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Cheryl and her siblings are the offspring of an eccentric professor father and unflappable mother. Mindful of their ever-expanding family’s need for cash, her parents begin acquiring tumbledown houses in the campus town to renovate and rent. Dad, who changes out of his suit and tie into a carpenter’s battered white overalls, like Clark Kent into Superman, is supremely confident his offspring can do anything, whether he’s there or not.

This audiobook is a history of my father, Giles Holtom’s life. He was a member of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Giles told me and my brothers these wild, imaginative and exciting stories as children, sitting at the dinner table. I believed them because, well, I was seven at the time, and he was my dad. It was only in later life, when I retold the stories to other people, that I realized their inherent lack of believability. So it was down to me to investigate the details of his life and the places he visited.

The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with 12 people on board. Just before 2 a.m. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe, seven or eight blows apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings...except the killer.

On a snowy November day in 1997, in Flint, Michigan, police found the body of 45-year-old waitress Nancy Billiter. Her corpse had survived a botched attempt to burn it. An autopsy revealed that she'd been bound, beaten, sexually violated, and then injected with a lethal mixture of battery acid and heroin. Police suspected Nancy's friend, Carol Giles, 26, and Giles' boyfriend, Tim Collier, who had often boasted of a murderous gangland past.

In this never-before-published memoir from the files of The Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort. Johnson relates dozens of personal anecdotes with famous celebrities, beloved artists, and, of course, Walt and Roy Disney.

In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique—primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body—that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what is now the oldest dance company in the country and produced nearly two hundred ballets, many of them masterpieces.

Descubre los principios radicales que han contribuido al éxito de Netflix. Reed Hastings, el cofundador, presidente y CEO de Netflix, desvela por primera vez la sorprendente y poco ortodoxa cultura de una de las compañías más creativas y de mayor éxito en la historia de Silicon Valley. Nunca antes ha existido una empresa como Netflix. Esta es la fascinante historia de una compañía singular y de su extraordinaria expansión por el mundo entero.

Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his mission's call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign missions, she was sure God had the wrong number. His call conflicted with her own dreams, demanded credentials she didn't have, and required courage she couldn't seem to find. She promised to follow where God led, but she never thought the road would lead to a Mayan village on a Guatemalan mountainside.

In a remote valley north of Kabul, in August 2010, American peacemaker Dan Terry and nine other aid workers were attacked and killed in an event that made worldwide headlines. Why would one man take his family, follow faith and calling into the political and religious maelstrom of Afghanistan, and through years of war and strife believe he could make a difference? In Making Friends among the Taliban, childhood friend Jonathan Larson retraces Dan's nearly 40 years in Afghanistan, and through interviews and eye-witness accounts, relays Dan's incredible way of daily living.

Books are one of humankind's greatest forms of expression, and now Book, in a witty, idiosyncratic voice, tells us the inside story. A wonderfully eccentric character with strong opinions and a poetic turn of phrase, Book tells of a journey from papyrus scrolls to medieval manuscripts to printed paper and beyond - pondering, along the way, many bookish things, including the evolution of the alphabet, the library (known to Egyptians as "the healing place of the soul"), and even book burning.

The Work of Human Hands is a timeless medical journey through pioneering surgeon Dr. Hardy Hendren's legendary operating room that the Los Angeles Times called "impossible to forget". Set at Boston Children's Hospital, which U.S. News & World Report consistently rates as America's best children's hospital, The Work of Human Hands is available now for the first time in audio. The new edition includes a fresh introduction and a greatly expanded epilogue updating readers on Hendren and patient Lucy Moore today.

亨利・福特，美国福特汽车公司创始人，世界著名的“汽车大王”。他白手起家，凭借卓越的人格魅力、独特的商业理念和经营方式，创造了人类工业史上的奇迹……亨利・福特，美國福特汽車公司創始人，世界著名的「汽車大王」。他白手起家，憑藉卓越的人格魅力、獨特的商業理念和經營方式，創造了人類工業史上的奇蹟……

These are some things I have seen and experienced over the first 50 years of my life. My Dad got to be 91, and Mama just gave up the fight at 81. I would like to get to 100 and still be healthy. It is hard to deny something when you see it with your own eyes, or feel it when it touches you.

他加盟微软，仅用10年时间，就从一名普通员工晋升为微软中国公司总裁：他，就是唐骏。从普通员工到打工皇帝，这个职场传奇时刻在激励着无数的职场人士去奋斗。……他加盟微軟，僅用10年時間，就從一名普通員工晉升為微軟中國公司總裁：他，就是唐駿。從普通員工到打工皇帝，這個職場傳奇時刻在激勵著無數的職場人士去奮鬥。

Nikola Tesla is one of the most fascinating figures in modern history. His groundbreaking work in the field of electrical engineering, coupled with his innovative ideas and visionary outlook, have made him an icon of innovation and creativity.

I was on vacation with my wife, Maleka, celebrating our 15th anniversary. On the 3rd day of the trip, we went on a boating excursion, and the boat suddenly exploded. As a result of the explosion, Maleka died, I lost my left leg, and had to find the resilience and strength to bounce back from this tragic loss. This book covers the story of me finding resilience earlier in my life, the story of the event that changed my life, and my journey to choose resilience and bounce back from this traumatic situation.

Director of the cult 1980s film Chashme Baddoor and critically acclaimed movies such as Sparsh and Saaz; seasoned Marathi theatre personality; winner of three National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards; recipient of the Padma Bhushan - Sai Paranjpye has many feathers in the patchwork quilt of her creative life. Sai started her career at All India Radio, later graduating from the National School of Drama and making her way into theatre, television, documentaries, and movies, working with some of the most highly regarded names of the Hindi film world.

Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Here, his life - from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, and his death at the age of 49 in Paris - is told with his music featuring prominently.

With the possible exception of Mozart, Verdi is the most popular opera composer who ever lived. Quite early in his career his tunes were being cranked out by barrel organs throughout Europe and were well known to many who may never even have heard his name. But the complex man behind them remains elusive and puzzling. In this portrait-in-sound, Jeremy Siepmann and a group of distinguished actors take an in-depth look behind the popular image of a man who was, and perhaps remains, the most enduring national hero in Italian history and a colossus in the history of music itself.

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist the New York Times described as "the foremost classical stylist of our day", presents an intimate journey through his artistic life up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury almost cost him his career. Beginning with his real-life Billy Elliot childhood - an all-American story marred by intense bullying - and culminating in his hard-won comeback, Hallberg's brave memoir dives deep into life as an artist.