Michelle Obama – In Her Own Words. The Speeches 2008. Our Nations new First Lady: Michelle LaVaughn Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and the wife of the elected President Barack Obama. Michelle is the first African-American to become the First Lady of the United States. Michelle was born and grew up […]
Abandoned by her mother, beaten by her father, and hurriedly married off at twelve to an abusive man twice her age, Baby Halders early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak. Exhausted and desperate, the young mother finally fled with her three children in 1999 to Delhi, where she found work as a maid […]
Few lives have been more eventful and controversial than Protima Bedis, and this book, derived from her unfinished autobiography, journals and her letters to family, friends and lovers, is a startlingly frank and passionate memoir. Illustrated with over fifty photographs, this is the story of a remarkable woman who had the spirit, the courage and […]
When Sheikh Sharif offers Irene Taylor more money than she??s ever made before to be chaperon to his sister she can??t refuse ?? finally she??ll safeguard her family. Irene might be innocent, but she knows the trail of destruction playboys like Sharif leave behind and will resist his skilled seduction??
This is the authorized biography of one of the most magnetic men in the world. He is a man whose presence and grace have touched and transformed millions of followers all over the world??from Bangalore to Bosnia, Surinam to South Africa, Tamil Nadu to Trinidad. A tireless traveler, he has addressed the United Nations, the […]
This is the captivating story behind Schindler??s List, the Booker Prize??winning book and the Academy Award??winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world. ?ÿ Thomas Keneally met Leopold ??Poldek? Pfefferberg, the […]
The desert King??s reluctant bride! She??d meant to have a baby for her sister, but an IVF clinic mix-up means party planner Sheridan Sloane is now carrying the heir of Rashid al-Hassan ?? the desert King of Kyr! Rashid demands marriage, but Sheridan isn??t convinced. He??s sinfully sexy, but his heart is encased in ice. […]
Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship — and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like […]
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africas apartheid regime. Among the books interesting revelations is Mandelas ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. […]
Stephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, theft, suicide attempts, the illicit pursuit of candy and lads, a genius for mischief, and a neurotic life of crime that sent him straight to Pucklechurch Prison and […]