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Memoir of a World War II Soldier (1941-1945) - From the Desert War of North Africa to the Allied Inv
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Ted Ellsworth was a young Dartmouth grad in 1941. In the years before the U.S. joined the Second World War effort, American men who wished to fight against Hitler were granted permission from President Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress to join the British army. In normal circumstance, fighting for another...
An Improvised Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five: "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was." An Improvised Life is the Oscar winner's wise and unpretentious recollection of the process--artistic...
by Aaron Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical-book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential musical writers' how-to. Among the topics:definitions...
Stretching My Mind
The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking works of the 1960s, most notably The American Dream (1960),...
by Bruce Lansky
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
You'll find a name for your new baby in this book! 15,000+ Baby Names was designed to let you easily scan through a list girls' and boys' names to find the right name for your new baby. This book includes: guidelines for naming your baby; names from a variety of racial, ethnic, and religioius backgrounds;...
100,000 + Baby Names
The most helpful, complete, & up-to-date name book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name book
What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby
Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including:
Hundreds of newly popular names and variations
The...
by Bruce Lansky
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
The Very Best Baby Name Book has 60,000+ names and 300+ helpful lists of names to consider, making it a leading choice for parents-to-be. It also includes several features such as how to throw a baby-name themed shower, outrageous names celebrities have given their babies, fascinating facts about...
The Black Prince And The Sea Devils
The Story Of Valerio Borghese And The Elite Units Of The Decima Mas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
At the beginning of World War II, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, dashing Italian nobleman, assembled the famous Decima MAS naval unit-the first modern naval commando squad. Borghese's "frogmen" were trained to fight undercover and underwater with small submarines and assault boats armed...
White Eskimo
Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made...
My Father's Wake
How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death
Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County...
Naked Wine
Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics-wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them “overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown” and makes her case...
The Weight of Being
How I Satisfied My Hunger for Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A brutally honest story about being fat in America--and one woman's experience with radical weight loss after a lifetime of fat shaming
Kara Richardson Whitely thought she could do anything. After all, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro-three times! But now she's off the mountain and back home again,...
Pigs Can't Swim
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family.
With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild--and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism,...
Stealth Patrol
The Making Of A Vietnam Ranger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
From Stealth Patrol:"He spoke in a sort of clipped cadence, his words tumbling out quickly, one on top of the other; and his voice was deep and throaty, the way a bear might sound, if he could talk, after a night of drinking. 'Basically I'm here recruiting guys for the Lurps.... We operate in...