Amy: 4691 books
The Religion of Democracy
Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers
Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side...
by Amy Leach
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a...
by Amy Heath
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
This is a journey of losing and finding, of keeping and letting go, presented as a fusion of personal story, creative expression, reader’s advisory, social commentary, and above all, a conveyance of compassion. Suicide is a devastating blow. Its ever-growing frequency demands that we dare to be vulnerable through open dialogue, and discover compassion and greater peace in the process.
Lynching and Spectacle
Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing...
The Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera
Directing and Working with Non-Actors
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Producer’s Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "real people" to tell powerful stories on video. Director/producer Amy DeLouise brings years of experience to this resource for creating the best on-screen impact with...
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched
Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
A rare and absolutely enchanting look inside the Harvard of wild animal wranglers
As is obvious to anyone who has read her most e-mailed New York Times article of 2006, ?What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage,? Amy Sutherland knows a thing or two about animals. In Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched,...
Rainy Season
Haiti-Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake.
Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past,...
by Amy Andrews, Amanda Usen, Wendy Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
12 months. 12 men. 12 fantasies come true.
Drop everything and one-click your way to a world where alpha billionaires know how to take care of a woman...
Success, power, and money...these men have it all. Whether you swoon for a crowned prince, melt for a real estate mogul, or get hot...
Desperado's Wife
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Suburban raised and Ivy League educated, Amy Friedman is an American writer living in Ontario, Canada. A minor celebrity, she writes a newspaper column about whatever pleases her--subjects as far flung as life on the sheep farm she shares with her lover; South African apartheid; good bourbon; flying...
Dog Facts
The Pet Parent's A-to-Z Home Care Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
THE PERFECT DOG BOOK!
More than 78 million pet dogs today are kept in fifty-four million U.S. households. Now, from one of the most trusted dog care authors of the last twenty-five years comes the definitive reference for adopting, keeping, and maintaining a healthy, happy dog.
DOG FACTS:...
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
From one of our most astute contemporary writers, Amy Wilentz, comes an irreverent, inventive portrait of the state of California and its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The prizewinning author, a lifelong easterner and an outsider in the West, takes the reader on a picaresque journey from...
Wartime Brides and Wedding Cakes
A romantic and heartwarming family saga
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
January 1941: As Charlie Barton tiptoes silently out of the house one cold winter morning to go off and fight for his country, his wife Audrey is left to run the family bakery on her own.
Times are tougher than ever, but at the Barton Bakery in Bournemouth, Audrey is determined as always to...
Holding Space
On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A look at the spiritual, emotional, and philosophical implications of end-of-life care by an elegant and literary writer who is a hospital chaplain.
As a hospital chaplain, Amy Wright Glenn has been present with those suffering from suicide, trauma, disease, and unforeseen accidents and has...
Mothers and Soldiers
Gender, Citizenship, and Civil Society in Contemporary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2002
As the Soviet communist regime gave way to democracy, the emergence of an entirely new political and social landscape had the potential to turn Russian society upside down. In Mothers and Soldiers: Organizing Men and Women in 1990s Russia, Amy Caiazza looks at the effects of this seismic change on...