wired - Biography & Memoir 12

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman. A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lea……続きを見る

In his classic book, T.E. Lawrenceーforever known as Lawrence of Arabiaーrecounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS I.  Early Days II.  School Life III.  Early Work in London IV.  At the London Hospital V.  ……続きを見る

At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, Carolyn Wilkins left a disastrous marriage in Seattle and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty worki……続きを見る

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One of the best inspirational memoirs to hit the street in years. The author shows that achievement requires more than his boyhood Superman cape and that failure can be ignored or overcome.続きを見る

So, you want to lose weight? Well, so did Kim Rinehart. In fact, she wanted to lose it so badly, she went on diet after diet looking for something that would make her skinny again. However, none of ……続きを見る

A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance – a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together. On an icy morning in Paris in Janu……続きを見る

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestru……続きを見る

As a young girl, Josie Dew developed an overpowering urge to travel. She also fell out of a fast-moving vehicle and, rather inconveniently, developed a lifelong aversion to cars. Along came her firs……続きを見る

Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to hi……続きを見る

"This is my testimony and if it should help just one person, then it will all be worth it." -- Lucy R. Burlington In the late 1970s, Lucy Burlington, a young single mother, was diagnosed with rheuma……続きを見る

Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observa……続きを見る

Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slippin……続きを見る

Max Hastings is best known as an acclaimed journalist and military historian. But what is perhaps less well known is his love of the countryside and its pursuits, above all fishing and shooting, whi……続きを見る

Here are portraits of three very different Victorian women, all of whom married men of exceptional talent, energy and genius. To be the wife of such frenetic, explosive characters as David Livingsto……続きを見る

Kim Brittingham struggled for years with her weight and body image before she learned how to love her self unconditionally, find her confidence, and fully enjoy her life. In this unflinching, humoro……続きを見る

in this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern Franc……続きを見る

When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal. For the following twenty-nine months, from the ……続きを見る

“Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged.” During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and shar……続きを見る

They tried to make her go to rehab. She said no. “All my life I have been loud to the point of being told to shut up. The only reason I have had to be this loud is because you have to scream in my f……続きを見る

This interview with actor Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins on TV's Dark Shadows) first appeared in Filmfax #83 (February/March 2001). An expanded version was later published in Halloween Candy (2001)……続きを見る

I was born in Newent, Gloucestershire, in May 1965, the son of teachers, my father was later to become a Regional Official for a Teachers Union. I had one older sister and we lived in a house my par……続きを見る

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices This edition features • ill……続きを見る

Irreverent, poignant, amusing: Stretch Marks in the Moonlight: A Tale of Dancing with the Scars is a memoir of Rebecca Barker’s survival as an only child left alone with her drunken, washed-up Vaude……続きを見る

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1891 edition by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York. This is an illustrated edition. The edition comes with a PDF map available for download. Hannibal is ……続きを見る

Jen Lancaster's cultural inferiority complex had to come from somewhere...and now fans can find out where in this hilarious New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of Bitter is the New Bla……続きを見る

"Fire! Wake up! The shelter is on fire!" His students affectionately call him "Doc Survival." He's Quebec's Indiana Jones in a forest setting. Searching for the treasures of the wilderness has been ……続きを見る

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With the benefit of hindsight and good old-fashioned maturity, [Mimi Alford] writes not just about the secret, but the corrosive effect of keeping that secret. . . . ……続きを見る

Table of Contents Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume 1 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume 2 Fiat Money Inflation in France. How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended History……続きを見る