CK - Biography & Memoir 7

Exclusive to this editionーa new update on the conviction and sentencing of the Barefoot Bandit Colton Harris-Moore. A teenage outlaw wanted in nine states for more than eighty crimes. For two years……続きを見る

While alien plants have been well publicised, this is the first book to be published on alien animals of Africa. It describes the history of each invasion, and the ecological and economic impacts in……続きを見る

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Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter "Rudy" Ruckerーmathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with a young boy growing up in Lou……続きを見る

3:14 am is based on a real life incident that took place between 3:14 and 4:14 am on 1 June 1998. 続きを見る

Beginning with the author’s great-grandmother’s affair with a Gypsy boy in 1869, this warmhearted memoir chronicles the Gypsy life in a very close-knit community in the UK's Black Country. From a li……続きを見る

**This is the moving story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomasーa poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalieーa flirtatious paint……続きを見る

On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership……続きを見る

As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompas……続きを見る

For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. T……続きを見る

This book takes you on a journey through the life and the mind of someone who accomplished what seems like the impossible for someone with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. From being a smart, awkward ch……続きを見る

Find your inner Grace: A modern day guide to the classic beauty and timeless style of the Hollywood starlet and real-life Princess, Grace Kelly Grace Kelly set a standard for elegance that continues……続きを見る

An abused teenage runaway turns into a courageous stripper and gets caught up in the dazzling and all-consuming lifestyle of easy money, sex, drugs and alcohol. When, at the top of her game, she tri……続きを見る

Hadlee is one of the most successful former New Zealand cricketers. He is regarded as one of the most effective and greatest fast bowlers and all rounders in the history of Test Cricket. In the year……続きを見る

Wasim Akram will always be remembered for his fast swinging balls, especially for the reverse swinging balls. He is undoubtedly one of the best fast bowlers in the history of cricket. In List A cric……続きを見る

St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs. In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extr……続きを見る

"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book Review For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a prepar……続きを見る

The Tao of Cob is a how-to book on earthen-house building, written as a memoir in Dorethy's pithy, homespun philosophical voice. A retired librarian, the author has studied a wide range of subjects ……続きを見る

“The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping to shape the person you see with the stethoscope around his neck.”……続きを見る

She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname “Bloody M……続きを見る

This book is a compilation of the unique adventures of Constable Chuck Bertrand's career in and around the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This collection of short stories presents the reader with a ……続きを見る

Are you the world's biggest Miley Cyrus fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about the ex Hannah Montana actress who is now a global superstar?If so, then this is the book for you……続きを見る

The memoirs of Colonel Charles (Chuck) Maultsby who was one of the finest and most accomplished fighter pilots the United States has ever produced. His story begins with an unsettling boyhood, then ……続きを見る

"The best biography of Picasso."ーKenneth Clark Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and th……続きを見る

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born to parents Silvio Athony Ciccone and Madonna Louise Nee Fortin on August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Married in 1955, her father, of Italian descent, wa……続きを見る

When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snortin……続きを見る

The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of America in search of Wilson's essence as the pre-eminent man of letters and the author's own creative w……続きを見る

A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential, far-reaching architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirateーCharles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford Whiteーwho came together, b……続きを見る

A major reinterpretation of Gandhi’s life, politics, religion and nation Throughout his long and turbulent career as a political leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to ful……続きを見る

With almost 150 years of baseball history, the stories of many players from before 1900 were long obscured. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) first attempted to remedy this in 1989 b……続きを見る