James: 29360 books
Game Day
A Rollicking Journey to the Heart of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season
If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor...
Baldwin for Our Times
Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich Blint
In his unforgettable, incandescent essays and poetry, James Baldwin diagnosed the racial injustices of the twentieth century and...
1835
The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Winner of the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award and the 2013 Tasmania Book Prize
With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty.
In...
A Rage for Glory
The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Stephen Decatur was one of the most awe-inspiring officers of the entire Age of Fighting Sail. A real-life American naval hero in the early nineteenth century, he led an astonishing life, and his remarkable acts of courage in combat made him one of the most celebrated figures of his era.
Decatur's...
by James St. James
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Billy Bloom is gay, but it’s mostly theoretical, as he hasn’t had much experience. When he has to move to Florida, he can’t believe his bad luck. His new school is a mix of Bible Belles, Aberzombies, and Football Heroes, none of which are exactly his type. Billy’s efforts to fit in and stand...
by P.D. James
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In yet another page-turning installment in the bestselling Adam Dalgliesh mystery series from P.D. James, “the reigning mistress of murder” (Time), the Inspector must investigate the murder of a twisted forensic scientist and explore the dark secrets within his laboratory.
When a brilliant...
Role of a Lifetime
Reflections on Faith, Family, and Significant Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.
Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Madame de Mauves is a novella by Henry James, originally published in The Galaxy magazine in 1874. The story centers on the troubled marriage of a scrupulous American wife and a far from scrupulous French husband, and is told mostly from the point of view of a male friend of the wife. The tale reflects...
The Reverberator
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Henry James, one of the great literary stylists, an incomparable analyst of human relations, and---who knew?---a startlingly prescient media critic. This little-known novel from one of his most fertile creative periods could have been written for today's news-hungry, celebrity-obsessed times.
Pretty...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 as is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading...
by James Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Essays, Letters and Articles’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of James Joyce’.
Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 as is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading...
Bildungsromans Anthology: A Selection Of Classic Coming-Of-Age Stories (Golden Deer Classics)
Emma, The Red And The Black, Jane Eyre, Martin Eden...
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change...
Brooklyn Is
Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
For the first time in book form—a great writer’s classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.
In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished...