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by . Karen Karbo
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
The Oregon Book Awards presented the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction to Karen Karbo for The Stuff of Life.
When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the...
Futebol
Soccer, The Brazilian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A new and updated edition of bestselling author Alex Bellos's classic book on soccer, unforgettably capturing the game at the heart of the Brazilian national identity.
Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians...
The International Bank of Bob
Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make...
My First Coup d'Etat
And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
MY FIRST COUP D'ETAT is a literary nonfiction account that charts the coming of age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of that first coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father was suddenly missing....
Reinventing America's Schools
Creating a 21st Century Education System
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
**From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education.
In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform,...
by James Geary
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms-and the last few years to organizing, indexing, and even translating them. The result is Geary's Guide, featuring aphorists like Voltaire, Twain, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Emily Dickinson, and Mae...
by Piers Paul Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune...
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers,...
White Angels
Beckham, the Real Madrid, and the New Football
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
A look at soccer superstar David Beckham, the Real Madrid team he joined in 2003, and at how this combination has forever changed the face of the world's most popular sport.
The Golden Scales
A Makana Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry.
In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring...
The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the old and the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with the desperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and...
The Ghost Runner
A Makana Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets.
Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his...
by Celia Imrie
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice.
With its beautiful villas, its bustling cafes and shimmering...
Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?
A Beginner's Guide, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The only question more popular among the Jewish people than "have you eaten yet?" is "Yes, But Is It Good for the Jews?" Jews have long considered everything from current events to dinner menus to NBC's fall lineup through this essential prism. Revealed here for the first time is the ancient method...
How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone
The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Whether you're a war correspondent or an aid worker, a tourist worried about an increasingly hostile world or an armchair traveler concerned that your own backyard is fast becoming a war zone, How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone will help you survive some of the world's most volatile environments.
Well-traveled...