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1 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-22 22:30:54 | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of... | A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones nonfiction Book of the Month (June) A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE `The political book of the year' Sunday Times `You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour and vividly colourful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. |
0008220565 | 9780008220563 | $2.55 | 272 | William Collins | 06/01/2017 | |
2 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 2 | 2017-11-22 22:30:57 | Leonardo Da Vinci | The #1 New York Times Bestseller 'Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain and vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.' - The SundayTimes. 'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds.' - The Observer `the Renaissance genius brought to vivid life' - The Times 'Isaacson's scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da Vinci's other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly"A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it."-The New Yorker"Vigorous, insightful."-The Washington Post"A masterpiece."-San Francisco Chronicle"Luminous."-The Daily Beast 'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.' David McCullough He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. Leonardo's delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it-to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different. |
1508242011 | 9781508242017 | $19.14 $29.99 | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2017 | English | |
3 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 3 | 2017-11-22 22:36:02 | Alexander Hamilton | The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic greatness of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr; his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds; his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza; and the famous and mysterious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804. The book was adapted into a hugely successful Broadway musical - nominated for a record 16 Tony awards - which opens in London's West End in September 2017. |
1786690039 | 9781786690036 | $11.66 | 832 | Head of Zeus | 2017 | |
4 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 4 | 2017-11-22 22:36:05 | When Breath Becomes Air | Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Evening Standard, Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Economist Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. |
1784701998 | 9781784701994 | $1.82 | 256 | Vintage | 2017 | |
5 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 5 | 2017-11-22 22:36:09 | What Happened | The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller `A compelling read' - Financial Times `A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful and often darkly funny account of one woman's bid for presidential history.' Sunday Times `Her new book is more gossipy, it is meaner, more entertaining and more wrong-headed than anything she or her speechwriters have written before.' Observer `What Happened is highly entertaining. It is spirited, well-written and informative.' Guardian'In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down.' - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet. In these pages, she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking and devastating loss, and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterwards. With humour and candour, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet - the rituals, relationships and reading that got her through, and what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics. She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on democracy by a foreign adversary. By analysing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome, and why Americans need to understand them to protect their values and democracy in the future. The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign and its aftermath - both a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale. |
1471166945 | 9781471166945 | $11.76 | 512 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 9/1/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
6 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 6 | 2017-11-22 22:36:11 | Between the World and Me | "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police. In his trademark style -- a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage -- Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here" |
3150199301 | 9783150199305 | $6.08 | Reclam Philipp Jun | 11/3/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | ||
7 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 7 | 2017-11-22 22:36:12 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir | In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family. | 1501171585 | 9781501171581 | $8.26 $17.00 | Scribner Book Company | 2017 | English | |
8 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 8 | 2017-11-22 22:36:15 | I Am Malala: The Girl Who... | The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban.I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. Shot in the head at point blank range while riding the bus home from school, few expected her to survive.Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in Northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest ever nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, and of Malala's parents' fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. It will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world. |
1474600484 | 9781474600484 | $0.99 | 144 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 04/02/2016 | |
9 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 9 | 2017-11-22 22:36:18 | Wild: From Lost to Found on... | A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. | 1101873442 | 9781101873441 | $7.88 $15.95 | Vintage | 11/18/2014 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
10 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 10 | 2017-11-22 22:36:19 | Good Night Stories for Rebel... | THE SENSATIONAL NO.1 BESTSELLER'The real-life children's fairy tale book so inspiring adults are reading it' I newspaper'Absolutely beautiful - get one for yourself and one to inspire a woman in your life' Stylist'In an ideal world, not only would mothers read this aloud to their daughters, but teachers would read it to schoolboys' Sunday TimesWhat if the princess didn't marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut? What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the kingdom? Illustrated by sixty female artists from every corner of the globe, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to one hundred remarkable women and their extraordinary lives, from Ada Lovelace to Malala, Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama. Empowering, moving and inspirational, these are true fairy tales for heroines who definitely don't need rescuing. |
014198600X | 9780141986005 | $14.81 $35.00 | 224 | Particular Books | 03/2017 | |
11 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 11 | 2017-11-22 22:36:21 | Night | Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics.Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.Elie Wiesel (b. 1928) was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages.If you enjoyed Night, you might also like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A slim volume of terrifying power'The New York Times'To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind him so moving a record' Alfred Kazin'Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art' Curt Leviant, Saturday Review |
$306.99 | The Easton Press | 2017 | ||||
12 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 12 | 2017-11-22 22:36:22 | Lean in: Women, Work, and the... | Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sandberg packed theatres, dominated opinion pages, appeared on every major television show and on the cover of Time magazine, and sparked ferocious debate about women and leadership. Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in. The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business - draws on her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. |
0753541645 | 9780753541647 | $6.72 | 240 | W H Allen | 2015 | |
13 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 13 | 2017-11-22 22:36:24 | Trump: The Art of the Deal | 'I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.' - Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action - how he runs his business and how he runs his life - as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and changes the face of the New York City skyline. But even a maverick plays by the rules, and Trump has formulated eleven guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest deals; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker's art. And throughout, Trump talks - really talks - about how he does it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur and an unprecedented education in the practice of deal-making. It's the most streetwise business book there is - and the ultimate read for anyone interested in making money and achieving success, and knowing the man behind the spotlight. |
1524796522 | 9781524796525 | $5.81 | Random House LCC US | 1/31/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | ||
14 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 14 | 2017-11-22 22:36:26 | Born a Crime: Stories from a... | The compelling, inspiring and comically sublime story of a young man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah is one of the comedy world's brightest new voices, a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. As host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, he provides viewers in America and around the globe with their nightly dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a deeply personal, heartfelt and humorous look at the world that shaped him. Noah was born a crime, the son of a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the first years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, take him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. A collection of eighteen personal essays, Born a Crime tells the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Born a Crime is equally the story of that young man's fearless, rebellious and fervently religious mother - a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence and abuse that ultimately threatens her own life. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Noah illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and an unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a lovable delinquent making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed with only a keen sense of humour and a mother's unconventional, unconditional love. |
1473635306 | 9781473635302 | $6.03 | 304 | John Murray Publishers Ltd | 2017 | |
15 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 15 | 2017-11-22 22:36:28 | Grant | A dramatic portrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow, author of the book on which the astonishing musical Hamilton is based. As late as April 1861, when the American Civil War broke out, Ulysses S. Grant was a dismal failure. A competent officer in the war against Mexico, he had resigned from the army over his drinking and had sunk into poverty as a civilian, losing all his money in hopeless investments. He had failed to secure the command of a volunteer unit and was about to return to his abject life working in his family's leather-goods store when he was offered the colonelcy of an Illinois regiment. Less than four years later he was the commanding general of the victorious Union armies and was hailed as a military genius. He later served two terms as President of the United States. This is the epic biography of a very unheroic American hero, a modest, reticent and principled man who surprised the world and changed it for the better. |
1788541596 | 9781788541596 | $24.07 | 1056 | Head of Zeus | 2017 | |
16 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 16 | 2017-11-22 22:36:29 | Red Notice: A True Story of... | "A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption"--Amazon.com. | 1476755744 | 9781476755748 | $12.68 $17.00 | Simon & Schuster | 2015 | English | |
17 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 17 | 2017-11-22 22:36:32 | Just Mercy: A Story of... | A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The prison population has increased from 300,000 in the early 1970s to more than two million now. One in every 15 people is expected to go to prison. For black men, the most incarcerated group in America, this figure rises to one out of every three. Bryan Stevenson grew up a member of a poor black community in the racially segregated South. He was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need- the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of the US's criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young black man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinksmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted lawyer's coming of age, a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice. 'Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South. Though larger than life, Atticus exists only in fiction. Bryan Stevenson, however, is very much alive and doing God's work fighting for the poor, the oppressed, the voiceless, the vulnerable, the outcast, and those with no hope. Just Mercy is his inspiring and powerful story.' John Grisham |
1925228312 | 9781925228311 | $7.71 | 352 | Scribe Publications | 2015 | |
18 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 18 | 2017-11-22 22:36:36 | Man's Search for Meaning | Based on his experiences in Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz, from 1942 to 1945, Frankl's timeless memoir and meditation on finding meaning in the midst of suffering argues that man cannot avoid suffering but can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. | 0807000000 | 9780807000007 | $20.99 $26.95 | Beacon Press (MA) | 2014 | English | |
19 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 19 | 2017-11-22 22:36:38 | Al Franken, Giant of the... | The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture. | 1455540412 | 9781455540419 | $20.74 $28.00 | Twelve | 2017 | English | |
20 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 20 | 2017-11-22 22:36:40 | Narrative of the Life of... | Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago, this classic goes far to explain why American still suffers from the great injustices of the past. | 1945186186 | 9781945186189 | $8.72 | Clydesdale Press | 2018 | English | |
21 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 21 | 2017-11-22 22:36:42 | Born to Run | The international Number One bestseller. Over a million copies sold in the English language. Published in 23 foreign languages. `A heartfelt memoir . . . there is a fearlessness to his prose, a willingness to engage with his past, that chimes with his songwriter's desire to give voice to the people around him' Sunday Times "Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs ("Thunder Road," "Badlands," "Darkness on the Edge of Town," "The River," "Born in the U.S.A.," "The Rising," and "The Ghost of Tom Joad," to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences. |
1471157792 | 9781471157790 | $0.99 | 528 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 2016 | |
22 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 22 | 2017-11-22 22:36:44 | Into the Wild | By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature. 'An astonishingly gifted writer: his account of 'Alex Supertramp' is powerfully dramatic, eliciting sympathy for both the idealistic, anti-consumerist boy - and his parents' Guardian 'A compelling tale of tragic idealism' The Times |
0330351699 | 9780330351690 | $0.99 | 224 | Pan Books | 01/07/2011 | English |
23 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 23 | 2017-11-22 22:36:47 | Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old... | 0751529818 | 9780751529814 | $0.99 | Sphere | 24/07/2003 | English | ||
24 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 24 | 2017-11-22 22:36:50 | Same Kind of Different as Me:... | A modern-day slave and an international art dealer are bound together by a dying woman's faith. Will Ron, the art dealer, be able to embrace Denver, who's been homeless for almost 20 years? Will Denver learn to trust a white man? There's pain and laughter, doubt and tears, and in the end a triumphant story. | 0718077296 | 9780718077297 | $8.17 $16.99 | Thomas Nelson | 2017 | English | |
4363 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 52 | 2017-11-22 22:37:43 | Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the... | 'A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates'The best book I read last year was Shoe Dog, by Nike's Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted storyteller' Warren Buffett In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the boot of his Plymouth, Knight grossed $8000 in his first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of start-ups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all start-ups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognisable symbols in the world today. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, he tells his story. Candid, humble, wry and gutsy, he begins with his crossroads moment when at 24 he decided to start his own business. He details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream - along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls how his first band of partners and employees soon became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything. A memoir rich with insight, humour and hard-won wisdom, this book is also studded with lessons - about building something from scratch, overcoming adversity, and ultimately leaving your mark on the world. |
1471146707 | 9781471146701 | $13.34 | 400 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 4/26/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4420 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 53 | 2017-11-22 22:37:44 | #Girlboss | *#GIRLBOSS NETFLIX ORIGINAL OUT NOW*In this New York Times bestselling sensation, founder and Executive Chairman of Nasty Gal Sophia Amoruso shares her story and inspires women everywhere to join the #GIRLBOSS movement.'#GIRLBOSS is more than a book . . . #GIRLBOSS is a movement' Lena Dunham'A millennial alternative to Lean In' New York Magazine'A compellingly motivational read' The Telegraph'The book you need in your life' Marie Claire *Winner of the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Business Book*In the space of ten years, Sophia Amoruso has gone from high-school dropout to founder and Executive Chairman of Nasty Gal, one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world. Sophia's never been a typical executive, or a typical anything, and she's written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success.Filled with brazen wake-up calls, cunning and frank observations, and behind-the-scenes stories from Nasty Gal's meteoric rise, #GIRLBOSS covers a lot of ground. It proves that success doesn't come from where you went to college or how popular you were in school. Success is about trusting your instincts and following your gut, knowing which rules to follow and which to break.Inspiring, motivating and empowering, #GIRLBOSS will give you the kick up the ass you need to reach your potential. |
0241217938 | 9780241217931 | $3.95 | 256 | Portfolio Penguin | 08/06/2015 | |
4425 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 54 | 2017-11-22 22:37:48 | Titan: The Life of John D.... | John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded generations of historians. Ron Chernow offers a detailed and insightful history of the mogul based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's rich trove of papers. Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history, spending more than thirty years dodging investigations. While providing abundant evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. |
1400077303 | 9781400077304 | $16.41 $21.00 | Vintage | 12/2013 | English | |
4438 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 55 | 2017-11-22 22:37:51 | Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and... | "Technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides [an] inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world"--Amazon.com. | 006230125X | 9780062301253 | $13.21 $16.99 | Ecco Press | 2017 | English | |
4478 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 56 | 2017-11-22 22:37:52 | Hit Refresh: The Quest to... | Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era and offering his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies. LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Hit Refresh is about individual change, the transformation happening inside Microsoft, and the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced - including artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It examines how people, organisations, and societies can and must transform, how they must `hit refresh' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. Yet at its core, it's about humans and how one of our essential qualities - empathy - will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will alter the status quo as never before. In addition to his thoughts on these stunning scientific leaps, Satya Nadella discusses his fascinating childhood before immigrating to the U.S. and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO - one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He explains how the company rediscovered its soul - transforming everything from its culture to its business partnerships to the fiercely competitive landscape of the industry itself. Nadella concludes by introducing an equation to restore digital trust, ethical design principles, and economic growth for everyone. `Ideas excite me,' Nadella explains. `Empathy grounds and centres me.' A series of recommendations presented as algorithms, Hit Refresh is an astute contemplation of what lies ahead from a conscientious, deliberative leader searching for improvement - for himself, for a storied company, and for society. |
0008247668 | 9780008247669 | $11.97 | 288 | William Collins | 9/26/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4480 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 57 | 2017-11-22 22:37:54 | The Making of Donald Trump | The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize- winning investigative reporter, David Cay Johnston, takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to power and prominence. Covering the long arc of Trump's career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, NY would become an entirely new, and complex, breed of public figure. Trump is a man of great media savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and political clout. Yet his career has been plagued by legal troubles and mounting controversy. From the origins of his family's real estate fortune, to his own too-big-to-fail business empire; from his education and early career, to his whirlwind presidential bid, The Making of Donald Trump provides the fullest picture yet of Trump's extraordinary ascendency. Love him or hate him, Trump's massive influence is undeniable, and figures as diverse as Woody Guthrie (who wrote a scathing song about Trump's father) and Red Scare prosecutor Roy Cohn, mob bosses and high rollers, as well as the average American voter, have all been pulled into his orbit. Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump more closely than any other journalist working today, gives us the most in-depth look yet at the man who would be president. |
1612196586 | 9781612196589 | $7.57 | 288 | Melville House Publishing | 1/5/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4481 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 58 | 2017-11-22 22:37:56 | The Innovators: How a Group... | "What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? ... Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s, [then] explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page"-- |
1476708703 | 9781476708706 | $11.30 $17.99 | Simon & Schuster | 2015 | English | |
4497 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 59 | 2017-11-22 22:37:58 | Steve Jobs | Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. |
1501127624 | 9781501127625 | $12.59 | Simon & Schuster | 2015 | English | |
4501 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 60 | 2017-11-22 22:38:00 | Start Something That Matters | In 2006, while travelling in Argentina, young entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie encountered children too poor to afford shoes, who developed injuries on their feet that often led to serious health problems. Blake knew he wanted to help, but rather than start a charity, he went against conventional wisdom and created a for profit business to help the children who he met. With the help of a local shoemaker, Blake struck out to merge activism and fashion in the form of a local canvas shoe worn by farmers and gauchos alike, called the alpargata. Blake called his creation TOMS Shoes (which stands for "Tomorrow's Shoes") and promised to give a pair of new shoes to a child in need for every pair that he sold. Starting with only two hundred pairs of handmade shoes, optimism, and entrepreneurial charisma, Blake successfully launched TOMS into the high fashion world. They can now be seen adorning the feet of celebrities such as Keira Knightley, Scarlett Johansson, and Tobey Maguire. Blake's mission is to prove that you can achieve financial success and make the world a better place at the same time. In this book, he shares the six counterintuitive principles that have guided the growth of TOMS for the past three years: Make business personal Be resourceful without resources Reverse retirement Keep it simple Stay humble Give more, advertise less The result is an inspiring account of a young man whose entrepreneurial spirit was able to affect change in the world, and a call to others to be inspired to do the same. As part of the One for One initiative, Random House will provide a new book to a child in need with every copy of Start Something That Matters purchased. |
075354024X | 9780753540244 | $0.99 $26.00 | 208 | Virgin Books | 02/02/2012 | |
4507 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 61 | 2017-11-22 22:38:01 | The Everything Store: Jeff... | This is the winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To achieve that end, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now...Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators - Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg - Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. The Everything Store is the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read. |
0593070461 | 9780593070468 | $1.56 | 384 | Bantam Press | 2013 | |
4512 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 62 | 2017-11-22 22:38:12 | Global Business Today | Global Business Today has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international students of business. Written in a refreshing, informative, and accessible style, it has become the most widely used text in the International Business market with its comprehensive and up-to-date contents; focus on managerial implications and application of international business concepts; and incorporation of ancillary resources that enliven the text and make it easier to teach. In addition to boxed material which provides insightful illustrations in every chapter, interesting anecdotes have been carefully weaved into the narrative of the text to engage the reader. Enhancements to the Global Edition include: new country focus boxes that provide background on the political, economic, social, or cultural aspects of countries grappling with an international business issue to help raise students' awareness of how national and geographic differences affect the conduct of international business, such as Corruption in the Philippines and the Export Processing Zone Authority of Pakistan; new management focus boxes that provide lively illustrations of the relevance of chapter material for the practice of international business, including Patenting Basmati Rice and Expatriate Managers; and new perspective boxes that provide additional context for chapter topics, such as Market Economy in China, Australian SMEs Embrace the Chinese Currency, and Global Variations in Ownership Structure. This Global Edition has been adapted to meet the needs of courses outside the United States and does not align with the instructor and student resources available with the U.S. edition. Features: target Audience; full-time students pursuing an undergraduate course in business; and lecturers who wish to adopt this book as a course in business. |
1259921840 | 9781259921841 | $47.98 | McGraw Hill Higher Education | 2017 | ||
4523 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 63 | 2017-11-22 22:38:13 | Confessions of an Economic... | Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. | 1441716289 | 9781441716286 | $26.99 $59.99 | Findaway World | 2009 | English | |
4530 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 64 | 2017-11-22 22:38:17 | The New Confessions of an... | A new insight on how to bring the new life into an economy controlled by greedy Aeconomic hit menA." | 1626566747 | 9781626566743 | $12.96 $17.95 | 336 | Berrett-Koehler | 2016 | |
4550 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 65 | 2017-11-22 22:38:18 | Liar's Poker | The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar's Poker. | $0.99 | Hodder Paperbacks | 2011 | ||||
4395 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 74 | 2017-11-22 22:38:39 | Just Kids | A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years--the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near. |
207045360X | 9782070453603 | $25.65 | Gallimard | 2013 | French | |
4429 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 75 | 2017-11-22 22:38:41 | Petty: The Biography | The New York Times Bestseller *One of Rolling Stone 's 10 Best Music Books of 2015* An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise. From meeting Elvis, to seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, to producing Del Shannon, backing Bob Dylan, putting together a band with George Harrison, Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne, making records with Johnny Cash, and sending well more than a dozen of his own celebrated recordings high onto the charts, Tom Petty's story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Now in his mid-sixties, still making records and still touring, Petty, known for his reclusive style, has shared with Warren Zanes his insights and arguments, his regrets and lasting ambitions, and the details of his life on and off the stage. This is a book for those who know and love the songs, from "American Girl" and "Refugee" to "Free Fallin'" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance," and for those who want to see the classic rock and roll era embodied in one man's remarkable story. Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us. |
1250105196 | 9781250105196 | $12.35 $17.99 | St. Martin's Griffin | 2016 | English | |
4432 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 76 | 2017-11-22 22:38:43 | The Autobiography of Gucci... | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "As wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself. " -- Complex "A cautionary tale that ends in triumph." -- GQ "A revelation and a welcome addition to hip-hop's literary legacy." -- All Hip Hop The highly anticipated memoir from Gucci Mane, "one of hip-hop's most prolific and admired artists" ( The New York Times ). For the first time Gucci Mane tells his story in his own words. It is the captivating life of an artist who forged an unlikely path to stardom and personal rebirth. Gucci Mane began writing his memoir in a maximum-security federal prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive--a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past. Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta, where the rap scene is as vibrant as the dope game. His name was made as a drug dealer first, rapper second. His influential mixtapes and street anthems pioneered the sound of trap music. He inspired and mentored a new generation of artists and producers: Migos, Young Thug, Nicki Minaj, Zaytoven, Mike Will Made-It, Metro Boomin. Yet every success was followed by setback. Too often, his erratic behavior threatened to end it all. Incarceration, violence, rap beefs, drug addiction. But Gucci Mane has changed, and he's decided to tell his story. In his extraordinary autobiography, the legend takes us to his roots in Alabama, the streets of East Atlanta, the trap house, and the studio where he found his voice as a peerless rapper. He reflects on his inimitable career and in the process confronts his dark past--years behind bars, the murder charge, drug addiction, career highs and lows--the making of a trap god. It is one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of music. The Autobiography of Gucci Mane is a blunt and candid account--an instant classic. |
1501165321 | 9781501165320 | $11.55 $27.00 | Simon & Schuster | 9/19/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4464 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 77 | 2017-11-22 22:38:46 | Scar Tissue | In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. underground music scene. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians. But there's a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption. |
0316726729 | 9780316726726 | $0.99 | 480 | Little, Brown Book Group | 21/10/2004 | |
4486 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 78 | 2017-11-22 22:38:49 | World in My Eyes: The... | Richard Blade's autobiography is much more than a spotlight on any one decade. Instead, he gives you a jaw-dropping, uncensored insider's look into the world of music, movies, and television and its biggest stars, starting in the sixties and continuing through to the new century. | 1948080508 | 9781948080507 | $25.38 | Indigo River Publishing | 2017 | English | |
4568 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 79 | 2017-11-22 22:38:51 | Never Broken: Songs Are Only... | "Jewel is a truth-teller...this is a book that lingers in your heart." - Brene Brown *The New York Times bestseller* New York Times bestselling poet and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage, and motherhood. When Jewel's first album, Pieces of You , topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. Drawing comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with more than thirty million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life, and the lessons learned from her experience and her music. Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age five, and joined her parents' entertainment act, working in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed family life with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, however, there was also instability, abuse, and trauma. At age fifteen, she moved out and tasked herself with a mission: to see if she could avoid being the kind of statistic that her past indicated for her future. Soon after, she was accepted to the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and there she began writing her own songs as a means of expressing herself and documenting her journey to find happiness. Jewel was eighteen and homeless in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of one of her songs and it was requested into the top-ten countdown, something unheard-of for an unsigned artist. By the time she was twenty-one, her debut had gone multiplatinum. There is much more to Jewel's story, though, one complicated by family legacies, by crippling fear and insecurity, and by the extraordinary circumstances in which she managed to flourish and find happiness despite these obstacles. Along her road of self-discovery, learning to redirect her fate, Jewel has become an iconic singer and songwriter. In Never Broken she reflects on how she survived, and how writing songs, poetry, and prose has saved her life many times over. She writes lyrically about the natural wonders of Alaska, about pain and loss, about the healing power of motherhood, and about discovering her own identity years after the entire world had discovered the beauty of her songs. |
0399185720 | 9780399185724 | $12.19 $16.00 | Blue Rider Press | 9/13/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4569 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 80 | 2017-11-22 22:38:53 | Life | Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done.Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones' first fame and success as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust and subsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishment that led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero. Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumping Jack Flash' and 'Street Fighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the US, 'Exile on Main Street' and 'Some Girls'. Ever increasing fame, isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Mick Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Solo albums and performances with his band the Xpensive Winos. Marriage, family and the road that goes on for ever. In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times. |
0297854399 | 9780297854395 | $0.99 $43.50 | 576 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 2010 | |
4372 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 97 | 2017-11-22 22:39:30 | The Magnolia Story | The first book from Fixer Upper hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines, offering their fans a detailed look at their life together--from the very first renovation project they ever tackled together to the project that nearly cost them everything, from the childhood memories that shaped them to the twists and turns that led them to the life they share on the farm today. | 1531833896 | 9781531833893 | $12.96 $19.99 | Thomas Nelson on Brilliance Audio | 2016 | English | |
4458 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 98 | 2017-11-22 22:39:32 | Troublemaker: Surviving... | Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That was nev--er more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Now, in this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the former King of Queens star reveals the in-depth details of her painful split with the church and its controversial practices. Indoctrinated into Scientolo--gy as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an ac--tress and advancing Scientology's causes grew increasingly intertwined. As an adult, she found the success she'd worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists, such as Tom Cruise. But when she began to raise questions about some of the church's actions, she was declared to be a threat and therefore a "Suppressive Per--son." As a result, all of her fellow parishioners-including members of her own family-were told to disconnect from her. Forever. Bold, brash, and bravely confessional, Troublemaker reveals the hard-won truths of a life lived honestly-from an author unafraid of the consequences. |
1101886986 | 9781101886984 | $11.66 $17.00 | Ballantine Books | 2016 | English | |
4461 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 99 | 2017-11-22 22:39:36 | I Can't Make This Up: Life... | Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.The question you're probably asking yourself right now is: What does Kevin Hart have that a book also has?According to the three people who have seen Kevin Hart and a book in the same room, the answer is clear:A book is compact. Kevin Hart is compact.A book has a spine that holds it together. Kevin Hart has a spine that holds him together.A book has a beginning. Kevin Hart's life uniquely qualifies him to write this book by also having a beginning.It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his own toys.The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero, just like the odds that are stacked against the release of a new book in this era of social media (where Hart has a following of over 100 million, by the way). But Kevin Hart, like Ernest Hemingway, JK Rowling, and Chocolate Droppa before him, was able to defy the odds and turn it around. In his literary debut, he takes the reader on a journey through what his life was, what it is today, and how he's overcome each challenge to become the man he is today.And that man happens to be the biggest comedian in the world, with tours that sell out football stadiums and films that have collectively grossed over $3.5 billion.He achieved this not just through hard work, determination, and talent: It was through his unique way of looking at the world. Because just like a book has chapters, Hart sees life as a collection of chapters that each person gets to write for himself or herself.'Not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter," he says. "So why not choose the interpretation that serves your life the best?' |
1543619037 | 9781543619034 | $16.39 $19.99 | Audible Studios on Brilliance | 2017 | English | |
4463 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 100 | 2017-11-22 22:39:39 | Black Privilege: Opportunity... | Charlamagne Tha God shares his unlikely success story as well as how embracing one's truths is a fundamental key to success and happiness. In his new book, Charlamagne Tha God presents his comic, often controversial, and always brutally honest insights on how living an authentic life is the quickest path to success. Beginning with his journey from the small town of Moncks Corner, South Carolina to his headline grabbing interviews with celebrities like Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, and Hillary Clinton, he shares how he turned his troubled early life around by owning his mistakes and refusing to give up on his dreams, even after his controversial opinions got him fired from several on-air jobs. Combining his own story with bold advice and his signature commitment to honesty at all costs, Charlamagne hopes this book will give others the confidence to live their own truths. |
1501145304 | 9781501145308 | $11.46 $25.99 | 320 | Touchstone | 4/1/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4503 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 102 | 2017-11-22 22:39:42 | Bossypants | Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and 'Sarah Palin', Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy. |
0316056898 | 9780316056892 | $0.99 $9.00 | Reagan Arthur Books | 2013 | English | |
4535 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 103 | 2017-11-22 22:39:43 | Scrappy Little Nobody | `Fearsome wit' Elle`Charming' Buzzfeed`Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press`Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Pitch Perfect, Twilight, Up in the Air, Into the Woods and Trolls. Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, defiant, and `10 per cent weird'. When she was thirteen, a classmate dropped by her house unexpectedly and discovered written evidence of Anna's social ineptitude. From then on she decided to `keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.' In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites her readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candour and winningly wry observations. With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can - from her unusual path to the performing arts (her older brother's affinity for Vanilla Ice may have inadvertently launched her career) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial `dating experiments' (including only liking boys who didn't like her back) to the perils of reading The Shining while filming Twilight in the isolated Canadian wilderness to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual `man-child'. Enter Anna's world and follow her rise from `scrappy little nobody' to someone who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page - with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious). |
1471156834 | 9781471156830 | $5.12 | 304 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 5/30/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4546 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 104 | 2017-11-22 22:39:44 | It Gets Worse: A Collection... | Bestselling author Shane Dawson returns with another highly entertaining and uproariously funny essay collection, chronicling a mix of real life moments both extraordinary and mortifying, yet always full of heart. Shane Dawson shared some of his best and worst experiences in I Hate Myselfie, the critically acclaimed book that secured his place as a gifted humorist and keen observer of millennial culture. In this new collection of original personal essays, Shane goes even deeper, sharing never-before-revealed stories from his life, giving readers a no-holds-barred look at moments both bizarre and relatable, from cult-like Christian after-school activities, dressing in drag, and losing his virginity, to hiring a psychic, clashes with celebrities, and coming to terms with his bisexuality. Every step of the way, Shane maintains his signature brand of humor, proving that even the toughest breaks can be funny when you learn to laugh at yourself. This is Let's Pretend This Never Happened and Running With Scissors for the millennial generation: an inspiring, intelligent, and brutally honest collection of true stories by a YouTube sensation-turned one of the freshest new voices out there. |
1471159280 | 9781471159282 | $10.02 | 256 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 7/19/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4574 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 105 | 2017-11-22 22:39:50 | When You Are Engulfed in... | A hilarious and clever book about modern life from the No.1 best selling writer. A hilarious and clever book about modern life from the No.1 best selling writer. | 0349116474 | 9780349116471 | $1.27 | 320 | Abacus | 05/07/2009 | |
4374 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 126 | 2017-11-22 22:40:24 | The Diary of a Young Girl | First published over sixty years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne vividly describes in her diary the frustrations of living in such close quarters, and her thoughts, feelings and longings as she grows up. Her diary ends abruptly when, in August 1944, they were all betrayed.'One of the greatest books of the [last] century' - Guardian |
8188043788 | 9788188043781 | $8.44 $13.50 | Winsome Books India | 2/1/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | ||
4375 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 127 | 2017-11-22 22:40:27 | The Hiding Place | "The Hiding Place" proves that the light of God's love can penetrate even the darkest recesses of despair--places like the Nazi extermination camp at Ravensbruck. After protecting Dutch Jews in a secret room in their home, Corrie ten boom, her sister, and father were imprisoned. Only Corrie survived, but her faith in God remained strong. | 0800796276 | 9780800796273 | $6.99 $9.99 | Chosen Books | 2015 | English | |
4386 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 128 | 2017-11-22 22:40:28 | The Autobiography of Benjamin... | Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. Unraveling the enigma of Franklin's character, Morgan shows that he was the rare individual who placed the public interest before his own desires. Includes a new Introduction by the author. | 1640320032 | 9781640320031 | $3.81 | Value Classic Reprints | 2/3/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4388 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 129 | 2017-11-22 22:40:32 | The Wright Brothers | "David McCullough once again tells a dramatic story of people and technology, this time about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher. | 1508253099 | 9781508253099 | $18.91 | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2017 | English | |
4391 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 130 | 2017-11-22 22:40:37 | The autobiography of Malcolm X | By the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the "angriest black man in America". From hustling, cocaine addiction and armed violence in the ghettos of Harlem he had turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the fervour of the Black Muslims. Speaking out to millions of oppressed blacks, he brought new hope and self-respect. But was Malcolm X, in the words of one critic, merely a racist preaching hatred or was he a founding father, whose passionate eloquence has helped to nourish the modern anti-racist movement? This book attempts to answer this question by looking at the life and work of Malcolm X. |
0345379756 | 9780345379757 | $24.50 $28.00 | Ballantine Books | 1999 | English | |
4398 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 131 | 2017-11-22 22:40:38 | Founding Brothers: The... | Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time for killing in a duel Alexander Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America's only truly indispensable figure. Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were primarily intensely personal, rooted in the interaction of leaders with quite different values and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history. |
$82.00 | Easton Press | 2007 | English | |||
4399 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 132 | 2017-11-22 22:40:40 | Hero of the Empire: The Boer... | "At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalistcovering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape--but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him. The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned. Churchill would later remark that this period, "could I have seen my future, was to lay the foundations of my later life." Millard spins an epic story of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener, and Mohandas Gandhi with whom he would later share the world stage. But Hero of the Empire is more than an adventure story, for the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly affect 20th century history."-- |
0307948781 | 9780307948786 | $10.58 $17.00 | Anchor Books | 5/30/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4400 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 133 | 2017-11-22 22:40:44 | Team of Rivals: The Political... | The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House, his answer was instant: Team of Rivals. This monumental and brilliant work has given Obama the model for his presidency, showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest rival to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen.'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' Barack Obama'A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius' The New York Times'I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years' Robert HarrisDoris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne of US presidential historians, and one of the most acclaimed non-fiction authors in the world. Her works include Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, and No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. |
0241966086 | 9780241966082 | $0.99 | ||||
4408 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 134 | 2017-11-22 22:40:47 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle... | Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant best-seller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary edition features a new introduction by the author; important typographical changes; and a Reader's Guide that includes discussion topics, an interview with the author, letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life. |
0060839872 | 9780060839871 | $14.50 $16.99 | Harper Perennial | 2011 | English | |
4410 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 135 | 2017-11-22 22:40:49 | Washington: A Life | In this title, the celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his magnificent performance as America's first president. Despite the reverence his name inspires Washington remains a waxwork to many readers, worthy but dull, a laconic man of remarkable self-control. But in this groundbreaking work Chernow revises forever the uninspiring stereotype. He portrays Washington as a strapping, celebrated horseman, elegant dancer and tireless hunter, who guarded his emotional life with intriguing ferocity. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, he orchestrated their actions to help realise his vision for the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency. Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. This is a magisterial work from one of America's foremost writers and historians. |
1524754625 | 9781524754624 | $19.49 $24.99 | Penguin Audiobooks | 2016 | English | |
4414 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 136 | 2017-11-22 22:40:52 | The River of Doubt: Theodore... | In a powerful new narrative history, former "National Geographic" writer and editor Millard traces the bold 1914 expedition to chart the Amazon's treacherous River of Doubt, and casts new light on the expedition's extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt. High school & older. | 0767913736 | 9780767913737 | $7.55 $17.00 | Broadway Books | 2006 | English | |
4424 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 137 | 2017-11-22 22:40:54 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a... | The classic text of the diary Anne Frank kept during the two years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic is a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. | 067175274X | 9780671752743 | $0.99 | ||||
4427 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 139 | 2017-11-22 22:40:56 | Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr,... | From the "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Amazing Grace" comes a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century, a man who stood up to Hitler and the monstrous evil that was Nazism. As a double-agent, he joined the plot to assassinate the Fuhrer, and was hanged in Flossenberg concentration camp. | 1595551387 | 9781595551382 | $19.00 $29.99 | Thomas Nelson | 2013 | English | |
4428 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 140 | 2017-11-22 22:40:59 | Benjamin Franklin: An... | This sweeping narrative chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. | 1508250596 | 9781508250593 | $12.37 $14.99 | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2017 | English | |
4439 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 141 | 2017-11-22 22:41:00 | American Lion: Andrew Jackson... | From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Franklin and Winston" and "American Gospel" comes a magnificent portrait of Andrew Jackson, the man who shaped the modern presidency. Illustrated with black-and-white photos. | 0812973461 | 9780812973464 | $7.99 $22.00 | Random House Trade | 2009 | English | |
4447 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 142 | 2017-11-22 22:41:01 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir | Born in depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank McCourt experienced a childhood fraught with poverty and occasional cruelty. When the family moves back to Limerick, Frank endures the most miserable of childhoods. An astonishing, glorious debut, Angela's Ashes recounts McCourt's existence with remarkable exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. | 0743550927 | 9780743550925 | $12.99 $49.95 | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2005 | English | |
4454 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 143 | 2017-11-22 22:41:03 | John Adams | Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is a magisterial portrait of one of America's Founding Fathers and a brilliant insight into eighteenth-century world history. A huge bestseller in America, David McCullough's JOHN ADAMS tells the extraordinary story of the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- 'the colossus of independence', as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and who rose to become the second President of the United States. Both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, JOHN ADAMS has the sweep and vitality of a great novel, taking us from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam to London, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war, but also about human nature, love, faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, it is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived. |
141657588X | 9781416575887 | $0.99 $20.00 | Simon & Schuster | 01/29/2008 | English | |
4466 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 144 | 2017-11-22 22:41:04 | Truman | Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in detail. 48 pages of photographs. | 1442387807 | 9781442387805 | $11.00 $14.99 | Simon & Schuster Audio | 2015 | English | |
4362 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 145 | 2017-11-22 22:41:07 | The Year of Magical Thinking | From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage -- and a life, in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later -- the night before New Year's Eve -- the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion's 'attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness!about marriage and children and memory!about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself'. |
1501260693 | 9781501260698 | $15.49 | Recorded Books on Brilliance Audio | 9/8/2015 | English | |
4366 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 146 | 2017-11-22 22:41:09 | I Know Why the Caged Bird... | Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. |
0349005990 | 9780349005997 | $11.37 | 320 | Virago Press Ltd | 3/31/2015 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4382 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 147 | 2017-11-22 22:41:12 | Bird by Bird: Some... | After the great success of her Operating Instructions--the chronicle of a single mother surviving the first year of her son's life--Anne Lamott now offers another gift of grace and humor: step-by-step pointers on how to live a writer's life. This inspirational guide will be invaluable to all would-be writers. | 1501258958 | 9781501258954 | $11.98 $15.99 | Recorded Books on Brilliance Audio | 6/23/2015 | English | |
4384 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 148 | 2017-11-22 22:41:13 | Travels with Charley: In... | In 1958 Steinbeck stocked up a camper van and set off on a journey through nearly 40 states of the USA. Travelling alone with his dog and generally unrecognized, he was able to renew an intimate knowledge of the grass roots of American life that had underpinned his writing. | 0143107003 | 9780143107002 | $8.49 $17.00 | Penguin Books | 10/2012 | English | |
4430 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 149 | 2017-11-22 22:41:16 | Walden and Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau's 1854 Walden is an indisputable masterpiece of American literature. The adjoining work, Civil Disobedience is equally influential having informed the non-violent resistance movements of Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1945186380 | 9781945186387 | $11.97 | Clydesdale Press | 2018 | English | |
4441 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 150 | 2017-11-22 22:41:19 | Draft No. 4: On the Writing... | "McPhee offers ... guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny"--Amazon.com. | 0374142742 | 9780374142742 | $17.74 $25.00 | Farrar Straus and Giroux | 2017 | English | |
4445 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 151 | 2017-11-22 22:41:22 | Me Talk Pretty One Day | Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section'. His family is another inspiration. 'You Can't Kill the Rooster' is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails. Hilarious, sharply perceptive and surpassing all national boundaries of humour, ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY is a compelling introduction or a very welcome return to David Sedaris - compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne - who has taken America and Europe by storm. |
034913894X | 9780349138947 | $0.99 | 288 | Abacus | 04/04/2013 | |
4457 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 153 | 2017-11-22 22:41:25 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Writer Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her childhood in free verse. | 0399252517 | 9780399252518 | $3.32 $17.99 | Nancy Paulsen Books | 2014 | English | |
4470 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 154 | 2017-11-22 22:41:26 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. Thoreau constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, to see if he could live 'deliberately' - independently and apart from society. The result is an intriguing work which blends natural history with philosophical insights, and includes many illuminating quotations from other authors. Thoreau's wooden shack has won a place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. |
1784872415 | 9781784872410 | $5.17 $12.95 | 320 | Vintage Classics | 2017 | |
4479 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 155 | 2017-11-22 22:41:28 | Desert Solitaire | "A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again. |
0860721426 | 9780860721420 | $83.75 | 272 | Robin Clark Ltd | 1992 | English |
4494 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 156 | 2017-11-22 22:41:32 | The Life and Times of the... | From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. | 0767919378 | 9780767919371 | $9.99 $15.99 | Broadway Books | 2008 | English | |
4495 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 157 | 2017-11-22 22:41:34 | All Over But the Shoutin' | A haunting memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, "All Over but the Shoutin'" presents a gripping account of people struggling to make sense and solidity of life's capricious promises. As he tells the wrenching story of his own family's life in the dirt-poor Alabama hills--where he got out, but has never been quite about to leave--Bragg attempts to both atone for and to avenge the mistakes and cruelties of his past. |
1435211839 | 9781435211834 | $63.01 | Paw Prints 2008-06-26 | 2008 | English | |
4496 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 158 | 2017-11-22 22:41:35 | What I Talk about When I Talk... | In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him.Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is rich and revealing, both for fans of this masterful yet private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running. |
0099532530 | 9780099532538 | $4.99 | 192 | Vintage | 4/2/2009 12: 00: 00 AM | English |
4510 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 159 | 2017-11-22 22:41:36 | Bad Feminist: Essays | One of our most indispensable writers . . . on everything that matters | 0062282719 | 9780062282712 | $12.98 $15.99 | English | |||
4514 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 160 | 2017-11-22 22:41:39 | Churchill and Orwell: The... | Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the fi gures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. In Churchill & Orwell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas E. Ricks masterfully argues that these extraordinary men are as important today as they ever were. Churchill and Orwell stood in political opposition to each other, but were both committed to the preservation of freedom. However, in the late 1930s they occupied a lonely position: democracy was much discredited, and authoritarian rulers, fascist and communist, were everywhere in the ascent. Unlike others, they had the wisdom to see that the most salient issue was human liberty - and that any government that denies its people basic rights is a totalitarian menace to be resisted. Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men, and this book reveals how they rose from a precarious position to triumph over the enemies of freedom. Churchill may have played the larger role in Hitler's defeat, but Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in 1984 and Animal Farm defined the stakes of the Cold War and continues to inspire to this day. Their lives are an eloquent testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it takes to stay true to it, through thick and thin. |
0715652370 | 9780715652374 | $18.66 | 352 | Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd | 6/15/2017 12: 00: 00 AM | |
4525 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 161 | 2017-11-22 22:41:41 | The Art of Memoir | Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr s The Liars Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In The Art of Memoir, she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and black belt sinner, providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr s own process. (Plus all those inside stories about how she dealt with family and friends get told and the dark spaces in her own skull probed in depth.) As she breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate. Joining such classics as Stephen King s On Writing and Anne Lamott s Bird by Bird, The Art of Memoir is an elegant and accessible exploration of one of today s most popular literary forms a tour de force from an accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft." |
0062223070 | 9780062223074 | $6.04 $15.99 | Harper Perennial | 2016 | English | |
4527 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 162 | 2017-11-22 22:41:44 | An Odyssey: A Father, a Son,... | Presents the story of a father and son's transformative journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engage in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece. | 0385350597 | 9780385350594 | $19.81 $26.95 | Knopf Publishing Group | 2017 | English | |
4551 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 163 | 2017-11-22 22:41:47 | Blue Nights | From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatteringly honest examination of Joan Didion's life as a mother, a woman and a writer. Recently widowed, and becoming increasingly frail, 'Blue Nights' is Didion's attempt to understand our deepest fears, our inadequate adjustments to aging and to put a name to what we refuse to see and as a consequence fail to face up to, 'this refusal even to engage in such contemplation, this failure to confront the certainties of aging, illness and death. This fear.' This fear is tied to what we cherish most and fight to conserve, protect, and refuse to let go, for, 'when we are talking about mortality we are talking about our children.' To face death is to let go of memory, to be bereft once more, 'I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is.' The fear is not for what is lost. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her. A profound, poetic and powerful book about motherhood and the fierce way in which we continue to exalt and nurture our children, even if they only live on in memory. 'Blue Nights' is an intensely personal, and yet, strangely universal account of how we love. It is both groundbreaking and a culmination of a stunning career. |
0307387380 | 9780307387387 | $8.61 $15.00 | Vintage Books | 7/1/2012 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4559 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 164 | 2017-11-22 22:41:48 | Darkness Visible: A Memoir of... | In 1985, William Styron, author of The Confessions of Nat Turner, was overtaken by persistent insomnia and a troubling sense of malaise - the first signs of a deep depression that would engulf his life and leave him on the brink of suicide. This is the story of that experience. | 0679643524 | 9780679643524 | $10.36 $15.95 | Modern Library | 2007 | English | |
4564 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 165 | 2017-11-22 22:41:50 | Scalia Speaks: Reflections on... | "This ... collection of ... Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's ... speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest son, this volume includes dozens of speeches, some deeply personal, that have never before been published"-- | 0525573321 | 9780525573326 | $22.27 $30.00 | Crown Forum | 2017 | English | |
4361 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 170 | 2017-11-22 22:41:58 | Unbroken: A World War II... | On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Then, on the ocean surface, the face of a young lieutenant appeared as he struggled to pull himself aboard a life raft. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. In her long-awaited new book, the author of "Seabiscuit" tells an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity. |
081298711X | 9780812987119 | $0.99 $16.00 | Random House Trade | 2014 | English | |
4364 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 171 | 2017-11-22 22:42:01 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a... | The first-person account of a 25-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime."' This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. Ishmael Beah came to the United States when he was seventeen, and graduated from Oberlin College in 2003. He lives in New York City. |
0143190172 | 9780143190172 | $2.17 | Penguin Books Canada | 2013 | English | |
4377 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 173 | 2017-11-22 22:42:05 | American Sniper: The... | The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him "The Legend"; meanwhile, the enemy feared him so much they named him al-Shaitan ("the devil") and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle, who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war-including the deaths of two close SEAL teammates-and in moving first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle's masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time. |
0062401726 | 9780062401724 | $0.99 $15.99 | William Morrow & Company | 2017 | English | |
4389 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 174 | 2017-11-22 22:42:06 | Andrew Jackson and the... | Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison's generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson. A native of Tennessee who had witnessed the horrors of the Revolutionary War and Indian attacks, he was glad America had finally decided to confront repeated British aggression. But he feared that President Madison's men were overlooking the most important target of all: New Orleans. If the British conquered New Orleans, they would control the mouth of the Mississippi River, cutting Americans off from that essential trade route and threatening the previous decade's Louisiana Purchase. The new nation's dreams of western expansion would be crushed before they really got off the ground. So Jackson had to convince President Madison and his War Department to take him seriously, even though he wasn't one of the Virginians and New Englanders who dominated the government. He had to assemble a coalition of frontier militiamen, French-speaking Louisianans, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, freed slaves, and even some pirates. And he had to defeat the most powerful military force in the world--in the confusing terrain of the Louisiana bayous. In short, Jackson needed a miracle. The local Ursuline nuns set to work praying for his outnumbered troops. And so the Americans, driven by patriotism and protected by prayer, began the battle that would shape our young nation's destiny. As they did in their two previous bestsellers, Kilmeade and Yaeger make history come alive with a riveting true story that will keep you turning the pages. You'll finish with a new understanding of one of our greatest generals and a renewed appreciation for the brave men who fought so that America could one day stretch "from sea to shining sea." |
0735213232 | 9780735213234 | $20.27 $28.00 | Sentinel | 2017 | English | |
4396 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 175 | 2017-11-22 22:42:09 | Killing Patton: The Strange... | General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident-and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced. |
1447287452 | 9781447287452 | $41.95 | 400 | Macmillan | 2015 | |
4423 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 176 | 2017-11-22 22:42:12 | The Perfect Horse: The Daring... | In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns that on a secret farm behind enemy lines, Hitler has stockpiled the world's finest purebred horses in order to breed the perfect military machine -- an equine master race. But with the starving Russian army closing in, the animals are in imminent danger of being slaughtered for food. With only hours to spare, one of the U.S. Army's last great cavalrymen, Colonel Hank Reed, makes a bold decision, with General George Patton's blessing, to mount a covert rescue operation. |
0345544803 | 9780345544803 | $20.74 $28.00 | Ballantine Books | 2016 | English | |
4434 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 178 | 2017-11-22 22:42:14 | A Higher Call: An Incredible... | Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damagedAmerican bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-oldpilot on his first mission. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a GermanMesserschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail, its pilot an ace who could destroythe American bomber in an instant. What happened next would defy imaginationand later be calledthe mostincredible encounter between enemies in World War II. This is the truestory of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that daytheAmericanSecond Lieutenant Charlie Brownand the GermanSecond Lieutenant FranzStigler. |
0425255735 | 9780425255735 | $8.55 $17.00 | Dutton Caliber | 2014 | English | |
4487 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 179 | 2017-11-22 22:42:15 | 13 Hours: The Inside Account... | The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. | 3864703530 | 9783864703539 | $15.56 | BOOKS4SUCCESS | 2/1/2016 12: 00: 00 AM | English | |
4499 | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 1 | 2017-11-23 04:13:22 | Biography & Autobiography Books | 180 | 2017-11-22 22:42:17 | Maus I : a survivor's tale :... | A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, America's leading avant-garde cartoonist. | $8.49 | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | 01/1992 | English | |||
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