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Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (336 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The Shocking Truth Behind Marilyn's Death--Revealed at Last She was an icon, a sex symbol, and a living legend. But when she was found naked and dead on the morning of August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe became the subject of a mystery that has fascinated and perplexed the world for generations. Was her death an accident? Suicide? Or murder? In this riveting account, private investigators Gregory and Speriglio uncover startling evidence that may solve...
42) Alfred the Great
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages).
Language
English
Description
Why is Alfred "the Great?" A simple answer is that he has been seen as a man who saved England, invented English identity and pioneered English as a written language. He is the first Englishman for whom a biography survives, so we know more about Alfred and his ideals than we do for most people who lived over 1,000 years ago. A slightly longer answer would say that things are a bit more complicated, and that one reason Alfred seems to be so "great"...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages).
Language
English
Description
In 218, Hannibal Barca, desperate to avenge the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War, launched an ambitious ground invasion of Italy. With just a small force, he crossed the Alps and pitted his polyglot army against Rome's elite citizen infantry. At Cannae, in 216, Hannibal destroyed an 80,000-strong Roman force in one afternoon, delivering a blow unequalled in Roman history for half a millennium to come. The Romans had no answer to Hannibal...
Author
Publisher
Parthian Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
Portugal is not all that far away, or exotic, or dangerous, but it felt like a huge stretch for me to leave my partner, family, job and home and just go off. An overland solo trip lasting months in an ancient little camper van was not the kind of thing I did. But it was something I was about to do." In her debut memoir A Van of One's Own, Biddy Wells tells the story of how, propelled by a thirst for peace and quiet, for a modest adventure and, perhaps,...
Publisher
BookCaps
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
They work in the shadow of America's greatest leaders; without them, the White House could not function. They are the ushers and butlers of the White House. This short book traces the history of White House staff from the very beginning. It includes profiles of some of the most influential members, including Alonzo Fields and Eugene Allen. HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We...
Author
Publisher
Dennis McLelland
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The Dust Never Settles on a Legend clearly spells out the purpose of this book. The legend of Liver-Eating Johnston stretches and contracts. His biography is organic - it lives and breathes, as new revelations and information about "Liver-eat" Johnston emerges from long-buried chronicles of actual and imagined wilderness deeds. John H. Alexander wrote, "Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add...
Author
Publisher
David Barth
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This is a true story as told to the author by a very intelligent man who didn't want to do ordinary jobs in life. He flew on cargo planes in Vietnam, was a river raft guide, ran a team of horses in a Montana logging operation, farmed in Colorado, was a nurse, and was a mental health professional who ran a wagon train from New Mexico northward as therapy for persons with mental disorders. Later, he became an accomplished telemarketer. --Provided by...
48) The Port Hope Simpson Diaries, 1969-70: Volume 1 :Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada : Summit Special
Author
Series
Publisher
Llewelyn Pritchard
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The Port Hope Simpson Diaries 1969 - 70 Vol. 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: Summit SpecialSeries Title: The Port Hope Simpson DiariesVol 1byLlewelyn PritchardSmashwords EditionCopyright 2010 Llewelyn PritchardLearn what it's like to be dropped off in what feels like the middle of nowhere, when you are straight out of Grammar School in the UK. The original diaries of Ernie Pritchard - written as a way of helping him adapt to his new surroundings...
Author
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
A penetrating and incisive study of the fanaticism and foibles of some of history's most illustrious namesFrom Assad to Nero, Gaddafi to Ivan The Terrible, this work attempts a thorough illumination of the minds of some of the most powerful people in history. While leaving some room to describe the amusing incidents and eccentricities associated with a host of men and women of power, it also reaches into the terrifying depths and depravities of minds...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
Cloudbusting was inspired by a book that I found in a shop. . . Written by a guy called Peter Reich, and it's called A Book of Dreams. And it's very unusual, beautiful book, written by this man through the eyes of himself when he was a child, looking at his father, and the relationship between them. Very special relationship, his father meant so much to him." -Kate Bush This famous book, the inspiration behind Kate Bush's 1985 hit song "Cloudbusting,"...
Author
Publisher
Sky Blue Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when AnaIs Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as "hell," during which she experiences a kind of erotic madness, a delirium that fuels her search for love. As a child suffering abandonment...
Author
Publisher
Canterbury University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (324 pages)
Language
English
Description
In 1955, esteemed New Zealand mountaineer Norman Hardie led one of the two summit pairs that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world. He played an important part in three expeditions with sir Edmund Hillary and was a director of his Himalayan Trust. He went to Antarctica three times, including as leader of Scott Base, and was also involved in many mountain rescues. An eventful life is recounted here with clarity,...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (484 pages)
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff, wife of Vidkun Quisling, reveals firsthand in this detailed memoir the tragedy, betrayals, misunderstandings, and happiness of her fascinating life. Not just a tale of saints and sinners, but of three people--Alexandra, Quisling, and his second wife, Maria--whose fates were intertwined under the extreme conditions created by revolution, war, and famine in Russia. She discloses every particular of her long and...
54) The Cripple
Author
Publisher
David Barth
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This is a very short true story about a baby that got polio and was crippled for life. He endeavored to be an equal among equals. As one gets to know him, his handicap becomes invisible, overshadowed by his charismatic personality. He is a person who treats everyone with respect. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Real African Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (206 pages)
Language
English
Description
Over four million South Africans suffer from bipolar disorder, and for that three to four per cent of our country's population who are affected by it, life can be challenging and filled with pain, misunderstandings, and personal tribulation. Using his personal story as a vehicle, Dumani Mandela takes us 'through the looking glass' of bipolar to examine the challenges of the condition in an African context and what sufferers can do to abate some of...
Author
Publisher
Otago University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (392 pages)
Language
English
Description
The story of James Edward FitzGerald, whose energy and enthusiasm contributed so much to the early history of Christchurch. Orator, writer, politician and journalist, he was the first Canterbury Pilgrim to set foot in New Zealand, first superintendent of the province of Canterbury, first leader of the general government, and founder of the Press newspaper. From his early years in the Anglo-Irish gentry of England to his old age as auditor-general...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for nearly seven years. In that time, he became a close friend and trusted confidant who shared her most private moments. His first-hand account contradicts many of the so-called 'facts' about the Princess and provides an affectionate, if not always uncritical, insight into this complex, troubled, but ultimately...
Author
Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (208 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Spurred by the doctor's predictions of an early death, Wayne Stier stayed out in front of time until he left it all together. Stier grew up in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, in the 1950s and 60s. Diagnosed with testicular cancer in his early 20s, and given a less than 50% chance of 5-year survival, Wayne and his wife Mars decided to make the most of the time he had. From Zen cherry blossoms to Japanese theatre. From Hawaiian breathing lessons to Thai healers....
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (276 pages)
Language
English
Description
'Herbert's informal, pithy lettersdescribe the "upper middle class"social scene, together with theeconomic and political realities of anewly-created colony. Theirsubjects range from a description ofa Quensland election to a report ofhis camping and cruising holidays;from complaints of severe "social"seasons and other "abominations"to eating oysters or making ice;from caustic comments on some ofhis associates to an essay on why hedid not wish to marry;...
Author
Publisher
James R Ashley
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Amelia Earhart was one of the most well known and admired woman of her age. And although she was more homely than pretty, there was an earthiness, a friendliness, and a passion for flying in her that captivated everyone who came in contact with her, from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife, to the common man or woman on the street. Her dedication to her dream of being a flying pioneer in what was considered an exclusively male domain was...
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