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Tells The Heartbreaking Story Of Young Elena Desserich's Battle With Brain Cancer As Told Through The Eyes Of The Parents Who Survived Her. Brooke And Keith...

'the Chinese Believe That Before You Can Conquer A Beast, You Must First Make It Beautiful.' This Chinese Proverb Has Been The Key To Sarah Wilson Understan...

Tells The Heartbreaking Story Of Young Elena Desserich's Battle With Brain Cancer As Told Through The Eyes Of The Parents Who Survived Her. Brooke And Keith...

"(...) Cet ouvrage de Francis Hallé offre enfin à chacun la découverte de la diversité de son approche du dessin. Les botanistes connaissent les dessins...

jeannette Walls Grew Up With Parents Whose Ideals And Stubborn Nonconformity Were Both Their Curse And Their Salvation. Rex And Rose Mary Walls Had Four C...

The true story of a former narcotics agent sent to Afghanistan to catch Taliban bomb makers, terrorists, and drug smugglers. Experience a dangerous and thr...

The First Biography In Over Thirty Years Of Condé Nast, The Pioneering Publisher Of Vogue And Vanity Fair And Main Rival To Media Magnate William Randolph...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Ke...

He Was History's Most Creative Genius. What Secrets Can He Teach Us? The [bestselling Biographer] Brings Leonardo Da Vinci To Life In This Exciting New Biog...

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovato...

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum...

Now in paperback, Engineers tells the story of the brilliant minds that have constructed our man-made world, from ancient pyramids to modern spaceflight D...

Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyl...

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regai...

On The Morning Of December 10, 1996, Taylor, A Brain Scientist, Experienced A Massive Stroke. She Observed Her Own Mind Completely Deteriorate. Now She Shar...

A revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn.The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind – a world base...

New York Times bestseller. They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, ...

The last defining years of John F. Kennedy, Jr.At thirty-four, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was still a man in search of his destiny. In 1995, all that changed when...

In February of 2009 the author heard five of the most terrifying words in the English language, "Mr. Metzler, you have cancer." Mike was given a 50/50 chanc...

Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky.Before ther...

A Raucous And Vividly Dishy Memoir By The Only Woman Writer On The Masthead Of Rolling Stone Magazine In The Early Seventies. In 1971, Robin Green Had An In...

The ultimate hockey dad, Karl Subban is a former school principal and father of five, including three sons--P.K., Malcolm and Jordan--who have been drafted...

This gripping inspirational memoir grapples with the tension between faith and science—and between death and hope—as a seasoned neurosurgeon faces insu...

A criminal profiler, trained at Quantico, former Chief Superintendent of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Kate Lines recounts her remarkable story using...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Rev...

From Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former anchor of CBC's The National, and Mark Bulgutch, former CBC producer, comes a collection of first-person stories a...

The Legendary Fbi Criminal Profiler, Number-one New York Times Bestselling Author, And Inspiration For The Hit Netflix Show Mindhunter Delves Deep Into The ...

One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern el...

An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly ...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...

“A bombshell unauthorized biography tells the haunting past that kept Kennedy from following in his father’s footsteps.” ―New York Daily News Rober...

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal trait...

The accessible, conversational autobiography of a successful physician who left his private practice because of the cruel realities of the American health ...

Recent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve...

Winner • 2021 An Post Irish Book Award ― Nonfiction Book of the Year • from the judges: “The most remarkable Irish nonfiction book I’ve read in th...

Trespass Is The Story Of One Woman's Struggle To Gain Footing In Inhospitable Territory. A Wilderness Activist And Jack Mormon, Amy Irvine Sought Respite In...

Examines The History Of Behavioral Economics, Discussing The Theory Of Israeli Psychologists Who Wrote The Original Studies Undoing Assumptions About The De...

Three hundred nautical miles from shore, I‘m cold and sick and afraid. I pray for reprieve. I long for solid ground. And I can‘t help but ask myself, W...

on January 15, 2009, The World Witnessed One Of The Most Remarkable Emergency Landings In Aviation History When Captain Chesley "sully" Sullenberger Skill...

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works i...

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she b...

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible...

Regarded As One Of The World's Preeminent Biologists, Edward O. Wilson Spent His Boyhood Exploring The Forests And Swamps Of South Alabama And The Florida P...

Examines The History Of Behavioral Economics, Discussing The Theory Of Israeli Psychologists Who Wrote The Original Studies Undoing Assumptions About The De...

The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with str...

A James Herriot for the 21st century recounts his adventures as a newcomer to Newfoundland. When Andrew Peacock made the move from Ontario to Newfoundla...

A Sharp, Funny, And Honest Collection Of Real-life Stories From Kelly Ripa, Showing The Many Dimensions And Crackling Wit Of The Beloved Daytime Talk Show H...

The extraordinary memoir of a mother's love, commitment and nurturing, which allowed her son, originally diagnosed with severe autism, to flourish into a u...