Susan: 10531 books
Louisa May Alcott
A Personal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher’s pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved heroine Jo...
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the French revolution.
Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined...
by Susan Naimark
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Soon after enrolling her older son in a Boston public elementary school, Susan Naimark began to see that opportunities offered to her kids were often unavailable to their classmates of color. In The Education of a White Parent Naimark candidly describes her sometimes faltering efforts to create change...
The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
“Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” (The Boston Globe).
During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s...
Fever: Little Willie John
A Fast Life, Mysterious Death, and the Birth of Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Little Willie John lived for a fleeting 30 years, but his dynamic and daring sound left an indelible mark on the history of music. His deep blues, rollicking rock ‘n’ roll and swinging ballads inspired a generation of musicians, forming the basis for what we now know as soul music.
Born in...
Dangerous Ambition
Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the...
You're In Canada Now . . .
A Memoir of Sorts
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan Musgrave. Equally at home recounting the lore of her outlaw husband Stephen Reid, or interpreting the...
George Washington
The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man...
by Susan Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
**The Birth of a National Civil Rights Movement. **
Susan Graham is the White mother of two biracial children whose father is Black. Born Biracial: How One Mother Took on Race in America is the true story of how she brought an invisible population to the forefront and started the multiracial...
by Susan Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney by Susan Quinn (165,000 words, 35 photos)
Karen Horney (1885-1952) is one of the great figures in psychoanalysis, an independent thinker who dared to take issue with Freud's views on women. One of the first female medical students in Germany, and...
by Susan Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.
“Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing...
Following Francis
The Franciscan Way for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Discover the story of a man who lived in the Italian town of Assisi nearly 800 years ago—and still offers inspiration to millions today.
In a small town in Italy, in the late twelfth century, a wealthy silk merchant and his wife welcomed a baby boy. Their son lived a life of wealth and worldly...
by Susan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From mischievous child prodigy to the dynamic Lord of the Dance, an engaging look at the life of Revels founder John Langstaff.
On Christmas Eve in 1920, John Meredith Langstaff was born into a music-filled home where a rousing, wassailing carol party was the peak of his family’s year. Half...
by Susan Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
An inside view of Mother Teresa's heroic love at work
A moving first-hand account of Mother Teresa and her work, written by someone who worked by her side. As an idealistic young volunteer, author Susan Conroy spent a summer serving in one of Mother Teresa's orphanages and in the Home for the...