Sylvia: 1490 books

It should be the best week of Jay's life: he's attending a Basketball Nova Scotia Summer Camp and rooming in a real university dorm with his best friend, Mike. But then Mike's older brother, Chad, turns out to be less than the coach Jay expected and the brother Mike had always known. Luckily for Jay,...

Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman’s life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith’s deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.

Constantly waking at 3:16 a.m., Sylvia soon discovered a mandate on her life to share her personal story and journey. She celebrates life from the victory in reestablishing herselffrom a bumpy place of shame, blame, incest, and molestation to a solid foundation of forgiveness and love. She believes...

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based...

Max Harrison was known in Hollywood and around the world as "Artist for the Stars." Max Harrison drew his first drawing in 1937 at the age of 8, and graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant, Oklahoma. He was the artist for Gene Autry and Gene Autry Comics from...

The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance, by Sylvia R. Karasu, M.D., and T. Byram Karasu, M.D., is a scholarly and critical inquiry into the field of overweight and obesity. Reviewing more than 900 publications, from some of the early classical papers to the most recent...

Sylvia Crocker's A Well-Lived Life is a work of a daring and creative thinker, offering a bold reconceptualization of Gestalt therapy that extends all the way from its philosophical foundation to the nuances of its clinical application. In prose that is clear as a bell, Crocker fully exposes the depth...

In the later part of the nineteenth century, Rhoda Derry spent over forty years in the Adams County Poor Farm, curled in a fetal position in a box bed. She had clawed her own eyes out. She had beaten her front teeth in. Her legs had atrophied to the point where she could no longer stand on her own, or...

In this landmark book, esteemed Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein addresses this incisive question in a warm, delightful and personal way. With the same down-to-earth charm and wit that have endeared her to her many students and readers, Boorstein shows how one can be both an observant Jew and a passionately committed Buddhist.

On the River, after the fall of Amberlight, Tellurith and her folk meet the greatest crisis of all... Demolition A great lord's power and position, lost... A seven-hundred year old regime, collapsed... Love and loyalty tried past breaking point.... Destruction Bloody revolution... A threat become loss...

“Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale." —RT BOOK REVIEWS Armed only with her wavering courage and her fear that her brother has been captured during the Huguenot uprising against Louis XIII,  Marielle Saint-Juste enters the Rebel prison to search him out. But it isn't her wounded...

Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they...

Introducing the princess, and the mage. He doesn’t do well with people. She's not so good at tact. But he’s the wizard guardian of half a continent, She rules a kingdom she must protect. And to survive the inroads of a marauding empire, The wild, harsh, fickle, fragile, beautiful desert...

The pseudonymous works Kierkegaard wrote during the period 1843–46 have been responsible for establishing his reputation as an important philosophical thinker, but for Kierkegaard himself, they were merely preparatory for what he saw as the primary task of his authorship: to elucidate the meaning...