Austin: 1740 books

After years of abuse from his two best friends, Michael is on death row for killing them. Michael Freeman tells his story to his cell guard, Sims, so that someone knows the truth of how he lost control in the midst of being bullied for years. Mike didn’t harm himself, he exacted his revenge in a...

Rich in religious and artistic imagery, Trouble the Water is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history—moving from the Bible through several artistic eras—to interrogate...

Common sense. We've all got it, but all forget about it. How to get off your frigging ass and make some money is all about refreshing your common sense to give you the opportunities to make that money! I'm really trying to motivate you here by showing you some of the essential areas you need to focus...

Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the...

While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbott Ferriss's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection...

Shortlisted for the Best New Writer Award at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards, I am the Gloryhunter traces Spencer Austin's incredible odyssey across the country as he sought the ultimate adrenalin junkie high of only supporting winning teams. Randomly picking an English football team to support at...

Even with the finest degree and the best laid out business plans, there are some things in the music industry that you can only learn from experience or those who have been there and done that. But when you're a newbie music entrepreneur or an independent musician, you do not have time for costly...

In this textbook for performers, the position of a Swing-an Understudy for the Ensemble-on Broadway is examined from every angle, showing just how vital Swings are to the success of any musical theatre production. Authors J. Austin Eyer and Lyndy Franklin Smith draw on their own experiences as performers,...

Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts: Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs. Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still. Up...

Henry the Lion (1129 1195) was the Duke of Saxony, and one of the most powerful German princes of his era. He is also well known for being the cousin of Frederick I Barbarossa. Henry the Lion is a wonderful, brief biography by historian Austin Lane Poole. A table of contents is also included for easier navigation.

Light Ahead for the Negro written by Edward Austin Johnson who was an attorney. This book was published in 1904. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work,...

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature “A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity.”-Harper’s “This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man’s life as a Halsman photograph of a...

Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood...

A short piece that describes Old Time Taverns in New York city from the time of the founding by the Dutch to the American Revolution. John Austin Stevens Jr. (1827–1910) was a leader of business, an adviser of government and a student of the American Revolution. His was the founder of the Sons of the Revolution.