2018.
First U.S. edition.
Prince charming, dragon slayer, mischievous prankster ... More often than not, these are the role-models boys encounter in the books they read at
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9780762465927
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Stories for boys who dare to be different : true tales of amazing boys who changed the world without killing dragons
Patch Adams -- Eddie Aikau -- Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa -- Mohed Altrad -- Roald Amundsen -- Daniel Anthony -- Louis Armstrong -- David Attenborough -- Baldwin IV -- Louis Braille -- Eugene Cernan -- Favio Chávez -- Confucius -- Frederick Douglass -- Jesse Eisenberg -- Jaime Escalante -- The Four Chaplains -- Charles Fourier -- Galileo Galilei -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Bill Gates -- Siddhartha Gautama -- Rick Genest -- King George VI -- John Green -- Alan L. Hart -- Achmat Hassiem -- Stephen Hawking -- Jim Henson -- Ryan Hreljac -- Steve Irwin -- James Earl Jones -- Chief Joseph -- William Kamkwamba -- John Lennon -- Carl Linnaeus -- Nelson Mandela -- William Moulton Marston -- Iqbal Masih -- Don McPherson -- Christian McPhilamy -- Lionel Messi -- Harvey Milk -- Caine Monroy -- Jorge Muñoz -- Trevor Noah -- Tenzing Norgay -- Ric O'Barry -- Barack Obama -- Frank Ocean -- Christopher Paolini -- Sergei Polunin -- Daniel Radcliffe -- Ghyslain Raza -- Hans Scholl -- Percy Shelley -- Boyan Slat -- Vedran Smailović -- Steven Spielberg -- Chesley Sullenberger -- Swampy -- Daniel Tammet -- Tank Man -- Alan Turing -- John Tyndall -- Uyaquq -- Rick van Beek -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Vincent Van Gogh -- Nick Vujicic -- Taika Waititi -- Ai Weiwei -- Oscar Wilde -- Nicholas Winton -- Ken Yeang -- Benjamin Zephaniah.
Brooks, Ben, 1992- author.
Winter, Quinton, illustrator.
Ben Brooks ; illustrated by Quinton Winter.
2018
Stories for boys who dare to be different : true tales of amazing boys who changed the world without killing dragons
©2012.
1st ed.
From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a sin
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Harper Perennial,
9780061719653
9780062099211
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The moment : wild, poignant, life-changing stories from 125 writers and artists famous & obscure
Introduction / Flash / Chalk face / Shot / The envelope / Love in a time of illness / Subdued by stroke / Table time / Tattoo / The killer in me / To worry / Near miss / Mom's favorite movie of all time / A piece / Unexpected pleasure / Someday / No consolation / CheckPoints / Make love, not war / Thank you, Lionel Richie / Assembly / The calling / Missed call / Wicked start / Momento mori / The secret life of parents / John Updike sent me a fan letter (once) / C-listed / 5RLG375 / My blue sticky / Lives / Teachable moment / Disappointment / Divine intervention / Poem for the moment / Mr. Criche / Cornrows / Dancing, in green, to Ravel / Fluke / Persephone / Trash / Gonzo girl / Rimshot / TITLE TK / Black like me / Kitchen confidential / Horns / What would Roland do? / Fearless flyer / Hobo beginnings / Why I adopted my son / Why I adopted my dad / Running / At first sight / Piazza San Marco / First kiss / The Crüe / Uncaged / To the rescue / The shed / Curtain call / Photo finish / True calm / Wally & Beaver / The sign / The thin envelope / Liner notes / If I don't die today, I will marry Kristin Moore / Boot camp / Sunset Strip / Truth, lies, and audiotape / Stage Direction / February 12, 2009, 9:14 am / Balls out / Marooned / Swerved / Meeting Allen Ginsberg / Those old keys / Mission accomplished / Tell me how this ends / Keepsake / E-3: October 25, 1986 / Landing / The verdict / Nine lives / My front line / Instructions / Two fays / 2.10.01 / Like James Brown / Crying for their dog / The quest / Early dismissal / Burning up / Maiden days / Just a man / Motherless / The ripple effect / Positively 93rd Street / Smack talk / Firecracker / The silver harmonica / Denial / Mercy / The hidden dangers of blood magic / Blogging towards oblivion / Sleeping bag / Trusting eyes / Ingress/egress / Punchlines & knockouts / Head case / In pursuit of optimism / Far side / Grandma's dildo / Oprah calling / Vietnam, revisited / Conversation with my dad / Season's greetings / Revisionist history / Forgiven / Second chance / Moving on / Birth / The moth and the window / Tomorrowland
Smith, Larry, 1968-
Larry Smith -- Caroline Paul -- AJ Jacobs -- Dean Karnazes -- Mo Clancy -- Diane Ackerman -- Paul West -- Laurie David -- Summer Pierre -- Michael Paterniti -- Amy Sohn -- Kirk Citro -- Craig A. Williams -- Melissa Etheridge -- Jonathan Papernick -- Michael Forster Rothbart -- Neal Pollack -- Alaa Majeed & David Enders -- Jeremy Toback -- Matt Dojny -- Vivian Chum -- Baratunde Thurston -- Annie Leahy -- Gregory Maguire -- Adam Rensch -- Elizabeth Gilbert -- Steve Almond -- Mary Elizabeth Williams -- Chris Sacca -- Fiona Maazel -- Tao Lin -- Bill Ayers -- Nevenka Kurjakovic -- Dan Goggin -- Matthew Zapruder -- Dave Eggers -- Lori Sabian -- Ellen O'Connell -- Danny Davis -- Micah Toub -- Rigoberto González -- Cheryl Della Pietra -- Josh Axelrad -- Piper Kerman -- Haylee Harrel -- Michael Castleman -- Shalom Auslander -- Benjamin Percy -- Ashley Van Buren -- Dale Maharidge -- Christoph Marshall -- Eddie Comacho -- Mira Ptacin -- L. Nichols -- Julian Voloj -- Scott Muska -- Sara Lovelace -- Alan Rabinowitz -- Ellen Sussman -- Colin Nissan -- Attila Kalamar -- Kimberly Rose -- Laura Cathcart Robbins -- Jeff Church -- Caitlin Roper -- Sascha Rothchild -- Elizabeth Jayne Liu -- Aaron Huey -- Wes Moore -- Christine MacDonald -- Dan Baum -- Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Daniel DiClerico -- James Cañón -- Kristen Cosby -- Darin Strauss -- Steve Silberman -- Alan Cheuse -- Brian Evenson -- Pat Callahan -- Jennifer Egan -- Molly Lawless -- Paul Miller -- Byron Case -- Peter Kuper -- Jessica Lutz -- Julie Metz -- Dawn McMullin -- Julia Halprin Jackson -- Adrianne Frost -- Richard Ferguson -- Ramona Pringle -- Robin Wasserman -- Qraig R. de Groot -- Judy Collins -- Nadja Cada -- Tamara Pokrupa-Nahanni -- Anthony Doerr -- Matthew Leader -- Melissa Febos -- Arthur Suydam -- Andrew D. Scrimgeour -- Kathy Ritchie -- Steve Anthony Leasure -- Robert Joseph Levy -- Emily Steinberg -- Hope Rehak -- Jami Kempen -- Jessica Anya Blau -- Patrick Sauer -- Noah Scalin -- Tony Schwartz -- Katie Killacky -- Sara Barron -- Ray Richmond -- Karol Nielsen -- Ashley Allen -- Ellen Jantzen -- Catherine Murdock -- Jennifer Thompson -- Jerry Ma -- Mary Valle -- John B. Carnett -- Stephen Tobolowsky -- Rebecca Woolf.
edited by Larry Smith.
2012
The moment : wild, poignant, life-changing stories from 125 writers and artists famous & obscure
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