Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
10 best books like Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life (Gretchen Rubin): The Book of Delights, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, The Best of Fredric Brown, The Assistant, Le memorie di Maigret, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
| Author | Ross Gay |
| ISBN | 1616207922 |
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
| Author | Cathy Guisewite |
| ISBN | 0735218420 |
From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."
As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627790438 |
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In...
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
| Author | James M. Fallows |
| ISBN | 1101871849 |
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.
For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have...
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." --Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post
"...Generous but also damning." --Hanna Rosin, The New York Times
From two New York Times reporters, a deeper...
| Author | Fredric Brown |
| ISBN | 0345257006 |
The Wit and Whimsy of Fredric Brown
Twenty-nine of the best-loved stories by the man some critics call the O. Henry of science fiction… stories that range from the wryly humorous to the deadly serious, but are always unforgettable.
Contents:
ix · Introduction · Robert Bloch...
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| ISBN | 0374504849 |
Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his...
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 8845916847 |
«Lo so benissimo che questi libri sono pieni zeppi di imprecisioni tecniche. Inutile star lì a elencarle. Sappia che sono volute e gliene spiegherò la ragione ... Provi a raccontare a qualcuno una storia qualsiasi. Se non la ritocca un po', apparirà inverosimile, inventata. Con qualche aggiustatina,...
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
| Author | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| ISBN | 0664244947 |
This is a great book that discusses what we should seek in a politician. Eleanor Roosevelt's control and calm is what I admire most. She was comfortable in her own skin by the time her husband and her best friend, Tommy, died, when she wrote this book. She was well situated financially, but it was more than...
