Laura: 7402 books
by Laura Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the strangest...
by Laura Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A forensic anthropologist and a Navy SEAL find love and danger in this sexy novella, from Laura Griffin’s bestselling Tracers series!
Forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn goes to a remote Texas border region to dig up ancient bones, but ends up unearthing a deadly secret. When Kelsey’s...
Zombiefied! An Anthology of All Things Zombie
Zombiefied, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Zombie crime fighters, politicians, soldiers, rescuers—but a Zombie prom date or bowler? If you’re looking for Zombies, prepare to be ZOMBIEFIED! Two dozen amazing zombie stories sure to breathe life back into the Undead. If you’re looking for stories that shamble, groan, and eat brains, you’re...
by Laura Ann Garren
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Chattooga River has run through the American consciousness since the movie "Deliverance" thrust it into the national spotlight. But this National Wild and Scenic River is much more than the make-believe set of a suburbanite nightmare. People travel from all over the country to run its rapids, cast...
Hollywood’s Spies
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s
In April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film...
Breaking Out
VMI and the Coming of Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's...
Slippery Characters
Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter,...
Her Best Shot
Women and Guns in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have disrupted the popular association of guns and masculinity, spurring debates about women's capabilities for violence as well as their capacity for full citizenship. In...
Swamplife
People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile,...
The Vanishing Velázquez
A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016
“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century...
Boston Ballerina
A Dancer, a Company, an Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
As a charter member of Boston Ballet and its predecessor, New England Civic Ballet, Laura Young has been affiliated with the company longer than any other dancer in its history. This book is both a memoir of her personal journey and a fascinating account of Boston Ballet’s rise from a regional troupe...
Seeing Through the Seventies
Essays on Feminism and Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In recent years, Laura Cottingham has emerged as one of the most visible feminist critics of the so-called post-feminist generation. Following a social-political approach to art history and criticism that accepts visual culture as part of a larger social reality, Cottingham's writings investigate...
Libba
The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven,...
by Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Hordes of pioneers moved west at a time when Dakota Territory was still unsettled. When the railroad came to town, this land of opportunity soon became a small town called De Smet. Through the years, muddy streets and wooden shacks were replaced with brick and mortar, and the little town grew into...