Mr. Peanut (Hardcover)
Similar Results
The Name Is Rajinikanth (Hardcover)
No one can resist a rags-to-riches story. It is every common mans dream.
But Rajinikanths story is irresistible. He continues to be an enigma to both his fans and contemporaries.
He is simple Shivaji Rao Gaekwad who, by way of luck and hard work became a superstar, and continues to remain on top notwithstanding the vagaries of time. The book, written in cinematic style, painstakingly seeks to record every nuance of Rajinikanths life: the joys and sorrows, the pains and ecstasies, loves and betrayals.
It also does not shy away from underlining the two extremes that have remained an intrinsic part of his highly eventful career: the human and the divine. The book tells the essential truth about Rajinikanth that has thus far remained unknown to his vast fan following
(less)A Friend (Hardcover)
..
.GIVE FRIEND TO SOMEONE SPECIAL
(less)Pnin (Hardcover)
Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him.
Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct. Serialized in "The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, PNIN" brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, "Pnin" features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s.
Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him.
Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct. Serialized in "The New Yorker" and published in book form in 1957, "Pnin" brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.
About the Author : Vladimir Nabokov has contributed to Pnin as an author. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), one of the 20th century's greatest writers in both Russian and English, was born in St.
Petersburg, Russia, and spent his adult life in Germany, France, the United States, and Switzerland. In addition to his literary work, he was a passionate lepidopterist and chess player.
His books include "Lolita, Pale Fire, The Real Light of Sebastian Knight, Laughter in the Dark", and many more
(less)Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of Terror/Adam
Fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, Osama then found "religion" and rapidly grew to be fundamentalist Islam's biggest star. Behind the propaganda of a self-styled zealous freedom-fighter the book uncovers a man driven by the need for acceptance and adulation; one who deftly manipulated the institutions he claimed to despise in order to further his own terrible ends; who condemned depravity while keeping a hand in heroin trade and extortion
(less)Cracking The SAT 2012
Inside Apple
Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers, and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. While INSIDE APPLE provides a detailed investigation into the unique company, its lessons about leadership, product design and marketing are universal.
INSIDE APPLE will appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of the Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavour
(less)The Men's Health Big Book Of Exercises
Highlights include * Lose Your Gut for Good: The World's Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan (scientifically proven) * The 9 Best Exercises You've Never Done * The Bodyweight Workout You Can Do Anywhere * 64 Ways to Add Inches to Your Arms Creatively packaged using photography and innovative design, The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises is filled from start to finish with fascinating statistics and useful tip boxes, making it easy, fun and informative to read
(less)The Pelican Brief (Hardcover )
. In a seedy D.
C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death.
..
The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.
..
To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite.
Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle.
Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone has read Darby's brief.
Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. About the Author : John Grisham has contributed to The Pelican Brief as an author.
John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi
(less)After You (Hardcover)
Julie Buxbaum is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. The Opposite of Love is her first novel
(less)Inside Apple
Based on numerous interviews, the book reveals exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers, and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. While INSIDE APPLE provides a detailed investigation into the unique company, its lessons about leadership, product design and marketing are universal.
INSIDE APPLE will appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of the Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavour
(less)Inside Apple
100 up-and-coming executives are surreptitiously transported to a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs)
(less)The Devil (Hardcover)
Except that this stranger seems to know much more than he should about Jack. Jack thinks no more of their meeting and resumes his old life in Galway.
But when he's called to investigate a student murder--connected to an elusive Mr. K--he remembers the man from the airport.
Is the stranger really who he says he is? With the help of the Jameson, Jack struggles to make sense of it all. After several more murders and too many coincidental encounters, Jack believes he may have met his nemesis.
But why has he been chosen? And could he really have taken on the devil himself? Suspenseful, haunting, and totally unique, "The Devil" is Bruen at his very best. About the Author : Ken Bruen has contributed to The Devil as an author.
Ken Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland in 1951. The author of sixteen novels, he spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, SE Asia and South America.
He now lives in Galway City with his wife and daughter
(less)The Men's Health Big Book Of Exercises
Highlights include * Lose Your Gut for Good: The World's Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan (scientifically proven) * The 9 Best Exercises You've Never Done * The Bodyweight Workout You Can Do Anywhere * 64 Ways to Add Inches to Your Arms Creatively packaged using photography and innovative design, The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises is filled from start to finish with fascinating statistics and useful tip boxes, making it easy, fun and informative to read
(less)Previously Searched On
- You have no searches yet.
Previously Viewed
- Nothing viewed yet? Click on a "View Details" next to each document to know more about it.
Comment
Save