John Quincy Adams 
John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821 (LOA #293) [EPUB ebook] 

 »I was stunned into stillness » Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist  »I »ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies – once by a white undercover cop, once by a young …

 »An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history » Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was t …

Strings Attachedis the story of a brilliant, but ferocious music teacher who came to be known as Mr K. A Ukrainian immigrant who survived an abusive childhood to become a noted resident and teacher, …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway »s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson »s cruise to the cannibal-infested …

In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne »s memoir, The Devil »s Defender , recounts his tortuous …

A series of thoughts written to provide distraction and comfort during a difficult time in the author »s …

Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to …