The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop
10 best books like The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop (Bill Jones): Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession, Last Hours on Everest, Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine, Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences, A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole, Peace Work, Women of Courage, Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier, The Big Book of Health and Fitness: A Practical Guide to Diet, Exercise, Healthy Aging, Illness Prevention, and Sexual Well-Being
Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession
| Author | Richard Askwith |
| ISBN | 1845130820 |
Exploring the world of fell-running—to run the ancient, wild landscape and stay a hero within one’s own valley—this portrait of one of the few sports to have remained implacably amateur and utterly true to its roots details the passionate ambitions of those who participate in one of the oldest...
| Author | Graham Hoyland |
| ISBN | 0007455755 |
Dawn broke fine on that fatal day. A couple of thousand feet above the tiny canvas tent the summit of the world’s highest mountain stood impassively, waiting for someone to have the courage to approach.
Inside the ice-crusted shelter, two forms lay still as death. Then there was a groan, a...
| Author | Peter Firstbrook |
| ISBN | 0809298929 |
I have always been interested in the history of climbing Mt. Everest. It started when I was a young boy and read the story of the first successful summit in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. That led me to more reading of the mountains history and I discovered the great story and mystery of George...
| Author | Greg Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0312591934 |
I have always been interested in Jackie Kennedy as an editor at Doubleday - I worked for Doubleday too. I liked the idea of a mega-wealthy woman, at one time considered the most beautiful and high status woman in the world actually having a job.
This is how she gets her job as a commissioning editor....
| Author | Dennis Skinner |
| ISBN | 1782061592 |
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0618002014 |
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just...
| Author | Spike Milligan |
| ISBN | 0140149708 |
Spike Milligan's string of World War II memoirs gets high accolades, and they deserve their praise. However, something often overlooked is that Spike recorded the audio book versions of each of the books himself! They are treasures! He is a gifted reader, creating voice characterizations for all...
| Author | Margaret Truman |
| ISBN | 0688030386 |
These are women we should have known about
The 12 women chosen by Truman as women of courage have little more in common than their gender and their determination. I'd of some of them but, except for Dolley Madison and Susan B. Anthony, only as names. I had also heard that someone at the FDA who kept...
Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
| Author | Bob Thompson |
| ISBN | 0307720918 |
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories...
The Big Book of Health and Fitness: A Practical Guide to Diet, Exercise, Healthy Aging, Illness Prevention, and Sexual Well-Being
| Author | Philip Maffetone |
| ISBN | 1616083794 |
Taking control of your health and well-being is a necessary and personal journey. From teens and parents fighting obesity in America, to aging baby boomers refusing to go quietly into the dark night—everyone can stay fit, healthy, and active for many years to come! This book lays out a sensible and...
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0689864620 |
When Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school -- not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did everything she could to learn under the most challenging of circumstances. At the end of every day in the fields...
| Author | Doris L. Rich |
| ISBN | 1560987251 |
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double...
| Author | Steven Manchester |
| ISBN | 1611880610 |
Fate was working against little Brian Mauretti. The food that was meant to nourish him was poisoning him instead, and the doctors said the damage was devastating and absolute. Fate had written off Brian. But fate didn’t count on a woman as determined as Brian’s grandmother, Angela DiMartino - who...
| Author | Patricia Lauber |
| ISBN | 0590411594 |
دائماً علينا ان نقيّم الكتب بناءاً على قناعاتنا، لا قناعات الآخرين، عندما افتتحت الكتيب انجذبت لأول صفحة فيه، وعندما وجدت في الصفحات اللاحقة كثافة المعلومات...
Last Post: The Final Word from Our First World War Soldiers
From the author of the bestselling Forgotten Voices of the Great War comes a final look at the last 21 living British veterans of the First World War. These interviews, conducted in 2004, will never be repeated, as the youngest was 106 years old, and most are now gone. These first-person accounts follow...
Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936
| Author | David Clay Large |
| ISBN | 0393058840 |
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots...
| Author | Juliet Gardiner |
| ISBN | 0007240775 |
I've read several of Gardiner's books before, and this one doesn't disappoint. She has a very readable style and manages to strike a good balance between the broad picture and the intimate details of people's lives. The Blitz was obviously had an enormous impact across the nation, but what really brings...
| Author | Gregory Mone |
| ISBN | 0375987584 |
Rebecca Skloot in her debut science-based non-fiction deals with the journey of Henrietta Lacks, contributor to the famous He La cell line, to immortality. She also discusses the early stages of tissue culture, how the He La cells transformed the fields of cytology, cancer research, virology, genetics,...
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted...
| Author | Jay Dicharry |
| ISBN | 1620871599 |
Tired of getting the same treatments from doctors that didn’t heal his joint and muscle pain from running, Jay Dicharry decided to combine different fields of clinical care, biomechanical analysis, and coaching to help you avoid common injuries and become the best runner you can be.
Running...
| Author | Isabel Ashdown |
| ISBN | 0954930975 |
From the suburban disorder of 1980s southern England, 13-year-old Jake watches his world unravel as his father and older brother leave the family home and his mother increasingly finds solace in drink. Even as Jake outwardly shrugs off doubts about his paternity, the question hangs over him like an...
| Author | Bruce Henderson |
| ISBN | 0061571369 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds...
| Author | Joe Puleo |
| ISBN | 0736082301 |
See what it takes to maximize running strength, speed, and endurance! Running Anatomy will show you how to improve your performance by increasing muscular strength, optimizing the efficiency of your running motion, and minimizing your risk for injury.
Running Anatomy features...
