Kevin: 5344 books
Life Inside the Dead Man's Curve
The Chronicles of a Public-Safety Helicopter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
“A warm compassionate story of helicopters in rescue missions” (Igor Sikorsky Jr., aviation historian).
Travis County STAR Flight, in Austin, Texas, is recognized as one of the premier public-safety helicopter programs in the United States. Life Inside the Dead Man’s Curve is a firsthand...
by Kevin Shlosberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The final installment of award-wining poet Kevin Shlosberg's coming-of-age poetry arc "To Say This is the Way One Man Went." This chapbook rounds out the journey w/ reflection, contemplation, and humor.
This is not center-justified poetry, if you know what I mean. Heavy on Imagery....
by Kevin O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Kevin O'Hara recreates his boyhood with these wonderful stories of growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and 60s as one of eight children. His parents, born in Ireland, came to this country for their children's sake. His family struggled against grinding poverty but they never gave up and never...
by Kevin Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
It’s true that life is linear, but the living of it is all over the map. In this memoir-in-vignettes, novelist Kevin Brennan (Parts Unknown, Yesterday Road) examines his life the way memories occur in the wild: in no particular order. Whether it’s recalling high school humiliations, ups and downs...
The Quotable Chesterton
The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
G. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With an exceptional intellect, he wrote about history, politics, economics, philosophy, social and literary criticism, and theology. He published essays, novels, biographies, short stories, and poetry, and the Christian classics Heretics, Orthodoxy,...
A Common Pornography
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
“For beauty, honesty, sheer weirdness, and a haunting evocation of place, Kevin Sampsell is my favorite Oregon writer. Ken Kesey, Chuck Palahniuk—make some room on the shelf.”—Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of it All
Kevin Sampsell’s A Common Pornography is a memoir, told in...
Writers on Writing: Volume 1
Writers on Writing, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best.
This is Writers On Writing – An Author’s Guide, where your favorite authors share their secrets in the ultimate guide to becoming – and being – an author.
In this first volume you’ll find in-depth essays from authors...
Part of the Pride
My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The film showed Richardson in his day-to-day work, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, crouching down at their...
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery...
The Art of Losing
Poems of Grief and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
"Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.†? -Billy Collins
The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems...
A Year with G. K. Chesterton
365 Days of Wisdom, Wit, and Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
“A Year with G.K. Chesterton will be a treasure, both for those who are coming to his wit and wisdom as a fresh discovery, and for those who have known and loved his work for years. . . . Chesterton’s talent for paradox, and his ability to embody profound truth in simple images, makes him as compelling...
by Kevin J. O'Conner
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Almost two years in the making, The Lilac Years is Kevin J. O’Conner’s eleventh collection of poems. The book’s five sections explore the venerable themes of love and loss, the difficulties of living with isolation and depression, the little moments of life, the images and thoughts that art...
by Kevin Belmonte
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Dramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man’s vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. “That the greatest and most successful reformer in...
Me the People
One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says.
Until now.
Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution...