Best Biographies Of All Time - April 2024

When Breath Becomes Air

• ASIN: 081298840X
• UPC: 642688054472
• ASIN: 081298840X
• ISBN: 081298840X
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36'.”For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143125478
• UPC: 884832131572
• ASIN: 0143125478
• ISBN: 9780143125471
• Brand: Daniel James Brown
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Robin

• ASIN: 1627794247
• ASIN: 1627794247
• ISBN: 9781627794244
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

• ASIN: B004T4KXYQ
• ASIN: B004T4KXYQ
• Brand: Howard Books
• Manufacturer: Howard Books

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0465062881
• ASIN: 0465062881
• ISBN: 0465062881
• Brand: DA CAPO PRESS
• Manufacturer: Basic Books

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Manufacturer: Crown

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425261018
• ASIN: 0425261018
• ISBN: 0425261018
• Brand: Jenny Lawson
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, med... [Read More]

• ASIN: 074325807X
• ASIN: 074325807X
• ISBN: 9780743258074
• Brand: Walter Isaacson
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPRNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes • The Guardian • Wired Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1984819194
• ASIN: 1984819194
• ISBN: 1984819194
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

A Booklist Notable Book of 2012The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.   James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. But four months after Garfield's in... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0767929713
• ASIN: 0767929713
• ISBN: 0767929713
• Brand: Candice Millard
• Manufacturer: Anchor Books

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seve... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451695195
• ASIN: 1451695195
• ISBN: 1451695195
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain’s savior.” —Wall Street JournalIn this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101980990
• ASIN: 1101980990
• ISBN: 1101980990
• Manufacturer: Viking

A Short History of Nearly Everything

One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Ban... [Read More]

• ASIN: 076790818X
• ASIN: 076790818X
• ISBN: 076790818X
• Brand: Bryson, Bill
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: 0399590501
• ASIN: 0399590501
• Brand: Manning
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

• ASIN: 074324754X
• ASIN: 074324754X
• ISBN: 9780743247542
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Alice in Wonderland: The Complete Collection + A Biography of the Author (The Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time) - eBook

One of the English language's most popular and frequently quoted books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a distinguished scholar and mathematician who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis

• UPC: 221895797
• Rating: 3.96

The 100 Best Poems of All Time

An anthology of poetry from around the world includes works by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Poe, both Brownings, Dickinson, Eliot, Neruda, Plath, and Angelou, as well as poems and songs that have entered popular

• UPC: 1071285
• Rating: 4.0

The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time : A Mind-Blowing Challenge of Math, Logic, and Wordplay

Solve history's greatest puzzles with this classic collection of brain teasers from The Best Brain Teasers of All Time.The best brain teasers are those that have challenged and captivated the attention of puzzle lovers throughout

• UPC: 391173498

All Time Best Soups

A perfect soup recipe is one you make forever--it is comforting, nourishing, the very essence of flavor. In this handsome, focused cookbook, the experts at Cooks Illustrated boil the world of soups down to the

• UPC: 51330541
• Rating: 5.0

Who's Better, Who's Best in Basketball? : MR STATS Sets the Record Straight on the Top 50 NBA Players of All Time

ABC and ESPNUs "Mr. Stats" ranks the NBAUs greatest players of all time in this provocative and comprehensive

• UPC: 28323401

How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

9780684813790

• UPC: 25950397
• Rating: 4.0

Crockpot Recipes : The Top 100 Best Slow Cooker Recipes of All Time

Would you love to have delicious and healthy meals with little effort? Whether you want to (1) discover 100 of the best crockpot recipes of all time, (2) create delicious meals with little effort, or

• UPC: 570068207

Down to the Last Pitch : How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time

From acclaimed author Tim Wendel, the behind-the-headlines story of the Best World Series Ever, and the watershed season that propelled two of baseball s worst teams to dominance and ushered in baseball s modern era.

• UPC: 42083555
• Rating: 4.0

Crockpot Recipes : The Top 100 Best Slow Cooker Recipes of All Time

Would you love to have delicious and healthy meals with little effort? Whether you want to (1) discover 100 of the best crockpot recipes of all time, (2) create delicious meals with little effort, or

• UPC: 832766173

Time After Time: Best of (CD)

2009 collection from the 80s Pop diva whose quirky fashion and hook-filled Pop music made her a worldwide superstar. 14 tracks including Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Time After Time, True Colors, She Bop

• UPC: 29499131
• Rating: 1.0

BEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME: BUSTA RHYMES & NAS NEW DVD

• UPC: 381296665261
• Category: DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
• Price: 11 USD

BARBARA CARTLAND My LIFE IS a NOVEL Best Selling Romance Novelist of All Time

• UPC: 303472446646
• Category: DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
• Price: 7 USD

MUSIC VIDEO DIST DAE4022D BEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME-BUSTA RHYMES & NAS (DVD/2 ...

• UPC: 283791649560
• Category: DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
• Price: 13 USD

THE BEST OF ALL TIME HORROR CLASSICS CHRISTOPHER LEE AS NEW RARE PAL VHS VIDEO

• UPC: 123684720004
• Category: VHS Tapes
• Price: 5 AUD

Best Rappers of All Time: Busta Rhymes & Nas NEW DVD

• UPC: 184119894737
• Category: DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
• Price: 16 USD