People And Places category: 11583 books

Pocahontas is famous for saving the life of Captain John Smith, the man she loved. At least that’s what legend tells us. Now read the true story of this Native American princess.

Few people are as successful in business and music as Sean Combs. Today, Combs (also known as Diddy) makes music fans love and still has time to succeed in business. Combs has even won an Academy Award for producing a movie. It seems there's nothing he can't do! Sean "Diddy" Combs is the story of...

What age was the youngest soldier to receive the Victoria Cross during WWI? What role did tanks play in the conflict? How much were Germany ordered to pay in reparations after the war? All these questions are answered in this fascinating book containing over one hundred facts about the Great War. Whether...

Called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, received the Order of Canada and is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. This new biography from award-winning author Jack Batten,...

Marco Milani con coraggio ha cantato un sogno, un sogno che ancora oggi continua a vivere, un sogno immortale che è disposto a dividere con voi, con te! Ascoltatelo molto bene, vi prego, aprite il vostro cuore e alla fine ne riceverete in cambio un dono che chiunque dovrebbe possedere. Non vi narrerà...

You know Walt Disney as the company that creates your favorite fairytales. But did you know that Walt Disney was first a person? He was a man who made many dreams come true in films. He even built the happiest place on Earth. So it’s natural for you to wonder if he ever got his happily ever after. We'll know in just a few pages!

Biografia essenziale di Antonello da Messina, soprannome di Antonio di Giovanni de Antonio (Messina, 1429 o 1430 – Messina, febbraio 1479), pittore italiano. Fu il principale pittore siciliano del '400, raggiunse il difficile equilibrio di fondere la luce, l'atmosfera e l'attenzione al dettaglio...

A vent'anni dalla morte di Kurt Cobain un'indagine lucida e corrosiva su uno dei "suicidi" più enigmatici del secolo scorso. Seattle, aprile 1994. Kurt Cobain, motore creativo della più grande rock band degli anni '90, viene trovato morto nella sua villa col cranio sfondato e un fucile...

The companion to The Dead Inside, "[An] unnerving and heartrending memoir" (Publishers Weekly) This is the story of my return to high school. This is the true story of how I didn't die. High school sucks for a lot of people. High school extra sucks when you believe, deep in...

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Raymond K. schreef zijn eerste ultra spannende boek 'Kapitein Coke' in een Zuid-Amerikaanse gevangenis, waar hij na zijn laatste aanhouding in 2015 onder gevaarlijke omstandigheden verblijft. En nog steeds in afwachting is van zijn rechtszaak. In 'De Surinaamse Connectie', deel II van 'Kapitein Coke'...

In the mid-1840s, potato blight ruined the crops of impoverished farmers across Ireland. Many families went hungry without their main source of food. Disease struck down people weakened by starvation as the government struggled to address the problem. Would the country ever recover? To understand...

In this illustrated biography, young Apache Goyahkla and his friend play games in their village that will prepare him for his role as a hunter and warrior—and the place he will hold in history as Geronimo, fighter for the rights of his people.

In 1849 Luzena Wilson set out for California in a covered wagon with her husband and two little boys, hungry to join the tide of gold seekers. Like thousands of others, Luzena undertook the nearly 2,000 mile journey to an unknown land, where she’d rise from flood and fire, a survivor of the wild...