Touchstone: 629 books
by Herbert L. Gravitz, Julie D. Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Rich with insight and awareness, Recovery explores the secrets, fears, hopes and issues that confront adult children of alcoholics. Authors and widely respected therapists and ACOA workshop leaders Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden detail in a clear question-and-answer format the challenges of control...
From Altoids to Zima
The Surprising Stories Behind 125 Famous Brand Names
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Ever wondered what the Ms in M&Ms stand for?
If Scotch tape was invented in Scotland?
Why a cereal that contains neither grapes nor nuts is called Grape Nuts?
Who thought Gap was a good name for a clothing store?
From the Adidas we wear to the Volkswagens we drive, the daily lives of Americans are...
by Danica Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Sharing secrets and stories, tales from the track, and insights into her personal life, Danica reflects on her extraordinary rise from a ten-year-old go-kart champion to the most successful woman in the history of American racing.
Danica Patrick's life moves at 220 mph. She drives every race...
Crashproof Your Kids
Make Your Teen a Safer, Smarter Driver
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT HANDING YOUR TEENS THE CAR KEYS, DO EVERYONE A BIG FAVOR: CRASHPROOF THEM!
Every year, six million sons and daughters will become first-time drivers. Fifty-eight percent of them will be involved in a car accident within a year of getting their license, and a significant...
Swimming at Night
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
People go traveling for two reasons: because they are searching for something, or they are running from something.
Katie’s world is shattered by the news that her headstrong and bohemian younger sister, Mia, has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff in Bali. The authorities say that Mia...
Next Stop
Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with...
All the Available Light
A Marilyn Monroe Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
No star in any genre has affected the world as deeply or has lasted as long without fading as Marilyn Monroe. This thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of essays examines the undiminished incandescence of Marilyn Monroe -- the impact she has had on our culture, the evolution of her legend...
The Incarnations
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
New York Times Notable Book of 2015
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015
Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
Hailed by The New York Times for its “wildly ambitious...dazzling use of language” and “mesmerizing storytelling,”...
Classical Music Top 40
Learn How To Listen To And Appreciate The 40 Most Popular And Important Pieces I
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
The quintessential primer for the budding classical music lover.
Millions of people adore classical music. Millions of other people want to, but simply don’t know how or where to start—so many composers, so many pieces, so many versions, so much music! In either case, this book is for you....
Take a Walk on the Dark Side
Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons.
Updating, revising,...
by William J. Dowlding
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A complete and fascinating chronicle of Beatles music and history, Beatlesongs details the growth, evolution, and dissolution of the most influential group of out time.
Drawing together information from sources that include interviews, insider accounts, magazines, and news wire services, this...
by Rudolph Fellner
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1971
A comprehensive guide to opera for both beginners and connoisseurs.
This book is a comprehensive guide to operas. Whether you are a novice or an experienced musician, Fellner’s book serves as an indispensable resource. Basic musical and dramatic materials accompany vocal scores of operas...
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed is the story of Kyria Abrahams's coming-of-age as a Jehovah's Witness -- a doorbell-ringing "Pioneer of the Lord." Her childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery apocalypse; that Smurfs were evil; that...
by Alain Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.
With stunning works by seminal black voices such...