Diane: 2892 books

Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time...

When Samantha Bryant loses her job teaching high school English, she thinks her future as an educator is non-existent. That is, until one of her graduating students, Cameron Steadman, assures her his father can get her a job at his school. Over the summer, he and Samantha become friends, until she...

Since Arthur Symons’s declaration in 1895 in the Saturday Review that Christina Rossetti was “among the great poets of the nineteenth century,” Rossetti’s image among critics has undergone permutations as divergent as Victorian culture is from postmodern. Now Diane D’Amico redeems Rossetti...

“Felix and Eve”, a fictionalized memoir, is about two people that come together who seem to be the exact opposite of each other. Eve is traveling up the coast of southern Oregon when she answers an ad in the paper to be a live in caregiver. She is 29 and a counterculture woman who is in between...

This informative and easy to read book is an essential resource for parents, teachers, those new to the field, and people on the autism spectrum themselves. Diane Yapko, who has worked with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their families for over 20 years, brings together diverse information...

After 25 years of estrangement from his father, Joe Tenning is unexpectedly summoned to the bedside of Charles Tenning. Suddenly, he is pulled into unraveling the disturbingly bizarre and ethically questionable work in which his father has been covertly engaged. Uncertain who to trust in the small...

Estranged from his wife and working a dead end job, Nick Devlyn is introduced to a pleasurable coping mechanism that allows him to re-live past memories from the confines of the Parlor. The man responsible for this world of potent drugs and fringe technology is Sid Johar, a self-proclaimed healer...

As members of an official linguistic minority in Canada, Anglophone teachers living and working in Quebec have a distinct experience of the relationship between language and identity. In Negotiating Identities, Diane Gérin-Lajoie uses a critical sociological framework to explore the life stories...

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The...

Envie de salades inédites ?Voici le répertoire incontournable à intégrer à votre savoir-faire culinaire !Six grands chefs (Alfred Suzanne, Pol Grégoire, Jean-Marc Enderlin, Jean-Michel Loriers, Pascal Devalkeneer et Myriam Domange) révèlent au rythme des saisons plus de 50 idées de salades savoureuses....

De quoi faire aimer la soupe, même aux plus réticents ! Voici la bible des soupes de santé, mois par mois avec : 52 recettes traditionnelles ou oubliées, remises au goût du jour d'un point de vue nutritionnel, 52 manières de garder la forme, jour après jour, 52 façons d'épater la galerie...

Child molestation is epidemic in our society. We have to find new ways to protect our kids! In the time it took for Ward Cleaver and Fonzie to morph into Homer Simpson and his South Park neighbors, the fiber of humanity changed. Once-safe sidewalks, filled with active children, emptied into avenues where...

For readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end of the...

Discover “the arts that look upon the profound and clarify life and death.” Keiko Shokon is the third volume in a series that aims to demystify the rare and often misunderstood fighting arts of the Japanese warrior. Do these arts still have relevance in a modern technological world? How are they...