Anne: 9570 books
by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book,contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that...
by Eduardo Halfon, Anne McLean (translator)
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Eduardo Halfon's "Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It" follows closely the departure of a well-off industrialist Jewish family from Guatemala in the early 1980s. The events are seen from the point of view of the naive, inquisitive ten-year-old son. In Anne McLean's vivid translation, the...
And Then, You Act
Making Art in an Unpredictable World
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process.
Writing clearly and passionately, Bogart speaks to a wide audience, from undergraduates to practitioners,...
The Husband Hunters
American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – The real women who inspired Downton Abbey
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth,...
Diana Mosley
Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.
In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler....
by Anne Davison
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
This book traces the history of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted for over a thousand years, from the reign of Charlemagne in AD 800 until AD 1806 when it was dissolved following defeat by Napoleon. It is an Empire that had no fixed boundaries and until the 16th century, when the Habsburgs settled...
Ex Libris
Confessions of a Common Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...
Lesley Blanch
Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and is still in print.
Emotions, she insisted,...
First Contact
Tasman’s Arrival in Taitapu, 1642
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
As the Dutch replied in darkness with shouts and trumpet calls from the decks of their ships, the warriors must have been mystified by these creatures who entered into their rituals, yet used exotic instruments and spoke an unintelligible tongue.With the publication of her book Two Worlds,...
The Wine Lover's Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.
An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust...
Leaving Home
A Hollywood Blacklisted Writer's Years Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies of notable figures, including film stars Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as Queen Mary and Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. A fastidious researcher and accomplished writer, Edwards received a Pulitzer...
Flowering Judas and Other Stories
A Library of America eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.”
Frontier Days in Crescenta Valley
Portraits of Life in the Foothills
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Modern Crescenta Valley practically defines the notion of quiet suburbia with its lovely homes and tree-lined streets. Yet the communities that lie north of Los Angeles between the Verdugo and San Gabriel Mountains once formed a vast, isolated, treeless, windstorm-swept dell. The settlers who stayed...
by Jo Anne Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Their names run deep through local history and lore, adorning street signs, canyons, historical buildings, homes and ranches in the swath of suburbia between Pasadena and Tujunga, where the towns of La Crescenta and La Ca ada took shape, along with the unique community of Montrose. Profiled in the pages...