Ann: 8139 books
Formula for Fortune
How Asa Candler Discovered Coca-Cola and Turned It into the Wealth His Children Enjoyed
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Asa Candler rose from a rural background to reap a fortune. His windfall came from purchasing the Coca-Cola formula in 1888 and establishing the company that became a national phenomenon in less than a decade. In Formula for Fortune, author Ann Uhry Abrams narrates the life and times of Candlerfrom...
Confessions of an Entrepreneur
Living With Fear and Change in Life and Small Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In her first book, Confessions of an Entrepreneur, Ann-Marie "Annie" Richard shares her up and down adventures of being an entrepreneur and owning and operating several small businesses over the past 30 years. Using Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland book series written two centuries ago, she playfully...
Beautiful Buttons
A Memoir of Survival and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Unwanted and neglected as a child, abused by neighborhood perverts beginning at six years old, and then by loser boyfriends during her adolescence and beyond, Cathrine Ann became pregnant at fifteen, was pimped out by her rich uncle at seventeen, was jailed at eighteen, and lived as a prostitute in...
Kicking & Dreaming
A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The story of Heart is a story of heart and soul and rock ’n’ roll. Since finding their love of music and performing as teenagers in Seattle, Washington, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, have been part of the American rock music landscape. From 70s classics like “Magic Man” and “Barracuda”...
Elvis Presley
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A vibrant, sympathetic portrait of the once and future king of rock ?n? roll by the award-winning author of Shiloh and In Country
To this clear-eyed portrait of the first rock ?n? roll superstar, Bobbie Ann Mason brings a novelist?s insight and the empathy of a fellow Southerner who, from the...
by Lisa Ann Walter
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Actressand comic Lisa Ann Walter offers a hilarious, star-studded collection of essaysencouraging women to laugh at what they can't change, enjoy a guilty pleasureor two, and finally accept the lives and the bodies they're in now. The DanceYour Ass Off judge and star of movies like The Parent Trap,...
by Joseph DiMona, Ann Corio
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A rollicking, colorfully illustrated history of burlesque as seen through the eyes of its first lady, Ann Corio.
by Ann Marie Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.
Who was Long Tack Sam?
He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur....
American Spartan
The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated war correspondent.
Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan....
The Perfect Prince
Truth and Deception in Renaissance Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king.
The most intriguing...
Goodbye Christopher Robin
A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite’s Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne , one of England’s most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph...
Maya Angelou
A Glorious Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author, and scribe for the people, Dr. Maya...
A World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2001
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed...
Memories of an African Sun
A Memoir of Faith and Adventure at the Heart of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Eight-year-old Mary Ann Simkins was about to embark on a new life in a faraway place. Traveling far from her familiar home, she was on a journey to a life of adventure through the wild bush of Africa, where she would stand face-to-face with a rhinoceros and run as fast as she could from a troop of...