View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest (Hillary Edmund)(Paperback)

View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest (Hillary Edmund)(Paperback)

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN WHO BECAME THE CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. In this candid, wry, and vastly entertaining

Chronicles: Volume One (Dylan Bob)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.'I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me

The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir (Price Jill)(Paperback)

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called hyperthymestic syndrome -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was,

The Captain: A Memoir (Wright David)(Paperback)

A memoir from one of the most admired players in baseball, the captain of the New York Mets, David Wright David Wright played his entire Major League Baseball career for one team, the team he dreamed of playing for as a kid: the New York Mets. A quick fan favorite from Virginia who then earned

The Little Big Things: The Inspirational Memoir of the Year (Fraser Henry)(Paperback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Henry Fraser is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met' J.K. Rowling 'What a story of transformation, inner power and inspiration' Jonny Wilkinson The memoir of the year by Henry Fraser, motivational speaker and mouth artist with a foreword by J.K. Rowling

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir (Onwuachi Kwame)(Paperback)

A memoir from 'the most important chef in America' (San Francisco Chronicle) and chef of Tatiana, the New York Times #1 Restaurant in New York City 2023. 'Kwame Onwuachi's story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the

Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963) (Robinson Sharon)(Paperback)

An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns 13 the night before George Wallace declares on national television segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever in his inauguration

Anne Bronte Reimagined - A View from the Twenty-first Century (Hay Adelle)(Paperback / softback)

Anne Bronte may not be the most famous author in her family, but she is now widely believed to have written the finest of all the Bronte works - and the first ever feminist novel. Discover the real Anne and why she was for so long in her sisters'

A Century of Female Revolution: From Peterloo to Parliament (Cooper Glynis)(Paperback)

The 100 years from 1819-1919 were the most remarkable in the history of womankind. In 1819 women had no rights, no status, no options, no votes. Females were denied higher and further education. Job opportunities were menial and few. Legally, women were not even considered to be 'persons.' By 1919

Castile for Isabella - (Isabella & Ferdinand Trilogy) (Plaidy Jean (Novelist))(Paperback / softback)

_____________________The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain's most famous monarchs. In the 15th Century, Spain is full of intrigue and threatened by civil

Repentance: Turning from Sin to God (Boston Thomas)(Paperback)

The most important message for every person is that of the need for repentance - by one of the last great Puritan preachers, Thomas Boston (1676-1732).With wonderful exposition, Boston opens up a multitude of scripture passages on an issue that it is the duty of every Christian to tell the world of

Inside Coca-Cola: A Ceo's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand (Isdell Neville)(Paperback)

The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival.Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than thirty years, retiring in 2009 as Chairman after rebuilding the tarnished brand image of the world's leading soft-drink company. Inside Coca-Cola tells an

Bess Of Hardwick - First Lady of Chatsworth (Lovell Mary S.)(Paperback / softback)

* A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in

Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Kaplan Caren)(Paperback)

From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their

First Crusade - The Call from the East (Frankopan Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor Alexios I

The Conquest of New Spain (Diaz del Castillo Bernal)(Paperback)

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal D az del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United

Drug Warrior - The gripping memoir from the top DEA agent who captured Mexican drug lord El Chapo (Riley Jack)(Paperback / softback)

What Would Boudicca Do? - Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women (Foley Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history to conquer today. It is time to turn to women like Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker, Hypatia and Cleopatra, Coco Chanel and Empress Cixi. With original illustrations by Bijou Karman, What Would Boudicca Do? will make you fired-up and

Listening to the Animals: Becoming The Supervet (Fitzpatrick Professor Noel)(Paperback / softback)

A powerful, heartwarming and inspiring memoir from the UK's most famous and beloved vet, Dr Noel Fitzpatrick - star of the Channel 4 series The

The Orchard Keeper (McCarthy Cormac)(Paperback)

The first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road. Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has

King Stephen (King Edmund)(Paperback)

From Yale's English Monarchs series, the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen 'King has written a masterpiece that reveals how a medieval political community can both consume and then reconstitute itself and offers readers a king emblematic of his truncated, troubled age.'--Choice King

Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24

Migrations and Cultures: A World View (Sowell Thomas)(Paperback)

Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long period