Andrea: 5080 books
Note to Self
30 Women on Hardship, Humiliation, Heartbreak, and Overcoming It All
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Thirty inspiring women share the enduring lessons they have learned from the defining moments of their lives.
Life rarely works out exactly as we plan. Rejection by a cherished friend, the onset of an unexpected illness, struggle with body image and self-perception -- these experiences may...
Your So-Called Life
A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler, the acclaimed authors of The Hookup Handbook and Friend of Frenemy?, comes Your So-Called Life—a must-have, hilarious, and absolutely unique bible for any woman in her late 20s and 30s who’s making the big move into real adulthood. With invaluable ideas...
Talking Back
. . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
No TV reporter today is more respected than NBCs Andrea Mitchell. Shes covered stories from Jonestown to the fall of the Berlin Wall, gotten unexpected answers from such interviewees as Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton, and balanced her high-wire career with a very public marriage to former Federal...
by Andrea M. Gilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
There were years when I lived my life with nothing but fun on my agenda. The reader will decide for themselves whether it is funny, stupid, or just wrong. Drunken Episodes is just that: a series of misadventures brought on my too much drinking booze. The consequences are also visited with a sobering result.
Wild by Nature
North American Animals Confront Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters...
Un nido de víboras
Montalbano - Libro 25
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Con el paso de los años, las pesadillas que desvelan a Salvo Montalbano se han vuelto más sofisticadas y extrañas. En esta ocasión, el veterano policía cree encontrarse junto a Livia, semidesnudos, en una exuberante selva tropical. Pero no es una selva de verdad: los troncos y el follaje están...
Muerte en mar abierto
Montalbano - Libro 27
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Bañado por la cegadora luz mediterránea y perfumado con el intenso olor del salitre y los cítricos, el pequeño municipio siciliano de Vigàta forma parte del acervo literario de miles de lectores europeos. En este volumen, Andrea Camilleri nos transporta a los años ochenta para conocer una versión...
La pirámide de fango
Montalbano - Libro 27
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Profundamente afectado por la muerte del joven François, y mientras intenta asimilar lo que esta pérdida significa para Livia y para él, Salvo Montalbano tiene que sobreponerse al cansancio y al desánimo antes de enfrentarse a un caso ligado a esa lacra que, por desgracia, tanto abunda en el mundo...
Kentucky Rising
Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Kentucky's first settlers brought with them a dedication to democracy and a sense of limitless hope about the future. Determined to participate in world progress in science, education, and manufacturing, Kentuckians wanted to make the United States a great nation. They strongly supported the War of...
Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film
Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity...
by Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, but left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again-this time with a unique model...
Josephine
The Rose of Martinique
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
‘It’s a story worthy of a blockbuster novel, and it’s all true. Oodles of sex, passion, adultery, media hype, decadence, plots, murder, mayhem, anguish and betrayal fill these pages . . . an enjoyable, well-researched book; I didn’t want to reach the end’ Edwina Currie, New Statesman Books...
Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully...
by Heather Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese...