| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much ...More
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| The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition (Annotated)
| Born in poverty at Boston, January 19 1809, dying under painfulcircumstances at Baltimore, October 7, 1849, his whole literary careerof scarcely fifteen years a pitiful struggle for mere subsistence, hismemory malignantly misrepresented by his earliest biographer, Griswold,how completely has truth at last routed falsehood and how magnificentlyhas Poe come into his own, For "The Raven," first published in 1845,and, within a few months, read, recited and parodied wherever theEnglish language was s...More
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| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Dover Thrift Editions)
| Eleven of the best and most popular tales of the immortal sleuth include "Silver Blaze," concerning the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time"; "The Greek Interpreter," starring Holmes' even more formidable brother, Mycroft; and "The Final Problem," the detective's notorious confrontation with arch-criminal Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.
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| Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story
| What would you do if your Mormon stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN. For years Ingrid has begged her free-wheeling dad to let her join him on the road as a tool-selling vagabond to escape the suffocating poverty and religion at home. When her devout Mormon mother married Earl―a homeless Vietnam vet who exploits the religion's male-dominated culture to oppress and abuse her family―she finally gets her wish. In...More
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| Letters of a Woman Homesteader
| This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
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| The Secret Holocaust Diaries
| Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.
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| Alfred Hitchcock: A Life In Film
| Time magazine’s legendary film critic Richard Schickel sat down on numerous occasions with frighteningly talented director Alfred Hitchcock. Spoiler alert: He learned what made the man behind The Birds fly. Here’s the story.
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| Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq (Nonprofit Handbook: Everything)
| * Winner of the 2007 American Authors Association Golden Quill Award * Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America Founders Award In Iraq, the front lines are everywhere . . . and everywhere in Iraq, no matter what their job descriptions say, women in the U.S. military are fighting--more than 155,000 of them. A critical and commercial success in hardcover, Band of Sisters presents a dozen groundbreaking and often heart-wrenching stories of American women in combat in Iraq, such as the...More
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| NORTHANGER ABBEY and A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN (Cambridge World Classics) Complete Novel by Jane Austen and Biography by James Edward Austen (Leigh) (Annotated) (Complete Works of Jane Austen)
| ANNOTATED:* Contains literary critiques, detailed biographies, and detailed historical contextOVERVIEW:Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication. The novel was written about the years 1798–1799. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing. The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817 (1818 given on the title...More
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| The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Illustrated)
| *Includes over 30 pictures of Lincoln, his life, and work, including pictures of Lincoln at Gettysburg and a copy of the Gettysburg Address. Also includes pictures of other famous leaders and generals of the Civil War. *Includes testimonials about Lincoln written by many of his contemporaries*Includes a Table of ContentsAbraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Linco...More
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| Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss
| To everyone else, John F. Kennedy Jr. may have been American royalty, but to RoseMarie Terenzio he was an entitled nuisance—and she wasn’t afraid to let him know it. RoseMarie was his personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. In this, her first memoir, she bravely recounts her own Fairy Tale Interrupted, describing the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and John F. Kennedy Jr. Funny, ...More
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| The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
| Several million visitors arrive in Sedona, Arizona, each year, captivated by her remarkable scenery, and majestic sunsets. They are also enticed by a hidden quality-the uplifting healing energy and sacred vibrations of Sedona's spiritual vortexes. Here Ilchi Lee shares his Sedona experiences in an intimate, heart-expanding exploration of natural and spiritual mysteries. Through the profound meditations the author was guided to create in Sedona, anyone anywhere can experience the deep peace, j...More
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| The Torn Trilogy Chaplet 1 (The Torn Trilogy 12 Chaplet Edition)
| The Torn Trilogy is 1200 page work of Literary Narrative Nonfiction written by Sara Niles; the innovative Chaplet Edition enables purchase as you read option for your reading pleasure and convenience.Brief Description:Literary Narrative Nonfiction: Over fifteen years in the making in order to tell a tale so great, as to tear the soul inside out A powerful true story written like fiction, using literary symbolism, metaphors and well developed characterizations that create an emotional impact tha...More
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| World War II Remembered
| What stands out so clearly in these "remembrances of things past" is the unmistakable ring of authenticity in every account, a rare quality in the literature of war. Even after 70 years, every recollection remains vivid. Time has done little to dim those parlous times and recollections; they add depth and breadth to tales of wartime and t the significance of experiences lives in service...World War II Remembered is an exceptional human document--a legacy of greatness to be treasured for a very l...More
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| Crossroads: 1969 (Cassell Faction Trilogy)
| The year is 1969... a time when the youth of America is standing up to its elder rulers, when minorities are demanding their fair share of the American pie. A time when an eternal war fought for misbegotten motives and fueled by a continuous stream of some of the most outrageous lies ever fed to a people by its leadership over the previous eight years continues to gut an entire generation. A time when the old values, the old expectations, the old imperatives are knocked flat. Seen through the ey...More
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| Silent Tears: A Journey Of Hope In A Chinese Orphanage
| Irrepressible memories. Vacant eyes. A child being dangled from a third story window. A boy tied to a chair. Children sleeping in layers of clothing to fight off the bitter cold. An infant dying from starvation. Some things your mind will never allow you to forget. Silent Tears is the true story of the adversity and triumphs one woman faced as she fought against the Chinese bureaucracy to help that country’s orphaned children. In 2003, Kay Bratt’s life changed dramatically. A wife and mother...More
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| The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fantasy literature, American/ History and criticism; Authors, American/ 19th century/ Biography; Authors, American - 19th century - Biography; Poe, Edgar Allan; Fantasy literature, American - History and criticism; Fantasy literature, American; Authors, American; Fantastic literature, American; Litera...More
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| Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Classic Reprint)
| INTRODUCTIONThe medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.Remember the scornful reception which first was accorded to Freud's discoveries in the domain of the unconscious.When after years of patient observations, he finally decided to appear before medical bodies to tell them modestly of some fa...More
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| The Woman's Bible
| The publication of The Woman's Bible in 1895 and 1898 represented the feminist pioneer's last strike at the roots of the ideology behind her gender's subordinate role in society. In keeping with her characteristic radical individualism, Stanton attacks religious orthodoxy on a political rather than scholarly basis. This clarion call to action consists of a book-by-book examination of the Bible, placing events in their historical context, interpreting passages as both allegory and fact, and compa...More
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| The Rescuer (Kindle Single)
| In 1941, a young Harvard-educated classicist named Varian Fry arrived in occupied France on a daring mission to rescue more than 2,000 of Europe's leading writers, artists, and intellectuals from the Nazis. Hounded by the Gestapo, he smuggled Marchel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt and dozens of other 20th century cultural luminaries out of France and brought them to America. So why did even the people Fry saved want to forget him? In this fascinating psychological profile, acclaimed noveli...More
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