Booth: 594 books

Throughout history, bit players on the sidelines have somehow become embroiled in the most notorious scandals, finding themselves wrapped up in intrigue with far-reaching consequences they could never have imagined. That's exactly what happens to the eponymous protagonist of Booth Tarkington's novel,...

Booth Tarkington served in the Indiana House of Representatives in 1902; bosses, dirty tricks, vote fraud, and smoke-filled rooms bring these short fiction pieces about politics to life. Collected in 1905, the book includes “Boss Gorget,” “The Aliens,” “The Need of Money,” “Hector,” “Mrs. Protheroe,” and “Great Men’s Sons.”

Booth Tarkington was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author best known for writing historical novels such as The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.  Many of Tarkington’s books are set in fictional towns in the Midwest near the turn of the 20th century.  This edition of The Gibson Upright includes a table of contents.

A vivacious singer, a government minister, a master computer... and God has a plan. Club singer Audrey Clegg seeks fame. When she is wooed by Cabinet minister Eddie Simon, she spies her chance – but this won’t be easy. Audrey and her family are among the first citizens of Gorshin, a £2...

According to Wikipedia: "The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian Church denomination that is organised in a quasi-military manner. It is well known for its social services and charitable work. The founders, William and Catherine Booth, sought to bring Christian salvation to the poor, destitute and...

Alison Booth's dazzling debut, set in a beautiful coastal town of NSW, is an unforgettable, heart-warming novel about love and loss, betrayal and hope... It's 1957 and, after the death of her husband, pianist Ilona Talivaldis and her nine-year-old daughter Zidra, travel to the remote coastal...

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture--from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...

A darkly erotic tale of prostitution, murder, and medical science in Victorian England Lydia Ketch is a young woman whose life some would call immoral and shameful. But with the death of her mother and the prospect of the obscene conditions of the workhouse looming before her, Lydia chooses...

Once again Tom Booth, author of Don't Blink!, breaks the fourth wall to delight and entice readers young and old in this sweet and funny, experiential picture book. How did you find this book? Don't you know this book is a secret book? Readers will delight in being asked how they found...

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly...

Fans are everywhere: from Fifty Shades of Grey to Veronica Mars, from Comic-Con to sitcom, from niche to Geek Chic, fans are becoming the most visible and important audience of the twenty-first century. For years the media industries ignored fans and fan activities, but now they’re paying attention...

Would you like to feel more in control of your happiness? Would you like to smile more? Have you ever upgraded your phone or TV or car? Very likely. We often want the latest version, expecting it to work better and give us more happiness, confidence, pride and pleasure. But how often...

2006 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year The literature on sport history is now well established, taking in a wide range of themes and covering every activity from aerobics to zorbing. However, in comparison to most mainstream histories, sport history has rarely been...