List 1 of books by Bingham

The Blue Box

Three Lives in Letters

by Sallie Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014

“A memoir of three generations of women rich in historical detail” —from the Civil War to the Jazz Age (Kirkus Reviews) Shortly after her mother’s death in 2011, Sallie Bingham discovered a blue box in her mother’s closet containing the forgotten remnants of her foremothers’ lives....

Irrepressible

The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham

by Emily Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015

Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant,...

Falklands, Jutland And The Bight [Illustrated Edition]

by Commander The Hon. Barry Bingham V.C. R.N.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

At the outbreak of the First World War, Barry Bingham, an Ulsterman and career sailor who joined the Royal Navy in 1895, was a Lieutenant-Commander gunnery officer on the new battlecruiser HMS Invincible. He and his men did not have to wait long before they were pitched into battle against the German...

Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands

Of the Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands

by Hiram Bingham AM
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

The fascinating personal account from one of the first Westerners to live in Hawaii. A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands, by the Reverend Hiram Bingham, was first printed in New York in 1847. The book provides a panoramic history of Hawaii from before its discovery in 1778...

Out of the Ashes

by Bingham writing group
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017

A selection of short stories and poems written by members of the Bingham Writing Group. The stories are as varied in content as the writers are in personality, making this an eclectic and intriguing read. Have you always wanted to write? We are an informal and friendly group of people...

Witness to the Revolution

Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

by Clara Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016

The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to...

The Courage To Start

A Guide To Running for Your Life

by John "The Penguin" Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013

"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." Take your first step toward fitness and a happier, healthier life. Has the idea of running crossed your mind, but you haven't acted on it because you don't think you have the body of a runner? Have you thought about...

No Need for Speed

A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

by John Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002

"You don't have to run fast to be a real runner!" John Bingham, "the patron saint of the back of the pack," commands "The Penguin Brigade"-- those thousands of dedicated runners who have learned that the greatest joy in their sport comes not from how fast they...

Mending

New and Selected Stories

by Sallie Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

Bingham has 50 years of experience as a writer and promoter of her own work, with deep inroads and relationships in the bookselling and library communities Former Director of the NBCC Bingham's family owned the major daily in Kentucky, and her part in that paper's sale has made her a...

Running for Mortals

A Commonsense Plan for Changing Your Life With Running

by John Bingham, Jenny Hadfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007

The authors of Marathoning for Mortals - John "The Penguin" Bingham and Coach Jenny Hadfield, MA, CPT - now show beginning runners how to fit running into their lifestyle easily You don't have to run fast or competitively to reap the rewards that running has to offer. What you do need is the...

Transgressions

Stories

by Sallie Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002

“Bingham writes with an austere and unerring knowledge of what it is to be human” in these eleven stories of love, sex, and indiscretion (Paula Fox). In her bracing new collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day transgressions in affairs of the heart, “focus[ing] mostly on the lives of...

Lives of the Law

Selected Essays and Speeches: 2000-2010

by Tom Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom. Lives of the Law collects Bingham's most important later writings, in which he brings his distinctive,...

The Business of Judging

Selected Essays and Speeches

by Tom Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2000

Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom. The Business of Judging collects Bingham's most important writings during his period in judicial...