Model Number: BBALLKSMOHMHHVDLDA
Author: Rose, John Holland
In his temperament as in the circumstances of his time the young Buonaparte was destined for an extraordinary career. Into a tottering civilization he burst with all the masterful force of an Alaric. But he was an Alaric of the south, uniting the untamed strength of his island kindred with the mental ...more »
Model Number: BBR0679462716DLDA
Author: KRAKAUER, JON
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus ...more »
Model Number: BBAL3894806834DLDA
Author: McGibbon, Robin
Eminem: Kotzbrocken für die einen, rebellischer Held für die anderen. Kaum ein Musikkünstler hat je so stark polarisiert wie der 28-jährige amerikanische Rapper Eminem. Marshall Bruce Mathers III., so sein bürgerlicher Name, wuchs ohne Vater und unter ärmlichsten Bedingungen in den schlimmsten Gegenden ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412113393DLDA
Author: Keller, Helen
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist. The task of writing an autobiography is a difficult one. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554458129DLDA
Author: Anonymous
This brief life of Queen Victoria gives the salient features of her reign, including the domestic and public life, with a glance at the wonderful history and progress of our country during the past half-century. In the space at command it has been impossible to give extended treatment. The history is ...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: 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 »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_8825DLDA
Author: Christ, Lena
Die frühe Autobiografie einer Frau, die Ende des 19. Jahrhundert als Kind vom Dorf nach München geriet und auch dort ihr Glück nicht fand. In der Sozialgeschichte der Literatur steht das Werk von Lena Christ exemplarisch für den Kunstrang, den eine 'Literatur von unten' erreichen kann . (Werner Schmitz ...more »
