Bair: 36 books
The Ogallala Road
A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains
Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair...
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently...
Al Capone
leven, legende en nalatenschap
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 25, 2017
De eerste complete biografie met medewerking van Capones familie
Al Capone blijft tot de verbeelding spreken. Iedereen kent hem. Hij was de man die tijdens de drooglegging leidinggaf aan een miljoenenbedrijf van drank, prostitutie en gokhuizen, die gewelddadige vetes uitvocht met...
One Degree West
Reflections of a Plainsdaughter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter describes Bair’s struggle for independence and acceptance within the male-dominated farming and ranching culture of her birth. As a portrait of one young woman’s coming of age, One Degree West is a stunning mosaic of shared history. Through the...
Saul Steinberg
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River,...
Al Capone
His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents.
From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone—Public...
The Bullies of Wall Street
This Is How Greed Messed Up Our Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair, the former chairman of the FDIC, explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level in this easy-to-understand book “that puts a human face on the economic crisis” (School Library Journal).
In...
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
The former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis.
Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance...
War of the White Death
Finland Against the Soviet Union 1939-40
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
On 30 November 1939 Stalins Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, in one of the most astonishing upsets in modern military history, the Finnish defenders broke the Red Armys advance, inflicting devastating casualties and...
The Mannerheim Line 1920–39
Finnish Fortifications of the Winter War
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In the wake of the bloody civil war that followed Finland's independence from Russia in 1917, the border between the two countries was established across the Karelian Isthmus, an area long fought over by Russia, Finland and Sweden in their attempts to dominate the northern tip of Europe. Neither the...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Alana Ballantyne, Joanna Bair
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Dare to live life by your own rules.
When wives get together, single women cringe.
Who says a woman can't exact revenge?
Be a spy? Or own her own business?
In the early twentieth century, times were changing and society needed to catch-up.
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Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence
Basic Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Overview of Current Mobile Forensic Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence: Basic Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Overview of Current Mobile Forensic Investigations will assist those who have never collected mobile evidence and augment the work of professionals who are not currently performing advanced destructive techniques....
Scotland School for Veterans' Children
An Enduring Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Beginning as a school for Civil War orphans, the Scotland School for Veterans' Children became a unique center for education in the heart of Pennsylvania. The school aimed to develop disciplined, patriotic and productive citizens. As the nation became engulfed in the wars of the twentieth century,...
The Book of Revelation Through a Woman's Eyes
A Commentary That Reads More Like A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Have you been curious about the Book of Revelation but avoided studying it? Perhaps you have found it too confusing or frightening, with its references to natural disasters and destruction. You may even have been told that it is irrelevant in today's world, or too difficult to understand. But what...