Michelle: 5349 books

While there are popular and academic books on servants and domestic service, as well as television dramas and documentaries, little attention has been paid to the sources family historians can use to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors. Michelle Higgss accessible and authoritative...

Feeling alone and abandoned Maggie Sevilla grabs her sketchpad and heads over to the steps by the Rose Garden on the Santa Clara campus. She obsessively sketches Nobili Hall trying to exorcise the hold her old dormitory has on her, the place where one terrible night her life was irrevocably altered.Located...

33 flash fictions under 1,000 words, from new and established writers. Featuring the winners of the Flash in the Attic Flash Fiction Contest, as well as former Fiction Attic contributors Steve Almond, Corey Mesler, Vanessa Hua, and Ilana Stanger-Ross. With new fiction from Meg Pokrass, Bob Thurber, and others. Foreword by Michelle Richmond.

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which...

Like so many other city-dwellers, Cam and Michelle Mather longed for a simpler, quieter life in the country. When they found a century-old farmhouse on 150 acres of land that was in their price range, they jumped at the chance to make their move. The fact that the home was “off-grid” with no power...

From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom…or death. Alone and...

The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible....

NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through...

In Astrology for Enlightenment, "Astrologer to the Stars" Michelle Karén gives you the tools to predict and guide your future and, by distilling astrology down to its purest form, shows you how to achieve enlightenment. Drawing on over thirty years of study and experience, Karén has created...

Michelle Elrick's then/again is a poetic account of finding home, and the meanings and moments that the concept of home can come to embody. The collection tracks the poet through a landscape of intimate places—an ancestral home in Scotland, a mother's birthplace in Salzburg, a childhood home on...

In 1981, a small group of local business leaders put Marion, Ohio, on the path to hosting the largest popcorn festival on the planet. Founded in part to honor the achievements of Marion-based Wyandot, Incorporated, once the world's largest popcorn exporter, the Marion Popcorn Festival celebrates the...

Everyone could use a little extra income, right? But why not turn that little idea, or ever-so-often hobby, into a significant income earner? Take charge of your future right now, and enjoy the fulfillment of working for yourself...on your own time....doing what you love! Here's your little push. Now get out there and change your life!

All around the world every day, there are men and women creating new ideas and new products for the beauty category of commerce. They are creating new ways to make our skin more beautiful, our hair more lustrous, our fragrance more seductive and even inventing better devices to do it ourselves at...

You may be blessed to have a child who has a natural acting talent or one who is keen to give it a go. The question that most parents have on their minds would be - "Where do I start to find a Talent Agency that I can trust?"After all, having an Agency is like having a launching pad where your...