The INSTANT New York Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyWinner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld AwardWinner of the Chautauqua PrizeFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book AwardFinalist for the Plutarch AwardA New York Times Notable Book of 2021A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA New York Time...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate tells the story of the infamous Donner Party.

Working in senior care isn't for everyone. It isn't even for most. But for those rare few who find their passion in this multifaceted industry, the sense of job and life satisfaction are limitless. So too, however, can be the pervasive sense of loss and hopelessness. After graduating from university in Vancouver, Canada, Kevin Donner followed his high school sweetheart to Australia and the United States as she pursued her dream of medical school. Over the years that follow, each move force...

Are you still waiting for someone else to tell you that you are enough?Does Any of This Sound Familiar?• You change your opinions depending on who is in the room• You apologize before you even know what you did wrong• You replay conversations for hours, wondering if you said the wrong thing• You feel relief when someone approves of you, and dread when they don't• You have lost track of what you actually want because you have spen...

Geneticists Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast are on the verge of a revolutionary breakthrough when they are forced underground by a closed-minded world, fearful of tampering in God's domain. There in the shadows they create Dren, a hybrid born of beast and man whose potential exceeds their wildest dreams...but Dren becomes their worst nightmare when she grows too strong to contain, too smart to control, and too seductive to resist.From the subversive imagination of Vincenzo Natali, SPLIC...

From the experts at the world-renowned medical institution, clear information on diabetes and "practical advice on all aspects of care" ( Publishers Weekly).Living with diabetes is a balancing act of monitoring blood glucose, food intake, and medication. It makes sense that individuals who have diabetes do best when they understand their condition and how to control it.The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes is a comprehensive, easy-to-read guid...

This is the extraordinary account of Donner-Grau's experiences with doña Mercedes, an aged healer in a remote Venezuelan town known for its spiritualists, sorcerers, and mediums.

One of the main reasons people yearned for new forms of transportation is because of the most notorious and tragic disasters in the history of westward travel. While people still romanticize the Wild West, many Americans are still all too familiar with the fate of the Donner Party, a group of 87-90 people that met with disaster in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter of 1846-1847. The party knew the journey would take months, but early snowfalls in the mountains left dozens o...

"The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate" by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton provides a harrowing account of one of the most infamous events in American history. The book chronicles the ill-fated journey of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers who set out for California but became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a brutal winter. Houghton, a member of the party, offers a personal perspective on the struggles, hardships, and the dire choices faced by the group as the...

The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observerAs a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to the call to arms after Pearl Harbor. His wartime experiences in the Pacific Theater were seared into his consciousness, and in early 1946 he set out to preserve those memories while they ...

It was cleaning time, boxes of paper and old technology long outused. Most items weren't worth keeping, destined for thedumpster, despite some regret when trashing what you have heldfor years, far worse if it had meaning and more so when it was aparents' affection in your hand.The poems were difficult to read, faded on browning paper butwanting to be kept. Starting, working slowly, typing words intothe computer, helped by my spouse, some po...

"... A vague little shape is set free I cannot hear, I cannot see Give it body or make it bright..." (From 'The Stifled Poem') This is an anthology that should appeal to many, as it comprises light-hearted as well as serious poems rendered in a comfortable and witty style. Leafing through its pages, we get glimpses into the changing face of nature, art and technology. More importantly, the poems are a comment on life - its loves, sorrows, surprises, disappointments, its varied existential ...