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A Short History of Nearly Everything [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bryson
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 One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail--well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, answer--the oldest, biggest questions we have posed abou... more info>> 2003
Category: Technology/Science
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bryson
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From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny." Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have ... more info>>
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Bill Bryson
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After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic mu... more info>>
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bryson
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 William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated convi... more info>>
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In A Sunburned Country [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bryson
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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The res... more info>> 2001
Words: 150000 - Reading Time: 428-600 min.
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A Walk in the Woods [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bryson
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A Walk in the Woods is a laugh-out-loud account of an outrageously rugged hike by a beloved comic author. Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted "hiker's highway" sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain. Bryson risked snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers. This amusingly ill-con... more info>> 2003
Category: Travel
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Bill Bryson
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 From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers. What is the difference between "immanent" and "imminent"? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between "acute" and "chronic"? What is the former name of "Moldova"? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language's most skilled writer... more info>>
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Bill Bryson's African Diary [Secure Mobipocket]
by Bill Bryson
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In the late 1940s and early 1950s after he became a little too saggy to fit into a Tarzan loincloth without depressing popcorn sales among cinema audiences, the great Johnny Weissmuller filled the twilight years of his acting career with a series of low-budget adventure movies with titles like Devil Goddess and Jungle Moon Men, all built around a character called Jungle Jim. These modest epics are largely forgotten now, which is a pity because they were possibly the most cherishably terrible mov... more info>>
Category: History
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bryson
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One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: "English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where 'cleave' can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word 'set' has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; whe... more info>> 2002
Words: 90000 - Reading Time: 257-360 min.
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