Elizabeth: 10009 books

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and...

Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era, and her novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society in 19th century Britain.

Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era, and her novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society in 19th century Britain.

To those on the outside, the Powells are a happy family, but then a devastating accident destroys their fragile facade. When seven- year-old Henry is blamed for the tragedy, he tries desperately to make his parents happy again. As Henry grows up, he is full of potential-a talented sportsman...

«Elizabeth George regna nell'olimpo delle grandi scrittrici di gialli.» Los Angeles Times Non c’è pace per l’ispettore di New Scotland Yard Thomas Lynley, che, reduce dalla difficile indagine condotta in Italia, si trova a scavare tra i segreti, i risentimenti e i rimorsi di una famiglia...

This, Elizabeth Love's fifth published book, is a condensed profile of the man she met 14 years ago and a short record of their friendship. As the title suggests it is about growing old and about her as a pensioner. It is also meant as a tribute to her friend. It follows in the wake of others...

Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed choreographer George Balanchine and his close childhood friend and extraordinary ballerina Liidia (Lidochka) Ivanova. Tracing the lives and friendship of these two dancers from years just before the 1917...

Gratitude is like a gate to a magnificent garden. It is like an arbor that has morning glories and beautiful flowers all over it. It is that beautiful idyllic sense, with blue birds chirping. And this is how gratitude looks in nature. As we approach the gate to the garden, we are totally filled. We...

Bring joy to your life, joy to your plants, joy to your goldfish. Be a dispenser of joy. And when people see you coming, they'll say, "Why, the sun just came out. The sun came into my room." And that will be the truth because joy is the sun of your heart. Joy, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet…is something precious that is without price, for it comes directly from the heart.

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book...

On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the "Sol e Mar." When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cry for help, and believing that the...

“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s and the issues that...

This book was written to inspire people who lack faith and motivation to succeed even if they have had bad experiences in their past. It also encourages them to take positive steps that will lead them to their destiny. It will take them from “I can't" to "I CAN." The book will help...

In this marriage of memoir and manifesto, Elizabeth May reflects on her extraordinary life and the people and experiences that have formed her and informed her beliefs. The book traces her development from daughter of activist parents, to waitress and cook on Cape Breton Island, to law student, lawyer,...