Gregori Rasputin is probably one of the best known, but least understood of the key figures in the events which ultimately led to the downfall of the Russian Tsars some 90 years ago. His political role as the power behind the throne is as much...
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Биографии и мемуары, Домашние животные
The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-wise Cat
‘Since Bob has appeared, I’ve made huge strides in my life. For more than a decade I was a homeless drug addict. I was lost to the world and had forgotten what was important in life. Now I’ve got myself back on my two feet, but as I put the...
Биографии и мемуары, Домашние животные
A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he...
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother’s love and a father’s fears, of a group of...
Биографии и мемуары
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
This is the extraordinary true story of America’s first female rocket scientist, told by her son. It describes Mary Sherman Morgan’s crucial contribution to launching America’s first satellite and the author’s labyrinthine journey to uncover...
Praise for Timothy Colton’s YELTSIN
“Mr. Colton is not the first to undertake Yeltsin’s redemption. . . . But Mr. Colton has used the extra time to excellent effect. He has mined declassified Kremlin transcripts; fact-checked many memoirs;...
“Who am I? An alcoholic and a tramp. But I am no white raven. Our alcoholics outnumber the populations of France and Spain combined. And that’s only the men. If you count women you have to add on all Scandinavia and throw in Monaco for good...
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he...
It would have been contrary to the spirit of the group to try to confect some sort of official, tidied up, biography. Instead, we chose to ask a few key witnesses from different national and cultural backgrounds — people who had played with the...
Based on the memoirs, of a beautiful woman’s 23 year journey through the doors of Chicagoland’s most infamous strip clubs that operated from the mid 1970’s through the 1990’s.
A native of Illinois, seventeen year old, Rebeckka Black...