Peter: 17025 books
Too Much to Dream
A Psychedelic American Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Growing up in the suburbs of Boston and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs, and Gilligan’s Island, Peter Bebergal was barely in his teens when the ancient desire to finding higher spiritual meaning in the universe struck. Already schooled in mysticism by way of comic books, Dungeons & Dragons,...
by Peter Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson’s Chief Inspector Alan Banks must turn to a murder committed in the 1960s in order to solve a present-day homicide as he races to uncover their common link.
1969 . . . In an era of free love and rebellion, a dead body is discovered among the...
by Peter Serafinowicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
'Comedy genius' David Walliams
'It's funny, but Peter Serafinowicz is the kind of funny person that funny people find funny' Simon Pegg
'Peter Serafinowicz is one of the funniest women in the world' Derren Brown
Jokes include:
'I like to put my Shredded Wheat through my...
The Great Parade
Broadway's Astonishing, Never-to-Be-Forgotten 1963-1964 Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
It was the Broadway season when Barbra Streisand demanded "Don't Rain on My Parade" and Carol Channing heard the waiters at the Harmonia Gardens say "Hello, Dolly!". From June 1, 1963 through the final day of May 31, 1964, theatergoers were offered 68 different productions: 24...
A People's History of the Supreme Court
The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped OurConstitution: Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court
Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work...
by Peter Cosgrove
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The best-selling autobiography of Australia's favourite military leader and Australia's newest Governor-General. the best-selling autobiography of Australia's favourite military leader and Australia's newest Governor-General. 'this book is my personal story, from boyhood to battlefield and beyond,...
Eyeing the Flash
The Education of a Carnival Con Artist
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The year is 1963, the setting is small-town Michigan. At age fifteen, Peter Fenton is a gawky math whiz schoolboy with a dissatisfied mother, a father who drinks himself to foolishness, and no chance whatsoever with girls. That's when he meets Jackie Barron.
Jackie is the unlikely progeny of...
by Peter Brandvold
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Peter Brandvold. These are the violent days (and reckless nights) of Lou Prophet, as told to his ink-stained confessor. Most of these recollections are brutal. Others are bloody. Some might even be true . . .
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LAST STAGE TO HELL
What do you get when you take one stagecoach out of Denver, add...
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
Rich in detail...
Revolution
The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory.
In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant...
Mutiny on the Bounty
A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.
Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold! 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
An affectionate and hilarious tribute to the childhood of another era, from one of Australia's favourite authors A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it...
The Anzac Girls
The extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never...