Rick: 2549 books

In Almost White, award-winning writer, actor, director, comedian, playwright, and producer Rick Najera explores what it means to be a Latino against the ever-changing backdrop of his life as a Hollywood creative. A bona fide chameleon, this L.A.-based everyman is "Mexican hyphen American"...

Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster...

For years, award-winning independent filmmaker Rick Schmidt has been teaching aspiring directors how to make “no-budget” films, both in workshops and in his classic guide Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices. Now Schmidt shows them how it is easier—and cheaper—than ever to make an innovative,...

A New York Times bestseller Part cookbook, part memoir, The Best Cook in the World is Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Bragg’s loving tribute to the South, his family and, especially, to his extraordinary mother. Here are irresistible stories and recipes from across generations. They come, skillet...

"Reed Writes As Only A Cop Can…. Impressive And Dramatic." --Nelson DeMille Killing Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost. The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill...

“Reed writes as only a cop can.” —Nelson DeMille DETECTIVE JACK MURPHY IS BACK—on the trail of a criminal mastermind who kills for profit and tortures for pleasure. In Jack Murphy’s experience, the killers who blend in are the hardest to catch. But none are as elusive—or...

To maintain the interest of the young player, baseball and softball must be fun. It is a difficult sport for kids to play. Other sports, like soccer and basketball, can be enjoyed at an early age without much hand/ eye coordination. Goals and points may not be scored efficiently but kids can kick...

A prize-winning Montana writer’s tribute to “a brilliant and mischievous chocolate brown pointer that will transfix anyone who has ever loved a dog” (Publishers Weekly). Colter pairs one of America’s most treasured writers with our most treasured “best friend.” Colter, a German...

Het is best gek dat we nooit écht hebben leren werken. Hoe houden we ons staande in deze tijd van voortdurende bereikbaarheid? Hoe bewaren we overzicht, met die uitpuilende mailbox, overvolle agenda en eindeloze takenlijst? En nog veel belangrijker: hoe zorgen we ervoor dat we eindelijk toekomen...

  The God’s Big Plans for Me Storybook Bible uses kid-sized versions of the 40 foundational principles found in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Purpose Driven Life by pastor Rick Warren, helping boys and girls find the same motivating love of Christ in their own lives.   Pastor...

"The first white children to come west were sons and daughters of the pioneers. They trudged barefooted beside the wagons, across the dusty plains, through the heat and the prickly pear cactus and over the mountains of sharp volcarlic rocks. Some never made it and piles of stones and improvised crosses...

Sandi Hollande and Ash Carpenter are outlaws for hire. After they managed to rescue an innocent hostage from the clutches of two rival criminal cartels, they’ve gained a reputation, both with families who want to retrieve lost loved ones from places the authorities can’t go…and with Fleet...

Sandi. The prodigal, the outlaw, the rebel. Ash. The straight-arrow, the hero, the leader. Korri. The cyborg, the mercenary, the relic of an older time. Kan-Ten. The alien, the exile, the outsider. Together, they’ve worked openly as hired guns throughout the Pirate Worlds, fighting for lost...

General Rick Hillier’s views on leadership evolved over his three decades as a soldier. Early in his career he watched as many of his superiors made bad decisions. Later he learned at the school of hard knocks as the head of emergency rescue operations in Canada and international task forces in...