Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played. The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game...
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Auteur: Frost, MarkSommaire: -
Auteur: Groff, LaurenSommaire:
In the late 1960s, a group of young idealists form a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses...
Genre: Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Byrne, DavidSommaire:
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced...
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Music -
Auteur: Burroughs, William S.Sommaire:
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever...
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Auteur: Burroughs, William S.Sommaire:
Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.
Genre: Autobiographical fiction -
Auteur: Stewart, David O.Sommaire:
Stewart traces the canny and charismatic Aaron Burr from the threshold of the presidency in 1800 to his duel with Alexander Hamilton. Stewart recounts Burr's efforts to carve out an empire, taking...
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Auteur: London, JackSommaire:
London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and intellectual achievement....
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Auteur: Sandlin, Lee.Sommaire:
Sandlin brings readers a riveting true account of supercell tornadoes. Re-creating some of the most destructive storms in America's history, this narrative delves into the origins of meteorology,...
Genre: History and geography -
Auteur: Stahr, WalterSommaire:
From the award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Seward and Stanton, here is the critically acclaimed and definitive biography of John Jay: a major Founding Father, a true national...
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Auteur: Barra, AllenSommaire:
Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
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Auteur: Adams, MarkSommaire:
A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second,...
Genre: Travel writing, Body, mind and spirit -
Auteur: Riffenburgh, BeauSommaire:
The story of the legendary detective credited with the defeat of the Molly Maguires gang and Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch offers insight into his innovative "cloak-and-dagger" methods and his...
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Auteur: Shenk, Joshua WolfSommaire:
A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success.
Genre: Psychology, Art and architecture -
Auteur: Harper, KyleSommaire:
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of...
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Auteur: Burroughs, William S.Sommaire:
In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote...
Genre: Epistolary fiction