Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 (16) Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to his son and our 46th president. Featuring such... Verifica stoc
Beautiful Stranger ♡ 22 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 In a quest to boost her low self esteem, Hope Donahue turned to altering her appearance through cosmetic surgery. By the age of 27 she
Maya Lin : Thinking with Her Hands ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous pieces of civic architecture in the world. But most people are not
Everyday Madness ♡ 21 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it
My Broken Language ♡ 7 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 'Quiara Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.' -
Of Me and Others ♡ 23 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 The essential essay collection by one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox co...
Charles: Our Future King ♡ 23 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson's biography provides a fresh insight into the extraord...
Undivided ♡ 18 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Vicky Beeching, called 'arguably the most influential Christian of her generation' in The Guardian, began writing songs for the church in her teens. By the
The New Boy ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The animals always win in the Tovey household and this time is no exception. It is with the interests of Solomon's (very audibly) grieving sister
I Carried a Watermelon ♡ 18 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 'Massively enjoyable.' Dawn French I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand's
When I Had a Little Sister ♡ 19 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 When I had a Little Sister, de Catherine Simpson, este o relatare extrem de sinceră și sfâșietoare a creșterii într-o familie de fermieri și a
When I Had a Little Sister ♡ 16 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 'If you loved Tara Westover's Educated, get yourself a copy of When I Had a Little Sister as soon as humanly possible...beautifully under-stated...a startling, elegiac
Hero's Body ♡ 20 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Un memoriu despre motociclete și mușchi, despre obsesie și durere și despre un tânăr care a învățat să rămână în viață prin literatură. La doar
Love in the Blitz ♡ 22 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Eileen Alexander fell in love amidst the falling of bombs, finding a quotation from poetry at every turn. Graduating from Cambridge in 1939, she had
White Boy Running ♡ 25 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.01/5 In the run up to the 1987 election, Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a 12-year absence. The nature of that year's
Street to Recovery ♡ 20 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Curly Watts is a TV icon - for twenty years appearing on millions of TV screens around the country in Coronation Street. Kevin Kennedy is
A Letter from Paris ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a Frenchwoman called Coralie, who has found a cache of letters in an attic, written about Louisa's father,
Dad's Maybe Book ♡ 19 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The bestselling author of The Things They Carried and If I Die in a Combat Zone shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned
Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples ♡ 20 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Weaving the intrigue of a romance with the haunting evocation of a legendary Mediterranean city, Dan Hofstadter reveals Naples to us. He is our guide
Idiot Wind ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 The memoir of one man's journey from addiction back to sobriety and sanity via the road
Foot ♡ 20 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 In FOOT, Kathy Vanderlinden has collected a closetful of fascinating information about the physical foot, foot fashion, foot fetishism and other aspects of that part
The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot ♡ 16 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters.
Charlotte ♡ 20 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Born into the famous, sometimes scandalous, theatrical clan of Colley Cibber, Charlotte was an actress destined for greatness. But she rebelled, and started dressing as
No Storm Lasts Forever ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 As a cardiologist, Dr Terry Gordon dealt with life-and-death circumstances on a daily basis. Helearned that life is precious and tenuous it can change in
Carlos Acosta ♡ 22 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.00/5 Carlos Acosta grew up in a shantytown in Fidel Castro's politically isolated Cuba. Like many boys, he'd skip school to play football or breakdance with
Bowland Beth ♡ 16 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.98/5 The story of the short life and tragic death of Bowland Beth - an English Hen Harrier - which dramatically highlights the major issues in
An Ancient Air ♡ 18 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 An Ancient Air portrays the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man in the world to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable.
Bad Machine ♡ 17 7 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.99/5 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize The body is the `bad machine' of George Szirtes' latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly
Monsieur Mediocre ♡ 15 10 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 'John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling for
Camera Girl ♡ 26 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a
An Ordinary Soldier ♡ 27 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in
A book of secrets ♡ 24 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second
Maeve's Times ♡ 26 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I
Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have
Arnold Schwarzenegger ♡ 15 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Arnold Schwarzenegger - un culturist devenit mogul imobiliar care a transformat o serie neînvinsă la concursul Mr Olympia într-o carieră cinematografică uluitoare și opt...
Aaronsohn's Maps ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at
Nothing Else to Fear ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 David Ellis and his family were missionaries in Indonesia, where they were frequently the target of anti-Western violence. In the many terrifying - and sometimes
Invisible ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 'She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white
Emissaries of Satan ♡ 25 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 Michael Ross. Kenneth Bianchi. John Scripps. These are truly the servants of hell, three savage killers without a shred of soul between them. Michael Ross
Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 Serving as a perfect introduction to this well-known French writer, Flaubert scholar Meryl Tyers’ work covers the remarkable life of the renowned author of Madame
Banksy ♡ 17 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is
Targeter ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 A revealing and utterly engrossing account' (Joby Warrick) of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets
Touch and Go ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War
Raoul Wallenberg ♡ 18 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the
The Murray Edwards Duse Collection ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that
Trump on Trump ♡ 15 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Un lucru nu poate fi negat despre Donald Trump, faptul că spune ce gândește... și rezultatele sunt fascinante! Aflați cum funcționează această minte citindu-i cuvintele....
Scratched ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 'Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest
Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...
The Day That Changed My Life ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's women and the extraordinary moments...
Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton ♡ 21 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 The first modern biography of this notable politician 'Mach's detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressiv...
Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments ♡ 23 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.96/5 Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses
The late child and other animals ♡ 18 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the
Here We Are: To Migrate to America ♡ 20 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of Casablanca--in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival
Why I Left America And Other Essays ♡ 19 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him
My Friend, Julia Lathrop ♡ 16 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for
Langston Hughes ♡ 28 12 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.97/5 A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.