Smith: 13242 books
Our Father
The Prodigal Son Returns
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Our Father is a compelling memoir by Bruce Smith chronicling his life as a fatherless boy growing up in segregated Texas and his rise to fame and fortune as a star professional football player and real estate mogul. As his story unfolds, ghosts from his past and the lingering effects of being raised...
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
A Young Black Man's Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It...
by Sean Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Robert Peter Williams was a sixteen-year-old selling double glazing when he auditioned for a new boy band which became Take That. Twenty years later he is one of the most popular entertainers Britain has ever produced: he has recorded eight number one albums in the UK and he sold 1.6 million tickets...
by Johnny Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Jazz virtuoso Johnny Smith presents his complete system of chord analysis, scale and arpeggio study, and practical theory application. This is one of the most useful books to be found in any jazz guitarist's library! Lessons include 2-octave scales, 6th chord forms, alterations of chords, resolution...
by Rev. Benny Johnson, Floyd Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
About the Book
Grand Central: The Untold Story is a non- fiction story written by Floyd Smith, a security officer at Little Rock Central High School. As teenagers Floyd, his cousin Jackie Fells and a neighborhood friend, Bennie Johnson would physically train together to become fit to prepare for high...
The Wrong Stuff
The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a lifetime’s worth of experience into every free night, each knowing he probably would not survive...
Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. **
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions...
Don’T Call Me Lady
The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This biography tells the true story of one of historys forgotten women, a Englishwoman named Alice Seeley Harris who has also been called the Mother of Human Rights. She has been hidden by her husbands shadow since she started her African journey near the end of the Victorian era, but now her story...
by Clark Ashton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK™ series celebrates Clark Ashton Smith with 17 of his classic fantasy & horror stories from WEIRD TALES and other sources! Included here are: THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO THE THIRD EPISODE OF VATHEK THIRTEEN PHANTASMS THE CHARNEL GOD THE COLOSSUS OF YLOURGNE THE...
The Power of Meaning
Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.
Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s...
by Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Over seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.
In this twenty-ninth monthly volume the full novel Dead Hand: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery, plus four short stories, and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest.
Short Stories
Shootout...
The Stormy Present
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats...
The Last "True" Roller Derby
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Larry Smith got some strange looks as a boy when he told everyone he wanted to join the Roller Derby, but hed go on to have the time of his life living out his dream.
As a member of the International Roller Derby League, he engaged in a style of play that gave the fans what they wanted: fights,...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith chronicles the complete history of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Smith takes the reader from the politics of Desert Shield to the military action of Desert Storm.
"Expressing constant misgivings about presidential warmaking, [Smith] provides a virtual...