Buck: 346 books
Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in life
At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting...
Letter from Peking
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
**From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: The New York Times–bestselling novel of a Chinese-American family separated by war.
Elizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily married in China, bringing up their young son, Rennie. But when war breaks out with Japan, Gerald, who...
by Jack C. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
“Something quite wonderful happens when you allow yourself to drift through life without a plan of direction,” writes Jack Buck in his poignant debut story collection. The writing in 'Deer Michigan' takes this philosophy to heart, embracing the flux of fate in over fifty ethereal narratives. In...
No B.S. Guide to Maximum Referrals and Customer Retention
The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Securing New Customers and Maximum Profits
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
FACT: NOTHING IS COSTLIER OR MORE DIFFICULT THAN GETTING A NEW CUSTOMER.
Business owners agree. The referred customer is far superior to the one brought in by cold’ advertising. Yet most business owners will invest more money to find new customers than getting referrals from current, happy customers.
Millionaire...
Lucky Bastard
My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the announcer of the biggest sporting events in the country—including the 2017 Super Bowl and this century's most-watched, historic, Chicago Cubs–winning World Series—reveals why he is one lucky bastard.
Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting...
by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.
On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son...
by Alan Buck
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
1805 and England, alone and facing the armed night of Imperial France, is threatened with invasion annihilation. For it is known Napoleon will show no mercy.But William Pitt the Younger, again the King's First Minister, though already a dying man, is determined the country shall cringe no longer before...
Cutting Back
My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
“An unusual and entertaining memoir.” —New York Times Book Review
At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman...
Kinfolk: A Novel of China
A Novel of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A tale of four Chinese-American siblings in New York, and their bewildering return to their roots
In Kinfolk, a sharp dissection of the expatriate experience, Pearl S. Buck unfurls the story of a Chinese family living in New York. Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy,...
Portrait of a Marriage
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A wealthy painter falls in love with an illiterate Pennsylvania farm girl in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Earth.
At the turn of the century, an upper-class painter from Philadelphia goes searching for inspiration. He finds his muse on a farm—the farmer’s...
by Shelley Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Travel memoir: Inspired by a slim guidebook purchased at Fred and Pat Cody's legendary Berkeley bookstore, Shelley Buck took off alone in 1972 on a journey she hoped would take her overland from Europe to India and Nepal, using mostly public transit. East chronicles Shelley's emergence into...
Faraway Horses
The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
"I've started horses since I was 12 years old and have been bit, kicked, bucked off and run over. I've tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what...
Occupy: American Spring
The Making of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Glenn Beck TV and Blaze correspondent Buck Sexton goes behind the scenes at Occupy Wall Street and explores the radical roots and revolutionary goals that lie beneath the not-so-ragtag movement.
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) became the biggest news story in the world during the fall of 2011. Under...
Flight of Passage
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and...