Breakout: how i escaped from the exclusive brethren

Biography Autobiography

Imagine a life without television, music or freedom; imagine every minute of your spare time being spent attending church; imagine growing up believing swimming pools, cinemas and dancing were evi...

How to really lose weight

Body Mind Spirit

Lose Weight using the power of your mind....

Strapless: john singer sargent and the fall of madame x

Art

The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her d...

The adventures of tom sawyer

Literary Collections

"Each additional volume reaffirms our faith and celebration in this splendid series." "Handsome, readable and full of surprises . . . the . . . classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are...

The climb of my life: scaling mountains with a borrowed heart

Biography Autobiography

From the brink of death to the summit of Mt Fuji, Kelly Perkins not only survived the transplant surgery, but became the first heart transplant patient to summit some of the world's most recog...

The man in lower ten

True Crime

The Man in Lower Ten is written by M. R. Rinehart....

Animals in ritual and economy in a roman frontier community: excavations in tiel-passewaaij

Archaeology

This new volume in the acclaimedAmsterdam Archaeological Studies seriesexplores the roles of animals in a ruralcommunity in the civitas Batavorum inthe 1st to 3rd centuries ad. Large-scaleexcavati...

American lion: andrew jackson in the white house

Biography Autobiography

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and h...

Alexander the great: journey to the end of the earth

Biography Autobiography

A concise portrait of the ancient world's foremost empire builder draws on a range of sources to offer a specific focus on his personal life and military conquests, covering such areas as Alexande...

Chasing daylight: how my forthcoming death transformed my life

Biography Autobiography

“Must the end of life be the worst part?Can it be made the best?”At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms...