Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary Compelling Carr re has the gift of speaking simply and directly of the essentials Evening Standard Beset by a...Loe edasi...
The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of historys most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washingtons first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubbo...Loe edasi...
Discover the inspiring spiritual legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history. Sharing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life of this notoriously private monarch, The Faith of Queen Elizabeth features intimate stor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Spark, ISBN-13: 9780316426732)
In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "e;darkly funny"e; (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital.Welcome to 97-hour...Loe edasi...
At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith."e;She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller."e; --Oprah...Loe edasi...
Gratitude and happiness go hand-in-hand -- and The Thank-You Project provides an easy-to-follow approach for creating more of both.Who helped you become the person you are today? As Nancy Davis Kho approached a milestone birthday, she decided to answ...Loe edasi...
An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Scribner Book Company, ISBN-13: 9781451621341)
;Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams, a New York Times critic said of the prolific short-story writer and bestselling novelist whose dozens of published stories and eleven novels illuminate the American Century. Born in 1926...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE JQWINGATE LITERARY PRIZE ;A beautiful and important book (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Franaise and The Nazi Officers Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing...Loe edasi...
Nicholas Pileggi, Ari Fliakos, Corey Brill, Hillary Huber
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2019, MP3, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster Audio, ISBN-13: 9781508295891)
Nicholas Pileggis vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hillthe working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that ;to be a wiseguy was to own the world, who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster...Loe edasi...
A prizewinning historians epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 19...Loe edasi...
Herkimer County is steeped in history, from the settlement of the Mohawk Valley by Palatine German settlers to the flood of western migration with the opening of the Erie Canal. But the region also boasts an infamous history of high-profile homicides...Loe edasi...
Anthony Burton is a freelance author and broadcaster, who has specialised in industrial and transport history. He has been involved in around a hundred TV documentaries on these subjects, appearing on all the major networks. He has also written biogr...Loe edasi...
Anthony Burton is a freelance author and broadcaster, who has specialised in industrial and transport history. He has been involved in around a hundred TV documentaries on these subjects, appearing on all the major networks. He has also written biogr...Loe edasi...
Extraordinary Woman&HomeA Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, masculine when she should be feminine. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused t...Loe edasi...
Extraordinary Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, masculine when she should be feminine. Mee...Loe edasi...
A fascinating insight into the golden-age of 1970s and 80s rock and roll told through the eyes of music legend Bernie Marsden and, most notably, his role in establishing one of the worlds most famous rock bands of all time - Whitesnake....Loe edasi...
A fascinating insight into the golden-age of 1970s and 80s rock and roll told through the eyes of music legend Bernie Marsden and, most notably, his role in establishing one of the worlds most famous rock bands of all time - Whitesnake.Bernie Marsd...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192552525)
It was said to me, "e;Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; tis not best that you seem too learned."e;Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-...Loe edasi...