Walker Walker: 3764 books
This Is Not A Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
by KB Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
When a mother faces the ultimate threat, the suffering and potential loss of her child, every human resource kicks in, including faith. A Life Less Lost charts the author’s journey through white coats, misdiagnoses, endless appointments & more. KB Walker connects stories from her American childhood...
Coming Back Alive
The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.
One hundred fifty...
Ivory's Ghosts
The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post
Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today,...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar
A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America’s bloodiest battle ever—World War I’s Meuse-Argonne Offensive—and the shocking American cover-up at its heart.
The year is 1918. German engineers have fortified Montfaucon, an elevated fortress in northern France, with...
Legends and Lies
Great Mysteries of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, for example, go down swinging Ol' Betsy, defending the ramparts of the Alamo--or was he captured? Who is buried in...
The Southern Forest
A Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used—and abused—the forest over...
The Seventymile Kid
The Lost Legacy of Harry Karstens and the First Ascent of Mount McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
CLICK HERE to download the first two chapters from The Seventymile Kid
* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley—setting the record straight
* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley's first ascent
* Features archival photographs, including...
by David Walker And Henry Highland Garnet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Nancy Howland Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Instant Songwriting is the ultimate how-to book for musical improvisers and an excellent resource for songwriters. With over two decades of musical improv experience, Nancy Howland Walker guides you with clear, logical and fun step-by-step exercises, from the very basics of putting a song together,...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy
The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected Nazi agent who died a mysterious death - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy.
Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a...
Maralinga
The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
The facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing.
This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light...
The Caves of Perigord
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2002
In a brilliant and ambitious thriller that combines elements of Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear and Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth into a riveting, multifaceted tale of love, art, courage, and war, Martin Walker brings to life the creation of an extraordinary work of prehistoric cave...
The Long Hangover
Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great again. Walker not...