Simon: 5480 books
by Seymour Simon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this completely updated edition of The Sun featuring beautiful full-color photographs, Seymour Simon presents a fascinating introduction to the star that is the center of our Solar System. Young readers will love exploring the wonders of the sun, from the constant nuclear explosions at its core...
Prague Spring
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal.
In the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter--Oxford students...
by Simon Singh
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The brainy book by the bestselling author of Fermat's Enigma-a must for anyone interested in numbers and mathematics, as well as for the millions of Simpsons fans worldwide.
“Simon Singh's excellent book blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers.” ?David...
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other
In Praise of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures...
It's Not Yet Dark
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
“A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we’re given.”
—People Magazine, Book of the Week
In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with...
Pacific
Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this...
Jerusalem
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
“This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs.” —*Booklist *(starred)
Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth...
by Simon Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.
From...
A Crack in the Edge of the World
America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look...
The Boundless Life
13 Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
“In the end, these people helped me realize that Boundless was more than a job; it was metaphor for life. It came down to one simple, daily decision—do I stand still or move forward?”
Filming the hit television series Boundless, Simon Donato has raced thousands human-powered kilometres...
by Ted Simon
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book JUPITER'S TRAVELS. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, South and North America, and Asia. A number one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle...
Korea
A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.
Fascinating for its vivid presentation of...
Future City Blues
a tech noir collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
A tech noir collection, containing the stories The Wrong Tom Jacks by Simon Kewin, Tripler: The Beginning by Neil Vogler and Doppelgänger's Curse by Milo James Fowler.
The Wrong Tom Jacks by Simon Kewin
Simms is a genehunter, paid by megarich collectors to track down the DNA of the famous...
by Simon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
What would you do if faced with two choices in life where the outcome of either will shatter your heart? Simon Williams took the more painful of the two options, then had to live with the brutal consequences. The first book in one man's inspiring story of how our thoughts become words, our words become...