Phyllis: 767 books
The Big Thing
How to Complete Your Creative Project Even if You're a Lazy, Self-Doubting Procrastinator Like Me
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A New York Times business journalist explains why it’s important for people to pursue big creative projects, and identifies both the obstacles and the productive habits that emerge on the path to completion—including her own experience writing this book.
Whether it’s the Great American...
by Phyllis R. Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
HOME IS THE PLACE WHERE WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO THERE THEY HAVE TO LET YOU IN.Eden, Arkansas is a town you are from, not move to. But when divorce, foreclosure, domestic violence, and an all-expense paid trip (also called prison) disrupt the Washington siblings’ perfectly planned lives, they end up...
by Sarah Addison Allen, Kathryn Magendie, Augusta Trobaugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Bright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of hope float against the black descent of night. The sweetest of small and innocent creatures finds its way through the shadows. Fireflies seem to dance on sheer air, illuminating the space between heartbeats. Children give off a similar...
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
It's the summer holidays--time for camping, fishing or just lazing, until girls move in next door. That means war, but the girls know how to fight back. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the winner of the Newbery Medal.
Small Steps, Huge Changes
The Extraordinary Moments of an Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
What is a sacred moment? Is it a big, sudden change in the direction of your life or your physical or mental state? Or is it a moment in which you understood your fears or made a choice to let something go? We may find our lives full of fear, hurt, or pain of loss, and even though these daily experiences...
Art Ninja
Pen Designs
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In todays sometimes complicated and stressful world, people of all ages are seeking more ways to express themselves creatively. Simple pen drawingsor doodlesare one of the most basic forms of art and also a wonderful way to relax and find gratification.
Seasoned educator, Phyllis Miller, shares...
House of Fiction
From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole’s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors’ personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of...
by Phyllis H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A practical guide with clickable resources to plan an emotionally fulfilling retirement. This little book assumes the financial planning is complete. It addresses the myraid of feelings most retirees do not expect when looking forward to this important milestone. There are suggestions and resources for...
by Phyllis Porter Dolislager
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
We moved three times in twelve months!
From Boynton Beach, Fl
To Palm Beach, FL
To West Palm Beach, FL
To Townsend, TN
From a 3-bedroom ranch to two condos to a log cabin--in the Smoky Mountains--with black bears as visitors.
WhenHurricane Wilma struck in 2005, we stayed in our...
by Phyllis Porter Dolislager
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
This book is short, simple and easy to follow. It covers the subject matter that you’ll want to include in your book. It also provides a sample book with expanded topics and many pictures.
Follow the suggestions or simply use them to develop your own ideas. Here’s everything you need to...
Glory in a Line
A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The first biography in English of the Japanese artist who was a central figure in the dazzling artistic milieu of 1920s Paris
When we think of expatriates in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century, certain names come to mind: Hemingway, Picasso, Modigliani—and Foujita, the...
Artist Emily Carr and the Spirit of the Land
A Jungian Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Emily Carr, often called Canada’s Van Gogh, was a post-impressionist explorer, artist and writer. In Artist Emily Carr and the Spirit of the Land Phyllis Marie Jensen draws on analytical psychology and the theories of feminism and social constructionism for insights into Carr’s life in the late...
The Journal Keeper
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This personal memoir “reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an ordinary life.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
The Journal Keeper is an openhearted, unflinchingly honest memoir of six years in Phyllis Theroux’s life...
Rich Men Poor Men
Ryersons on the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
When Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage she carried two cousins. one, one of the richest men aboard and the other a steward in Second Class. Both Ryersons had never met and never knew each other was on board but their unique tale is told by Phyliss Ryerse, a relative herself of both. As the ship...