Philip: 4665 books
by Philip Glass
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
**New York Times Bestseller
"Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times**
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century...
Blackhorse Riders
A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writer's Society of America
Finalist, 2013 Colby Award
Winner of the 2012 USA Best Book Award for Military History
Philip Keith's Blackhorse Riders is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that...
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters
An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEO
Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose...
by Philip Pomper
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
The gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother—Lenin—to revolution.
In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia’s tsar. Known as “Second...
St. Patrick of Ireland
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. We have no surviving image...
Paul McCartney
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.
Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost...
The Fellowship
The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature,...
Means of Escape
A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
"A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously."—Kirkus Reviews
For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo's classic memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War, here is his powerful recounting of his life and adventures, updated with a foreword that assesses the state of...
by Philip Gefter
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
**This "admiring and absorbing biography" (Deborah Solomon, The New York Times Book Review) charts Sam Wagstaff's incalculable influence on contemporary art, photography, and gay identity. **
A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure...
Hawthorne in Concord
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A richly textured account of the writer’s three sojourns in New England “illuminates Hawthorne’s art and the intellectual ferment originating in that small, bucolic town” (Publishers Weekly).
On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home,...
To Have and Have Another Revised Edition
A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Ernest Hemingway is nearly as famous for his drinking as he is for his writing. Throughout his collected works, Papa's sensuous explorations of the delights of imbibing engaged both his characters and his readers.
In To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, Philip Greene, cocktail...
Soul Survivor
How My Faith Survived the Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. "When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in...
I Love You, Miss Huddleston
And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.
Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and very funny" (The Wall Street Journal)
In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the most influential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughton draws on his crack reporting skills to describe his madcap years at Harvard...