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Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that opening a restaurant is a risky business, a venture with an astounding rate of failure. Patrick Kuh's Becoming a Restaurateur takes readers behind the scenes of one of America's trendiest new restaurants, revealing how Lien Ta and chef Jonathan Whitener of LA's Here's Looking at You managed to beat the odds. With valuable information about what daily life for a professional is like, this is an entertaining, practical guide to what...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A moving story of an influential global voice and a potent example of what leadership informed by compassion and selflessness could become in the 21st century. The Dalai Lama crafts an intricate tapestry of the Tibetan diaspora with evocative and moving photographs.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. That changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and he learned of the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months, he traveled eight thousand miles, enduring sandstorms and blizzards. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on inflicted pain and...
4) Before the fires: an oral history of African American life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lioncrest Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"The stories and lessons in this raw, revealing, unflinching memoir offer the reader a blueprint they can use to climb from the bottom of the barrel into a whole new stratosphere that once seemed unattainable. Whether you feel off-course in life, are looking to maximize your potential or drain your soul to break through your so-called glass ceiling, this is the only book you will ever need."--
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, un sello editorial de The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Agnes (que luego se convertiría en la Madre Teresa) nació en Skopje, Macedonia. Fue criada para amar a Dios y amar a los demás por encima de todo, y desde temprana edad supo que quería dedicarse a la religión, por lo que se hizo monja. Le fascinaban las historias de misioneros que ayudaban a la gente y quería hacer lo mismo. Viajó a Irlanda y luego a la India, donde trabajó duro para ayudar a todos los que la rodeaban. Enseñó en una escuela,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
If it weren't for her mother Emma, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010--and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later--she felt deeply alone. In this memoir, Whoopi shares many deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time.
8) Walker
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
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