The Story of a Life

DescriptionWhat can be said about Casanova? Writer, seducer, poet, socialite, philosopher, friend of royalty, Mozart and Voltaire, wit, playwright,...

What can be said about Casanova? Writer, seducer, poet, socialite, philosopher, friend of royalty, Mozart and Voltaire, wit, playwright, lover of l...

Part of a series that tells the "life story" of the objects and technologies that have become so vital to our daily lives. This volume combines a d...

This book is a "big history" of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our futur...

Reducere. This biographical memoir takes an in-depth look into the life of Mutah Beale, formerly known as Napoleon of the legendary Outlawz rap group who was...

Reducere. "He who has a 'why' to live for can bear almost any 'how.'" But how to go on when all that you live for and love is taken, in blow after agonizing ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the fede...

Reducere. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award A Northern classic and beloved favorite, Two in the Far North chronicles the incredible story of Margaret...

Reducere. This biographical memoir takes an in-depth look into the life of Mutah Beale, formerly known as Napoleon of the legendary Outlawz rap group who was...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Gary BarlowNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 253 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Reducere. I'm Rebecca Hamilton, the founder and owner of a million-dollar bakery called Chick Boss Cake, the #1 bakery and dessert spot that all the locals i...

Reducere. This is no typical undercover story. This is a human story. Whom will you root for?Follow Tee, an undercover cop, as he attempts to infiltrate a de...

Morton, so have business strategies, patent battles, and a host of other factors.

Reducere. Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all...

To be the luckiest kid in America, he first had to be the unluckiest It was a time of Prohibition, Jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's...

In a sweeping narrative spanning 400 years, Ian Dunt tells the story of the liberal ideas that underpin our democracies

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Konstantin PaustovskyNumber of pages: 816Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 281 x 241 x 52Cover type: Hardba...

A unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene.Publisher: Quercus ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Felix SaltenIllustration(s): 11 b/w illus.Translator: Jack ZipesNumber of pages: 192Publication dat...

'Rock and Roll is Life' is the new novel from the country's leading man of letters, D. J. Taylor.

It would be a horrific world to live in if we were harshly judged by a single wrong decision made under immense economic pressure. But it is not th...

Volume 2 is a continuation of volume 1, where a young boy named Fritz was growing up in Germany during and after World War II. Volume 2 begins in 1...

Reducere. This is Nana's opportunity to share her life story and memories in her very own guided journal that can be kept as a forever keepsake for generatio...

Reducere. The Life and Legacy of an American OriginalCo-founder and first CEO of Burger King, Jim McLamore, recounts the entrepreneurial journey of an intern...

Reducere. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD This sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, the best-known man you've never heard of, is an...

Reducere. How well are you keeping up with the hottest topics in our world today?Should we legalize marijuana?Are the Kardashians good or bad for feminism?Is...

On paper, Coach Rob Mendez sounds like any other football coach on any other field across America: passionate, authoritative, knowledgeable. But he...

Reducere. Twenty years ago, Jerry Sittser lost his daughter, wife, and mother in a car accident. He chronicled that tragic experience in A Grace Disguised, a...

DescriptionThe comprehensive biography of STAN LEE, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS, beloved comic book writer and editor, and former preside...

Reducere. In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidde...

An exclusive insight into the mind, thinking and ground-breaking work of sex-offender expert Ray Wyre. Contains an analysis of and insights concern...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Justine CowanNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 203 x 24Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

Reducere. The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long con...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization's newspaper on a Harlem street ...

Reducere. Paper is a scout dog with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles". Gravely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, his leg has been badly shattered by a high ...

DescriptionA dramatic true story of a man refined by fire, a Bruderhof pastor whose spiritual legacy continues to touch thousands. Can our wounds b...

Reducere. TELL ME A STORY explores the story-shaped nature of our lives. We are born, live, and die within stories These stories shape how we see ourselves, ...

Reducere. Even as a teenager, John Beattie felt drawn to the ocean, but it was 25 years before his dreams of sailing the globe in his 35-foot yacht Warrior Q...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fiftee...

Reducere. Martin Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with t...

Reducere. The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole correspond...

Publisher: Restless BooksAuthor(s): Linda BondestamIllustration(s): Full-color illustrations throughoutTranslator: A. A. PrimeNumber of pages: 46Pu...

The son of a plantation owner and a free woman of colour, Andrew Watson was not only the first black football player, he was one of the best in the...

Reducere. An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgu...

A powerful and searing account of love, loss and a mother's relentless fight for justice.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Sarah SakNumber o...

This is Dad's opportunity to share his life stories and memories in his very own guided journal that can be kept as a forever keepsake for generati...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Clover StroudNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 222 x 30Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. Father Francis Duffy, U. S. Army chaplain during World War One, recalls his time fighting alongside the famous 69th Infantry Regiment on the wester...

DescriptionThroughout the history of all humanity, including the native people in the western hemisphere, God made his existence known through the ...

Reducere. A maddening, twice-annual horse race held in Siena's public square, the Palio is less a sport than it is a game--one that involves a combination of...

Reducere. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs ...

Get to know your mom like never before and help her leave a legacy of thoughts, feelings, and stories of her life, with this journal to discovering...

Reducere. Thomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told ...

Reducere. Alternate Reality is the comical telling of the mostly true story of how Steve Ross grew up in a dysfunctional family with dysfunctional relationsh...

Reducere. The True Story Behind the Powerful Film ALL SAINTSNewly ordained, Michael Spurlock's first assignment is to pastor All Saints, a struggling church ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Leo Buscagliahe Fall of Freddie the Leaf touches children and adults alike, illustrating the delicate balance between life ...

Reducere. The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary...

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...

Reducere. Love is in the air with another irresistible photographic story of wild squirrels in homemade miniature settings -- stopping at the bookstore, shop...

Reducere. Slavery Of Faith...the quietly kept story of a young woman's escape through the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana the morning of the massacre November 1...

Reducere. American author, political activist, and lecturer, Helen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Born in 1880 she...

Reducere. Part hero's journey, part guided tour, this account of the turtle dove's annual migration carries readers' imaginations into unexplored territories...

Reducere. Can we trust a God who gives us different answers than we pray for? Who only fully reveals himself when we look back? Who lets us walk in darkness ...

Stockholm1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as p...

Reducere. Winner of the Medical Journalists' Association's Tony Thistlethwaite AwardA Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksRecipient ...

Reducere. DescriptionA maddening, twice-annual horse race held in Siena's public square, the Palio is less a sport than it is a game--one that involves a com...

The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Hicks shows us this world and the miracle o...

Wildlife warrior, professor of snakes, entertainer, Olympian: John Cann is a truly remarkable Australian. Written in John's engaging and affable vo...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Tiffany (Tiffany Durrah-Billingsley) Durrah-BillingsleyNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensio...