Tag: Unlikely

Free Download Michael Korda, "Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero"
English | 2009 | pages: 161 | ISBN: 0060755210, 0062279777 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
"Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself: unambiguous, decisive, clear. The book is a joy to read." -Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofLonesome Dove

Free Download Sam McManis, "Running to Glory: An Unlikely Team, a Challenging Season, and Chasing the American Dream"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1493041525, 1493057804 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 9.4 mb
The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They’re from low income families, many of whom are migrant workers. With little time to devote to their passion, they give everything they have to their quest for the Washington State High School Cross Country Championship.

Free Download Jana S. Harmon, "Atheists Finding God: Unlikely Stories of Conversions to Christianity in the Contemporary West"
English | ISBN: 1793641323 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 890 KB + 2 MB
In a Western culture of increasing skepticism towards conservative Christianity, what motivates intellectually-driven atheists to believe in the reality of God and become passionate followers of Christ? Review of social science literature confirms a predominant functional approach to religious conversion, effectively reducing a complex, substantive phenomenon to a partial functional explanation. In response, the chief focus of this book is to take a broader look at religious conversion to determine the precursors and pathways from atheistic disbelief to belief in God and Christianity within an educated population.

Free Download Unlikely Angel : The Songs of Dolly Parton
by Lydia R. Hamessley
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0252043529 | 314 Pages | True PDF | 3.04 MB

Free Download T.A. Barron, "Giant: The Unlikely Origins of Shim (Merlin Saga)"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 059320350X, 0593203496 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 2.9 mb
A prequel to the bestselling Merlin Saga starring Shim, a young giant who must embark on a dangerous adventure when he’s shrunk to the height of a man’s knee.

Free Download Wendy Kopp, "One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1586481797 | EPUB | pages: 211 | 0.2 mb
From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children… , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.

Free Download On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White
English | October 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 0525510087 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 127.53 MB
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.

Free Download On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVSKPR7W | 2023 | 14 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 412 MB
Author: Ronald C. White
Narrator: Ronald C. White
From the New York Times bestselling author comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers.

Free Download Alice Feiring, "An Unlikely Vineyard: The Education of a Farmer and Her Quest for Terroir"
English | 2014 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 1603584579, 1603586792 | EPUB | 70,7 mb
Named one of the Best Wine Books of 2014 by The New York Times, An Unlikely Vineyard tells the evolutionary story of Deirdre Heekin’s farm from overgrown fields to a fertile, productive, and beautiful landscape that melds with its natural environment.

Free Download The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us by David Baker, John Green
English | May 2, 2023 | ISBN: 161519973X | 318 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events