The SoapBox Library

Books & documents

• Lighting their fires : how parents and teachers can raise extraordinary kids in a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world (2010) — Esquith, Rafe Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (2006) — Diamond, Jared M Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The retirement savings time bomb--and how to defuse it : a five-step action plan for protecting your IRAs, 401(k)s, and other retirement plans from near annihilation by the taxman (2012) — Slott, Ed Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• A stone for a pillow : journeys with Jacob (2017) — L'Engle, Madeleine, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Seven brief lessons on physics (2015) — Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Nothing to lose, everything to gain : how I went from gang member to multimillionaire entrepreneur (2013) — Blair, Ryan;Yaeger, Don Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Travel light, move fast (2019) — Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Being a Rockefeller, becoming myself : a memoir (2013) — Rockefeller, Eileen, 1952- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Clutch : why some people excel under pressure and others don't (2010) — Sullivan, Paul Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The drowning lessons (2015) — Shemilt, Jane, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The future of the Internet and how to stop it (2008) — Zittrain, Jonathan (Jonathan L.) Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The personal MBA : a world-class business education in a single volume (2010) — Kaufman, Josh Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The giving way to happiness : stories and science behind the transformative power of giving (2015) — Santi, Jenny Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Battle hymn of the tiger mother (2011) — Chua, Amy Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• ANYWHERE - 3 - across the Bering Sea — Sufus Hufus Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Five Things They Never Told Me (2015) — Westcott, Rebecca Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Bright air, brilliant fire : on the matter of the mind (1994) — Edelman, Gerald M. (Gerald Maurice), 1929- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Shark tales : how I turned $1,000 into a billion dollar business (2011) — Corcoran, Barbara (Barbara Ann) Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Gag rule : on the suppression of dissent and the stifling of democracy (2004) — Lapham, Lewis H. Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Tinderbox : how the West sparked the AIDS epidemic and how the world can finally overcome it (2013) — Timberg, Craig Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Who was Robert E. Lee? (2014) — Bader, Bonnie, 1961- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• Tales of power (1976) — Castaneda, Carlos, 1931-1998, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The revolving door of life : a 44 Scotland Street novel (2016) — McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The map and the territory 2.0 : risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting (2014) — Greenspan, Alan, 1926- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
• The penguin lessons (2015) — Tom Michell Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Lessons in Chemistry (2022) — Bonnie Garmus Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) — Yuval Noah Harari Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Piano Lesson (1990) — August Wilson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• On Tyranny (2017) — Timothy Snyder Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Turn of the Screw (1898) — Henry James Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• A Lesson in Dying (1990) — Ann Cleeves Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Summary of Tom Michell's the Penguin Lessons (2024) — Irb Media Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Siete breves lecciones de física (2014) — Carlo Rovelli Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Law of Success (1969) — Napoleon Hill Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Greek Lessons (2023) — Han Kang Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Mastering The Tarot (1971) — Eden Gray Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Music Lesson (2008) — Victor L. Wooten Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Ride of a Lifetime (2019) — Robert Iger Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Empire (2003) — Niall Ferguson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Lessons (2010) — Naomi Alderman, Jot Davies Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The light between us (2015) — Laura Lynne Jackson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Anything you want (2011) — Derek Sivers Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The Anatomy Lesson (1983) — Philip Roth Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Leadership In Turbulent Times (2018) — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Doris Kearns Goodwin Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Elizabeth Costello (1757) — J. M. Coetzee Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Ethan Frome (1910) — Edith Wharton Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• The music lesson (2008) — Victor Wooten Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
• Benjamin Graham on value investing (1994) — Janet Lowe Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]

source: Project Gutenberg (public domain, host) + Internet Archive texts (IA reader, window) + Open Library (metadata, link-out) — public-domain first; we host only PD texts