Brown: 6904 books
Party Out of Bounds
The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s...
Shadows and Cypress
Southern Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2000
A bewitching convocation of Dixie's most frightening ghost tales From backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories. Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories is a Dixie séance that summons ghost...
by Jeffrey Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Mr. Brown seems to understand perfectly the day-to-day rhythms of the modern 'young adult' relationship. Unlikely, like his first book Clumsy, is pretty much impossible to put down." -- Daniel Clowes, creator of Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and Eightball"A million little brilliant and honest...
Patriot Pride
My Life in the New England Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
A biography of one of the greatest players in New England Patriots history
Spotlighting a New England sports icon, this authorized biography chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Troy Brown, the talented athlete who played 15 seasons with the New England Patriots. Brown demonstrates how...
Knitalong: Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together
Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The immensely popular knitalong—an organized event where people knit together for a common goal—has only grown with the explosion of the Internet. Yesterday’s wartime Red Cross sock drives have evolved into today’s meet-ups at locales as diverse as cafes, state fairs, and major league ballparks,...
Brave Girl Eating
A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
“One of the most up to date, relevant, and honest accounts of one family’s battle with the life threatening challenges of anorexia. Brown has masterfully woven science, history, and heart throughout this compelling and tender story.”
—Lynn S. Grefe, Chief Executive Officer, National Eating...
Clotel
or, The President's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown...
Clotel
or, The President's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown...
The Clod-Hoppin’ Judge
Memoirs of Judge Gerald Parker Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
It was a hot August day in 1920 when a man rode on horseback away from his forty-acre Arkansas farm to fetch a doctor. His son, Gerald Brown, was about to be born. A short time later as he gazed at the tiny baby in his arms, he had no idea that Gerald would one day be the first in his family to graduate...
The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian
Commemorative Edition with Letters while Living with Black Elk
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
The writings of Joseph Epes Brown are considered amongst the most important studies on the North American Indian undertaken in the twentieth century. His works have been translated into numerous languages and are helping to re-ignite interest in the American Indian religious tradition. The Spiritual...
by Frederick Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining of subject and...
Reading the World
Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the “century of the encyclopedias.” Variously referred to as a speculum, thesaurus, or imago mundi—the term encyclopedia was not commonly applied to such books until the eighteenth...
Common As Muck!
The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
By the time he was nineteen, Royston Vasey had married, divorced, fathered two children, spent two years in Britain's toughest Borstal, served three prison stretches and been stabbed while in the Merchant Navy. He thought his only career choice would be a life of crime.
Fifteen years later,...
Passed Around By Man, But Not Passed Over By God
My Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In this candid memoir, we follow the unique voice of Chontate Brown, as she takes us from her blessed and vibrant young childhood to the break-up of her family, through the toxic and traumatic Chicago foster care system, into a rocky adulthood spent buried in difficult responsibilities, pain, and...