Wright: 3168 books
by Ian Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Wrighty's characteristic honesty means his book is far more engrossing than most bland football memoirs' Sunday Times
Ian Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures in modern football.
His...
Iron Curtain
From Stage to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain'...
In the New World
Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating...
by Mike Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“Zeroes in on the interesting, irreverent, long-ignored tidbits that shape behavior in all conflicts and important periods of history.”—The Denver Post
What made the founding fathers so great (or were they?). And don’t forget the founding mothers. We have intrigue and skullduggery...
Heretics
The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world’s most powerful religion.
From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent...
SickKids
The History of The Hospital for Sick Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is the most famous medical institution in Canada. In addition to being the largest pediatric centre in North America, it has earned an international reputation for clinical care and research that has influenced generations of health care practitioners across the...
Passport to Peking
A Very British Mission to Mao's China
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee had also been to China to shake Chairman Mao by the hand. In the second half of 1954, scores of European...
by Richard B. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
From the acclaimed writer of the beloved Clara Callan comes a memorable new novel about first loves, love-after-love, and the end of things, set in summer in Quebec City.
James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in October (Wright’s novel published...
by Kenny Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
SEQUEL TO SOMETHING FORBIDDEN
Max and Katie have tasted something forbidden, opening their marriage sexually to other people. It's been a wild ride, and they are stronger for the experience. Max craves more and gives his headstrong wife the green light to play on her own--even as she vows to...
Scripture and the Authority of God
How to Read the Bible Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today, Widely respected Bible and Jesus scholar, N. T. Wright gives new life to the old, tattered doctrine of the authority of scripture, delivering a fresh, helpful, and concise statement on the current “battles for the Bible,” and...
After You Believe
Why Christian Character Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In After You Believe, award-winning author and esteemed spiritual leader Bishop N.T. Wright (Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope) addresses the often neglected question of how Christians ought to live in the here and now. Newsweek calls Bishop Wright “the world’s leading New Testament scholar,”...
Simply Christian
Why Christianity Makes Sense
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Not since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity has such a wise and informed leader taken the time to explain what Christianity is and how it is practiced. In Simply Christian, renowned biblical scholar and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright makes a case for Christianity from the ground up. Walking the reader...
Hella Nation
Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe,Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog.
The New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill immerses himself in even more cultures on the edge.
Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal journey through what he calls "the lost tribes of America."...
The Adventures of Captain Kettle : and Other Stories
( 9 Works of Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne )
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Adventures of Captain Kettle, and Other Stories is the collected works of Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, also known by the pen name Weatherby Chesney, was a novelist. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, which was published as part of...