Brennan: 651 books
by Maeve Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth-century classic-one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce.Now, unexpectedly, Brennan's oeuvre is immeasurably deepened and broadened by a miraculous literary discovery-a...
by Patrick E Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This inspirational and timeless story for young children endorses the concepts of service, confidence and teamwork in describing a school bus named Henry, who travels the rolling hills of a rural town, safely delivering children to school and home. Henry, driven by Ed, confronts his biggest challenge...
by Jason Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting. Most people believe that every citizen has the civic duty or moral obligation to vote, that any sincere vote is morally acceptable, and that buying, selling, or trading votes is inherently wrong. In this provocative book, Jason Brennan challenges...
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2004
In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers...
Against Democracy
New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more...
by Sarah Rees Brennan, Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Über 800 Seiten mit den Erlebnissen von Simon nach dem Finale der Chroniken der Unterwelt.
Prägnant und witzig erzählen die 10 Geschichten von früheren Begebenheiten und spinnen die Fäden von Clary und Simon mit ihren Freunden weiter auch über das Ende von City of Heavenly Fire hinaus.
Dieser...
Brief Encounters
Conversations with Celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Why did Sophia Loren go back to Italy to serve a jail term for tax evasion? Why does the song “Amazing Grace” still occupy a very special place in the repertoire of singer Judy Collins? Why did Michael Nesmith quit The Monkees to start making music videos? Why did Shari Lewis start conducting...
The Bite in the Apple
A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years
Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their...
Shooting Ghosts
A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
**"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score
A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls
"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS...
Why She Buys
The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female.
If the business world had a sex, it would be male.
And therein lies the pickle.
Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of consumer spending in the United States alone. They hold the purse strings, and when...
The Long-Winded Lady
Notes from The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Discover a vivid, atmospheric portrait of mid-century Manhattan with this collection of “Talk of the Town” pieces from the pages of The New Yorker.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Maeve Brennan contributed numerous vignettes to the New Yorker’s ”Talk of the Town” department, under the...
Ghostly Justice
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
LAPD Detective Grant Nelson made a promise to his dying girlfriend that he would find out what happened to a Jane Doe who’s been in the morgue for months. Grant is a cop first, last and always – but what he’s recently witnessed makes him realize there are forces he doesn’t understand and can’t...
by Ella Brennan, Ti Adelaide Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"I don’t want a restaurant where a jazz band can’t come marching through."
Meet Ella Brennan: mother, mentor, blunt-talking fireball, and matriarch of a New Orleans restaurant empire, famous for bringing national attention to Creole cuisine. In this candid autobiography, she shares...
Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades
The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week.
Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the...