La-na - Biography & Memoir 1

Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on th……続きを見る

Sheila O'Flanagan has captivated millions of readers with novels like SUDDENLY SINGLE, IF YOU WERE ME and THINGS WE NEVER SAY, and in this delightful ebook she invites us in for a glimpse of her wor……続きを見る

"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich,……続きを見る

The gripping story of the only military commander in American history to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He……続きを見る

Un excellent synopsis de la vie du Saint Prophète Muhammad et des enseignements du Saint Coran qu'il révéla. L'esquisse biographique de la vie du Prophète retrace la grande révolution morale et……続きを見る

Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visi……続きを見る

He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during hi……続きを見る

When Lana and Dion head to Athens, they have no idea what lies in wait. Dion has been offered the job of the century, while Lana chases a sabbatical involving sun, sea and sand. But while the gods c……続きを見る

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A rebellious boy from the post-WWII streets of Brooklyn gains maturity in military service, embraces the charms of the Orient and thrives in an modest role in a secret war. This book relates his Ody……続きを見る

Robert Loraine was born in a niche of time when technology exploded into a world whose keyword was Progress. Both he and his life-long friend George Bernard Shaw believed they were in an evolutionar……続きを見る

Na Primavera de 2013, o Alexandre e a Anabela pegaram nas suas mochilas e percorreram a pé o milenar Caminho Francês de Santiago. Mas calcorrear os 800km que separam a vila francesa Saint-Jean-Pied-……続きを見る

We've all been bitten. And we all have stories. The bite attacks featured in this dramatic book take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history. So……続きを見る

In the spring of 2013, Alexandre and Anabela hoisted their backpacks and set foot on the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago. However, treading the 500-mile pilgrimage route that stretches out betw……続きを見る

At age forty-nine, Eileen Flanagan had an aching feeling that she wasn’t living up to her potentialーor her youthful ideals. A former Peace Corps volunteer who’d once loved the simplicity of living ……続きを見る

40 YEARS WITH THE KRAYS is the untold, intimate history of the twins and the woman who raised them. Told with humour and insight, it looks back across the decades at the life of this close knit, not……続きを見る

The Nation: A Biography tells the surprising story behind America’s oldest weekly magazine, instigator of progress since 1865ーthe bickering abolitionists who founded it; the campaigns, causes ……続きを見る

This New York Times bestseller is the most intimate possible remembrance of Natalie Wood's tempestuous life and tragic death. A book that only Natalie Wood's sister could have written - a warm but u……続きを見る

A biography of the famed psychic Eileen J. Garrett by her long-time colleague and friend. Garrett's status as one of the world's most famous mediums caused her to come in contact with the known and ……続きを見る

The most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century, Yukio Mishima (1925–70) was a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. But the prolific author shocked the world in 1970 when……続きを見る

Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale is the first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American wri……続きを見る

Svetlana (Sveta) Grobman grew up in a communal apartment in Moscow, Russia, during the Cold War with her mother, father and younger sister. From a very young age, she found herself living in two con……続きを見る

Эта книга о лихих девяностых. В ней нет стрельбы, раненых и убитых. Это другая их сторона, не менее страшная. А книги ー всегда за свой счёт. В них вкладываешь душу, Переживаешь, получилось ли? Бьёш……続きを見る

Rumar a Oriente seguindo os passos dos exploradores portugueses foi o mote para a cativante viagem que levou o Alexandre e a Anabela desde a monumental Pequim à frenética Bombaim. Pelo meio foram br……続きを見る

Rina Flanagan cresceu na África fugindo de cobras, elefantes, tios e primos chatos, além de outras criaturas imaginárias ainda mais assustadoras, e de alguma forma sobreviveu para contar... Uma leit……続きを見る

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of th……続きを見る

Cette œuvre érudite unique du Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, entièrement révisée et remodelée, présente les prophéties à propos de l'avènement du Saint Prophète Muhammad dans les diverses Sai……続きを見る

Ruano había llegado a París dos años antes, alcoholizado, y por primera vez en su vida dejó de escribir y trabajar. ¿De dónde sacaba el dinero para tanto viaje y tanto champán? Cruzó como un pícaro ……続きを見る

Temps de segona mà és una obra que parla dels últims vint anys de la història de Rússia i de com el final del règim soviètic ha afectat persones que creien fermament que aquest règim era l'única for……続きを見る

"Als Sohn eines Freiherrn fließt blaues Blut in meinen Adern. Aber mein Vater, der Freiherr Victor Hugo von Braun, erkennt mich nicht an, bin ich doch das fleischgewordene Zeugnis seiner Schwäche zu……続きを見る