Rebecca: 4598 books
by Rebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
'Be short, be simple, be human.'
When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print.
Six...
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
West’s acclaimed examination of traitors, this gripping profile takes readers inside World War II spy rings and gets to the heart of what it means to betray one’s country
Throughout her career, Rebecca West dug into psyches, real and fictional, to try to understand the meaning of betrayal....
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
A beautiful actress of the 1920s faces painful decisions about her lovers and her future in Rebecca West’s posthumously published semi-autobiographical novel
Star of the stage, Sunflower has everything but the attention she craves from her long-time—and married—lover, Lord Essington,...
Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas
Answers to Your Most Burning Questions About Life, Love, Happiness (and What to Wear) from the Great Jane Austen Herself
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Is the man I’m dating Mr. Darcy in disguise. . . or simply a jerk?
It’s been two centuries since Jane Austen penned Pride & Prejudice and her many other classic novels, yet her adroit observations on the social landscape and profound insights into human nature are as relevant now as...
The Jane Austen Writers' Club
Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-loved Novelist
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A spirited and useful guide for writers with tips and tricks from Jane Austen, whose novels stand the test of time, by her great great great great grand niece.
Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use...
by Rebecca June Williford
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
When you open up this small book, you will be pleased to find.Fifty Peculiar Paranormal Poems waiting inside.From ghosts and spirits, old houses, and more.This unique collection of poems,will never bore.The young to the old will enjoy the rhymes.So open it up and read a few lines!Some are pretty,cheerful, and bright.While others you won’t want to read,before you turn out the lights!
Quick-Fix Southern
Homemade Hospitality in 30 Minutes or Less
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In Quick-Fix Southern, Rebecca Lang, cookbook author and contributing editor for Southern Living magazine, promises homemade hospitality--Southern style--in 30 minutes or less. Lang dishes up 115 recipes grouped in 10 themes ranging from Rise and Shine breakfasts to Sipping on the Screened Porch beverages,...
Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain
Educating by the Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Davies’s book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children, conduct literature and educative and political...
The Only Poet
And Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
An enlightening collection of short stories and other unpublished works that highlight Rebecca West’s deft hand at fiction
Published posthumously, these short stories and excerpts from unfinished works highlight what made West a highly regarded novelist: sensuous descriptions, self-sufficient...
The Strange Necessity
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
In this intellectually challenging collection of literary criticism, Rebecca West undertakes the question of art’s value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history
“The Strange Necessity,” one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928,...
Tales from the Mom Front
The Misadventures of a First-Time Mom
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Tales from the Mom Front offers an insightful and engaging look at the early years of parenthood from the perspective of a first-time mother. Author and family therapist Rebecca Martorella chronicles her journey from pregnancy to preschool with a dose of realism and wit that reads like a conversation...
How Carrots Won the Trojan War
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova’s conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate. Rebecca Rupp tells the strange and fascinating history of...
Smuggler's Cove
Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented;...
Twenty Grand
And Other Tales of Love and Money
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her characters—young women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventure—wait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray their...