Adam: 4614 books
What's Important Is Feeling
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.
And...
by Hamilton, Adam
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In his inspiring book 24 Hours That Changed the World, Adam Hamilton guides us, step by step, through the last day of Jesus life.
Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In...
by Adam Levin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone).
Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds,...
Nocturne
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
"Fifteen years ago I killed my sister."
So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.
With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores...
by Adam Jacot de Boinod
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's...
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories, Whodunit Tales, Suspense, Occult & Supernatural Stories in One Premium Volume (Mystery & Crime Anthology)
The World's Finest Mysteries by the World's Greatest Authors: The Purloined Letter, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Safety Match, The Black Hand, The Rope of Fear, Number 13, The Birth-Mark…
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories, Whodunit Tales, Suspense, Occult & Supernatural Stories in One Premium Volume (Mystery & Crime Anthology)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents....
Quarrel with the King
The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650—Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance,...
Seize the Fire
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero?...
Winter: Five Windows on the Season
Five Windows on the Season
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers,...
Phantom Terror
Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they...
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
Milosevic
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
This is the first authoritative biography of Slobodan Milosevic, currently on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity. Adam LeBor, a critically acclaimed author and journalist who covered the Yugoslav Wars for the Independent and The Times, documents the life of a man whose policies instigated...
by G. Mercer Adam
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Graeme Mercer Adam's biography The Life of General Robert E. Lee covers his family heritage, service in the Mexican American War, Civil War, and career after the Civil War. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.