Showing results for "The Club" in Biographies & Memoirs

From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced. As World War II wound down, and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - all titans of contemporary science and philosophy - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best: science and philosophy.

A humorous and heartfelt memoir about weathering the loss of a parent, with advice and grief survival tips mixed in throughout “The perfect 'how to' book for the unimaginable.” —Casey Wilson, coauthor of The Art of Small Talk Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead...

Dead Dad Club is the lucid, prismatic memoir of Katie Moulton, a millennial music critic who grew up in a die-hard rock-and-roll family, about her father’s unexpected death from addiction shortly before her 17th birthday, and the music obsession she inherited from him that shaped her early adulthood. A quintessentially American tale about family, grief, identity, and dependency, set in the Midwest and scored in the writer’s imagination by the timeless Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine works about history, science, and gender as well as fiction, all written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"—marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.

“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was...

“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation. The Liars’ Club took the...

Fascinating for supporters looking to understand their club’s and its rivals’ strategy and methods, and those curious about finance and power in football, Who Owns Football? reveals how the game's custodians operate. Football club owners can take teams to the heights of the Champions League or financial oblivion. Still, in a world of super leagues, rapidly escalating wages, transfer fees, Financial Fair Play and an increasingly profitable women’s game, they tread a precarious tightrope.

The superstar author makes a stop on his last official book tour to read from and discuss his first adult novel in eight years. In conversation with Erin Morgenstern ( The Night Circus).

Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy? We Should All Be Millionaires details a realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to creating the support, confidence, and plan you need to own your success and become the millionaire the world needs you to be. Only 10 percent of...

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in Agra in the closing years of the eighteenth century. A precocious child, he began composing verses at an early age and gained recognition while he was still very young. He wrote in both Urdu and Persian and was also a great prose stylist. He was a careful...

'I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi' Diego Maradona FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 2022 WORLD CUP TRIUMPH & MESSI'S TRANSFER TO INTER MIAMI As Lionel Messi raised the World Cup triumphantly into the air, the world watched on in awe. Messi's...

An exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past century For centuries, explorers from all over the globe have traveled the far reaches of what the world has to offer...

“Offers an entertaining look at Kerkorian’s outsize life… an interesting portrait of a billionaire.” – Wall Street Journal The rags-to-riches story of one of America’s wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian—the daring aviator, movie mogul...

How do you deal with the most difficult moments in your life? Every experience that we go through changes us and helps us grow. As we learn to laugh and cry, win and lose, share and care, the meaning of life and true happiness unfolds before us. Known for his bold forays into Bollywood, Emraan...

An Instant National Bestseller Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair "There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows...

Bienvenue au That It Club, ce club de lecture pas comme les autres 🍵Moi c'est Nisrine, et on se retrouve chaque semaine pour un épisode sur une thématique différente avec mes lectures coups de coeur 💌Au club, on ne parle pas juste d’un livre — on discute de sujets qui nous parlent à tous, qui nous font réfléchir et vibrer. Et à partir de là, on recommande nos coups de cœur & nos découvertes : romans, musiques, films, œuvres d’art… tout ce qui peut enrichir le débat et nos regards 🤍Le club, c’est notre manière à nous de se retrouver, même à distance, pour ...

🔪🩸 Welcome to Hot Mess Murder Club — Hosted by Kat and Holly, best friends with microphones and attitude problems. We deep-dive into shocking cases, questionable decisions, and the kind of dark details that make you whisper, “What is wrong with people?” (Spoiler: a lot.)Expect true crime storytelling, side comments that absolutely did not need to be said (but were), disbelief, and the occasional emotional spiral — all delivered with love, humor, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting.New episodes drop every Monday because apparently, we enjoy emotional damage on a ...

Bienvenue au Bitcheez Club, une vibe de radio libre, légère et fun qui donne la parole aux Bitcheez ces femmes lambdas, celles de notre quotidien. On est là pour parler entre meufs, rapport au corps, mental, couple, sexe…… Notre objectif ? Réhabiliter l’imparfait, se déculpabiliser et mieux se comprendre.Et pour qu’elles se livrent sans filtre, vous ne connaîtrez jamais l’identité des Bitcheez que nous avons interviewées!Ah oui et l’interview a lieu dans notre van transformé en studio pour qu’on puisse aller leur rencontre !Go Bitcheeeeeeezzzz ! Hébergé par Acast. ...

After the publication of his wildly successful memoir, Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller's life began to stall. During what should have been the height of his success, he found himself avoiding responsibility and even questioning the meaning of life. But when two producers proposed turning his...