Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardams masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat.
Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman... Written with tenderness, originality, and insight, filled with old-fashioned warmth and newfangled humor, it is an extraordinary novel, a found treasure that marks the ...
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
: A True Story of World War II
by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: Aug 2012
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III, to testify at first hand the atrocities occurring in the camp.
The Man Who Found Time
: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
by Jack Repcheck
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: Jul 2004
A marvelous narrative about a little-known man and the
science he founded, which sparked Darwin's theory of evolution - helping
to free science from the straitjacket of religious orthodoxy.
The Man Who Hated Women
: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
by Amy Sohn
Hardcover: Jul 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
The New York Times–bestselling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, anti-vice activist and U.S. Postal Inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women's rights at the turn of the twentieth century.
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer - an American original whose gentle training methods reveal the depth of communication possible between man and animal.
The Man Who Loved China
: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: May 2009
The Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's , a brilliant Cambridge scientist . Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself greatrelated by ...
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