a forty-year portrait of American politics and shares unyielding re...

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her g...

Reducere. The finale to the New York Times bestselling Secret Series I always feared this day would come. A secret is meant to stay secret, after all. And no...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your ...

Reducere. Nominated for an NAACP Image AwardNamed one of The LA Times Best Books of 2015"In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award-winner Due (My Sou...

Reducere. Now a USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestseller "Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friend...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book A powerful historical picture book about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings...

Reducere. A book for all to read and ponder deeply - Rees Howells, December 1939.Available for the first time in 80 years: God Challenges the Dictators, Doom...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harry A. IronsideIt will be observed that my object has been, not merely to give a chronological outline of events, or a se...

Reducere. DescriptionJames Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life--now a major motion pi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patti Callahan"Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned...

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Description"For nonstop techno-action at full afterburner, it's hard to beat the Weber/Pineiro team. The air combat scenes had me on the edge of my...

Reducere. Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogge...

Reducere. In postwar Budapest, Aldó, a 42 year-old doctor who survived the concentration camp but lost his wife and children, slowly sinks into despair. One ...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of The Lost Regiment series comes a factually based narrative of the black military experience in the Civil War.We Look...

Storytelling is an art and one I am not sure I have perfected. I learned from a generation long gone as I listened to them spin wild yarns and tell...

DescriptionAn acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American ex...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Kristen Wolf's audacious and timely fiction debut, an unusual girl in the heart of ancient Palestine escapes her life of oppression--...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller ``If you are a real soccer player--then this is the book for you to read . . . Inspiring and uplifting. ``--GoalNation ...

Echoes from the HolocaustA MemoirMira Ryczke Kimmelman "During the most difficult times of World War II, " Mira Kimmelman writes, "I wondered wheth...

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla wa...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cook...

Reducere. What if you found an old forgotten picture of your mother marrying a man who wasn't your dad? And it led to your mother revealing the riveting and ...

Reducere. I'm John Taylor. I was born in the Nightside, that square mile in the hidden center of London where it is always the hour of the wolf, where gods a...

Reducere. Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant dur...

Reducere. Description"2016 Newbery Honor book *Winner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book Award This #1 New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving st...

Reducere. DescriptionA duke meets his match in the last place he'd ever expect in this charming Regency romance by the New York Times bestselling author of M...

Reducere. First published in 1928, 'Poetic Diction: A study in Meaning' presents not merely a theory of poetic diction but also a theory of poetry and a theo...

In 1918, Winkler explodes from a community of 13 helpful souls to a crowded coal mining town of strangers with divided loyalties. War in faraway Eu...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said "I reg...

Reducere. "Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World....

Reducere. Description"A New York Times bestseller Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables, Ada is a fighte...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tad FriendTad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elijah Nicholas WilsonThis is the true story of a pioneer boy who crossed the Great Plains by ox-team with his parents to a...

Reducere. DescriptionRuben and Lillian (Martin) Corgill were my parents. Ruben was born in 1890. Lillian was born in 1898. Their lives spanned a time period ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a la...

Reducere. A half century ago, Inupiat Eskimo Paul Green was dismayed by a writer who arrived in his village, stayed briefly, then flew home to print nonsense...

Reducere. By choice, chance and God's hand, I survived some extremely trying times in the Marine Corps during World War II.I decided not to get mired in the ...

Reducere. The First Christmas Children's Book provides an annual Christmas storytelling tradition of the greatest birthday in history - the birth of Jesus! A...

Reducere. The First Christmas Children's Book provides an annual Christmas storytelling tradition of the greatest birthday in history - the birth of Jesus! A...

Reducere. The principal doctrines defining Mormonism today often bear little resemblance to those it started out with in the early 1830s. This book shows tha...

Reducere. Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a ro...

Reducere. Description"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides ...

'Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world' Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privati...

DescriptionNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Vogue and CosmopolitanThe unbelievable true story of the young woman who faced down one of the ...

James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life--now a major motion picture --is ...

Reducere. DescriptionSixteen spine-tingling tales from the dark side of our nation's literary history include stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Mark...

Reducere. Throughout history people have wondered, What if the Bible was tampered with? The bestselling Why Trust the Bible? pamphlet offers compelling and r...

Reducere. From Publishers Weekly: Nezhukumatathil's fourth book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Eve...

A "timely and hugely important" memoir of Justice John Paul Stevens's life on the Supreme Court (New York Times).When Justice John Paul Stevens ret...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the fascinating story of how a young Chinese author, Guang Weiran, a passionate militant from the age of twelve, fought, using a...

Reducere. DescriptionLewels' tales of a young Mexican-American coming of age on the border are riveting. Sometimes they are zany and at other times heart bre...