Susan: 10531 books
My Kind of Place
Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden...
Treetops
A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel their genius and successes. Set against the backdrop of Treetops, the New Hampshire family retreat...
by Susan Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.
In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author...
Writing to Heal the Soul
Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Susan Zimmermann experienced a devastating loss when her first child, Katherine, developed a neurological disorder that left her unable to walk or talk. Faced with her daughter’s disability, Susan struggled with fear, denial, guilt, bitterness, and despair. She began to heal only through writing....
by Susan Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
They are comedy legends: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, and Joan Rivers! Cinderella had a glass slipper, but comics have clown shoes that leave footprints on our fannies and handprints on our hearts. Queens of Comedy includes Dr. Sue’s personal interviews with great stars, show business...
Visualizing Feeling
Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterisations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowledges the radical...
Florida's Minority Trailblazers
The Men and Women Who Changed the Face of Florida Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
"Saves a piece of Florida political history by narrating the personal stories of the state's 'minority trailblazers' from the Civil Rights Movement to the present day."--Richard E. Foglesong, author of Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the American Dream "Captures Florida's ongoing...
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
Together on Top of the World
The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
On May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached the
top of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in history
to scale the fabled Seven Summits. What made
their achievement all the more remarkable was that Susan
was not a mountain climber, but a high-powered
Fortune ® 500 executive who had never...
Unlocked
A Family Emerging from the Shadows of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A Poignant and Inspiring Story of a Family Whose Child Emerges from Autism.
Unlocked begins with a vivid depiction of the author’s life with her autistic son, Ben. Feelings of isolation, self-hate, and even moments of hatred toward her own child in response to his behaviors, as well as the...
Finding a Way Out
Kevin Was a Teenager, Carefree and Invincible…Until Diagnosed with Cancer. His Mom Shares Her Perspective from the Journey to Help Others Facing a Similar Challenge.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Ten weeks after going through thirty-six rounds of radiation and four rounds of intensive, chemotherapy treatments, our author Susan Long Dineens eighteen-year-old son left for college. Having been with him during ninety-six doctors appointments and brief hospitalization stays, she questioned whether...
The Christ-Haunted Landscape
Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work.A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made...
Loopholes
A collection of microfiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
These perfectly formed microfictions provide glimpses into the everyday challenges of family life, relationships, ageing and loss. McCreery’s characters are typical humans – flawed, vulnerable, frustrating and frustrated. Told with empathy and wit and honed with a wordsmith’s skill, Loopholes...
Step Up Now
21 Powerful Principles for People Who Influence Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Leadership Breakdowns Aren’t Always about the Actions You Take Leaders at every level of business today face incredible stressors: pressure to increase profitability, the demands of a 24/7 competitive global marketplace, sophisticated new technologies to master, and employee burnout. These stressors...