Memoirs

Witness to Spirit: My Life with Cowboys, Mozart & Indians

Shipping December 1st A memoir you won’t soon forget.Robert Staffanson has led an exemplary life. At 93 he is sharing his unique journey of starting out as a “real” cowboy in Montana, then he was moved by music to start the Billings Symphony. He then moved to Massachusetts to serve as conductor of the Springfield Symphony. Returning home, …

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Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York’s most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: …

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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)

A New York Times Bestseller — Laura Schroff was a successful ad sales rep living and working in Manhattan. Maurice was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she turned around and went back. And she continued to go back, again …

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Sinatra’s Century LP: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World

In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming, irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the life and times of the greatest entertainer in American history, Frank Sinatra.Sinatra’s Century is an irresistible collection of one-hundred short reflections on the man, his music, and his larger-than-life story, by a lifetime fan who also happens to be one of …

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40,000 to One (Volume 1)

What if I told you that a decade ago, one of the greatest baseball prospects of his era was hitting home runs off Hall of Famers while hiding Parkinson’s disease? What if I told you this is not the most amazing part of Petrick’s story? When he signed a big-league contract, baseball executives and scouts uniformly predicted he …

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It’s a Long Story: My Life

The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson “Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned.” . . . So say the publishers about this book I’ve written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it. It’s a story of restlessness …

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Galileo Galilei E La Torre Di Pisa – Galileo Galilei and the Pisa Tower: A Bilingual Picture Book about the Italian Astronomer (Italian-English Text) (Italian Edition)

Young readers and language learners will find this bilingual book easy to read and to understand. A simple story is used to introduce Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, his life, work and discoveries. Colorful illustrations help readers understand the text and a page with additional facts is included after the story for curious minds and for school activities. Every …

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Life of St. Francis of Assisi (Large Print Edition)

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is …

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