Category: Biography

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, it was clear my people needed me). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that a...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Broadway Books : July 2000

Seller ID: 159698

ISBN-13: 9780767903820

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, it was clear my people needed me). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that a...
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Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth (Revised Edition)

By: Brzezinski, Mika

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Hachette Books : September 2018

Seller ID: 169267

ISBN-13: 9781602865945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

The bestselling motivational guide that TheAtlantic.com calls "a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women ask for -- and actually get--the money, the job, the recognition they deserve? Prompted by her own experience as cohost of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asked a wide range of successful women to share the critical lessons they learned while moving up in their fields. Power players such as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Harvard...
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Washington Is Leaking (Fawcett Crest Book)

By: Buchwald, Art

Price: $4.01

Publisher: Fawcett : October 1978

Seller ID: 171926

ISBN-13: 9780449232941

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

North Star over My Shoulder: A Flying Life

By: Buck, Bob

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : April 2002

Seller ID: 126259

ISBN-13: 9780743219648

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

It is rare to find one person whose life embodies the history of an industry the way Bob Buck's life encompasses the history of commercial aviation in America. Buck first flew in the 1920s, inspired by the exploits of Charles Lindbergh. In 1930, at age sixteen, he flew solo from coast to coast, breaking the junior transcontinental speed record. In 1936 he flew nonstop from Burbank, California, to Columbus, Ohio, in a 90-horsepower Monocoupe to establish a world distance record for light airplanes. He joined Transcontinental and Western Air (T&WA) as a copilot in 1937; when he retired thirty-se...
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Daughter of Destiny

By: Buckingham, Jamie

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Bridge Logos Pub : June 1978

Seller ID: 49413

ISBN-13: 9780882703183

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

At the Still Point

By: Buckley, Carol

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 1996

Seller ID: 139624

ISBN-13: 9780684802176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Hornes

By: Buckley, Gail Lumet

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Plume : June 1987

Seller ID: 88807

ISBN-13: 9780452259591

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

River Dark and Bright: A Memoir

By: Bullitt, Stimson

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Willows Press : October 2000

Seller ID: 46850

ISBN-13: 9780963163066

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

All his life Stimson Bullitt has belonged to Seattle, with excursions elsewhere that included undergraduate years at Yale and four years in the Navy during World War II. Bullitt is a ninth-generation American lawyer. His first political activity was a letter-writing campaign in 1942 in defense of Japanese Americans. He has taken part in civic affairs, locally and nationally, in the fields of government reorganization, political process reforms, race relations, foreign affairs, and conservation. Among honors he has received, perhaps the best known was his inclusion on Nixon's "Enemies List." He...
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The People's Biographer Workbook

By: Bullock, Jackson F.

Price: $4.25

Publisher: People's Biographer : January 1995

Seller ID: 180244

ISBN-13: 9780963977816

Binding: Spiral

Condition: Used - Good

Spiral bound. Slight shelf wear.
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With a Feather on My Nose

By: Burke, Billie,Shipp, Cameron

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts : January 1949

Seller ID: 181117

ISBN: B0006ARZ7A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Shelf wear on the dust jacket and boards of the book. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar for protection. Spine is loose. Pages are yellowed from age.
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