Tim: 4567 books
Chance Encounters
Tales from a Varied Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
"I met Frank Sinatra through Robert Maxwell. That's if you can be said to have met someone who was on a private jet with you for fourteen hours and never spoke to you." So begins Chance Encounters, a charming insight into the extraordinary people, places and politics experienced in one varied...
Lennon
The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.
Riley portrays Lennon's rise from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal Variety Show; from...
by Tim Grierson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In this comprehensive and probing biography, Tim Grierson examines Wilco’s history, discussing each of their albums in detail and exploring their often divisive 20-year output.
With an eclectic blend of country, alternative rock and classic pop, Wilco was born out of the influential alt-country...
by Tim Z. Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted...
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
**A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried
"One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam."
—Minneapolis Star and Tribune**
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave...
Bad Singer
The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Author and journalist Tim Falconer — a self-confessed “bad singer” — is one of only 2.5 percent of the population that has been afflicted with amusia, ie: he is scientifically tone-deaf.
Bad Singer chronicles his quest to understand the brain science behind tone-deafness and to search...
Parallel Play
Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn’t know he had Asperger’s syndrome until he became a man.
In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and illuminating.”...
by Tim Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Karpal Singh is widely regarded as the best criminal and constitutional lawyer practising in Malaysia today. Since graduating from the University of Singapore in 1969 he has been a fearless, intelligent advocate for justice and a defender of human rights in South East Asia, and has appeared in the Privy...
by Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
FormerUniversity of Florida star quarterback, 2010 first-round draft pick for theDenver Broncos, and devout Christian Tim Tebow tellsthe story of his faith, his life, and his career in football in Through MyEyes. Written with Nathan Whitaker, the New York Times bestsellingcoauthor of Quiet Strength,with...
William
HRH Prince William of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As the boy prince turns into the man who would be king, interest in Prince William is at an unprecedented height in 2003, the year of his twenty-first birthday. Seen as the vital link between the traditions of the Royal Family and the more populist, modern approach of his late mother, Diana, Princess...
George I (Penguin Monarchs)
The Lucky King
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.
Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to become, first the ruler of...
Knuckler
My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
At forty-four years old, Tim Wakefield is the longest-serving member of one of baseball’s most popular franchises. He is close to eclipsing the winning records of two of the greatest pitchers to have played the game, yet few realize the full measure of his success. That his career can be characterized...
The Man Watching
Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina Women's Soccer Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
As coach of the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, Anson Dorrance has won more than 90 percent of his games, groomed far more All-Americans, and captured more NCAA championships than any other coach in the sport ten times over. Author Tim Crothers spent four years interviewing Dorrance...
Challenging Beliefs
Memoirs of a Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Tim Noakes is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right. Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined the way elite athletes and teams approach their professions,...