Kathryn: 2617 books
by Kathryn Eisman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
According to fashion expert Kathryn Eisman, to understand a woman, first understand her purse.In How to Tell a Woman by Her Handbag, Eisman cleverly contends that fashions come and go, but a woman's handbag is eternal, forever revealing her nature--and just maybe her secrets. With forensic...
Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater
15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
After glamorous American singer Claire Phillips opened her own night club in Manila, using the proceeds to secretly feed starving American POWs, she also began working as a spy, chatting up Japanese military men and passing their secrets along to local guerilla resistance fighters. Australian Army...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: A Gentleman in Moscow
Study Guides for Book Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Whether you are a member of a reading group, or simply reading A Gentleman in Moscow for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to Amor Towles' acclaimed new novel A Gentleman in Moscow, this...
by Kathryn R. Biel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Will one little secret prevent Rio's second chance with her first love?
It doesn't get more complicated than sleeping with your twin sister's boyfriend ... unless he doesn't even realize he slept with the wrong sister. But that was ten years ago and Rio Pascucci doesn't do complicated—anymore....
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
The Kiss
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation.
In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable...
On Sunset
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia,...
by Kathryn S. Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii--or 3,000 civilians in New York. In their zeal to cover up their crimes, they killed witnesses,...
Damned Nation
Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never...
The Second Time Travel MEGAPACK ®
23 Modern and Classic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
"The Second Time Travel Megapack" collects 23 more tales of travel through time, by great modern and classic authors. Included are: SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES, by Robert J. Sawyer THE BUSINESS, AS USUAL, by Mack Reynolds THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 18, by Grendel Briarton TIME WELL SPENT,...
The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time
Hilarious Blunders, Bloopers, Oddities, Quotes, and More from the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The thrill of victory! The agony of a tight jockstrap!
It’s a celebration of true sports lunacy from the renowned connoisseurs of stupidity, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of the beloved 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar.
Here from the wide world of professional and amateur...
Modern Architecture in Mexico City
History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture,...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The almanac determines traditions in Kerry’s family. Only her granddaughter Amanda doesn’t want to follow the almanac. And if Amanda doesn’t, then the power, hidden inside those traditions, might destroy her—and everyone she loves. Chosen as one of the best stories of the year, “Harvest”...
by John Joseph Adams, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Our lead story this month, “In-fall,” by Ted Kosmatka, puts us aboard a ship hurtling through space. Aboard this ship, two men—mortal enemies—await their inevitable deaths, although that means something very different for each of them.
“The Observer,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch...