Finn: 319 books

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING? In the far south a young girl goes missing, lost without trace in the wilderness beyond her remote family cottage. A year later her father disappears in the exact same place . . . Then nothing. At all. Eventually the years grow over the grief....

Finn Aagaard was a special man. He was a highly respected Kenya professional hunter (1967–1977) and, later, a gun expert and writer. After the hunting ban in Kenya, he and his wife of thirty-two years, Berit, moved to the USA where Finn became a hunting guide in Texas. Soon thereafter he became...

“Completely satisfying, as well-paced and exhilarating as a good run.”—The Boston Globe Whether running is your recreation or your religion, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate and inspire you, as he ventures to uncover the secrets...

Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a...

Most of us begin our day with a commute and a coffee. Finn Ní Fhaoláin starts hers with a surf and a smoothie. Enter Finn's World and you'll discover over 100 delicious and nourishing recipes, as well as her philosophy for how to be a healthy, happy human. Recipes include Moroccan...

Since the nineteenth century, many philosophical and theological commentators have sought to trace lines of continuity between the Trinitarian thought of Augustine of Hippo (354–430) and G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831). Many contemporary Christian theologians have also criticized Augustine's Trinitarian...

YOU ARE A SMART WOMAN, BUT DO YOU STILL: —Feel you’re too busy to invest your money? —Rely on someone else to deal? —Get bored by financial talk? —Think that investing is something only men do? —Worry you’re not smart enough? THINK AGAIN. Women have made strides in so many...

“Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finn’s fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories, has an ethnicity. The characters try to go on with their lives while the place broods and mourns around them. And all the while the narratives driven by...

"Finn's writing style is informal and conversational, and at no time did I feel put off by her very professional handling of senstive subjects... The book covers just about all the possible aspects of love relationships..."  5-star review by Jack Magnus, Readers' Favorite FROM PUBLISHER:  Whether...

Claire Collin, a powerful witch with telepathic abilities, has a huge problem - actually thousands of them. She can’t block the voices that she hears in her head. Forced to move away from her beloved hometown of Magic, New Mexico to a remote cabin in the Colorado Rockies, she finds a measure of...

Un viaje al mítico mundo del running japonés. «Una gran mirada a la carrera de larga distancia en Japón. Si te gustó Correr con los keniatas, seguro que disfrutarás con este libro.» Athletics Weekly Bienvenidos a Japón, la nación más obsesionada con el running**, un país con...

The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek. We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to...

The U. S. Constitution begins with the soaring words "We the People," but we, the people, have little to do with the document as most of us have come to know it. When most people think of the constitution they think of it as a legal instrument, the province of judges and lawyers, who alone...

IF YOU HURT SOMEONE BAD ENOUGH, FOR LONG ENOUGH THERE’S NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING YOU CAN’T MAKE THEM DO. Bobby Ress is a cop with a simple life. He believes in making a difference. He loves his wife and his daughter. He has a place in the world. Then people start dying, a lot of them,...