Nick: 3195 books
by Nick Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Of all the straight talking bands thrown up in the Seventies punk explosion, none talked straighter than The Clash. Fiercely proud of their rebel status, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon rarely wavered in their commitment to spreading a message of social justice through their...
Willie Nelson
An Epic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
From his first performance at age four, Willie Nelson was driven to make music and live life on his own terms. But though he is a songwriter of exceptional depth - "Crazy" was one of his early classics - Willie only found success after abandoning Nashville and moving to Austin, Texas.
Red...
Apathy for the devil
Memorie dagli anni Settanta
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Sedici anni dopo la raccolta di scritti "The Dark Stuff," Nick Kent torna a raccontare gli anni Settanta, l'era dorata del rock. Ma questa volta lo fa in prima persona, spalancando i suoi ricordi personali su quegli anni belli e difficili, eccitanti e turbolenti. Lui era lì, almostfamous,...
Rebel
My Life Outside the Lines
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The legendary icon tells his story—a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, as intense and hypnotic as the man himself.
In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to leading roles and Oscar nominations, he has been...
Young Benjamin Franklin
The Birth of Ingenuity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.
From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has...
Wish You Were Here
The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
“This amusing, sad, and heartfelt look at [Adams’s] lifeis a true gift.”—New York Post
It all started when Douglas Adams demolished planet Earth in order to make way for an intergalactic expressway—and then invited everyone to thumb a ride on a comical cosmic road trip in The Hitchhiker’s...
by Nick Hornby
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy.
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field.
Nick Hornby has been...
La verdad, como la belleza, pertenece a quien puede verla,...
Diario de autoconocimiento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2019
El subtítulo lo dice todo, es un diario real de autoconocimiento.
..Esto lo podrás leer mil veces, pero solo lo creerás, cuando tú tengas la experiencia: puede que haya cosas malas y buenas, pero únicamente te hace sufrir el juicio que haces de ellas. No aceptar lo que es, es lo único...
Karzai
The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The untold story of Hamid Karzai's dramatic rise to the presidency of Afghanistan and the problems he and his country face
In 2004, Hamid Karzai was elected president in Afghanistan's first-ever democratic election. Today, criticized for indecisiveness and targeted for assassination by extremists,...
Judgment Days
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s up-close account of how a white president and a black minister ultimately came together to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
They were the unlikeliest of partners: a white Texan politician and an African American minister who led a revolution. But together, President...
The Swing
Mastering the Principles of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Not since Ben Hogan in the 1950s has a dominant player so thoroughly addressed golf's central enigma: how to develop and repeat an effective swing, the only way any player can hope to truly improve.
In the early '90s, after years of struggle and determination, Nick Price emerged as the world's...
Fan Mail
Twenty Years of Writing About Soccer (an eBook original from Riverhead Books)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A new collection of soccer writing by the bestselling author of Fever Pitch.
After the phenomenal success of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tried to avoid writing about soccer, for fear that he'd be writing about it forever. But occasionally over the years he’s found it impossible to turn down...
Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Texas
A Year in the Life of Lone Star Football, from High School to College to the Cowboys
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A veteran Texas sports writer offers a lively, up-close look at football in Texas—the fullest portrait ever conceived—viewed through the interwoven stories of three teams, Plano Senior High School, Baylor University, and the Dallas Cowboys, during one season.
In Texas, Friday, Saturday,...
Pray
Notes on a Football Season
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011–2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and...