Amy: 4691 books
by Alice Hoffman, Paige Lewis, Carl Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Winter 2017-18 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.
This staff-edited...
Designing the Creative Child
Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designers...
Pocket Full of Colors
The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Brigette Barrager team up to tell the joyful and unique story of the trailblazing Disney artist Mary Blair.
Mary Blair lived her life in color: vivid, wild color.
From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator...
The List
A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List".
In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The...
by Amy Gerstler
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet
Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted...
Uncovering Race
A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.
From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has...
Locavesting
The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
How individuals and communities can profit from local investing
In the wake of the financial crisis, investors are faced with a stark choice: entrust their hard-earned dollars to the Wall Street casino, or settle for anemic interest rates on savings, bonds, and CDs. Meanwhile, small businesses...
"Strong Medicine" Speaks
A Native American Elder Has Her Say
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
From the bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years comes the inspiring true story of Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould, a Native American matriarch, and the Indian way of life that must never be forgotten.
Amy Hill Hearth's first book, Having Our Say, told the true...
Behind the Yellow Tape
On the Road with Some of America's Hardest Working Crime Scene Investigators
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From the authors of Bodies We've Buried-an uncensored look at real-life CSIs. With a foreword by Patricia Cornwell.
For years, Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch trained CSIs at the National Forensic Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now they provide a glimpse into the real world of crime scene investigation,...
The Kind Self-Healing Book
Raise Yourself Up with Curiosity and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
If you are prone to anxiety, depression, self-doubt, people-pleasing, or decision-making influenced by fear, or if you want to free yourself of the coping behaviors that worked in a disordered childhood but don't serve you in adulthood, The Kind Self-Healing Book is for you. If you grew up within...
The Young Musician's Survival Guide
Tips from Teens and Pros
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Learning to play an instrument can be fun and, at times, frustrating. This lively, accessible book helps young people cope with the difficulties involved in learning a new instrument and remaining dedicated to playing and practicing. Teens from renowned music programs - including the Juilliard School's...
by Amy Lynn Wlodarski
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and...
Farewell, Fred Voodoo
A Letter from Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world.
A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages...
by Amy Welborn
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Finding God Every DayGod is present to us in ways too numerous to count. Unfortunately, we are often so busy that we fail to recognize and respond to this active presence. A Catholic Woman's Book of Days offers daily meditations that clear a spiritual place a time in our day when we can set our hearts...