Jamie: 1874 books

“Magee will steal your heart, imagination and breath with each engaging story she pens.”The shadowy realm of Esterious has survived its fare share of dangers. The threat haunting the Blakeshire palace now is far from realized, and tragically lethal. A royal has fallen, and a princess is...

Burning things and running from the cops was all that Francis thought about. Until while on the run her plans are interrupted by a group of men who insisted on being her boyfriends. One she could handle, two would be harder, but three...that was too many. Using her brains and a flame or two she managed...

Tina Clancy is looking forward to a nice, quiet Christmas, but life has other plans for the newly-minted lawyer.  As a Daughter of Saturn, Tina expects a healthy dose of crazy in the Zone, Baltimore's roughest docklands.  Sparkling holiday lights that spontaneously combust – check. ...

Poems that challenge the depths of perception Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex...

Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe’s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back. These are poems about failing to leave our mark while marks are left on us —...

Seattle. È l’alba e il piccolo William si stropiccia i grandi occhi neri. Ancora avvolto nelle coperte, riesce quasi a sentire quelle canzoni sussurrate alle sue orecchie in una lingua antica. Ma è da cinque anni che non ascolta la voce di sua madre. Da quando è entrato nell’orfanotrofio e...

“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” —from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning...

News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of...

Asked how the Missouri State Penitentiary compared to other famous prisons, a historian and former prison administrator replied, “ It’s older and meaner.” For 168 years, it was everything other prisons were and more. In The Missouri State Penitentiary, Jamie Pamela Rasmussen recounts...

Jamie Koch, lifelong Santa Fean, known by many as a major powerbroker in the state of New Mexico according to the New Mexico Business Weekly, has been an often behind-the-scenes voice for fiscal responsibility and prudent planning as well as being an unselfish public servant in New Mexico politics...

Are you ready to quit? Would you like to make your life happier, healthier and wealthier? There is a way to stop smoking cigarettes that is simple, stress free and permanent. Combining the latest research with simple and practical techniques, this groundbreaking book provides a new approach that will...

It's time to unleash your genius From infancy we are taught to edit ourselves, trimming out the darker, weirder, less acceptable parts in order to please others. But this addiction to approval is holding us back. What if we dare to be our real selves, honestly and fully? Insanely Gifted is full of...

Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this trip from coast to coast, Jensen highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia. Starting from the golden...

It’s not always easy to spot our enemies—especially when they happen to be our closest friends, or even ourselves! These are the people who former NFL player, Jamie Dukes, identifies as “Frenemals”—family members, friends, and our own inner voice. We all have Frenemals in our lives, and...