Hughes: 1804 books
Genentech
The Beginnings of Biotech
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate...
by Adam Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
It's Betty vs. Veronica! The most highly-anticipated reboot in comics history is here! Betty and Veronica are America's sweethearts - until they turn on each other! Pops' Chocklit Shoppe is being taken over by a huge coffee company. When Betty and Veronica go head-to-head over the issue, all bets...
by Shirley Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Shirley Hughes is one of the best-loved and most innovative creators of books for young children. She has written and illustrated over fifty books, which have sold more than eleven million copies. Her characters Alfie and Dogger are loved by children and parents all over the world.
Bye Bye...
by Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "James Mercer Langston Hughes, best known as Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance."
by Richard Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes’s monumental historical fiction, “The Human Predicament.” It opens with Hughes’s hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an increasingly fascinated participant...
The Secret
A gripping novel of how far a mother would go for her child from the #1 author of The Letter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes, The Secret is a powerful, twisting story that will grip you and break your heart. Perfect for fans of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks and The Secret Wife by Gill Paul.
Mary has been nursing a secret.
Forty years ago, she made...
by Robert Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a Picasso. From his...
Country Soul
Making Music and Making Race in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and...
Simple's Uncle Sam
With a New Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collection
Langston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography, and fiction. None of his creations won the hearts and minds of his readers as did Jesse B. Semple,...
Hashknife Cowboy
Recollections of Mack Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Age and size ain't got nothin' to do with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You gotta want to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range,...
The Drama's Patrons
A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. —Samuel Johnson, 1747 Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected...
by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
I am the American heartbreak—
The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe—
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.
— Langston Hughes, “American Heartbreak”
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America’s acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate...
Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Freedom's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism...
The Best of Simple
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author...