Oliver: 3228 books
Winter Hours
Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2000
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by The...
Blue Iris
Poems and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
For poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are "the simple garments" of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earth's changes and its permanence.
In Blue Iris, Mary Oliver collects...
Song for My Father
Memoir of an All-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
On Election Day in 1960, a classmate of Stephanie Stokes Oliver threatened to beat her up. Why? Because in their class's mock presidential election, Stephanie revealed that she would follow her father's lead and vote for Nixon over Kennedy. Stephanie realized this day that her family was different...
by Jenny Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
'Love, humour, family and hope – the perfect ingredients for a summer read' Debbie Johnson ‘Dramatic and fun!’ My Weekly Irresistible, feel-good summer fiction, from Top 10 bestseller Jenny Oliver ***Shortlisted for The Golsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award*** The house where Stella...
Last Word
My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A New York Times–bestselling author reveals the CIA and Secret Service conspiracy behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination—with a chapter by Oliver Stone.
Mark Lane tried the only US court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there...
On History
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In working together on two challenging new documentaries—South of the Border and the forthcoming thirteen-part, thirteen-hour Forgotten History of the United States series for Showtime—filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on...
by Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A companion to Oliver Stone’s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people’s history of the American Empire: “a critical overview of US foreign policy…indispensable” (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); “brilliant, a masterpiece!” (Daniel Ellsberg);...
by Jenny Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson Welcome to the most celebrated patisserie competition in Paris – ready, steady, bake! Watching snowflakes settle on the Eiffel Tower, Rachel Smithson’s cosy English village feels very far way – as, thankfully,...
A Thousand Mornings
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether...
To Touch the Face of God
The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957–1975
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."
In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston on Christmas Eve, astronauts recited the first ten verses from the book of Genesis....
Still With Us
Msenwa's Untold Story of War, Resilience and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Still With Us is a heartbreaking and at-times horrific account of one boy's flight from terror during the 1996 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Forced to become a father to his two younger siblings and mainstay for other lost children, Msenwa Oliver Mweneake gives his eyewitness account of...
by Oliver Herford
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) was an American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, andLadies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the...
Fat Politics
The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these...
by Oliver Sands
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
What does a mysterious file have to do with a commissioner’s election in Florida? Why does the file’s content pose a serious threat to the U.S. political establishment? Attorney Mark Stone has weeks, if not days, to locate the file and find out. However, no one who has seen the content of the...