Model Number: BBSS0743214471DLDA
Author: Kranz, Gene
In this book, Gene Kranz, the veteran mission controller of America's manned space program, recounts the thrilling historic events leading to Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon. Rendering details of the missions from Mercury to Apollo 13, Kranz also recalls the harrowing task of bringing three Apollo ...more »
Model Number: BBR9780307352682DLDA
Author: Eliot, Marc
Jimmy Stewart's all-American good looks, boyish charm, and deceptively easygoing style of acting made him one of Hollywood's greatest and most enduring stars. Despite the indelible image he projected of innocence and quiet self-assurance, Stewart's life was more complex and sophisticated than most of ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0684845245DLDA
Author: McCourt, Frank
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes , has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles ...more »
Model Number: BBR1588365069DLDA
Author: Miller, Bode
"I don't master the mountain, I master speed." Coming from Bode Miller, this isn't boasting, it's just the way he lives: fast, honest, and wide open. In this candid book, the two-time Olympic medalist and champion skier shares his story, the secret of his success, and his philosophy of life ...more »
Model Number: BBR9781588365460DLDA
Author: Ebadi, Shirin
The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743218213DLDA
Author: Wright, David
FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THIS IS THE TRUE-LIFE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL COAST GUARD AND ONE CREW OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEROES WHO FOUGHT STORMS AND SAVED LIVES OFF NORTH CAROLINA'S OUTER BANKS. Fire on the Beach recovers a lost gem of American history. It tells the story of the U.S. ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375504591DLDA
Author: SMITH, DEAN E.
Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men ...more »
Model Number: BBR0679641947DLDA
Author: ST. AUGUSTINE
'The reader who has never met Augustine before ought to go first of all to the Confessions,' reflected the Trappist monk and scholar Thomas Merton. 'Augustine lived the theology that he wrote. . . . He experienced the reality of Christ living in his own soul.' Saint Augustine, the celebrated theologian ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743486412DLDA
Author: Cascone, Gina
With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by the author who has been crowned the Patron Saint of Humor. Before the Sopranos, there were the Cascones....Life al Dente, the new memoir from the author ...more »
Model Number: BBR0767911296DLDA
Author: DEMEO, ALBERT
A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life Sopranos: The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer, who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia family life. Al DeMeo will never forget the day in ...more »
Model Number: BBALQYHSXXKATODLDA
Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
Letters of a Woman Homesteader presents an outstanding first-person account of life on the American frontier. Elinore Pruitt Stewart took up homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming, in 1909, to prove that a woman could ranch. Her captivating letters reveal the isolation, the beauty, and the joy of working ...more »