D.O - Biography & Memoir 14

"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

Profiles thirty-two successful black women, from judges to rocket scientists to corporate executive officers, revealing the combination of hard work, determination, and the support of family that dr……続きを見る

Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary……続きを見る

The personal story of how a psychiatrist confronts the profound changes sweeping the medical establishment as they reshape her life and career. In the past two decades, a seismic shift has occurred ……続きを見る

This all-access, inside-out view of what the American occupation of Iraq really looks like on the ground is the story of two young Americans who went to Baghdad without any real plan and discovered ……続きを見る

A poignant true story of a sick young seaman, taken prisoner in war torn Vietnam in 1954, and his efforts to get well and stay alive in atrocious conditions. Of his love for his nurse which gave him……続きを見る

The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain. Raised a Catholic in California, New York Times journalist Doreen Ca……続きを見る

This book-collection file includes: John Barleycorn, The Road, The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays, and The Cruise of the Snark. According to Wikipedia: "Jack Lo……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, Maytag, Kellogg. Now……続きを見る