Books imprint: 120884 books
Red Handed: A Katerina Carter Color of Money Mystery
A Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Red Handed is a short story introduction to the Katerina Carter Fraud Legal Thriller series
When Katerina Carter and boyfriend Jace Burton accept an impromptu party invitation, crime is the last thing on their minds. Then a winning wine investment leaves a sour taste in Kat’s mouth and she...
Summary and Analysis of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Based on the Book by Antonio García Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Antonio García Martínez’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and...
Summary and Analysis of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Based on the Book by Steven R. Covey
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Stephen Covey’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
Conduct Unbecoming – A Memoir by Desmond O’Malley
The Story of One of Ireland’s Most Extraordinary and Influential Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland’s most outspoken and respected public figures, Desmond O’Malley.
Born in Limerick in 1939, Desmond O’Malley went on to become the youngest Minister for Justice in Irish history and the founder of the Progressive Democrats,...
Minus 148 Degrees
First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This finely crafted adventure tale runs on adrenaline but also something else: brutal honesty. -The Wall Street Journal
I couldn't lay it down until it was all finished (12:40 a.m.!)... A fascinating and beautifully-written story. -Bradford Washburn
* One of National Geographic Adventure's...
Summary and Analysis of the Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
Based on the Book by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
My Old Neighborhood Remembered
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture.Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up – in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers, egg creams...
Summary and Analysis of Outliers: The Story of Success
Based on the Book by Malcolm Gladwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Outliers tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Malcolm Gladwell’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This short...
Summary and Analysis of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Based on the Book by Sheryl Sandberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Lean In tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Sheryl Sandberg’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This short...
Fanny Trollope
A Remarkable Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
'No other author of the present day has been so much read, so much admired, and so much abused' wrote a contemporary reviewer of Fanny Trollope. Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny's controversial pioneer work, took nineteenth-century sensibilities by storm, and when published in 1832, ran to four...
Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The essays in The Story About the Story Vol. II chart a trajectory that digs deep into the past and aims toward a future in which literature can play a new and more profound role in how we think, read, live, and write.
In the second volume of The Story About the Story, editor J. C. Hallman...
by CN Times Books Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The most important private activity for Xi Jinping, Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party, is reading. To him literature is vital for an individual's growth, particularly works of traditional Chinese culture and the philosophy of Confucius, with its focus on society, self-education, and...
Cynthia Nolan
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Cynthia Reed, single mother, psychiatric nurse, novelist and connoisseur, married Sidney Nolan in Sydney in 1948. England served as their home base from 1953 till her death in 1976, territory charted in her four travel books.
This biography is drawn from her books in depth and from her intimate...