William: 4158 books
Eve of a Hundred Midnights
The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II—a saga of love, adventure, and danger.
On New Year’s Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese...
Marley & Me
Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.
John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball...
Following Atticus
Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks...
My Life Among the Underdogs
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.
Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster...
Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter
Simplify Your Life One Minute at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
ALL THE ADVICE AND MOTIVATION YOU NEED TO KICK-START YOUR HOME ORGANIZING PROJECT . . . ON YOUR SCHEDULE
Whether you have thirty seconds, one minute, five minutes, or fifteen minutes, this organizing daily devotional offers tips, checklists, weekend projects, quizzes, and encouragement that...
by Miriam Peskowitz, Andrea J Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery...
Will's Red Coat
The Story of One Old Dog Who Chose to Live Again
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Boston Globe Bestseller
A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus.
Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly...
The Flight
Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT.****" — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. Louis
On the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known...
by Myrna Milani
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A practical guide to the physical and behavioral displays owners and dogs exchange and how to use them to create a lasting bond.
Sextant
A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.
Since...
Cruising Attitude
Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider’s account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Cruising Attitude is a Coffee, Tea, or Me? for the 21st century, as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account of...
Learning to Bow
An American Teacher in a Japanese School
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath...
by Elmore Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"These are the rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story."—Elmore Leonard
For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing...
The Mental Floss History of the World
An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“An irreverent romp through history’s best bits,” The Mental Floss History of the World is an amazingly entertaining joyride through 60,000 years of human civilization. As audacious as it is edifying, here is a hilarious and irreverent—yet always historically accurate—overview of the ascent...