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by George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In this candid and gripping memoir, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.
George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his...
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Master your game from the inside out!
With more than 800,000 copies sold since it was first published thirty years ago, this phenomenally successful guide has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Not just for tennis players, or even just for athletes in general, this handbook...
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Mayan Ruins, Xenotes, And... Kaoties!
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In her fourth book Bea W Meyer takes the reader on a resort-style vacation to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Funny episodes alternate with useful information about sights to see and things to do in an area full of natural wonders and ancient Mayan history. This is not your everyday travel book but rather an entertaining log of a two week vacation in a region well worth while visiting.
W.C. Fields by Himself
His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. Now his grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of previously unpublished material into...
Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
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Historically, the British were...
by Robert W. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
A murdered bride. A suspicious groom. Can Poe catch the killer before the anchor drops?
Edgar Allan "Poe" Rutherford is ready to dive back into his work as Maui’s top private investigator. But before he can unpack his suitcase, his sister-in-law begs him to photograph her client’s...
Heirs of the Founders
The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy
In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
Think Bigger
And 39 Other Winning Strategies from Successful Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
What does it take to succeed today both personally and professionally?
In looking for answers, one obvious place to start would be to talk to self-made men and women who themselves are successful. That's exactly what Michael W. Sonnenfeldt—an accomplished entrepreneur—has done here in this...
The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.
In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American...
by H.W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
From the early years of fur trading to today's Silicon Valley empires, America has proved to be an extraordinarily fertile land for the creation of enormous fortunes. Each generation has produced one or two phenomenally successful leaders, often in new industries that caught contemporaries by surprise,...
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001.
On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald’s harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined “silences” of our time. In it,...
My Tour In Hell
Early Years Supplement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This eBook contains the "extras", bonus material, and deleted scenes from David W. Powell's original memoir My Tour in Hell: A Marine's Battle with Combat Trauma. In this new posthumous edition, we get an intimate look at David's life in previously undocumented stages:
Growing up...
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
& A Last Diary
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, The Journal of a Disappointed Man presents a remarkable memoir that addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet author W. N. P. Barbellion manages to write with uplifting eloquence...
The Last Victorians
A Daring Reassessment of Four Twentieth Century Eccentrics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the longreigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed...