Al: 2273 books
Straight from the Pig's Mouth
The Life and Crimes of a Kiwi Detective
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
'This book takes you into the life of a New Zealand policeman. I tell it how it was and spare few details so that you too can see the world through one policeman's eyes. These stories range from humorous, strange and bizarre to extreme violence and murders. This is the lot of a copper and was the...
by Jim Al-Khalili
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Quantum Mechanics is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small.
Written by physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, it explores all the key players, breakthroughs, controversies and...
Homes
A Refugee Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria — just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and...
Daring to Drive
A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine): a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive.
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter...
by Darina Al-Joundi, Mohamed Kacimi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The Homeland actress’s “recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique” memoir (Publishers Weekly).
Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged...
The Upset
Jack Fleck's Incredible Victory over Ben Hogan at the U.S. Open
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Al Barkow, golf’s leading historian and story-teller, unfolds the improbable Ben HoganJack Fleck tale, and the results are as wondrous as the golf itself.” --Peter Kessler Jack Fleck had the slimmest of resumes as a professional tournament golfer. He had never even come close to winning...
by Al Walentis
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The crazy world of Jon and Kate Gosselin like you've never seen it before! Al Walentis reported on the story for Us Weekly and he delivers a pull-no-punches account of the madness of tabloid journalism, taking you behind the scenes to show what it was really like at ground zero when international...
by Al Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Short story by bank robber turned writer, Al Nussbaum which originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. This is the first in a series of previously published and unpublished manuscripts planned for release.
La fisica del diavolo
Maxwell, Schrödinger, Einstein e i paradossi del mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Jim Al-Khalili è un fisico teorico di eccezionale talento comunicativo. Per lui i paradossi apparentemente insolubili sono un'ottima occasione per spiegare come funziona la scienza. Per questo ne ha scelti nove, tra più e meno noti, e sulla loro traccia ha costruito questo libro, divertente, stimolante,...
by Al Menconi
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Al has taught the principles outlined in this book for more than thirty years. You’ll read the personal testimonies of many changed lives. Plus, you’ll learn about the many times God used music throughout the Bible. This is not a lecture or a series of instructions to keep. The biblical principles...
I Remember Jazz
Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their...
Barrel Of A Gun A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments In Combat
A War Correspondent’s Misspent Moments in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia or in Beirut during its bloody heyday." So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist filmmaker and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare on the ground and as the bullets are flying....
The Zafarani Files
An Egyptian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
An unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely-knit neighborhood in Cairo's old city, making notes. The college graduate, the street vendors, the political prisoner, the café owner, the taxi driver, the beautiful green-eyed young wife with the troll of a husband all are subjects...
The Sealed Nectar
Biography of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
onored by the World Muslim League as first prize winner book. Whoever wants to know the whole life style of the Prophet in detail must read this book. Muhammad (S) is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him, are severe against the disbelievers, and merciful among themselves. You see them...