Peter: 17025 books
Promised Land
A Life's Journey to Success in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Peter Kunstadt took his chance in 1968 when Soviet Bloc forces occupied his homeland, Czechoslovakia ─ he and his fiancée Susan were on holiday in Romania, and made a dash for the West with little more than their beach clothes. This is the story that led to that great escape ─ surviving the...
The Perfect American
A Novel of Walt Disney
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition...
Heaven Is Beautiful
How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When Peter Baldwin Panagore died on the side of a mountain, his life was forever changed. Decades later, the intense spiritual journey continues, with a story that combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe-inspiring elements of a paranormal novel.
In March of 1980, college...
How To Draw Flowers
How to Draw, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Easy Step by Step Guide For Kids To Understand The Basics of Drawing A Flower.The "How To Draw Flowers" guide will enable your child to communicate with the outside world with visual intelligence. They will learn to express their feelings, emotions and wants more efficiently.Peter Child's...
Hack in a Flak Jacket
Wars, riots and revolutions - dispatches from a foreign correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A startlingly honest account of experiencing war and terrorism from the frontline by Peter Stefanovic, one of Australia's leading journalists and foreign correspondents.
'Flak jackets are dreadful things. Sure, they have a purpose, and if one ever stopped a bullet or piece of shrapnel from...
Critical Decisions
How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
“As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are facing, or will face.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational
“His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with...
by Joseph Peter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Discover the book that puts a face on happiness
In 2009, photographer Joseph Peter traveled through fifty African nations in seventy-five days and shot 150,000 images—mostly portraits of joyous, proud, glorious faces. He photographed presidents and heads of state, soldiers and workers, and...
by Ulf Peter Hallberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Winner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize."One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences."-Michel Ekman, Svenska Dagbladet"Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash."-Amelie Björck, Göteborgs-PostenCombining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, European Trash is a...
by Peter Cavanaugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
"Flashback 2015" is another collection of essays and newspaper columns by Peter Cavanaugh."Flashback 2015 " chronologically tracks this particular collection of observations with the 2015's very last column, which should also serve as a convenient table of contents. After that, everything is chronological – letting the year unfold in time as it did.
by Peter Cavanaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
"No Irish Need Apply" is a premium collection of politically progressive essays and newspaper columns by Peter Cavanaugh, noted Irish-American author and featured writer with The Sierra Star, a McClatchy publication serving the Yosemite region of Central California. Mr. Cavanaugh, a multiple...
by Peter Cavanaugh
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"Rejoice Dear Hearts" is a follow-up to 2012's "No Irish Need Apply" by Peter Cavanaugh. It is a compilation of Mr. Cavanaugh's columns as published in The Sierra Star, a McClatchy publication, and other essays and scribbled notations from 2013, primarily cultural and progressively political.
Mandela Was Late
Odd Things & Essays From the Seinfeld Writer Who Coined Yada, Yada and Made Spongeworthy a Compliment
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
MANDELA WAS LATE traverses the inner universe of a satiric genius who maybe should be getting out of the house a little more often. Wrapped in his cocoon of Hollywood residuals, battling his own (mounting?) foibles day by day, former Seinfeld writer/producer Peter Mehlman somehow manages to see the...
by Peter Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2004
Tortoise is the first cultural history of these long-lived and intriguing creatures, which have existed for more than 200 million years. The book covers tortoises worldwide, in evolution, myth and reality, ranging across paleontology, natural history, myth, folklore, art forms, literature, veterinary...
In Perfect Timing
Memoirs of a Man for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Peter Caddy gave himself completely and unconditionally to life, embracing it with zest, courage and delight. There was nothing otherworldly about Peter. He was a man of action who thoroughly enjoyed taking on a challenge -- the greater the better. Whether serving in the wartime RAF, climbing the...