Michael - Biography & Memoir 1

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks. Michael G……続きを見る

'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire world knows Michael J. ……続きを見る

Defining 70s music is a challenge. Spinning out of the Motown sound, funk, soul, and R & B influenced the burgeoning soft and hard rock genre. Smooth jazz replaced the big band sound popular since W……続きを見る

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of t……続きを見る

Beloved actor Michael J. Fox shares his personal, poignant account of what it's like to be told you have an eighty-year-old's diseaseーat age thirty. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have……続きを見る

So much has been left unsaid about the passing of legendary music innovator Prince Rogers Nelson. Prince, a prolific musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Li……続きを見る

Prince Rogers Nelson, a musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Purple Rain,” “Batdance,” and more, challenging even t……続きを見る

'Back to the Future super-fans are predictably well served here ... Fox's evocative descriptions of a lost Hollywood - pre-word processor, never mind pre-internet - will also interest a more general……続きを見る

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows M……続きを見る

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. ーNiccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Greed. Lies. Corruption. These ar……続きを見る

In "Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti," Hall Sir Caine masterfully intertwines personal reminiscences with a rich narrative exploring the life and artistry of one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brother……続きを見る

Dit is een verhaal wat mij 80 jaar gekost heeft om het naar buiten te brengen. Het gaat over mijn kinderjaren gedurende de tweede wereldoorlog, maar vooral over de jaren daarna, die veel erger waren. 続きを見る

Wilhelmina was a young child when Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940 and then occupied the country for five years. By the end of the war, her mother was imprisoned in a labour camp and her fath……続きを見る

You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis……続きを見る

Marianne grew up in a small German town during WW2. After meeting an Englishman on a cruise ship, she eloped to Australia and began her own family. Now aged 90, she lives in Queensland. 続きを見る

This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows. Over for……続きを見る

“In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe – the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and……続きを見る

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it allーand was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-……続きを見る

*From the author of the New York Times No.1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go* The extraordinary story of what happened whe……続きを見る

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a……続きを見る

The country amid which Margaret Fairless Barber ("Michael Fairless") wrote "The Roadmender" is that central part of Sussex drained by the river Adur, perhaps the least known of the three main rivers……続きを見る

Lambda Literary Award finalist Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his fir……続きを見る

Il padre – schizofrenico e paranoico – minaccia di ucciderlo all'età di due anni credendolo il figlio del demonio. Tempo dopo si dirà convinto che lui sia Federico il Grande e poi Francis Scott Fitz……続きを見る

Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious t……続きを見る

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar – about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforg……続きを見る

Come walk along the corridors of a Pennsylvania state prison and find out what really happens behind these walls.......if you dare! It starts out innocently enough and then takes on a seedy trail of……続きを見る

Trapped in a Happy Life by Michael F. Duffy In his memoirs, Trapped in a Happy Life, Michael F. Duffy reflects fondly and funnily upon his formative years in Philadelphia. Between the dangerous game……続きを見る

**Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Finalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book Award Finalist - Evans Biography and Handcart Award An ode the ……続きを見る

Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature……続きを見る

Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood. Their work took them from vaudeville to silent film, through the studio era and into the G……続きを見る