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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 180
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For the first time, readers are granted access to fifty years of the author's personal writings in this posthumous collection that includes previously unpublished texts, speeches, letters, interviews and private notes, as well as key excerpts from the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Author
Publisher
Joy Neal Kidney
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The day the second atomic bomb was dropped, Clabe and Leora Wilson's postman brought a telegram to their acreage near Perry, Iowa. One son was already in the U.S. Navy before Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Four more sons worked with their father, tenant farmers near Minburn until, one by one, all five sons were serving their country in the military. The oldest son re-enlisted in the Navy. The younger three became U.S. Army Air Force pilots. As the...
Author
Publisher
Andscape/Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a segment originally aired on The Undefeated, ESPN Sports Center Anchor Elle Duncan shares a moving letter written for her daughter that will resonate with moms and daughters everywhere"--
Inspired by Elle Duncan's contribution to The Undefeated's "Love Letters to Black Women" segment, For You, I Will is an intimate yet universal celebration of growing up. The poetic text and heartwarming illustrations depict a mother teaching her daughter...
Author
Series
Publisher
C.J. Archer
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
The discovery of long-lost mail delivers a marriage proposal, a missing person, and a magical mystery.
A road trip with Gabe and her friends leads Sylvia to discover more about her mother's veiled past yet throws up several questions, too. The stack of unopened letters addressed to her family will hopefully provide answers. As she delves into the contents, a startling revelation emerges: the letters allude to a clandestine
...Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the original letters of physics professor Robert Wichard Pohl, who spent several years flying on zeppelins during the First World War, this book tells the story of the first flight to exceed 100 hours in the air. Along the way, it tells the story of those men responsible for the flight, as well as the history of both airship development and the continuing interest in transatlantic flight. The particular flight described in Pohl's account
...Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is “a real page turner!” (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian…
You...
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is “a real page turner!” (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian…
You...
14) Danger UXB
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a young British officer joins an engineering unit responsible for the dangerous task of defusing unexploding bombs during the London Blitz.
15) blud
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Cultural brujeria, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben's world in blud"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship....
18) House: Hausu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father - he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things soon start to go very badly for the teenagers. While there...
Author
Publisher
Fidelis Historia, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Bryan Rigg was a menace. He was a tornado who couldn't speak intelligibly or control his temper, and was as likely to be found on the roof as he was on the ground. Today, this boy is a man who speaks two languages and eventually got a PhD. His doctoral thesis was so extraordinary it became an acclaimed book, covered by national and international media. After college, he served in the Israel Defense Forces, accepted an officer commission...
20) Chord: poems
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"That art should once have been marked with this delicacy: always only one of each thing made, so that your poem has its one life on the sheet you have chosen for it, or the snapshot of the birthday party, everything in the room upended by the children's jubilation, survives only in the single defended piece of glass. Rick Barot was born in the Philippines, and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of The Darker Fall and...
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