Model Number: BBALWHBMSINIQPDLDA
Author: Garrett, Pat
The Noted Desperado of the Southwest, Whose Deeds of Daring and Blood made His Name A Terror in New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico-- By Pat Garrett--Sheriff of Lincoln Co., N.M., By Whom He Was Finally Hunted Down and Captured By Killing Him. more »
Model Number: BBSS0743200896DLDA
Author: Marks, Leo
Leo Marks left his father's famous London bookshop in 1942, to go and fight in the war. Recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies. SOE had been created in July 1940 ...more »
Model Number: BBR0767908988DLDA
Author: LACHENMEYER, NATHANIEL
The Outsider is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son, Nathaniel. But within a few short years, schizophrenia ...more »
Model Number: BBR1400079012DLDA
Author: FREY, JAMES
At the age of twenty-three, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his four front teeth had been knocked out. His nose was broken and there was a hole through his cheek. He had no idea where the plane was headed or what had happened over the preceding two weeks. He had been an alcoholic for ten years ...more »
Model Number: BBR1588362604DLDA
Author: Burr, Chandler
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Suskinds novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the last ...more »
Model Number: BBAL3894807059DLDA
Author: Shakib, Siba
Als die Dokumentarfilmerin Siba Shakib in einem afghanischen Flüchtlingslager Shirin-Gol begegnet, sieht sie nur den blauen Ganzkörperschleier, hinter dem die Frauen Afghanistans ihren Körper verstecken müssen. Doch als sie die ruhige weiche Stimme Shirin-Gols hört, spürt sie eine Kraft, die sie nicht ...more »
Model Number: BBR0385505418DLDA
Author: FOWLER, CONNIE MAY
Bestselling author Connie May Fowler tells her own extraordinary story for the first time-the harrowing years of her childhood followed by the abusive relationship she endured as a young woman-and how the unconditional love of her dog helped her escape her physical and emotional bonds. Before Women Had ...more »
Model Number: BBR0385504748DLDA
Author: JONES, QUINCY
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743491629DLDA
Author: MacLaine, Shirley
From the internationally bestselling author and beloved actress comes a brilliantly fun-loving and inspiring story of unconditional love. Shirley MacLaine has found a perfect love in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that is Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375506551DLDA
Author: KOGAN, DEBORAH COPAKEN
What if the protagonist in that age-old tale--boy goes to war, comes back a man--were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743213297DLDA
Author: O'Donnell, Patrick K.
There has never been a book like this, the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves. Beyond Valor, perhaps the most honest and brutal account of combat ever printed, is one of the most inspiring accounts of war ever produced, revealing shockingly frank reflections ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743453042DLDA
Author: Iwasaki, Mineko
GEISHA, A LIFE No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out. Celebrated ...more »