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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Camp David is American diplomacy's secret weapon. The home of the 2015 GCC and 2012 G8 summits, the 2000 Peace Summit, and the 1978 Peace Accords, the camp has played a vital role in American history over the past century, inviting Presidents and international leaders alike to converge, converse, and, perhaps most importantly, relax. A peaceful mountaintop setting, crucially removed from the constant scrutiny of the press, Camp David has served as...
Author
Language
English
Description
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities Dave Grohl has decided to tell these stories just as he has always done, in his own voice. The joy that he has felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that he has recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing his voice bounce between the Kiss posters...
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
KC and her friend Marshall accompany KC's stepfather, the United States President, to remote Camp David, where they find clues that point to either ghostly or criminal activity.
7) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital. The conflicts...
Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist who left us with new ways to understand humankind. His writings picked apart political power and social hierarchy to reveal what makes human society tick. As If Already Free collects his most important insights in one book, showing how his writing resonates today for activists looking to shake things up, and explaining how his powerful and accessible ideas can be applied...
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Language
English
Description
New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.
In a career spanning more than thirty years, David Letterman redefined the modern talk show with an ironic comic style that transcended traditional television. While he remains one of the most famous stars
...Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The prolific musician, songwriter, producer and member of Eurythmics discusses the parties, collaborations, relationships, and creativity that spanned his blockbuster career, from Tom Pettý's "Don't Come Around Here No More" to Celine Dioń's "Taking Chances.".
13) Walden
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Series
Language
English
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Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature. In today's fast-paced consumer-driven society, the austere...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A former NBC newsperson and Meet the Press moderator explores various world traditions to further his own understanding of faith, describing his upbringing in an interfaith household, his visits to myriad houses of worship and his interviews with forefront religious leaders.
Author
Publisher
Rhino/Parlophone
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"CONVERSATION PIECE features 5 CDs (including 12 tracks previously unreleased) and a 120 page hardback book illustrating David's development through 1968 and 1969, via his home demos, BBC radio sessions, studio recordings with John 'Hutch' Hutchinson and the experimental music mime group, Feathers. The collection also celebrates 50th anniversaries of the 'Space Oddity' single and David's second album, 'David Bowie (aka Space Oddity)', with original...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How...
Author
Publisher
TLS Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn't. Or at least, that is Baddiel's view in this book, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else's, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished-for we will,...
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