I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography, Hardcover - John Thompson

The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved ...

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Reducere. Born to legendary Nat King Cole in the halcyon days of the 1950s, Natalie Cole grew up to become a versatile singer with Grammy Award status. But t...

Sir Humphrey Burton is one of Britain's most influential post-war music and arts broadcasters. Witty, humorous and full of humanity, Burton's accou...

Reducere. Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute. Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice. This is his story. "I have begun eve...

Rudolf Zwirner, "the man who invented the art market, " as coined in Der Spiegel, reflects on more than sixty years in the art business in his auth...

Reducere. Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of...

Reducere. There I Go Again is a celebrity memoir like no other, revealing the life of a man whose acting career has been so rich that millions of Americans k...

Reducere. Eleven Days to the Promised Land is a timely realization of past and present times, a fascinating tale of how an impoverished boy from a civil war-...

John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae's accomplishments is much gr...

Shadows are fun. They can be funny, too. Mostly, shadows are all around us, and not always what they seem. Here is a delightful, graphic celebratio...

Reducere. Sons in the Shadow explores the dynamics of family relationships in businesses both large and small about which relatively little has been written....

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Reducere. While writing his autobiography, Jean Paul Getty - then perhaps the world's richest man - hoped it would be the final verdict on himself, on his ma...

Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, came to power in January 2017 after defeating opponent Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elec...

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Margaret Sanger - An Autobiography is a memoir written by famous American birth control activist with a goal to promote her main cause - the fight ...

Reducere. Margaret Marshall Saunders was a Canadian author. She was born in the village of Milton, Nova Scotia, though she spent most of her childhood in Ber...

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Reducere. Sometimes history does not tell you the whole story.When 8-year-old Lou Del Bianco finds out that his Grandpa Luigi was the Chief Carver on Mount R...

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Reducere. John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulent life of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating ...

Reducere. John Stockton's #12 hangs in the rafters over the Utah Jazz, yet he's always been a private man. Now scores of fans finally have a window into the ...

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Publisher: Geoff Thompson LtdAuthor(s): Geoff ThompsonIllustration(s): 2 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2012Dimensi...

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Reducere. Byron Nelson was one of golf's greatest legends. He was one of the finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the most magnificen...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn G. Paton narrates his eventful life as a missionary to the New Hebrides - modern-day Vanuatu - in a frank and vivid manner. Beginni...

Reducere. DescriptionIn his candid and witty autobiography, famed tycoon J. Paul Getty invites readers to glimpse the twentieth century from the vantage poin...

After much hard graft and some close encounters of the violent gangster kind, AWT's flamboyant style as a restaurateur soon bought him to the atten...

Reducere. In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. In...

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Reducere. Readers first met Angel Ariel in Claire Candy Hough's previous work, One True Home - Behind the Veil of Forgetfulness, and followed her remarkable ...

Reducere. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundse...

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This Christmas classic combines solid historical fact with glorious legend to deliver the definitive story of Santa Claus. For anyone who has ever ...

"In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Ob...

Reducere. It was only supposed to be one little job - a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favour to his oldest friend. But then it all ble...

Reducere. John Iannarelli (a.k.a. "FBI John") served for more than twenty years as an FBI Special Agent and was also the Bureau's national spokesperson. His ...

Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): Nozomi GinyokuNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 191 x 14Cover type: Paperbac...