Jonathan: 5623 books
by Jonathan Eig
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
**A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" • A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" • A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014"
The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.**
We know it simply...
It Takes a School
The Extraordinary Success Story That Is Changing a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A story of David and Goliath proportions, how an American hedge fund manager created a unique school in Somaliland whose students, against all odds, have come to achieve success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams
Jonathan Starr, once a cutthroat hedge fund manager, is not your traditional do-gooder,...
John Newton (Foreword by Philip Yancey): From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Most Christians know John Newton as a man who once captained a slave ship, was dramatically converted to Christ on the high seas, and later penned one of the greatest hymns of the faith, "Amazing Grace." But he also had a huge impact on his times as an icon of the evangelical movement, as...
by Jonathan Bernis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Raised in a traditional Jewish family, international television host Jonathan Bernis was taught from a young age that "Jews don't--and can't!--believe in Jesus." Yet in his study of the Bible, including the Torah, he found overwhelming evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really was the Jewish...
The Terrible Speed of Mercy
A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.”
—Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor’s work has...
Making Friends among the Taliban
A Peacemaker's Journey in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In a remote valley north of Kabul in August 2010, American peacemaker Dan Terry and nine other aid workers were attacked and killed in an event that made worldwide headlines. Why would one man take his family, follow faith and calling into the political and religious maelstrom of Afghanistan, andthrough...
by Jonathan Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Patrick was born the son of privilege and position, but he was only a teenager when he was taken from his home in Roman Britain by marauders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Despite his terrible circumstances, young Patrick did not give way to despair. As he worked as a shepherd in the pastures...
William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs)
Partners in Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting...
Luckiest Man
The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears...
Ali
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year
“As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography . . . pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel—a suspenseful novel with a...
How to Ruin a Queen
Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In 1785, a sensational trial began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. A leading Catholic cardinal and scion of one of the most distinguished families in France stood accused of forging the queen's signature to obtain the most expensive piece of jewelry in Europe: a 2,800-carat...
Swim, Bike, Run
Our Triathlon Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Swim, Bike, Run is the ultimate triathlon book, from Olympic heroes the Brownlee brothers
The Olympic Triathlon, Hyde Park, London
August 7th 2012
'We jogged to our positions on the pontoon: two brothers, side by side, the world and everyone we ever cared about looking on. Eighteen...
Trillion Dollar Coach
The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create...
Jump-Starting America
How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded...