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francis Crick, Who Died At The Age Of Eighty-eight In 2004, Will Be Bracketed With Galileo, Darwin, And Einstein As One Of The Great Scientists Of All Tim...

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyo...

This historic narrative, written by cousins who are descendants of the Low and Stiles families, spans two centuries of the intertwined families of the House...

Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the T...

"I don't know of any player, ever, who could strike a golf ball like Moe Norman...[He is a genius when it comes to playing the game of golf." - Lee Trevino....

Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to...

Records the struggles of a woman who confronted the challenges and hardships of life in the wilderness of northern CanadaCategories: Biographies & Memoi...

The long-anticipated companion book to the groundbreaking HBO documentary The Latin Explosion by renowned music producer Tommy Mottola. Legendary music mog...

The author, a friend and unpaid financial advisor to the Duchess of York, describes the Duchess's four-year affair with American businessman John Bryan, whi...

A groundbreaking new biography of Jack Kerouac from the author of the award-winning memoir Minor CharactersJoyce Johnson brilliantly peels away layers of t...

From Bestselling Author Ken Dryden, A Riveting New Book. On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, The Day After Labour Day, Class 9g At Etobicoke Collegiate Institute...

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his ...

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDThe definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud ...

My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime mini...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

Never-before-published letters offer a rich portrait of the baseball star as a fearless advocate for racial justice at the highest levels of American politi...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.On...

[this Book] Takes You To The Western Front During The Great War. Experience The Risks Of Combat And The Many Close Calls Collishaw Had As A Pilot, Flight Co...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024 'What Manchester thinks today, En...

Exiles In Indian Country Weaves Together The Biographies Of Three Men Who Cast Their Fortunes With The Western Fur Trade In The First Quarter Of The Ninetee...

​"Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruel...

This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a y...

On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz--th...

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in war-to...

Barry Goldwater is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our century, a man whose influence on America conservatism ...

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining ScandalCategories: History WorldWomen in History

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of Wh...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra recounts her childhood in foster care and on the streets—and how she and her sa...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

“Heroic and inspiring.”―The New York Times Grace Humiston was a lawyer, a detective, and the first female U.S. District Attorney. She was also a soci...

An oral history of the "New York Intellectuals"--political essayist Irving Kristol, critic Irving Howe, and sociologists Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer--capt...

Born A Creole In Martinique, Sent To France In Her Teens To Marry A Distant Relative In Order To Salvage The Family Fortunes, Josephine Was Adventurous, Amb...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences t...

Winner of the Dafoe Book PrizeWinner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most chari...

A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before ma...

Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award • Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction • Longlisted for the 2023 National Bu...

Claire Tomalin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesWomen's Studies

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

This Book Is A Tale Of Three Cities: The Fictional London That Lives In The Pages Of Writers From Shakespeare To P.d. James And Martin Amis; The Historical ...

A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of expl...

In this inspiring memoir, Dewey Bozella recounts his life and the twenty-six years he spent behind bars for a murder he did not commit—a stirring tale of c...

Justin Vovk's In Destiny's Hands is the heartbreaking story of five children of Austria's iconic empress, Maria Theresa, who watched as their royal worlds ...

From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from th...

Review «Una biografía repleta de detalles. Kamala Harris omitió muchos detalles eb su propia autobiografía. Dan Morain se ha encargado de llenar mu...

Benjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson's hypocrisy * Old Elizabeth on spreading the Word * Frederick Douglass on life in the North * Sojourner Truth on black...

In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and...