Richard: 17762 books
by Richard Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
"A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art . . . fail to mask deep vulnerability."-Chicago Tribune
A play about Frank Lloyd Wright set in the summer of 1923, when the great architect has recently left Chicago for California,...
She Made Me Laugh
My Friend Nora Ephron
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“A very personal remembrance of Nora Ephron’s life and loves, and her ups and downs” (USA TODAY) by her long-time and dear friend Richard Cohen in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) was a phenomenal personality,...
As You Do
Adventures With Evel, Oliver, And The Vice-President Of Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
The life and times of the No.1 bestselling author of ON THE EDGE.
The wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV presenter, Arctic Explorer and general drawer of the Short Straw. As one third of the BBC's Top Gear team, Richard Hammond's year since his near-fatal...
A Captain's Duty
Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans."
--President Barack Obama
It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama,...
by Richard Tregaskis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
#1 New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).
On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. It was the...
Invasion Diary
A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A dramatic and richly detailed chronicle of the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy from one of America’s greatest war correspondents.
Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, Allied military strategists turned their attention to southern Italy. Winston Churchill famously described...
Eyes on Target
Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired...
Wahoo
The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles.
Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. “Mush” Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results...
Chasing the Last Laugh
Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humor
Mark Twain, the highest-paid...
Muhammad
Islam's First Great General
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier.
Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam’s first great general. While there have been numerous...
Pryor Convictions
And Other Life Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Finally back in print, Richard Pryor's 1995 smash hit Pryor Convictions follows Pryor's life from his upbringing in a brothel in Peoria, Illinois, where he was sexually assaulted by a man in his neighborhood, to his early years as a stand-up comic in New York through fame, fortune, drug addiction...
The Prince of los Cocuyos
A Miami Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.
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by Richard Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal...