Larry Smith: 42 books
No Fears, No Excuses
What You Need to Do to Have a Great Career
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
**“Larry Smith has hit on the new millennium’s major career issue.” —Booklist
“Have you ever had a conversation with someone about your life that leaves you feeling so elated that you have goosebumps? This is a typical result of how I feel after chatting with Larry.” —M. Azam...
Hidden Hearts
The Peterborough Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The original story of Hidden Hearts: The Peterborough Letters begins when Betty Beeby finds a cache of decades-old letters and diaries in an old barn on the family property in northern Michigan. Along with veteran journalist Larry Smith, she sorts and makes sense out of dozens of letters and diaries...
The Last "True" Roller Derby
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Larry Smith got some strange looks as a boy when he told everyone he wanted to join the Roller Derby, but hed go on to have the time of his life living out his dream.
As a member of the International Roller Derby League, he engaged in a style of play that gave the fans what they wanted: fights,...
Sin miedo ni excusas
Lo que necesitas hacer para diseñar tu carrera profesional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Casi sin darse cuenta, el profesor Larry Smith se ha convertido en un “susurrador de carreras” para sus alumnos de la universidad de Waterloo, Canadá.
Cada año millones de graduados universitarios salen al mercado laboral sin una idea de lo que quieren conseguir. Smith destaca que solo unos...
The Best Advice in Six Words
Writers Famous and Obscure on Love, Sex, Money, Friendship, Family, Work, and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The creator of the bestselling, short-form Six-Word Memoir series, Larry Smith, is back again with THE BEST ADVICE IN SIX WORDS, a poignant collection of universal wisdom, life lessons, and caution thrown to the wind. With 1,000 contributions from celebrities like Molly Ringwald, Whoopi Goldberg,...
by Larry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
“A vivid and compelling account by a true master of oral history.” —General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000...
SIX WORDS FRESH OFF THE BOAT
Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Six Words Fresh Off the Boat marries the phenomenon of Larry Smith's successful Six-Word Memoirs with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television's hit comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The book captures hundreds of takes on the immigration experience, from every-day people as well as world-famous celebrities including...
The Moment
Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a single instant changed their lives forever. An innocuous decision, an unforeseen accident, a chance conversation, a tag sale, a terrorist strike, a tweet ....
Not Quite What I Was Planning
And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Ob
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time.
One Life. Six Words. What's Yours?
When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be...
I Can't Keep My Own Secrets
Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From the editors of the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes a collection of six-word memoirs created by and for teens.
From cancer to creativity, prom dates to promiscuity, and breaking hearts to breaking laws, the memoirs in this collection...
by Larry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
The New York Times bestseller: From the sands of Iwo Jima to the deserts of Iraq, the riveting, real-life stories of training young marines.
Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this powerful oral history offers the voices of veterans from every...
It All Changed in an Instant
More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared. Be warned, though. If you plan to lend out your copy, start out with two. Once it leaves your hands you’ll never see it again.”
—Denver Post (on Not Quite What I Was Planning)
The editors of the New York...
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak
by Writers Famous and Obscure
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Love wounds the heart and soul . . .
From the editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes another collection of terse true tales—this time simple sagas exploring the complexities of the human heart. Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak contains hundreds...
by Larry Smith, Eddie Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
This first oral history of living Medal of Honor winners evokes Flags of Our Fathers with stirring accounts of patriotic valor.
This New York Times best-selling account of battlefield courage celebrates the larger-than-life sacrifices of those awarded the nation's highest honor for valor in...