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by Stephen Downes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius. A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return...
by Andrew Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Amazing stories! Incredible quotes! Sordid details! This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love.” — Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors
What do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have...
Rousseau's Dog
Two Great Thinkers At War in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And...
Limbo
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could...
Meant To Be
The True Story of a Son Who Discovers He Is His Mother's Deepest Secret
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Published to strong reviews and major media attention, this heartfelt and inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the highly regarded CEO of Parade Publications tells the emotional story of how he came to terms with an identity and a family that he never knew he had until he reached middle age.
Meant...
The Kind Of Life It's Been
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
For sixty years, Lloyd Robertson lived his dream of working in broadcasting, bringing us the major events of the day. The longest-serving national TV news anchor in Canadian history, first for CBC and then for CTV, Robertson remains one of the most accomplished journalists of our time. His career...
My Life Among the Serial Killers
Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary...
Wasted
A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and...
by Theodore H. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized...
Abraham Lincoln
The Man Behind the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday
“Here, in these pages, Lincoln is still alive.” —Los Angeles Times
From Stephen B. Oates comes a riveting companion to his seminal Lincoln biography With Malice Toward None....
First Families
The Impact of the White House on Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
What is it like to be America's First Family? In this wonderfully engaging book, Bonnie Angelo, Time correspondent and acclaimed author of First Mothers, probes two hundred years of American history to tell the story of real life within the White House walls—how presidents, their wives, children,...
Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years,...
Against All Odds
A Life from Hardship to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s...
Somewhere Inside
One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first ever trial of an American...