Jim: 5732 books
by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Jim Harrison’s first novel—a walk on the wild side from “a force of nature in American letters” (The Seattle Times).
The *New York Times–*bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth—Jim...
RAF Liberator Over The Eastern Front
A Bomb Aimer's Second World War & Cold War Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Jim Auton was posted to 178 Squadron who were operating ex-USAAF, war-weary Liberator heavy bombers. This squadron he was based in Foggia in Italy, living under canvas without the barest of military or personal necessities. The duration of a tour at that time was 40 front-line operations over such...
by Jim Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
This little book is a lively, autobiographical account by Jim Lacey, cheerful skeptic, college teacher, novelist, sailor, lousy golfer, sojourner abroad, resident of Brooklyn, NY, and romantic Willimantic, CT. Experience kids' street games, ice-cream parlors and pubs, nun-run grammar school, college...
The Sky Suspended
A Fighter Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died and survived, is related with candour and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of...
Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!
Star Shell Reflections 1918–1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Jim Maultsaid’s third and final book, The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China! is based on his service with the 169 Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) between 1918 – 1919.
There were 96,000 Chinese volunteer in the CLC and their achievements have gone largely unrecognized for 100 years. As Jim Maultsaid’s...
A Time to Fight
Reclaiming a Fair and Just America
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos."
Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia—presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack...
Greatest Emancipations
How the West Abolished Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted...
The Shadow War
Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Are we losing a war few of us realize we’re fighting?
Jim Sciutto, CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible fronts that make up 21st century warfare, from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weapons.
Poisoned dissidents. Election interference....
A Passion to Lead
Seven Leadership Secrets for Success in Business, Sports, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Motivation…Success…Leadership…Passion. Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jim Calhoun shares his secrets for success for the first time ever.
Coach Jim Calhoun is one of the most successful coaches in college basketball history. Having sent countless players to the NBA, Coach Calhoun...
Wilson's War
How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War I I
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history
President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.”...
Addicted to Danger
Affirming Life in the Face of Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Adventurist Jim Wickwire has lived life on the edge -- literally. An eyewitness to glory, terror, and tragedy above 20,000 feet, he has braved bitter cold, blinding storms, and avalanches to become what the Los Angeles Times calls "one of America's most extraordinary and accomplished high-altitude...
by Jim Ring
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Immortalized as the author of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel.Childers was orphaned at an early age. Though he was brought up in County Wicklow, he received an English education that culminated in a clerkship to the...
Navajos Wear Nikes
A Reservation Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted...
Wisdom for Winners Volume Three
An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
If you learn something, you change your life.
If you teach something, you change another person’s life.
But if you teach someone to teach, you change the world.
On the heels of the bestselling success of The Ultimate Gift and the major motion picture from 20th Century Fox based on that book Jim...