Hardcover Nonfiction

by Maurice Herzog · E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc

by Norman Vincent Peale · Prentice-Hall, Inc

This is a reprint of Norman Vincent Peale's classic self-help tract, read by millions in the last half century who were inspired by Peale's belief that faith in yourself makes good things happen to you. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

by · Thomas Nelson

by Carl Sandburg · Harcourt, Brace and Co

by Edward R. Murrow · Simon & Schuster

by Jacques Yves Cousteau and Frederic Dumas · Harper Collins

by Catherine Marshall · McGraw-Hill

An instant bestseller in 1951, this is the compelling story of Peter Marshall, the Scottish immigrant who became chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

by Tallulah Bankhead · Harper and Borthers

Her father and her uncle were U.S. congressmen. Her grandfather was a U.S. senator. Although born to privilege in Alabama and groomed in a convent school, Tallulah Bankhead resolved not to be just another southern belle. Quickly she rose to the top and became an acclaimed actress of London's West End and on the Broadway stage. Her performances in many plays of the 1920s brought her to the notice of Hollywood. She starred in such Paramount films as My Sin, Faithless, The Devil and the Deep, and Thunder Below. Even though she won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), she never achieved the prominence in movies that she enjoyed in the theater and on radio. On the New York stage she originated the starring roles of Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and of Sabina in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Tallulah, like Eudora, Flannery, and Coretta, was a southern woman identifiable by her first name. Her flamboyant public personality may be the most fully realized and memorable character Bankhead ever played. She became famous for her snappy repartee, candid quotes, and scandalous lifestyle. She was disposed to remove her clothes and chat in the nude. Overfond of Kentucky bourbon and wild parties, she was a lady baritone who called everybody “Dahling.” In Tallulah, first published in 1952 and a New York Times bestseller for twenty-six weeks, Bankhead's literary voice is as lively and forthright as her public persona. She details her childhood and adolescence, discusses her dedication to the theater, and presents amusing anecdotes about her life in Hollywood, New York, and London. Along with a searing defense of her lifestyle and rambunctious habits, she provides a fiercely opinionated, wildly funny account of American stage at a time when the movies were beginning to cast theater into eclipse. This is not only a memoir of an independent woman but also an inside look at American entertainment during a golden age.

by Cleveland Amory · Harper and Brothers

by Benjamin P. Thomas · Alfred A. Knopf

by Thomas Merton · Harcourt, Brace and Company

Collection of personal notes and meditations set down during about five years in the monastery of Gethsemani.

by Frederick Lewis Allen · Harper and Brothers

by Han Suyin · Little, Brown and Company

by Ruth Randall · Little, Brown and Company

by Paul Harvey · The Heritage Foundation

by Herbert Block · Beacon Press

Political cartoonist Herblock defined our times in America through the Great Depression, World War II, enormous societal changes and more than half a dozen Presidencies. This book contains some of his political cartoons along with his own commentary. Provides brilliant, often dark, political analyses of America in the 20th century. (from Amazon)