Bill: 4844 books
Kennedy's Last Days
The Assassination That Defined a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
On a sunny day in Dallas, Texas, at the end of a campaign trip, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated by an angry, lonely drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes briefly, but is hunted down, captured, and then shot dead while in police custody.
Kennedy's...
Tank Commander
From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany - The Memoirs of Bill Close
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Bill Close had a remarkable war. In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, he served as a tank commander in the Royal Tank Regiment - and he survived. His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three times....
Beyond the Body Farm
A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at "the...
The Man from the Train
The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old...
Lost Souls of the River Kwai
Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been...
White Collar Warrior
Lessons for Sales Professionals from America's Military Elite
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
To be the best, you must learn from the best.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with former members of the U.S. Special Forces and leading sales professionals from a variety of industries, executive coach Bill Hart shows you how to develop the mindset, habits, and disciplines to elevate your...
Troop Leader
A Tank Commander's Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Commissioned out of Sandhurst in 1943, nineteen-year-old Bill Bellamy joined the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. Following the Normandy landings in June 1944, he was involved in the great tank battles around the town of Caen, the battle of Mont Pincon, and then the Allied breakout into Belgium. There...
Born to Fly
Three Generations of Kiwi Helicopter Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
**The thrilling and entertaining lives of New Zealand's helicopter dynasty.**Three generations of Reids have flown helicopters. It's in their blood. First there was John, a World War Two fighter pilot. After the war he used helicopters for things no one dreamed possible, carrying out 300 rescue missions...
Keep Up If You Can
Confessions of a High School Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
A light-hearted and touching memoir of Bill Sherk’s 30-plus-year career as a Toronto high school history teacher with a creative flair and passion for his work.
Bill Sherk taught history to Toronto high school students for more than thirty years. With his dynamic, creative, and occasionally...
Old Car Detective
Favourite Stories, 1925 to 1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
In this hilarious collection of old car stories, Canada’s very own "Old Car Detective" Bill Sherk presents 80 of his favourite stories from all 10 provinces and spanning the years from 1925 to 1965. In this book you will meet the man in New Brunswick who chopped the top off his 1927 Whippet...
by Bill Janovitz
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Exile on Main St. è esattamente come il rock dovrebbe sempre essere: urgente. Un gruppo di musicisti che suonano canzoni grandiose chiusi in una stanza, una comunione di suoni che colano uno dentro l'altro, con il rullante che vibra senza posa e gli amplificatori che ronzano incuranti. Baccanale...
True Story
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Bill Maher, the hilarious, irreverent star of the hit ABC talk show Politically Incorrect, is one of America's hottest comics. But like many of today's late-night humor kings, Maher began his career navigating New York City's seedy stand-up comedy circuit. He was there back in the Golden Age of comedy,...
Gun in Cheek
An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
"This is fabulously funny stuff." — John D. MacDonald
"Bill Pronzini surveys the worst crime fiction — not just the average inferior product, but the junk classics, works that achieve a heroic degree of badness. No brief summary can do justice to Mr. Pronzini's researches."...
Temple Stream
A Rural Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom Roorbach ("The Professor") and his family might always...