Helen: 3878 books
Tiere mit uns
Zwölf lebensnahe Tiergeschichten für Schulkinder
Language: German
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Helen Braasch nimmt uns mit in die Welt der Tiere und schildert auch eigene Erlebnisse. Es ist ihr Markenzeichen, realitätsnah zu berichten und die Tiere nicht in ein fernes Märchenland oder eine Fabel zu entführen. So lässt es sich auch nicht vermeiden, dass manche Geschichte tragisch endet....
Back to Beer...and Hockey
The Story of Eric Molson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
To most Canadians, the Molson name is part of the very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when John Molson founded his first brewery in Montreal, it has become synonymous with beer, hockey, and philanthropy. Few realize, however, how close the family came in recent years to losing control of the enterprise....
Ice Cream Man
25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ice Cream Man: 25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Gus Rancatore and Helen Epstein (10,200 words)
A highly entertaining, idiosyncratic mini-memoir, with recipes, about 25 years of running a gourmet ice cream shop down the street from Harvard and MIT. Gus Rancatore shares...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)
Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s...
Eleonora Duse
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal.
Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended...
by Helen Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
The Woman I Am is an incredibly inspiring autobiography by Helen Reddy, the woman who made "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" a household phrase. With her song "I Am Woman," Reddy provided the feminist anthem of the 1970s. She became the first Australian to win a Grammy, to have her own...
Joan of Arc
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world—as never told before.
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French...
Soldier Girls
The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
“A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families**—**named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
“In...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words)
This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary scholarship and teaching, he championed medieval studies, modern masters like Matisse and Picasso...
Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gossip meets history—a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood's most notorious clashes and controversies in the spirit of Hollywood Babylon
Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown and...
A Common Good
The Friendship of Robert F. Kennedy and Kenneth P. O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An illuminating account of the history-making friendship between RFK and the chief of staff to JFK—a bond built on shared ideals, but severed by tragedy.
When they first met at Harvard in 1946, young Bobby Kennedy and Kenny O’Donnell could not have imagined where their lives would take...
by Helen Keller
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Left...
An Uncommon Reader
A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
One of The Sunday Times' (U.K.) Books of the Year
"Garnett's life will not need to be written again." —Andrew Morton, Times Literary Supplement
A penetrating biography of the most important English-language editor of the early twentieth century
During the course of...
by Helen Keller
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.[1][2] The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by...