Chris: 8154 books
Face to Face with Evil
Conversations with Ian Brady
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Ian Brady is one of the most notorious and reviled serial killers in Britain. With his co-conspirator, Myra Hindley, he perpetrated the Moors Murders in which five children were abducted, assaulted, and murdered. Dr. Chris Cowley is a forensic psychologist who is in the unique position of having exclusive...
by Chris Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In this pulse-pounding thriller from bestselling writer Chris Carter, criminal behavior psychologist turned LAPD detective Robert Hunter finds himself engaged in a brutal game to the finish with a ruthless opponent. But no matter what moves Hunter makes, death is coming….
At the Los Angeles...
Huntington Beach Chronicles
The Heart of Surf City
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Amid the tourist bustle in the biggest beach city in Orange County, hometown personalities and their stories are Chris Epting's business. As a widely published author and columnist for the "Huntington Beach Independent," Epting has covered the famous and not-so-famous, the local people, places and events...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Mongol Empire to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses
Roger Corman: King of the B Movie
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Cormanone of the most prolific and successful independent producers, directors, and writers of all time, and self-proclaimed king of the B movie. As told by Corman...
by Chris Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street
At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to...
Shooting in the Wild
An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Wildlife and nature films are a hugely popular entertainment genre: networks such as Animal Planet and Discovery are stars in the cable television universe, viewers flock to IMAX theaters to see jaw-dropping footage from the wild, and the venerable BBC still scores triumphs with series such as Planet...
Bear v. Shark
The Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2002
So it's kind of like a parlor game, then?...
The question is apparently of Ancient Eastern extraction....
It seems to be a gut thing. The answer just feels right and then you come up with reasons....
Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e., water deep enough so that a Shark could maneuver proficiently,...
by Chris Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don’t land the way they’re supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but those leaders have to be replaced with something. A person steps out of a crowd and, for a moment,...
by Chris Van Dyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
In the days leading up to "Mother Goose: an Empire Falls" we find a sordid love story between Adrian, a ferocious mermaid adapted to living in the depths of the ocean, and Captain Rehab, a man with a grisly past. Their ongoing game of Cat and Mouse has been carrying on for years until it culminates...
The World and Its Double
The Life and Work of Otto Preminger
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. He sought to address the major social, political, and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The...
Dark Object
The World's Only Government-Documented UFO Crash
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Mayday over Canada ... the world's only government-documented UFO crash.
In 1965 a massive wave of UFO sightings occurs worldwide. In 1967 residents of Shag Harbor, Canada, witness a huge UFO crash into the bay. Three Royal Canadian Mounties watch it float before sinking. Navy divers mount...
The Forest and the Field
Changing Theatre in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
CAN THEATRE CHANGE THE WORLD?
In his first full-length book, critically acclaimed writer and maker Chris Goode explores the relationships that make up the theatrical encounter: between ‘empty’ space and inhabited place; between actors and audiences; between theatre itself and the world...
Uncommon Soldier
Brave, compassionate and tough, the making of our modern Diggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter,...