Biography of Ordinary Man, Paperback

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Reducere. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband...

Depressed and bullied, Geoff Thompson decided to fight back by taking a job as a bouncer in one of Britain's roughest nightclubs. But after being b...

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Reducere. When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twic...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dan HuddlestonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 270Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 2...

Reducere. At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from...

Reducere. When playing the game of Name the Ripper, many authors start with a suspect and attempt to make them fit the facts; some can't even be proved to be...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce BradleyHE WAS A WHITE MAN, WHOSE STORY WAS SO POWERFUL IT BECAME A TRADITION AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAN PLAINS...

Reducere. In Great Lives: Joseph, Charles Swindoll reveals to us a man buffeted with the same kinds of problems we face today, whose tenacious faith in God u...

Reducere. JobA Man of Colossal Faith in the Face of Overwhelming TragedyJob, a study in pathetic tragedy . . . a hapless victim of unfair treatment. His disa...

Reducere. Where are great leaders like Elijah today? Uncompromisingly strong, yet self-controlled. Disciplined, yet forgiving. Audaciously courageous, yet ki...

Reducere. Many Western history enthusiasts believe that Ouray was the greatest of all Indian chiefs. Unlike his contemporaries, he is remembered for his nego...

Reducere. Bryan Adams is a one man rock'n'roll success story: he went from washing dishes for $2.50 per hour to becoming a multi-millionaire by making music ...

Reducere. Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwes...

Reducere. The book is a memoir. Quoting the editor below - I am honored to have been offered this poignant series of glimpses into the vivid, complex, multif...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2014) - New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards - (Biography-NM)Winner (2014) - New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards - (Best Book)Winner (2014) - N...

Reducere. In 1798, John Chapman planted his first apple tree nursery. Over the next forty years, he walked hundreds of miles and planted thousands of apple t...

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decad...

Reducere. Now nearly forgotten, John Ogden was one of our country's earliest patriots, a man who stood tall against the intrusion of foreign intervention in ...

During World War II, Danny Carter defused bombs in England, France, Belgium, and Germany. He rendered-safe the first ever intact V-1 rocket bomb th...

Reducere. This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gand...

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Reducere. Finalist, 2018 International Book AwardsA young man from a gritty Pennsylvania mill town enlists in the Army Air Corps and heads for Hawaii, the "P...

Reducere. In this bold and lyrical debut, Sondra weaves personal narrative with philosophical themes, crafting a story about love, solitude, and the unsayabl...

Reducere. To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stu...

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Stumbling Into Infinity is the intimate and sometimes startling account of Michael Fischman's spiritual journey and the encounter that changed his ...

Reducere. Back in print, a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up. (Time) Exiles is the story of two glamorous people--one, a beautifu...

The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs... From "America's p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jose RiveraDuring a record-breaking Los Angeles deluge, a man gives shelter to a beautiful, pregnant hitch-hiker who is sea...

"Scenes from the war live on as trauma in the memory of the next generation. A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko is an extraordinarily personal and...

Reducere. A runaway airman slaughters a family of three as they sleep in their beds.A single mother murders her two young sons and hides their dismembered bo...

Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, a...

A compelling memoir from a true hero--an ordinary man who joined the army and became one of the few living persons to ever be awarded the celebrate...

Reducere. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, AutobiographyA contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spi...

Reducere. In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on...

Reducere. The inspirational story of an ordinary man with an extraordinary amount of determination. Raised in Gary, Indiana, his only dream was to go to the ...

Now a New York Times Bestseller Now in tradepaper.What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Raw...

Reducere. At 10, she thought Dad's bite was worse than his bark.At 20, they fought about race.At 60, she struggled to talk with him about what mattered.In Fl...

Reducere. Having the right mix of encouragement and entertainment, Corbin Bosiljevac's memoir gets to the heart of an extraordinary story told by an ordinary...

Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to ...

A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family...