Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was ...? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-...
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Auteur:Kelley, TrueSommaire: - Auteur:Pollack, Pamela D.Sommaire:
Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J.K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London...
- Auteur:Maslo, LinaSommaire:
As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself-at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up,...
- Auteur:Winspear, JacquelineSommaire:
The bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir,...
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Auteur:Fry, StephenSommaire:The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Auteur:Leavy, Barbara FassSommaire:Aside from Ruth Rendell’s brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately relate to, the intra-familial stresses generated by the...
- Auteur:Milne, ChristopherSommaire:
The autobiography of Christopher Milne and the background to the poems and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
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Auteur:Pepys, SamuelSommaire:Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
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Auteur:Kempe, MargerySommaire: - Auteur:Solnit, RebeccaSommaire:
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." -Margaret Atwood. "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker....
- Auteur:Henry, Patti CallahanSommaire:
Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. The younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George...
- Auteur:DICKENS, MonicaSommaire:
A witty and humorous account of the experiences of a junior reporter recruited to a weekly paper in a small town.
- Auteur:Fraser, AntoniaSommaire:
Biographer Antonia Fraser recounts her 33 years with husband Harold Pinter--a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed modern-day playwrights. Here Antonia draws an intimate portrait of her marriage to Pinter--and reveals him to...
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Auteur:Beechey, AlanSommaire:When a teenage girl disappears from a north London suburb a few days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Effie Strongitharm puts would-be cult leader and reputed exorcist Nigel Tapster on her list of people to be questioned. But when...
- Auteur:Dahl, RoaldSommaire:
What happens when you catch a ratite? And when we simulate an attack of appendicitis? Have you ever smoked goat tobacco? Have you ever been decked out in a costume that looks like an undertaker on your way to school? Through the story...
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Auteur:Wilson, FrancesSommaire:Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. In this biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and originality.
- Auteur:Shelden, MichaelSommaire:
George Orwell was more than just a writer. He was a political and social sage who valued, above all else, individual freedom. His works aren't just entertainment--they're cautionary tales and red flags of warning. And if we...
- Auteur:Hornby, NickSommaire:
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had...
- Auteur:Marsden, George M.Sommaire:
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife...
- Auteur:Wilson, FrancesSommaire:
"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and...
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