Brown: 6904 books
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
An Indian History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribes
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American...
A Taste of Power
A Black Woman's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974. From a small Oakland-based cell, the Panthers...
Executive Intent
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“For fictional thrill rides on the printed page, get on board with the novels of Dale Brown.”
—New York Newsday
The incomparable Dale Brown (“The best military writer in the country” —Clive Cussler) roars back at full throttle with Executive Intent. The perennial New York Times...
by Eric Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to a planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a missing generation ship they are thrown into the...
by Eric Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
When Salvageman Ed saves Ella Rodriguez from spider-drones on the pleasure planet of Sinclair’s Landfall, he has no idea what he’s letting himself in for. Ella is not at all what she seems, as he’s soon about to find out.
What follows, as the spider-drones and the Hayakawa Organisation...
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
In 1986, after years of publishing stories in literary magazines and periodicals, Mary Ward Brown published her first book, the story collection Tongues of Flame. It soon received regional and national attention, and the following year won the PEN/Hemingway Award for fiction. Mary Ward Brown was sixty-nine...
Wondrous Times on the Frontier
America During the 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: “Glorious . . . Do not miss a page.” —Rocky Mountain News
Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, “was hard, unpleasant most of the time,” and “ lacking in almost all amenities or...
Just Enough
Lessons in Living Green From Traditional Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
"Brown's book Just Enough is a compelling account of how Edo Japan confronted similar environmental problems and created solutions that connected farms and cities, people and nature." —Huffington Post
The world has changed immeasurably over the last thirty years, with more, bigger,...
by Dan Brown
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Inferno is het zesde boek van bestsellerauteur Dan Brown en het vierde boek met in de hoofdrol Robert Langdon, hoogleraar kunstgeschiedenis en symboliek. Inferno van Dan Brown is het vierde, duizelingwekkende avontuur van Robert Langdon, en het speelt zich af gedeeltelijk af in Florence. Het is...
by Derrick Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
I Love You Is Back is the second collection of work from this internationally celebrated poet, spanning 2004-2006. It includes such popular works such as ‘The Victory Explosions,†“All Distortion, All the Time,†“St. Marks,†and “The Last Poem about Anne Sexton.â€...
by Sass Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Sass Brown’s darkly funny debut collection of poems explores both the isolation and the absurdity of twenty-something apartment living. The world Brown creates in USA-1000 overflows with infomercials, classic Hollywood films, billboard messages, strip clubs, and fortune-tellers, illuminating our...
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)
Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Researcher, thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown offers a liberating study on the importance of our imperfections—both to our relationships and to our own sense of self
The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social...
Wings on My Sleeve
The World's Greatest Test Pilot tells his story
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history.
In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve:...
Outgunned
Up Against the NRA-- The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there...