Kevin: 5344 books
William McKinley
The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy
By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic...
One Stop, One Life
From market stall to 1000 shops in 25 years
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In the 1970s Kevin Threlfall built up the chain of Lo-Cost discount stores from a single grocery stall on Cannock market. Having sold out to RCA of America he then went on to build an empire of 1,215 shops in just 25 years from a single cigarette kiosk on Wolverhampton market. Trading as Supercigs,...
How to Fly a Horse
The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations...
Drumbeats
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
A chilling story cowritten with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. A rock drummer bicycling through the African wilderness encounters a village that makes very special drums. This one will make your heart skip a beat.
With an introduction by Kevin J. Anderson and afterword by Neil Peart.
Dublin Street Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Streets and their Inhabitants
The Recollections of Dublin’s Tram Drivers, Lamplighters and Street Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The first half of this century was the heyday of Dublin’s vibrant and bustling traditional street life. Now in Dublin’s Street Life and Lore, through the vivid oral histories of the participants themselves, Professor Kevin Kearns chronicles this rich street life and lore for future generations.
The...
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
A decade after Hunter S. Thompson’s death, his books—including Hell’s Angels, The Curse of Lono, The Great Shark Hunt, and Rum Diary—continue to sell thousands of copies each year, and previously unpublished manuscripts of his still surface for publication. While Thompson never claimed to...
The Dream Endures
California Enters the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2002
What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were...
Golden Gate
The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild
headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California
and America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spot
commensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completed
in 1937, also announced...
by Kevin A. Couture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Runner-up in the Prose Fiction category at the 2016 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!
In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks as a menagerie of burdened characters reveal their...
Harvey Penick
The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The first-ever biography of the iconic and beloved golf coach who caddied for Francis Ouimet, played with Ben Hogan, competed against Bobby Jones, shaped Ben Crenshaw, and distilled his golf wisdom into the Little Red Book, granting simplicity to a vexing yet beloved sport
Millions of people...
Baseball's Even Greater Insults:
More Game's Most Outrageous & Irreverent Remarks
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
A grand slam of a book. The sequel to the bestselling Baseball’s Greatest Insults, with hilarious put-downs and outrageous wisecracks about America’s national pastime.
There are no lyrical passages here, no fond reminiscences about childhood games, no tributes to "inspiring" players. Too...
by Kevin Coval
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Cover art by world-renowned street artist Hebru Brantley.
Foreword by world-renowned hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper.
Kevin Coval was named "Chicago's Best Poet" by the Chicago Reader in 2014 and 2016.
Wild Track
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart’s work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart’s poetry both in the United...
by Kevin A. Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Under the full moon a motorcycle races west along the Interstate. The police can't catch it, and it disappears before it reaches the toll bridge. Narrated by the guy who drives the road-killed deer pick-up truck for Fish and Game.
Why can't they find Billy? And what's in that tar paper shack...