Model Number: BBR0767913108DLDA
Author: KIMMEL, HAVEN
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743213432DLDA
Author: Donald, David Herbert
Here is an intimate glimpse of the sixteenth president as husband and father -- a cheerful man when he played with his children; a desolate man struck down with grief at the death of his son. The desperately busy and distracted man who managed one of the most difficult periods in American history was ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743211545DLDA
Author: Price, Reynolds
Here are the personal essays Reynolds Price broadacst on NPR's All Things Considered between 1995 and 2000, recounting his past and examining the details of his current experience as a writer, teacher, traveler, and general witness of the world. In these amusing, revealing, and refreshing pieces, Price ...more »
Model Number: BBR0767909534DLDA
Author: DUNOW, HENRY
When Henry Dunow signs up to coach his son Max's Little League team on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he finds himself looking back on his own childhood and his father, Moishe, a Yiddish writer and refugee from Hitler's Europe, who had considered recreation like playing catch with his son narishkeit , ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416510842DLDA
Author: Hamilton, Bethany
The amazing story of the thirteen-year-old surfer girl who lost her arm in a shark attack but never lost her faith -- and of her triumphant return to competitive surfing. They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the tremendous passion that drives her to surf? How ...more »
Model Number: BBR1588361950DLDA
Author: GRUENFELD, LEE
The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life--an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived. Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_22083DLDA
Author: Giebl, Josefine Katharina
Die einundachtzigjährige Autorin Josefine Giebl schildert in ihrem Buch die Wandlung der Gesellschaft vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert anhand der Lebensgeschichte ihrer Mutter. In gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen aufgewachsen, begann diese ihre berufliche Laufbahn bei gut betuchten adeligen Familien als Erzieherin ...more »
Model Number: BBTW1401398936DLDA
Author: Sikov, Ed
The first American biography of one of film s greatest comedians, MR. STRANGELOVE is the story of a screamingly funny, desperately unhappy soul a man who thought he was empty. Sellers, who could mimic anyone and don any mask at will, was privately convinced that his personality had no core that there ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412100992DLDA
Author: Darwin, Charles
In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author. Thus it comes about that the chief part ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743217012DLDA
Author: Smith, Jean Edward
The man Ulysses S. Grant most admired was Abraham Lincoln. In the Civil War, the aim of the four-star general was always to carry out Lincoln's policies. Grant's accomplishments as president were as considerable as his military victories, but he was over-trusting of friends who abused his trust. Eventually ...more »
