Biography - Secondhand

A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight...

The book titled Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask by the author Ronald W. Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of...

This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes' thought in the light of the most important research currently being produced by historians, philosophers, and political scientists. His life and...

The book titled Norman Birkett: The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston by the author H.Montgomery Hyde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Memoirs by the author Kingsley Amis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of Hudson Taylor is one of adventure and excitement - of improbable answers to prayer, opposition from the establishment and triumphs of faith. Even more interesting is the...

Discover the exciting story of J. Hudson Taylor and his mission to China. Driven by a deep concern for those without Jesus, and having an unshakeable confidence in the faithfulness...

The Sunday Times bestseller Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a...

WAR AND LOVE takes us into the field operating rooms just behind the murderous front lines of World War II. Howard Jones, then a 33-year-old surgeon, Army Medical Corps, records...

Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick...

Excellent for devotional reading, sermon illustrations, and bulletin inserts, as well as for historical or biographical research.

Joan Plowright first met Laurence Olivier in the mid-1950's when he was still married to Gone With the Wind star Vivien Leigh. Joan was the daughter of a north country...

In this inspiring true story, a child struggles with Tourette's syndrome-and overcomes extraordinary challenges with the help of his loving parents. Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was...

Walter Sisulu and Albertina Thethiwe were born in small rural villages just a few miles apart in the Eastern Cape hinterland. From these humble beginnings, they would become two of...

"The Lies of Sarah Palin" is the first full-scale critical biography of the former vice-presidential candidate, up through her resignation as Alaska governor, and as a potential presidential candidate in...

A funny and moving travelogue about a father-son trip through Europe Celebrating the wonder, comedy and adventure to be found in the most unlikely places, best-selling author James Dodson takes...

Whether it's committing to a tackle, being a dad or writing a memoir, if Zach Tuohy goes in, he goes 'all in'. Like most Irishmen, Zach Tuohy's first love was...

'Heartbreaking and powerful - Ashley is an inspiration', Fearne Cotton ' Ashley's psychological and emotional resilience is unparalleled, truly in the 0.1 percent', Ant Middleton STRENGTH, RESILIENCE, POWER Strong is...

*Twnety-five years on from the legendary Knebworth concert, read the true story of the birth of Oasis and life on the road with Liam and Noel* Oasis were a band...

Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world - from which...

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when...

Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first,...

Richard and Judy are the nation's best-loved couple. On television together for 18 years, they fronted the most popular daytime programme ever - This Morning - for 13 of those...

From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie...

Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of evolution with its now commonplace central idea of the 'survival of the fittest' is today - if not fully proven - generally accepted...

Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895, into the family that founded the Lyons catering empire. She was a rebel. She insisted on her own monosyllabic name. She dressed as...

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo,...

The Tibetans refer to Moso country as 'The Country of Daughters' because of their unique matrilineal society. In Moso culture, daughters are favoured children. There is no word for father,...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A darkly comic novel set in a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly drawn portrait of ambition, identity,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Winner of the National Book Award for...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark anthology in American literary culture,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in literary biography, Rudyard...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor damage and chipping to edges. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Part of the celebrated Master...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board in good condition (dark red hardcover binding). Page Condition: Some tanning and yellowing to pages consistent with age. Markings: previous...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. The book appears to be in very good overall condition with its dust jacket...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact hardcover. Stickers/Labels: None visible. Published in 1990 by Congdon & Weed Inc., this unauthorized...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded with some light soiling and edge wear. Page Condition: Yellowed / foxed with age, consistent with a mid-20th century edition. Markings: No markings visible....

Condition remarks: Binding: Hardcover; appears structurally sound, showing expected shelf wear commensurate with age. Jacket: Dust jacket present; light edge wear and minor age-toning. Pages: Generally clean and bright, maintaining...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — paperback with visible creasing and wear on cover. Page Condition: Likely yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. No dust jacket. Pages yellowed with age, consistent with a mid-20th century reprint edition. Binding appears intact. Some tanning visible on page edges. Minor...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition (green boards with red spine detailing visible). Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean and bright. Markings: No...