Alison: 1980 books
Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen
Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including...
Katie and Alex
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Married on 2nd February 2010, the rollercoaster romance of Katie Price (AKA glamour-model Jordan) and Alex Reid has been a media sensation from the start, blossoming amidst much gossip and speculation; it has survived the jungle and the 'Big Brother' house and remains intact. Alex and Katie started dating...
Censoring Racial Ridicule
Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative...
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
The first volume of Plowden's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet charts the first 25 years of Elizabeth's life Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history. Elizabeth I is perhaps...
by Alison Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A stumpy tail, mismatched paws, a long, drooly snout and the biggest dog heart that ever beat. In a celebration of what makes a pet unique, a little girl imagines how an odd assortment of parts combined to make the perfect dog. With spare, inviting text from Alison Hughes and charmingly offbeat illustrations...
by Nicholas Royle, Guy Ware, Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...
Pressure Cooker Magic
101 Fast & Fabulous Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Pressure cookers deliver delicious, healthy meals fast!
Pressure cooking is quick, easy, and ensures more nutrients remain in the food than most other cooking methods. Highly efficient, this must-have mini appliance reduces cooking time to a third of the normal time, making it the go-to for busy families...
by Alison Littman
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
With swift, bold and powerful writing, debut author Alison Littman tells the story of a family ripped apart by revolution, illuminating a time when news, rock 'n' roll and underground journalism forever changed the lives of those living behind the Iron Curtain. After years of suffering under the communist...
Love and Friendship
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “excellent” debut, a professor’s wife searches for liberation at the hands of a music instructor (The New York Times).
Though born in New York, the men of Emmy Turner’s family have long found their spiritual home in the idyllic Convers College....
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “brilliantly written and meticulously researched” biography of royal family life during England’s second Tudor monarch (San Francisco Chronicle).
Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody,...
by Alison Sim
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? 'The Tudor Housewife' aims to answer this question, providing a unique and accessible introduction to the everyday...
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In 1558, on her Catholic sister Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for 45 years. Loved and respected by her subjects and idolised by future generations, Gloriana's fierce devotion to her...
First Class
The Legacy of Dunbar, Americas First Black Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public...
Tragedy in the Commons
Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada.
Though...