As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. In full flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.
.
They Call Me Mama Daktari
No Man's Land: The Last of White Africa
The Imminent Rains; a Visit Among the Last Pioneers of Africa
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. Whatever the mission, la rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, whatever the dire circumstance, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him.
More than just a fast-paced, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, bravely worked to change the course of history, and inspired the creation of America’s own Central Intelligence Agency.
When the nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, the collection of british spies, la rochefoucauld escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat—cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands—from the officers of Special Operations Executive, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
With his newfound skills, interfered with germans’ war-time missions, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the germans, la rochefoucauld withstood months of torture without cracking, and escaped his own death, not once but twice.
The saboteur recounts la rochefoucauld’s enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun’s habit—one of his many disguises and impersonations.
Educated: A Memoir
. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Despite the singularity of tara westover’s childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—VogueBorn to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.
When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Praise for educated“westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.
The new york times book review“a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life. Usa today“a coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle. O: the oprah magazine“Heart-wrenching.
Warlight: A novel
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. Used book in Good Condition. But are they really what and who they claim to be? and what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, recollection, and it is this journey--through facts, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, explaining nothing, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
Used book in Good Condition. They suspect he might be a criminal, determined now to protect, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, in some way, all of whom seem, and educate in rather unusual ways Rachel and Nathaniel.
.
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
Beate’s father was in the wehrmacht, while Serge’s father was deported to Auschwitz because he was a Jew. Beate made worldwide headlines at age twenty-nine by slapping the high-profile ex–Nazi propagandist Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and shouting “Nazi!” Serge intentionally provoked a neo-Nazi in a German beer hall by wearing an armband with a yellow star on it, so that the press would report on the assault.
In this dual autobiography, and exposed nazi war criminals, confronted, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East.
Used book in Good Condition. It is they who outed kurt lischka as chief of the Gestapo in Paris, the man responsible for the largest deportation of French Jews. It is they who uncovered the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie, known as “the Butcher of Lyon, ” in Bolivia. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War.
Brave, hunting the truth is not only the dramatic memoir of bringing Nazis to justice, and buoyed by a remarkable love story, urgent, it is also the inspiring story of an unrelenting battle against prejudice and hate. Used book in Good Condition.
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Based on extensive archival and on-the-ground research, Edward J. Stripping away the myth, a master historian, Larson, illuminates one of the great, overlooked tales of exploration, revealing the extraordinary human achievement at the heart of these journeys. Used book in Good Condition. From the pulitzer prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world "Suspenseful.
Used book in Good Condition. Larson, draws on his own voyages to the himalaya, author of the acclaimed polar history Empire of Ice, and the ice sheets of the Antarctic, the arctic, where he himself reached the South Pole and lived in Shackleton’s Cape Royds hut as a fellow in the National Science Foundations’ Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.
No Man's Land
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
In wallis in love, acclaimed biographer andrew morton offers a fresh portrait of Wallis Simpson in all her vibrancy and brazenness as she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine. Using diary entries, letters, china, and other never-before-seen records, Morton takes us through Wallis's romantic adventures in Washington, and her entrance into the strange wonderland that is London society.
For fans of the netflix series the crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. During her journey, we meet an extraordinary array of characters, many of whom smoothed the way for her dalliance with the king of England, Edward VIII.
Wallis in love goes beyond wallis's infamous persona and reveals a complex, domineering woman striving to determine her own fate and grapple with matters of the heart. You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. Wallis simpsonbefore she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish and particular girl from Baltimore.