Historia ja muistelmat
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Monty Python Speaks : The Complete Oral History of Monty Python, as Told by the Founding Members and a Few of Their Many Friends and Collaborators
Morgan, DavidHarperCollins 2013With a Foreword by John Oliver, host of Last Week TonightIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of its BBC debut, a revised and updated edition of the complete oral history of Mont...
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Capote : A Biography
Clarke, GeraldRosettaBooks 2013The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award–winning turn. One of the strongest fiction writers of hi...
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The New Digital Age : Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
Schmidt, Eric; Cohen, JaredKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world whe...
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Pain, Parties, Work : Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Winder, ElizabethHarperCollins 2013"An illuminating biography . . . which floods clarifying light on a chapter of the poet's early life that Plath painted in jaundiced tones in The Bell Jar." —The New York Times, Su...
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Marttinen: kahden armeijan soturi
Tuunainen, PasiOtava 2012 1. painosAlpo Kullervo Marttinen oli sotilas kiireestä kantapäähän: talvi- ja jatkosodan ansioitunut sotilasjohtaja, yksi asekätkentäjutun avainhenkilöistä, Suomen ja Yhdysvaltain armeijoid...
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Hirvikansan lapset
Tomi, IlonaMediapinta 2013Hirvikansan lapset ja muita kertomuksia Suomen lapsista kivikaudelta nykyaikaan Näissä kertomuksissa Suomen lasten historia herää eloon. Lapset ovat mukana, kun kallioon maala...
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Salaisuus sydämessäni: Presidentti Kennedy ja minä
Alford, Mimi; Heino, SamiOtava 2012 1. painosYhtäkkiä hän oli maailman mahtavimman miehen rakastajatar... "Jokaisella meistä on salaisuus. Tämä on omani", aloittaa Mimi Alford kertomuksensa. Mimi oli 19-vuotias tullessaan ha...
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July 1914 : Countdown to War
McMeekin, SeanBasic Books 2013When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent a...
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Alive again recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction
Samuels, Howard S.; O'Boyle, JaneWiley 2013A powerful book on addiction recovery by a doctor who overcame addiction himself, the renowned founder and president of The Hills Treatment Center in Los AngelesHoward Samuels is o...
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Koti- ja sotarintaman tapahtumia 1941
Hakkarainen, TuulaMediapinta 2013Toivon matka jatkosodan hyökkäykseen alkoi Kiteen alueella perustetussa 43. rajajääkärikomppaniassa, joka oli divisioonan eri yksiköille alistettuna. Muun muassa 19. divisioona oli...
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Captive in Iran : A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
Rostampour, Maryam; Amirizadeh, MarziyehTyndale House Publishers 2013Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years...
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What My Mother Gave Me : Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
Benedict, ElizabethAlgonquin Books 2013In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to th...
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Mom & Me & Mom
Angelou, MayaRandom House Publishing Group 2013NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother. Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick! The story of Maya Angelou’...
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Against the Odds : The Adventures of a Man in His Sixties Competing in Six of the World's Toughest Triathlons across Six Continents
Pendergrass, John L.Hatherleigh Press 2013A true account of John Pendergrass’ impossible goal of completing six IRONMAN Triathlons on six continents, all while in his sixties, Against the Odds will shatter your preconcepti...
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The Profession of Violence : The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
Pearson, JohnBloomsbury Publishing 2013The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy. Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ru...
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Kolyman verinen kulta : virolainen Suomen-poika 10 vuotta Siperiassa
Alviste, HansMediapinta 2013Jatkosodassa taisteli Suomen armeijassa noin 2500 virolaista vapaaehtoista, joita on kutsuttu Suomen-pojiksi. He halusivat auttaa meitä ja kouluttautua Viron vapauttamisen ydinjouk...
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Voittoja ja valheita: salattu elämäni pyöräilyn huipulla
Hamilton, Tyler; Coyle, Daniel; Tuomisto, PekkaOtava 2013 1. painosPalkittu tunnustuskirja huippu-urheilun pimeästä ytimestä ja Lance Armstrongin salatusta maailmasta Lance katsoi minua silmiin - Luuletko, että voin joskus voittaa Tourin? Lance A...
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Little-Known Facts about America
Cassel, MelissaInfinity Publishing 2013Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826. This was exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
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Bruce
Carlin, Peter AmesOtava 2013 1. painos"Carlinin perinpohjainen muotokuva rokin työväenluokkaisesta sankarista täyttää fanin kaikki toiveet." - People Ensimmäinen Springsteenin elämäkerta 25 vuoteen, joka on tehty yht...
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Answering the Call : The Doctor Who Made Africa His Life: The Remarkable Story of Albert Schweitzer
Gire, KenHarperCollins Christian Publishing 2013A Christian author's inspiring biography of the Nobel Peace Prize–winning theologian and physician who built a hospital in French Equatorial Africa. As a young man, Albert Schweitz...