D.O - Biography & Memoir 13

Shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction David Dow is a leading death row attorney in Texas, where 99% of appeals are rejected.He knows his clients are guilty, but he defends them because……続きを見る

At last, a full-length biography of Clay Shaw, the prominent New Orleans man implicated in the assassination of President Kennedy during the investigation by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garris……続きを見る

In a folksy, easy-to-read style and a deeply personal account, Dorsey Levell recalls his thirty-one years as founding executive director of the Council of Churches of the Ozarks, Springfield, Missou……続きを見る

Detailed account of Manson's life, including his attempt to break into the LA scene of the mid '60s, to his bizarre relationship with the Beach Boys, his obsession with The Beatles, his demo release……続きを見る

A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing’s love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS I. THE START II. UP THE PARAGUAY III. A JAGUAR-HUNT ON THE TAQUARY IV. THE HEADWATERS OF THE PARAGUA……続きを見る

After 15 books about somebody else (mostly alter ego Charlie Farquharson) plus one book by his drag-queen character, Charlie's rich city cousin Valerie Rosedale, Don Harron now presents the story of……続きを見る

In the summer of 2003, a perilous helicopter descent delivered Ross Donaldson, an American medical student in his twenties, into Sierra Leone. With abundant schooling but little practical experience……続きを見る

"Is it a true story?" is the perennial query of children at their mother or father's knee. These well-told thrilling tales about real children by Mrs. Hayden will fascinate both young and old throug……続きを見る

The personal and professional story of a former FBI agent, this is the journey Don Adams has taken over the past 50 years that has connected him to the assassination of the 35th president of the Uni……続きを見る

Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain's most ruthless gangs. For 20 years, the Essex Boys firm and their successors, the New Generation, controlled……続きを見る

Taken from the famous literary biography series English Men of Letters, this is a biography of the 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales. 続きを見る

A brief memoir of growing up as a middle child in south Louisiana during the 1950s - no easy task! 続きを見る

Hitlers Paladin: populär, hörig, größenwahnsinnig. Seit langem die erste große Göring-Biografie. Er war der zweitmächtigste Nazi-Führer, zeitweilig beliebter als Hitler selbst; er war leutselig und ……続きを見る

Studying under world-renowned scientists, Josef Mengele rose from being a medical student to becoming the commanding doctor at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. His experiments on twins and……続きを見る

**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral c……続きを見る

A clazzic history of one of the world's greatest military commanders. At the age of 20, Alexander the Great inherited the near-bankrupt kingdom of Macedonia and its small but revolutionary army, bui……続きを見る

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth Volume II (of II) By Dorothy Wordsworth 続きを見る

In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land spe……続きを見る

Not a sausage. That is what Gordon Ramsay had when he started out as a chef, working 16-hour days, 6 days a week. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, he didn't think he'……続きを見る

"…[Nancy's] proven herself to be a lasting and loyal friend and someone that's worthy of being a personal confidant…I love her children, I hate her husband, for reasons I won't bother with now, most……続きを見る

In this fun and creative full-color jewel filled with photos and artistic sketches, Luci Swindoll gives the reader a fascinating journey through a life well lived, one in which she purposefully chos……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Gerber. Nowhe……続きを見る

Nearly everyone is curious about what makes sailplanes fly with confidence-giving predictability. Joe Dobronski has risen to the challenge with this master work that will satisfy many aspects of you……続きを見る

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I - THE STORMY YOUTH OF LEE CHAPTER II - LEE BEGINS A CAREER CHAPTER III - LEE BECOMES A MORMON CHAPTER IV - THE SAINTS BESET WITH TROUBLES CHAPTER V - THE MORMON WAR C……続きを見る

A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag "I went to get the letters……続きを見る

In this memoir, the author recounts some of his experiences as a black male growing up and living in the America's Deep South where discrimination has evolved into classism at its worst. Undaunted b……続きを見る

Doris Lessing’s first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led. ‘I think my father'……続きを見る

Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered……続きを見る

For a man who grew up to become the Bull Moose, Teddy Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his physical weakness actually drove him to be more active, which al……続きを見る