Joan: 2841 books
And One More Thing...
A Mother's Advice on Life, Love, and Lipstick
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
When daughters strike out on their own, they usually know the basics: never answer the door without asking who's there, always write thank-you notes, don't wear a T-shirt that says "Beer Is Food" to a job interview. But it's usually only the do-or-die warnings that stick: daughters are notorious...
Better Than I Ever Expected
Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Better Than I Ever Expected is a warm, witty, and honest book that contends with the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality. It asserts that women over sixty are at the top of their game when it comes to enjoying sex.
Joan Price’s woman-to-woman straight talk transcends the...
In Pursuit of Dreams
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Love and life can come in many different, wondrous forms, and it is our dreams that help shape the contours of that lifes journey. Yet, while often a life can be defined by mistakes, illness, guilt, and blame--or perhaps just by the slow unfolding of its everyday comings and goings--a life can also...
Yutopian
Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly,...
Hablar de todo y no saber de nada
Las tertulias y la nueva política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
El papel de la tertulia española en el mundo mediático y político: ¿fuente de información o intoxicación mediática?
Las tertulias fueron en el pasado un género minoritario creado con la voluntad de ofrecer información complementaria acerca de los temas de actualidad. Sin embargo, el...
by Joan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1978
London society buzzed around the scandalous Comtesse de la Tour. Lord Dashwood was assigned to discover whether the beautiful red-head was a French spy--or perhaps something just as unsavory to his enchanted vision. At one moment Renée seemed as chaste as a nun, at another as flirtatious as a courtesan… Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett
by Joan Szechtman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
What if instead of dying in battle, Richard III awakens in the 21st-century? THIS TIME examines the medieval monarch as he adapts to modern technology, medicine, and American culture while investigating his past and what Shakespeare had wrought on his character.
"This Time" named General Fiction Finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
She Captains
Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
With her pistols loaded she went aboard
And by her side hung a glittering sword
In her belt two daggers, well armed for war
Was this female smuggler
Was this female smuggler who never feared a scar.
If a "hen frigate" was any ship carrying a captain's wife, then a "she captain" is a bold woman distinguished...
by Joan W Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
"One Moment" chronicles the author’s experience with sudden loss in her personal life and inside her classroom. It is also her memoir of growing up in West Virginia, daughter to a working single mother for part of her life. Clearly, it is the loss of her granddaughter to stillbirth that dominates this memoir and helps inform the public about a little known epidemic.
Andover in the Civil War
The Spirit and Sacrifice of a New England Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
They departed Boston in August 1861 to a cheering crowd and the tune of “John Brown’s Body.” Though some of these Andover soldiers would not “see the elephant” until two years later, more than a quarter of them would never return to their beloved hometown. Drawing on journals, letters and newspaper...
Hen Frigates
Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing voyages: romantic...
by Joan Anslow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The town, historically known as 'Rudgeley', is listed in the Domesday Book and it is thought that the name derives from 'Ridge lee', or 'the hill over the field'. This historic market town lies midway between Stafford, Cannock,Lichfield and Uttoexeter. Around Rugeley From Old Photographs offers a...
Unless You Were There, You Wouldn't Believe It!
My Reflections of the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2000
This is a true account of the outrageous, unbelievable, and often hilarious incidents that occurred during my career teaching high school. It begins with my teaching in my bra in front of a class and ends with my retirement thirty-five years later. It will appeal to anyone who ever sat behind a desk...
A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case that Should Have Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This new look at the culprits in the assassination of JFK “brings an astonishing amount of information to light” (Publishers Weekly).
Former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison remains the only person ever to have indicted a suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy....