Biographies & Memoirs

Luke Kaitos and Crystals OZ (Trilogy Luke Kaitos) (Kindle Edition)

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Luke Kaitos and Crystals OZ (Trilogy Luke Kaitos) (Kindle Edition)
By JJ Sobrinho

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Luke kaitos e os Cristais de OZ (Trilogia Luke kaitos) (Portuguese Edition) (Kindle Edition)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:00:00 -0800

Luke kaitos e os Cristais de OZ (Trilogia Luke kaitos) (Portuguese Edition) (Kindle Edition)
By JJ Sobrinho

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Rush To Destiny (Kindle Edition)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:00:00 -0700

Rush To Destiny (Kindle Edition)
By L. J. MARTIN

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RUSH TO DESTINY is based on the early life of the west's most quintessential man, Edward Fitzgerald Beale. Ned Beale crossed the country horseback 13 times, he was the hero of the Battle of San Pasqual, the leader of the great camel experiment, carried the first evidence of the California gold rush to congress, fought the slave trade, was an Indian agent in California, and so much more. Beale's exploits eclipsed those of Fremont, Stockton, Custer, and even Kit Carson's, who said of Beale, "I can't believe this man, Ned Beale." My finest compliment as an author came from a California high school history teacher who said, "my students learn more California history from your book than from all their texts, ...and love doing it." Don't miss the adventures of this true hero.RUSH TO DESTINY is based on the early life of the west's most quintessential man, Edward Fitzgerald Beale. Ned Beale crossed the country horseback 13 times, he was the hero of the Battle of San Pasqual, the leader of the great camel experiment, carried the first evidence of the California gold rush to congress, fought the slave trade, was an Indian agent in California, and so much more. Beale's exploits eclipsed those of Fremont, Stockton, Custer, and even Kit Carson's, who said of Beale, "I can't believe this man, Ned Beale." My finest compliment as an author came from a California high school history teacher who said, "my students learn more California history from your book than from all their texts, ...and love doing it." Don't miss the adventures of this true hero. Read more

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Annie, Life of a Hawaiian (Paperback)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:10:00 -0700

Annie, Life of a Hawaiian (Paperback)
By Annie Kanahele

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It Had to Be Us (Kindle Edition)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0700

It Had to Be Us (Kindle Edition)
By Elizabeth Lawrence

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Divorced and estranged for nearly two decades, Harry and Elizabeth Lawrence accidentally met again and were shot with Cupid's arrow when they rediscovered their lost love.

In IT HAD TO BE US, Harry and Elizabeth share their passions and feelings and poignant events that brought them back together. Filled with emotion, suspense, humor, and a surprising Las Vegas adventure, this heartfelt true story proves genuine love can survive any of life's journeys.

"A superbly crafted real life story that renews a person's faith in love." Marilyn Forstot, book reviewer and author of SUNSHINE RICHES

Walden Or, Life in the Woods (Hardcover)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:50:00 -0700

Walden Or, Life in the Woods (Hardcover)
By Henry David Thoreau

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In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived in a cabin on it for two years, two months, and two days. The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him. The result became an American classic: Walden explores not only the soul of the searching Thoreau, but defines what it means to be a truly free person, and distills the essence of our relationship of Nature.

Spanish Mountain Life (Perfect Paperback)

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Spanish Mountain Life (Perfect Paperback)
By Juliette de Bairacli Levy

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This jewel like memoir by noted herbalist and traveler Juliette de Bairacli Levy details her personal struggle against typhus fever, during which she gave birth to her second child, Luz, who had to be suckled by a nanny goat. As ever we are embraced by Juliette's love of nature an animals, and welcomed onlookers as she relates with people whose lives are far different from ours. Gypsies dance and sing their way through this book, adding their picturesque and sometime threatening energy to an exquisitely detailed story that is always intriguing, and sometimes suspenseful. Juliette shares with us the herbal lore she learned and used in the Spanish Sierra Nevada mountains. You ll find herbs to combat vermin, counter burns, keep your skin beautiful, and many more. Read more

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A Gypsy in New York (Perfect Paperback)

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A Gypsy in New York (Perfect Paperback)
By Juliette de Bairacli Levy

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In this richly detailed memoir, Juliette de Bairacli Levy, one of the founders of American herbalism offers us a rare documentary. It is at once an herbal, a travel book and a compendium of Gypsy lore and Gypsy ways. Juliette gives us river winds, strange characters in the streets by day, rats scurrying by at night, and legions of cockroaches in the apartments, against whose window the blossoms of apple and pear trees toss, even in the great city's cement heart. Read more

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Summer in GALILEE (Perfect Paperback)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:20:00 -0700

Summer in GALILEE (Perfect Paperback)
By Juliette de Bairacli Levy

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Join Juliette de Bairacli Levy Gypsy herbal veterinarian and mother of two toddlers as she spends an eventful summer swimming in the waters, and the history, of the Sea of Galilee, in the modern state of Israel. Juliette trains her observant eyes, and lovely descriptive prose, on the people, places, plants and animals around her. You'll thrill as she and her children discover ancient treasure, be fascinated as she visits the tombs of Jewish mystics, hold your breath as Juliette dares to traverse the forbidden militarized zone around the Jordan River in pursuit of a personal communion with this holiest of lands, and, perhaps, scream in terror as she is visited in the dark of night by an enormous snake only to breathe a sigh of relief when she is saved by her faithful Afghan hound. Juliette vividly described her visit to a Bedouin village, and the trouble this causes, both in the kibbutz where she lives and among the Bedouins. But with keen wit, steely nerve, and kind heart, she manages to please everyone, including her readers, as she saves the day and mends frayed tempers. Read more

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Picasso (Kindle Edition)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:18:00 -0700

Picasso (Kindle Edition)
By Stevie Thompson

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Steviesha T. Publishing brings to you Picasso the book about Picasso’s life and drawings and what inspired him to draw. A lot of us never knew why his drawings looked the way they do but by reading this book you’ll see inside what Picasso saw that made him give us these pieces of art. Inside you have pictures taken from his art work so you can always have something close made by him. Will you be inspired like Picasso to draw? You’ll find out after reading “Picasso” .

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Scratches on a Prison Wall: A Wartime Memoir (Paperback)

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Scratches on a Prison Wall: A Wartime Memoir (Paperback)
By Luba Komar

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"In this gripping memoir of a young Ukrainian woman's encounter with Communism and Nazism, Luba Komar experiences imprisonment, torture, death row, violence, escape, resistance, and, finally, flight to the West. Throughout, Luba retains her dignity and manifests a quiet heroism-convincingly demonstrating that totalitarianism is ultimately powerless in the face of individuals with the spiritual courage to speak the truth."
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Ukraine is suffering under Soviet domination in 1940 as World War II begins. Luba Komar, a politically active student at a Ukrainian university, finds herself whisked away in the middle of the night by the Soviet Secret Police. She is tortured, imprisoned and then sentenced to death in a secret Soviet trial.

Fortunately, her death sentence is commuted to exile. With other prisoners, she's loaded onto a train headed to the dreaded Siberian concentration camps.

Luckily, Luba never reaches Siberia. As Nazi bombers approach overhead, the Soviets divert the train to another prison. There, the inmates courageously stage a prison break, risking their lives.

Luba is witness to the dramatic events that shaped Ukrainian and Soviet history both during and after WWII. In recording her ordeal, she brings to life the stories of her fellow prisoners, and recounts her eventual escape to the West. Scratches on a Prison Wall is a powerful testament to its author and the times in which she lived. Read more

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Diana: A Tribute (Hardcover)

noreply@blogger.com (totti) — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:18:00 -0700

Diana: A Tribute (Hardcover)
By Julia Delano

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Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Hardcover)

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Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Hardcover)
By Henry David Thoreau

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Golda (Hardcover)

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Golda (Hardcover)
By Elinor Burkett

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Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Martin Luther King Jr. in the guise of a cookie-serving grandmother, her uncompromising devotion to shaping and defending a Jewish homeland against dogged enemies and skittish allies stunned political contemporaries and transformed Middle Eastern politics for decades to follow. She outmaneuvered Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger at their own game of Realpolitik, and led Israel through a bloody war even as she eloquently pleaded for peace, carrying her nation through its most perilous hours while she herself battled cancer.

In this masterful biography, critically acclaimed author Elinor Burkett paints a vivid portrait of a legendary woman defined by contradictions: an iron resolve coupled with magnetic charm, a kindly demeanor that disguised a stunning hard-heartedness, and a complete dedication to her country that often overwhelmed her personal relationships.

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A Beautiful World: One Son's Escape from the Snares of Abuse and Devotion (Paperback)

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A Beautiful World: One Son's Escape from the Snares of Abuse and Devotion (Paperback)
By Gregg Tyler Milligan

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A Beautiful World addresses the harsh realities of child abuse and stands out in the memoir category as bold and emotionally shattering. From the beginning, the straightforward prose shows us a brutal world of sadness and depravity. The narrative becomes ever more lurid as the writer recounts in graphic detail the horrors of child abuse. It is a shocking and moving story – rife with gritty realism, hope and the endurance of the human spirit. The reader will find A Beautiful World thought-provoking and, in many places, a genuinely moving experience. The writer draws the reader into his valuable personal insights, providing a firm grasp of the perils and challenges faced by victims of abuse along the road to healing and deliverance. More information can be found at www.abeautifulwrld.com . Read more

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Annie, Life of a Hawaiian : An Autobiography (Paperback)

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Annie, Life of a Hawaiian : An Autobiography (Paperback)
By Annie Kanahele

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In a period of Hawaiian history when it is currently popular to claim and recite linkages with the royal chiefs of ancient Hawaii, the alii, here is a truly great lady who delights most in identifying with and being one of the maka'ainana, the common people of Hawaii. Read more

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Einstein: His Life and Universe (Audio CD)

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Einstein: His Life and Universe (Audio CD)
By Walter Isaacson

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How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.

Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk -- a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate -- became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.

These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age.As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings Einstein's experience of life, love, and intellectual discovery into brilliant focus. The book is the first biography to tackle Einstein's enormous volume of personal correspondence that heretofore had been sealed from the public, and it's hard to imagine another book that could do such a richly textured and complicated life as Einstein's the same thoughtful justice. Isaacson is a master of the form and this latest opus is at once arresting and wonderfully revelatory. --Anne Bartholomew

Read "The Light-Beam Rider," the first chapter of Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe.

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Amazon.com: What kind of scientific education did you have to give yourself to be able to understand and explain Einstein's ideas?

Isaacson: I've always loved science, and I had a group of great physicists--such as Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and Murray Gell-Mann--who tutored me, helped me learn the physics, and checked various versions of my book. I also learned the tensor calculus underlying general relativity, but tried to avoid spending too much time on it in the book. I wanted to capture the imaginative beauty of Einstein's scientific leaps, but I hope folks who want to delve more deeply into the science will read Einstein books by such scientists as Abraham Pais, Jeremy Bernstein, Brian Greene, and others.

Amazon.com: That Einstein was a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office when he revolutionized our understanding of the physical world has often been treated as ironic or even absurd. But you argue that in many ways his time there fostered his discoveries. Could you explain?

Isaacson: I think he was lucky to be at the patent office rather than serving as an acolyte in the academy trying to please senior professors and teach the conventional wisdom. As a patent examiner, he got to visualize the physical realities underlying scientific concepts. He had a boss who told him to question every premise and assumption. And as Peter Galison shows in Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps, many of the patent applications involved synchronizing clocks using signals that traveled at the speed of light. So with his office-mate Michele Besso as a sounding board, he was primed to make the leap to special relativity.

Amazon.com: That time in the patent office makes him sound far more like a practical scientist and tinkerer than the usual image of the wild-haired professor, and more like your previous biographical subject, the multitalented but eminently earthly Benjamin Franklin. Did you see connections between them?

Isaacson: I like writing about creativity, and that's what Franklin and Einstein shared. They also had great curiosity and imagination. But Franklin was a more practical man who was not very theoretical, and Einstein was the opposite in that regard.

Amazon.com: Of the many legends that have accumulated around Einstein, what did you find to be least true? Most true?

Isaacson: The least true legend is that he failed math as a schoolboy. He was actually great in math, because he could visualize equations. He knew they were nature's brushstrokes for painting her wonders. For example, he could look at Maxwell's equations and marvel at what it would be like to ride alongside a light wave, and he could look at Max Planck's equations about radiation and realize that Planck's constant meant that light was a particle as well as a wave. The most true legend is how rebellious and defiant of authority he was. You see it in his politics, his personal life, and his science.

Amazon.com: At Time and CNN and the Aspen Institute, you've worked with many of the leading thinkers and leaders of the day. Now that you've had the chance to get to know Einstein so well, did he remind you of anyone from our day who shares at least some of his remarkable qualities?

Isaacson: There are many creative scientists, most notably Stephen Hawking, who wrote the essay on Einstein as "Person of the Century" when I was editor of Time. In the world of technology, Steve Jobs has the same creative imagination and ability to think differently that distinguished Einstein, and Bill Gates has the same intellectual intensity. I wish I knew politicians who had the creativity and human instincts of Einstein, or for that matter the wise feel for our common values of Benjamin Franklin.

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