Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
Transworld Publishers Ltd Je taime a la Folie
Book SynopsisHow do you find the woman of your dreams when you''re nearly forty, living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the art of seduction?Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Yet the lovelier his life becomes, the lonelier he feels. Three unfulfilled wishes return to haunt him: to grow a perfect potato, to fly a Spitfire and, most of all, to meet his soulmate.Written with honesty, self-deprecating wit and life-affirming passion, Michael Wright''s new memoir reveals how, while his livestock seem bent on reproduction, a solitary man can learn to accept being single . . .Or so he thinks until a bumptious American Labrador and a perilous landing in a light aircraft conspire to offer a glimpse of romance that could turn his whole world upside down.Trade ReviewEven better than his first... the same scrupulous honesty, humour and self-deprecation, but with an added vital ingredient * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Wright wins over a begrudging reader, with writerliness and wit: his bickering hens, his beligerent cat and the emotions that this vast, lonely landscape elicits, described with a heartfelt exuberance * INDEPENDENT *
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Lulu.com Big Al Zombies and the Man on the Moon
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Schelli Rothi If the Shoe Fits
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Samantha Tilly Mui Melting Pot Stories and Recipes from a Chinese
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Sarah Tuck Books Sarah Tuck Creative Writing Journey
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Dr. Erica Miller Dont Tell Me I Cant Do It Living Audaciously in
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Jurline Redeaux Conversations With Mom Life Lessons of Love
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On A Roll A Bakers Recipe to Revitalize
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Random House USA Inc The Last Fire Season
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Penguin Publishing Group Big Asian Energy
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Random House USA Inc A Life Impossible
Book SynopsisFrom NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS Gleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism.??The New York Times? Steve Gleason has changed the world. ?Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner ? An extraordinary book...A Life Impossible will change the way people cope, think, and live. ?Mike Lupica, co-author with James Patterson of 12 Months to LiveIn 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS,a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He wasthirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date.His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS life through the highs and lows of his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, where he made one of the most memorable plays in Saints history, leading to a victory in the first post-Katrina home game,uplifting the city, making him a hero, and reflected in a nine-foot bronze statue outside the Superdome. Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis. Gleason lost all muscle function,he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. This book captures Gleason and his wife Michel?s unmatched resilience as they reinvent their lives, refuse to succumb to despair, and face his disease realistically and existentially.This unsparing portrait argues that a person''s true strength does not reside solely in one?s body but also in the ability to faceunfathomable adversityand still be able to love and treasure life.
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Penguin Random House Group Women of War
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Random House USA Inc A Season for That
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Penguin Putnam Inc Soldiers and Kings
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Lulu.com What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor
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Lulu.com Birds Bats Baling Wire
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Lulu Press Alien Interview Deluxe Study Edition
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Lulu.com Pat Tillman A Hero of War
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Lulu.com Manhattan Memories
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Lulu.com Alien Interview Readers Edition
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Lulu.com Meet Me at the Rainbow Bridge
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Lulu.com No Nonsense AcDc Webzine Back Issues
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Lulu.com World War Ii Submarine Doc
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Concordia Publishing House Andreae and the Formula of Concord Six Sermons on the Way to Lutheran Unity
Book SynopsisThe only English translation of a series of sermons by Lutheran theologian, Jacob Andreae, that proved to be critical in the development of the Lutheran Confessions, particularly the Formula of Concord. Jackob Andreae worked tirelessly to unite Lutherans after the death of Martin Luther in 1546. Dr. Robert Kolb offers the historical background for these sermons, the offers an English translation of these six sermons.
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Greg Prato Touched by Magic The Tommy Bolin Story
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Tinker Street Press The Guru Looked Good
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SMG Outdoors Publishing The View from Down Here Is Just Fine Clay Dyer on Life No Limbs and Fishing
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Haras Publishing Bob Marley The Complete Annotated Bibliography
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Random House Publishing Group Of A Fire On The Moon
Book SynopsisFor many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction—wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America’s reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping firsthand dispatches from inside NASA’s clandestine operations in Houston and Cape Kennedy; technical insights into the magnitude of their awe-inspiring feat; and prescient meditations that place the event in human context as only Mailer could. Praise for Of a Fire on the Moon “The gift of a genius . . . a twentieth-century American epic—a Moby Dick of space.”—New York “M
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Random House Publishing Group Some People Need Killing
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Penguin Publishing Group Marsha
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Random House USA Inc Keeping the Faith
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) The Prosecutor
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) House of Smoke
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Barn
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Penguin Putnam Inc Politics on the Edge
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Alfred A. Knopf Bird Milk Mosquito Bones
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Alfred A. Knopf Wifedom
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern worldSimply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full. —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of HorseAt the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue.I’ve always loved Orwell, Funder writes, his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on. So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation.Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere.
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Random House USA Inc The Rigor of Angels
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Random House USA Inc If You Cant Take the Heat
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Penguin Books Ltd American Poison
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Penguin Publishing Group The Acid Queen
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Black Angels
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Random House Publishing Group Bibliophobia
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Random House Publishing Group An American Dreamer
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Diversified Publishing And There Was Light Abraham Lincoln and the
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus ReviewsA president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the poss
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