Frances: 2004 books

With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture has so often been linked with the rise of modern industrial society, so the alleged demise...

Cynthia’s remarkable beauty makes her gain fame and admiration but not love, consequently disapointment and sadness are the prize for such comeliness. Then, unexpectedly she finds love in the most unthinkable place after suffering a terrible accident which changes her life dramatically.

When 16 Year old Tyler starts changing into a wolf, he discovers an ancient family secret. While Tristan Trudaux a dishonoured Lycan, saves Tyler from his murderous Uncle and vengeful brother, he uncovers a sinister plot threatening the very core of the Lycan clans. Meanwhile the Hunters is building...

Frances Itani's third book of poetry consists of two deeply moving elegiac sequences commemorating the deaths of a sister and friend. In chaste and determinedly unsentimental language, Itani takes us through the crises all must face, ignoring none of their turbulence or anguish, yet leaving us with...

A "heart-rending"(Anna Quindlen, Newsweek) memoir-in-verse that speaks to a mother's love for her son When Frances Richey's only child, Ben, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Green Beret, went on the first of his two deployments to Iraq, she began to write...

Everything your child needs to know is right here inside this book... Can you guess the most widely spoken language in the world? Recite the capital cities of various countries? Name the best-selling artist of all time or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? If you can’t then this book...

Frances F. Dunwell presents a rich portrait of the Hudson and of the visionary people whose deep relationship with the river inspires changes in American history and culture. Lavishly illustrated with color plates of Hudson River School paintings, period engravings, and glass plate photography, The...

Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman," who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing...

The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, “awoke” on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn’t the first...

Equally famous for his masterful canvasses and tumultuous mental health, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was, in many ways, the prototypical tortured artist. A lifelong sufferer of painfully degenerative tuberculosis, Modigliani was famous for denying his disease with a frenzied bohemian lifestyle of...

Nos anos 1920, as órfãs Emília e Luzia são as melhores costureiras de ­Taquaritinga do Norte, uma pequena cidade de Pernambuco. Fora isso, não podiam ser mais diferentes. Morena e bonita, Emília é uma sonhadora que quer escapar da vida no interior e ter um casamento honrado. Já Luzia,...

If you are parenting a teen: your teenager absolutely needs to read this book. If you are teen yourself: grab this book immediately and allow it to change your life. Here inside this book you will find important lessons that every teen needs to understand about life but that will never...

Do SOMETHING: The No-BS Guide for Anyone Who Needs To Stop Wasting Their Time Today is a short, succinct and brutally honest book for anyone who finds themselves regularly procrastinating and acting as if they have all the time in the world to chase their dreams. The truth is you don’t...

Lost my Dad but found my Father was written because of the cause and effects of young men and women who have a whole lot of Baby Mama Drama in their lives. Baby Mamma drama has caused a lot of emotional pain in the lives of families and especially has dramatically affected the relationship with fathers...