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A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography

10 best books like A Wild Life: The Authorized Biography (Jeff Corwin): The Wind in the Willows, Sophie's Secret, Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms, Winter Door, The Basilisk’s Lair, The Dragon in the Driveway, Shadows in the Twilight, Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier, Spoken From The Front: Real Voices From the Battlefields of Afghanistan

The Wind in the Willows
AuthorMartin Woodside
ISBN1402736967
First of all, i'd like to say that it's my first experience reading english book. And whoa, because i'm not used to read in english, it was like 'trouble' for me to read english book. But honestly i'm not dissapointed at all!

I start to read in english because yeah, can i say that it's interesting...
Sophie's Secret
AuthorNancy N. Rue
ISBN0310707579
About this book:

“Sophie and her friends launch an “archaeological expedition” and make a disturbing discovery. Sophie keeps digging to uncover a shocking family secret. In light of this new revelation, will she ever be able to trust her parents again?”


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Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Storms
AuthorMarion Roberts
ISBN1741758599
Sunny Hathaway—introvert, entrepreneur, inventor, poet, dog lover, and lateral thinker—has a lot on her plate. She's moving to a new house, dealing with step-siblings, and starting a dog entertainment business too.
 
Sunny and her expertly blended, thoroughly modern family are...
Winter Door
AuthorIsobelle Carmody
ISBN0375830189
In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about looking after her. The school bully, Logan, is increasingly...
The Basilisk’s Lair
AuthorR.L. LaFevers
ISBN0547238673
Nate Fludd, Beastologist, is back in the camel saddle in hot pursuit of a missing, deadly Basilisk--the King of Serpents. As if saving an entire Dhughani village from the Basilisk's poisonous gaze isn't difficult enough, Nate and Aunt Phil must begin to piece together the mystery of his parents' disappearance...
The Dragon in the Driveway
AuthorKate Klimo
ISBN0375855890
The Dragon Keepers have a new mission!

It's been raining for days, and dragon keepers Jesse and Daisy have been stuck inside with their dragon, Emmy. As soon as the rain stops, they are out of the house in a flash. First on their list of things to do? To find out what the villainous Dr. St. George—a...
Shadows in the Twilight
AuthorHenning Mankell
ISBN0385734964
Reviewed by Christina Tsichlis for TeensReadToo.com

SHADOWS IN THE TWILIGHT by Henning Mankell is written using the distinctive voice of the main character, Joel. This is a companion book to A BRIDGE TO THE STARS.

This is a story that asks philosophical questions and does it in a way...
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
AuthorDana Milbank
ISBN0385533888
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”...
The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier
AuthorTom Kuntz
ISBN0812932765
An American Icon Under Government Surveillance

When Frank Sinatra died in 1998, he was one of the most chronicled celebrities ever, but the most unusual record of his life came to light only posthumously: a 1,275-page dossier recording decades of FBI surveillance stemming from J. Edgar Hoover's...
Spoken From The Front: Real Voices From the Battlefields of Afghanistan
AuthorAndy McNab
ISBN0552160806
Spoken from the Front is the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there. With unprecedented access to soldiers of all ranks, as well as pilots, reservists, engineers, medics, Royal Military police, mechanics, cooks and...
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
AuthorKenneth Silverman
ISBN1400044375
John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives...
In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
AuthorDaniel Meyerson
In 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international renown and an indelible place in history, by the time of his death,...
Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
AuthorFred Thompson
ISBN0307460304
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It was a...
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
AuthorJohn Yoo
ISBN1607145553
An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself...
We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga
AuthorPaul Shaffer
ISBN0385524838
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.

How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights...
The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?
AuthorSean Deveney
ISBN0071629971
IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . .
the untold story of baseball's ORIGINAL SCANDAL

Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918--and get away with it?

Who were the players involved--and why did they do it?

Were gambling and corruption more widespread across...
Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
AuthorDavid Archuleta
ISBN0451230183
Singing sensation and American Idol favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos!

A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by Forbes magazine and landed the number...
Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation
AuthorJason Mattera
ISBN1439172072
In 2008, Barack Obama lobotomized a generation.

For an entire year, otherwise clear-thinking members of the most affluent, over-educated, information-drenched generation in American history fell prey to the most expensive, hi-tech, laser-focused marketing assault in presidential...
Bearded Tit: A Love Story with Feathers
AuthorRory McGrath
Bearded Tit is Rory McGrath's story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the...
Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti
AuthorGene Mustain
ISBN0028644166
John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book. As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly in...
Tip It!: The World According to Maggie
AuthorMaggie Griffin
ISBN1401324045
Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. 1. My daughter Kathy put out her memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And it got to be a #1 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! But now it's my turn. I've written my own book. I have...
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution
AuthorRandal Keynes
ISBN1573229555
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he delivered at her funeral—and...
The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America
AuthorPamela Geller
ISBN1439189307
Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come.

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