Michael: 30513 books
How Starbucks Saved My Life
A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks.
In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs,...
The People's Victory
Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
by Michael Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
"Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."-The New Yorker"These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."-The Believer"My...
by Michael Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
"Dickman's book moves with careful intensity as it confidently illuminates buried, contemporary suffering."—Publishers Weekly"Elizabeth Bishop said that the three qualities she admired most in poetry were accuracy, spontaneity, and mystery. Michael Dickman's first full-length collection of...
Job Out
Probationer with images
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This is a story of the life and times of a fireman in Torridge City in the 1960's. Torridge City is a 'factional' place. This is a story of men on the front line. Men getting their hands dirty saving lives and property. Michael Edward Fairn describes the training he had to undertake before acceptance....
by Michael Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In the early winter of 1983, a generous season for memories, Michael Tierney attended his first - and only - game with his father, John. For a self-employed electrician with nine children to support, this was the rarest of opportunities. Miraculously, Celtic overturned a first-leg deficit to thrash...
Government Zero
No Borders, No Language, No Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From bestselling author of Stop the Coming Civil War, Michael Savage reveals the massive dangers currently leading to the demise of our government.
Michael Savage has been warning Americans for decades and now it's here. In GOVERNMENT ZERO: No Borders, No Language, No Culture, Savage sounds the alarm...
by Michael Dickman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone-Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."-James Laughlin Award citation
"Reading Michael [Dickman]...
The Concerto
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and thoughtful" (Chicago Tribune), and "composed by...
by Michael Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In The Hands Of A Sadist… First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter-warning her, "Scream and I will kill you both"-before knocking her unconscious. When the teenager awoke, he proceded to rape her. And in a final horrifying...
The Gershwins and Me
A Personal History in Twelve Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From celebrated entertainer Michael Feinstein comes a beautifully illustrated account of the lives and legacies of the Gershwins—told through stories of twelve of their greatest songs.
The “Ambassador of the Great American Songbook” Michael Feinstein was just twenty years old when he...
The Sherlock Holmes Megapack: 25 Modern Tales by Masters
25 Modern Tales by Masters
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This volume assembles a mammoth collection of modern Sherlock Holmes stories -- no less than 25 tales by modern masters, such as Carla Coupe, Gary Lovisi, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and many more! (It's also an authorized edition, produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate,...
Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies
A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
"Michael Adams's book is great fun! No one intends to make a truly bad movie, but when they do, Michael Adams will be there to watch it...and make it entertaining!" —John Landis, director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers
In Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, film...
Thunder Dog
The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Faith. Trust. Triumph.
"I trust Roselle with my life, every day. She trusts me to direct her. And today is no different, except the stakes are higher." ?Michael Hingson
First came the boom?the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt from the very core of the...