Biography & Autobiography

This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, .. more...

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A dual biography of the two greatest generals of World War II. General George S. Patton. His tongue was as sharp as the cavalry saber he once wielded, and his fury as explosive as the shells he’d ordered launched from his tank divisions. Despite his profane, posturing manner, and the sheer enthusiasm for conflict that made both his peers and the public uncomfortable, Patton’s very presence commanded respect. Had his superiors given him free rein, the U.S. Army could have claimed victory in Berlin as early as November of 1944. General Erwin Rommel. His battlefield manner was authoritative, his courage proven in the trenches of World War I when he was awarded the Blue Max. He was a front line soldier who led by example from the turrets of his Panzers. Appointed to command Adolf Hitler’s personal security detail, Rommel had nothing for contempt for the atrocities perpetrated by the Reich. His role in the Führer’s assassination attempt led to his downfall. Except for a brief confrontation in North Africa, these two legendary titans never met in combat. Patton and Rommel is the first single-volume study to deal with the parallel lives of two generals who earned not only the loyalty and admiration of their own men, but the respect of their enemies, and the enmity of the leaders they swore to obey. From the origins of their military prowess, forged on the battlefields of World War I, to their rise through the ranks, to their inevitable clashes with political authority, military historian Dennis Showalter presents a riveting portrait of two men whose battle strategies changed the face of warfare and continue to be studied in military academies around the globe. more...

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What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?. In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution. In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes. Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre, the young man she had met at church. But when math and history were subordinated to the study of the Koran and political propaganda, Marina protested. Her teacher replied, ''If you don't like it, leave.'' She did, and, to her surprise, other students followed. more...

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"Royal Affairs" is a funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals. more...

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As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious. hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys. reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic-. seeming than her Buddhist grandmother’s traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled. “delicacies” of mainstream America capture her imagination. In Stealing Buddha’s Dinner , the glossy branded allure of Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll. House Cookies becomes an ingenious metaphor for Nguyen’s struggle to become a “real”. American, a distinction that brings with it the dream of the perfect school lunch, burgers and Jell-. O for dinner, and a visit from the Kool-Aid man. Vivid and viscerally powerful, this remarkable. memoir about growing up in the 1980s introduces an original new literary voice and an entirely. new spin on the classic assimilation story. more...

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