Biography: adventurers and explorers Books
Little, Brown & Company Dracula Prince of Many Faces His Life and Times 1
Book SynopsisDracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad Dracula of Romania (1431 - 1476), nicknamed the Impaler. Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Dracula was surely one of the most intriguing figures to have stalked the corridors of European and Asian capitals in the fifteenth century.
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Little, Brown & Company Death of a King
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Back Bay Books Careless Love
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Little, Brown & Company Born with Teeth
Book SynopsisRaised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil, Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred. Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary Stella Adler, she learned the lesson that would define her as an actress: Use it, Adler told her. Whatever disappointment, pain, or anger life throws in your path, channel it into the work. It was a lesson she would need. At twenty-two, just as her career was taking off, she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Having already signed the adoption papers, she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child. As her star continued to rise, her life became increasingly demanding and fulfilling, a whirlwind of passiona
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Little, Brown & Company StingRay Afternoons
Book SynopsisThis is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons. Of growing up in a magical era populated by Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. And of a father -- one of 3M''s greatest and last eight-track salesmen -- traveling across the country on the brand-new Boeing 747, providing for his family but wanting nothing more than to get home. In Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin paints an utterly nostalgic, psychedelically vibrant portrait of a decade overflowing with technological evolution, cultural revolution, as well as brotherly, sisterly, and parental love. Funny, elegiac... a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world. -- NPR
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Little Brown and Company The Rebel Empresses
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Little, Brown & Company The Black and the Blue
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionMatthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself face-down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America''s police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider''s examination of police tactics, which he concludes is an archaic system built on toxic brotherhood. Horace dissects some of the nation''s most highly publicized police shootings and communities highlighted in the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond to explain how these systems and tactics have had detrimental outcomes to the people they serve. Horace provide
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Voracious Shade
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Little, Brown & Company From Broken Glass Finding Hope in Hitlers Death
Book SynopsisFrom the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a devastating...inspirational memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberat
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Little Brown and Company Deep House
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Little, Brown & Company A Nearly Normal Life
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Little Brown and Company Walk in My Classroom
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Hachette Book Group The First Eight
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Little, Brown & Company fmthelifeoffredreickmathiasalexanderfounderofthealexandertechnique
Book SynopsisThe Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an Australian actor who stumbled upon it in the 1890s after studying himself in mirrors to discover why he had lost his voice. He realised that most people suffered from the same postural defects he had noticed in himself, and that this explained much of what went wrong with them. F.M. (as he was known) came to London in 1904 and became enormously successful. During the First World War he practised in America with equal success, converting the American philosopher John Dewey to his cause. He wrote four books (all still in print), and his supporters included Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw and Stafford Cripps. He was, however, a difficult and argumentative man who made enemies. Towards the end of his life he embarked on a libel action against Trade ReviewMichael Bloch has done the world a great service by writing this life of a man who deserves to be more widely acknowledged and celebrated. * COUNTRY LIFE *Bloch presents the facts in poised, gentlemanly prose, noting foibles without moralising, and dryly alive to amusing details. * TLS *
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Little, Brown & Company All Too Human A Political Education
Book SynopsisAll Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton''s side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president & his other advisers at every important moment of the first term. What Liar''s Poker did to Wall Street, this book will do to politics. It is an irreverent & intimate portrait of how the nation''s weighty business is conducted by people whose egos & idiosyncrasies are no sturdier than anyone else''s. Including sharp portraits of the Clintons, Al Gore, Dick Morris, Colin Powell, & scores of others, as well as candid & revelatory accounts of the famous debacles & triumphs of an administration that constantly went over the top, All Too Human is, like its author, a brilliant combination of pragmatic insight & idealism. It is destined to be the most important
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Pan Macmillan My Mothers Wedding Dress
Book SynopsisA wonderfully evocative memoir about what we wear - that goes far more than skin deep
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Pan Macmillan W. Axl Rose
Book SynopsisMick Wall is one of Britain's best known music journalists. Formerly editor in chief of Classic Rock magazine, he still writes for Mojo. His previous books include the bestselling biography John Peel, the authorized biograpy of Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills, and the official biography of Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman.
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SCM Press On Being a Theologian
Book SynopsisA picture of what it is like to live and work as a theologian. Incorporates Macquarrie's own reminiscences, some unpublished lectures and correspondence from distinguished theologians. Also includes a survey of his major works and a full bibliography.
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Random House USA Inc My Heart Will Cross This Ocean My Story My Son Amadou
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Random House USA Inc Remembering Malcolm
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Random House USA Inc A Gift of Hope
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Random House USA Inc Prousts Duchess How Three Celebrated Women
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street Journal Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style. All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creat
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Selected Speeches And Writings Of Theodore Roosevelt
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Little, Brown Book Group The Rise And Fall Of Napoleon Vol 1
Book Synopsis*First of two volumes, a masterly biography of the great French general, with special emphasis on his military genius.Trade ReviewAsprey's biography is well balanced overall in its judgements and does not suffer from the usual Anglo-American myopia which likes to depict Napoleon as the predecessor of Hitler * IRISH TIMES *A level-headed and serious account of Napoleon's life, which is clear, objective and informative... the author is an expert on military history and it is not surprising that he should devote much space to the expeditions and battles... he follows Napoleon's actions closely and carefully and there is much to hold the reader's attention in this volume and one looks forward to its successor * SPECTATOR *
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Little, Brown Book Group Adenauer
Book Synopsis* Subtitled 'The Father of the New Germany', this is a masterly portrait of a great statesman, Konrad Adenauer - one of the truly great leaders of the twentieth centuryTrade Review[ADENAUER] is well-researched and admirably written. It puts the German statesman 's extraordinary career into historical perspective. Above all it reveals Adenauer the man-with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning * INDEPENDENT *The best biography I read this year * Anthony Howard, NEW STATESMAN *This is pertinent stuff. * GUARDIAN *[A] magisterial biography... written with warmth and lucidity, this is as much a book about the making of modern Germany as it is about the 20th century's foremost statesman. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
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Little, Brown Book Group Travels In The White Mans Grave
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world as the ''White Man''s Grave'' and consisted of vast expanses of mysterious and threatening primeval forest. When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year-old Gaelic-speaking Scottish forester, was offered a position in Nigeria in 1954, it was a dream come true and he found himself posted to the hot, cloying humidity of those fabled lands. During the next 30 years he was to wander through some of the most remote areas of West Africa where he operated as a forest botanist. There he listened to the tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen, chiefs and witch doctors from a vast diversity of tribes in myriad encampments. He drank palm wine with them and attended their village dances and ceremonies under the tropic moon. He had many adventures with the creatures of the forest, from the magnificent leopard to the instantly fatal spitting cobra. The sinister arcanum of pTrade ReviewAlthough Macintosh's African life was full of adventures and dangers, he never exaggerates them, and writes with a fluidity and understated grace which makes his book a pleasure to read. By turns beautiful, poignant and very funny, Macintosh rarely misses the mark, and this memoir should become a classic of the genre. --Toby Green --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. * Toby Green, Amazon.co.uk *Excellent... [Macintosh's] book, one of the surprises of the year, is a slender but richly entertaining memoir * Sara Wheeler, DAILY TELEGRAPH *A poignant and humourous storyteller of the West African bush to rival Gerald Durrell. * TLS *He writes with a charming insouciance that celebrates an Africa before big business tore the heart out of the rainforest. * SUNDAY TIMES *A superb raconteur. Like the cobras which inhabit this remembered world, his stories move with grace and speed * DAILY MAIL *This is a book written by someone who loves Africa, and who can write with real wit * WATERLOG *His fragrant book is a compost of anecdote, lore, survival tips and anthropological tidbits. The simplicity of life in the forest is matched by the charming simplicity of MacIntosh's prose. He is a natural writer, if such a thing exists, and his book is that best of all genres, a hybrid. Part memoir, part travelogue and part history, at its heart it is a threnody for lost trees, lost characters and lost youth ... he has the same profound and almost loving relationship with the African forest that Thesiger had with the sands of Arabia * OLDIE *[MacIntosh's] stories for West and Central Africa may sometimes be tall, but he can tell them. MacIntosh listens to chiefs, witch doctors and hunters telling their magical tales, drinking palm wine with them or lying out under the stars while drums beat a tattoo and weird ceremonies take place. There were some hair-raising encounters with cobras, vipers and homicidal buffalos, but MacIntosh, whose romantic attraction to the forest never falters, takes it all lightly * LONDON MAGAZINE *
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Little, Brown Book Group True Compass
Book Synopsis* One of America's greatest leaders tells his personal story - of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the centre of national events
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Mariner Books The Five
Book SynopsisWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & BiographyThe award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the Ripper murders foreverPolly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this gripping narrative of five lives, Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight and gives these women back their stories.
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Mariner Books The Daughters of Yalta
Book Synopsis A stirring account of one momentous week that would unleash fifty years of tyranny for half of Europe and plunge the world into the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of three young women. Catherine Grace Katz’s debut book, The Daughters of Yalta, is a marvelous and extraordinary work that reveals the human experience of the conference, with all its tragedy, love, betrayal, and even humor. She defines the relationships that shaped our world, and continue to shape our future.” —Julian Fellowes, Oscar-winning writer and creator of Downton Abbey The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War IITensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman, daughter of U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman, was a war correspondent and champion skier. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt’s only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother, Eleanor, to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father’s most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to the postwar world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Flying Blind
Book SynopsisAn exhilarating memoir by a daughter uncovering the secret of her father's rags-to-riches story, from poor farm boy to international drug smuggler, and the many mysteries surrounding his sudden death by plane crash. Nothing seemed awry the morning that five-year-old Artis Chester climbed into her father's plane: this was simply their usual Saturday bonding. But moments after they take off into the crystal blue sky, the plane plummets to the ground, leaving Artis with a broken body--and without a father. This tragedy would be enough to shape any young life, but Artis's world is further turned upside down when, shortly thereafter, the IRS arrives to seize all her family's possessions. Lamar Chester had always had an air of mystery about him, but now her mother won't say a word. He'd been a dashing commercial pilot, settling his family in a palatial estate in Georgia, amassing a collection of boats, cars, a private plane and even a group of islands in the Bahamas. But Artis, as a youn
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Lulu.com James Madison. is he a hypocrite or not
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Lulu.com The Perils of Perfectionism
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Lulu.com Vietas del Cerro
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Lulu.com 10 Failed Revolutionary Erotics
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Lulu.com A Venterdon Boy
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Lulu.com Letters of Abelard and Heloise Correspondences Between a Medieval Theologian and Scholar and His Student and Lover
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Lulu.com The Key of Solomon the King A Biography Concerning King Solomon His Magic Conjurations and Mythical History Biblical Pseudepigrapha Hardcover
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Lulu.com Walkers Appeal with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnets Address to the Slaves of the United States of America Hardcover
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Lulu.com Walkers Appeal with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnets Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
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Lulu.com Alone in the Wilderness One Mans Survival in the Forests and Nature of Maine as a Wild Man of America Hardcover
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Lulu.com Alone in the Wilderness One Mans Survival in the Forests and Nature of Maine as a Wild Man of America
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Lulu.com Stories From A Farm In Brooklyn
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Lulu.com Father Charlie Reflecting the Master
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Lulu.com Whipworm
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Lulu.com Letters from a SelfMade Merchant to His Son A Book of Father Son Advice and Wisdom on Study Life Business and Prosperity
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Lulu.com Letters from a SelfMade Merchant to His Son A Book of Father Son Advice and Wisdom on Study Life Business and Prosperity Hardcover
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