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A Backward Glance
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1998
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her...
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by Ernest Hemingway
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Paris é uma Festa encontra-se na linha da melhor tradição de Hemingway. A visão a um tempo lúcida e desencantada da vida, ombreando paradoxalmente com a confiança e a plenitude dos anos de criação, o retrato objetivo de muitos dos grandes escritores da nossa época que, como ele, respiravam...
Midstream
An Unfinished Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The final book—a memoir on which he was working at the time of his death—from Reynolds Price, “one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction” (The New York Times).
In her foreword, Anne Tyler calls Reynolds Price “an exclamation point in a landscape of mostly declarative...
A House in the Sky
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught.
Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and...
Gabby
A Story of Courage and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
From one of the most admired and beloved couples in recent American history, an extraordinarily moving story of public service, risk-taking, romance—and the journey toward recovery. This book delivers hope and redemption in the face of the tragic shooting, and introduces two unforgettable heroes.
AS...
A Mighty Heart
The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan...And then came the broadcast of his shocking murder. The complete account of his abduction, the intense effort to rescue him, and the aftermath are told here - in astonishing...
Rumsfeld
His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Donald Rumsfeld, who as secretary of defense oversaw the army, navy, air force, and marines from 2001 to December 2006, is widely blamed for the catastrophic state of America's involvement in Iraq. In his groundbreaking book Rumsfeld, Washington insider Andrew Cockburn details Rumsfeld's decisions...
Forged in Crisis
The Making of Five Courageous Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
“Five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history…a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic” —Angela Duckworth, #1 bestselling author of Grit
An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership...
Barbara Bush
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The classic #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, celebrating the life and legacy of First Lady Barbara Bush—now updated with new forewords from her five children, including reflections from George W. and Jeb, as featured on A&E’s Biography.
Barbara Bush endures as one of America’s...
Heart
An American Medical Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.
For as long...
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty
An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization” (The New York Times), told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist,...
All the Best, George Bush
My Life in Letters and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an honorable American leader” (The Washington Post).
“Who knew that beneath George Bush’s buttoned-up propriety pulsed the...
Lincoln's Gamble
The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention...
by Jim McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
"We are not the sum of our possessions. They are not the measures of our lives. In our hearts, we know what matters. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend; a loving parent; a citizen...