Matthew: 5036 books
Hear No Evil
My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
**Every Life Has a Soundtrack. **
If you’ve ever had the opening bars of a song transport you back in time or remind you of a pivotal spiritual moment, Matthew Paul Turner’s honest—and frequently hilarious—musings will strike a chord. Straightforward and amusing, Hear No Evil is Turner’s...
Then They Came for Me
Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Communist..."
Few today recognize the name Martin Niemöller, though many know his famous confession. In Then They Came for Me, Matthew Hockenos traces Niemöller's evolution from a Nazi supporter to...
The Twelve Caesars
The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars
One of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname...
Ten Years a Nomad
A Traveler's Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad.
"Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world...
Running to the Edge
A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**"Gripping . . . the narrative is smooth and immediate, almost effortless in its detail, if occasionally breathless, like a good fast run . . ." --The New York Times Book Review
Visionary American running coach Bob Larsen assembled a mismatched team of elite California runners ....
Bruce Lee
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate” (The New York Times Book Review).
The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a...
by Matthew Tannenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
The proprietor of the “The Bookstore” in Lenox, MA, the author, Matthew Tannenbaum, reflects on getting his start at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. He writes, “I am very fortunate to have found Frances Steloff, founder of The Gotham Book Mart, when I was a very young man, and she turned me into the bookman that I have since become.
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization.
In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces...
Sugarhouse
Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage
When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set their sights instead on the purchase of a...
The Persecution of Sarah Palin
How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The real story of the Republican vice presidential nominee and her collision with the elite liberal media
As the second woman ever nominated as a candidate for vice president, Alaska governor Sarah Palin became an instant phenomenon. Americans were enthralled by a woman with charm, ambition,...
Dividing the Union
Jesse Burgess Thomas and the Making of the Missouri Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2016
In 1820 the Missouri controversy erupted over the issue of slavery in the newly acquired lands of the Louisiana Purchase. It fell to Jesse Burgess Thomas (1777–1853), a junior U.S. senator from the new state of Illinois,...
Freud's Requiem
Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
In this absorbing, thoughtful narrative, a young writer explores Sigmund Freud’s provocative ideas on creativity and mortality and their roots in his history, while searching for broader lessons about love, memory, mourning, and creativity.
Written in 1915 during winter and wartime, Freud’s...
Queen Victoria
A Life of Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name.
Victoria...
Livia, Empress of Rome
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history.
Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of...