Showing results for "wall"
Showing 1 - 12 of 1367 Results
Adult content is visible.
The Glass Castle
A Memoir
2006
EN
Accessible
**THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOONThe extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.**The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father capture...
The Glass Castle
The New York Times Bestseller - Two Million Copies Sold
2010
EN
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' Sunday Independent'A terrific story, grippingly told' Sunday Times'I read The Glass Castle straight through in an evening, wearing an expression of slack-jawed amazement' SpectatorWhile Jeannette Walls w...
Easy Out
Newhouse University, Book 1
- Narrated by
- Heather StonewellRaphael DeRamiro
- Audiobook 1 -
- Newhouse University
Unabridged
10 hours 34 min
2024
EN
LaurenI've been able to keep my personal and academic life separate for the last three years I've been at Newhouse University. Not even my best friend/roommate knows the truth about my past. I learned a long time ago the best way to survive is to be invisible.My hope of graduating under the radar goes up in flames when James Hart gets assigned as my journalism partner. Not only do we have to write an article together, but he also has to write a story about ...
2026
EN
**A unique and richly imagined novel."—Graeme Macrae Burnet, New York Times Book ReviewFast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien met Robinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man’s growing humanity amidst famine and extinction.Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel-as-notebook features a 19th-century ornithologist on a remote Irish island—from the author of...
- by
- Wall
2025
EN
The War and Our Financial Fabric by Andrew Carnegie is a thought-provoking exploration of the profound economic and financial consequences wrought by war, particularly focusing on the context of World War I. In this incisive work, Carnegie, one of the most influential industrialists and philanthropists of his era, delves into the intricate relationship between warfare and the financial stability of nations. He examines how the immense expenditures required for military conflict disrupt est...
Hang the Moon
A Novel
2023
EN
Accessible
“A rollicking tale.” —The Washington Post *“Propulsive.” —Associated Press * “Wild, smart, energetic.” —Los Angeles Times * “Brilliant and effervescent.” —NPRFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller, a “rip-roaring, action-packed” (The New York Times) historical novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia.Sallie Kincaid is th...
Half Broke Horses
A True-Life Novel
2009
EN
From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon—“Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt” (Chicago Tribune). Half Broke Horses has transfixed readers everywhere.“Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six,...
2023
EN
Accessible
From Jeannette Walls, thebestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era VirginiaMost folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the twentieth century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little ab...
2023
EN
**A queer, witchy Fast and the Furious that shines light on history not often told.BEST OF THE YEAR:Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Public Library · New York Public Library**Mississippi, 1930s. Magic simmering beneath the surface, kept in check by unjust laws and societal expectations. But for six extraordinary women, the roar of enchanted engines and the thrill of the forbidden broom race offer a chance to rewrite their destinies.Meet Billie M...
The Silver Star
A Novel
2013
EN
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon**, Jeannette Walls’s gripping coming-of-age novel about two sisters “transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away” (O, T...
Stolen Innocence
My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
2009
EN
“Both creepy…and quite moving.”—New York Times Book Review“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”—PeopleStolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of ...
2015
EN
Tybolt’s a Deviant, a hated race immune to direct magic in a world where Wizards ensure survival. But when he loses his entire family to a spell-made storm he joins an elite group of Wizard hunters, organized beneath the new non-magic wielding king.Now eighteen, he spends his days capturing Wizards. But the nights are his, reserved to feed the starving villagers of Eriroc under cover of dark. There’s always more people in need than he can help, and one of these days he’s going to h...











