Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary...

This collection of essays delves into the Coke brand to identify and decode the DNA of this iconic brand. Unlike other accounts, these essays adopt...

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Reducere. A Biography of a Chance Miracle explores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracy-ridden and nationalistic West...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James CurlRonald James Padavona began playing music in 1950s doo whop bands as a bass and trumpet player. He eventually fou...

Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, i...

A political and personal history of the aclaimed writer, academic and critic, which reveals the influences which have informed ground-breaking work...

Reducere. Pati Navalta Poblete's world is shattered when her 23-year-old son, Robby, is violently killed. She blames God, gun violence and the town where he ...

Anny. A Biography of Anny Thackeray Ritchie - Henrietta Garnett

Reducere. Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the interna...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn 1835, at the age of 13, a young boy walked nearly 300 miles to Paris; he worked odd jobs and did whatever it took to survive. He even...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "There will be no better biography of Elizabeth II as a figure of state until her official one appears--and perhaps not even then." --The Independe...

Reducere. Northern urbanite D. B. Tipmore describes the culture shock he experienced after moving to a small Alabama town in My Little Town: A Pilgrim's Port...

Publisher: Blank Forms EditionsAuthor(s): Stephen HousewrightNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 198 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious ...

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.

Reducere. A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from ...

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivo...

A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ag...

Reducere. When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the "color line" and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent ye...

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the ...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empt...

Reducere. This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to. So begins this multigen...

Reducere. In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away...

Reducere. The unforgettable story of Gail Russell (1924-1961), Hollywood"s Forgotten Legend, who rose from high school obscurity to become one of Paramount S...

DescriptionJunior Library Guild Selection Just Like Beverly follows the life of beloved children's author Beverly Cleary from her early years in Or...

No American composer has been more widely celebrated, nor so consistently misunderstood as Richard Rodgers. Although he was one of America's most b...

Reducere. From his amazing feature film performances to his roles as producer and director to his many notable guest appearances, De Niro started his career ...

Reducere. DescriptionHARRY TRUMANThis book covers the topic of Harry Truman, one of the most influential US Presidents in history. Truman was sworn in as the...

Reducere. Uncover the story of the billionaire behind the world's largest hedge fund.Ray Dalio's story is one of triumph against the odds. From his unassumin...

Reducere. Would You Like to Know Jesus as Those Closest to Him Did? There are many books describing the life and times of Jesus. This biography puts no words...

Reducere. Her role as the Bride of Frankenstein ensured her cinematic immortality, but Elsa Lanchester's life and complicated personality were more interesti...