Alice: 2648 books

The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual...

If you need help sorting out your everyday conflicts and demands, Master of My Universe is your step-by-step guide to winning at life. From work stresses, to health problems, to family conflict, this book shows you how to get what you want and live your dream.When you read this book, you will learn: How...

There are many stories about the history of the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina (including Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point) that even the natives have never heard. Join longtime Piedmont Triad resident and writer Alice E. Sink on this journey to uncover those out-of-the-ordinary historical...

The famed Piedmont Triad city of Winston-Salem has a history filled with depraved people committing untoward acts. From Libby Holman, the singer with a sultry, smoky voice accused of murdering her millionaire husband to the man caught with hundreds of gallons of beer, liquor, and a "tin lizard" whiskey...

Volume two of historian Alice Stopford Green’s pioneering historical work, Town Life in the Fifteenth Century continues her examination of towns and their culture and governance in the fifteenth century in Europe, and especially England. The book brilliantly studies common life in the town, the townspeople, government in towns, and more, painting a vivid picture of medieval boroughs.

Alice Campion is the pseudonym for five members of a Sydney book club who challenged themselves to write a '21st Century Thorn Birds'. The result is a captivating rural novel, brimming with romance, mystery and suspense. Nina never knew what happened to her father, the celebrated artist Jim...

Bored with the same old over-forty singles scene, Ms. Adamson is searching for an exciting new erotic adventure. Something challenging. Something a little closer to home. Something like the sweet piece of young ass across the street. A simple oil change will never be the same with Ms. Adamson in the driver's seat.

Margaret Alice Murray (Calcutta, 13 juli 1863 – Welwyn, 13 november 1963) was een vooraanstaand Brits egyptoloog en antropoloog. Zij is vooral bekend geworden door haar werk in egyptologie, "de kern van haar academische carrière".Haar naam is ook verbonden aan haar Heksencultus-hypothese,...

How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century post-colonial city? From Kabul, Kigali and Kinshasa to Baghdad and Basra, people, abandoned by the state, make their own rules.With security increasingly ghettoised, survival becomes a matter...

Le roman qui vous rend le sourire. BEST SELLER : numéro 1 des ventes numériques France en 2013 Sexy et grande gueule, Rosie Maldonne est une jeune mère de trois enfants qui a pour seules ressources les versements du RSA. À quelques encablures de Cannes, elle vit dans une vieille caravane posée...

En proie au doute, Alice Sharpe Série « Trois frères, trois destins », tome 3 John, Tyler et Cole : trois frères séparés pendant l’enfance, trois hommes aujourd’hui prêts à enquêter sur leur passé, en dépit du danger… Tel est pris qui croyait prendre… Cole est désemparé....

It's that time of the year again when families get together to celebrate, laugh, enjoy, and bond over yummy food! So, come along with us and relish the magic of these Thanksgiving classics for a wholesome holiday mood: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner...

“An eerie, tense, and finely written novel…Readers will grip their chairs” (SFGate.com) as they try to unravel this tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless...

“As always, Adams' strength is her fine, elegant language and the attention she pays to the minutiae of every day living. Like Jane Austen, she stays close to her characters and weaves intrigue out of their interrelated and complex life stories.” --San Jose Mercury News   In her final novel,...