Jack: 7257 books
by Jack Sheffield
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
A NEW YEAR AT RAGLEY-ON-THE-FOREST SCHOOL...
It's 1981, the time of Adam and the Ants, Rubik's Cube, the Sony Walkman and the Falklands War, as head teacher Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for another rollercoaster year.
Vera, the ever-efficient chool secretary,...
by Jack Sheffield
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
It's 1980: recession and unemployment have hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wondering Who Shot JR?
As Jack returns for his fourth year at Ragley-on-the Forest School, there's a definite chill in the air. Village schools are being closed down all over the...
Pop Goes the Weasel
The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
From the international bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants—a curious guide to the hidden histories of classic nursery rhymes.
Who was Mary Quite Contrary, or Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? Do Jack and Jill actually represent...
Living Dharma
Teachings and Meditation Instructions from Twelve Theravada Masters
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In this book, Jack Kornfield presents the heart of Buddhist practice as taught by twelve highly respected masters from Southeast Asia. These renowned teachers offer a rich variety of meditation techniques: the practices include traditional instructions for dissolving the solid sense of self, for awakening...
by Jack Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
"This is the most action packed book by Jack Ryan yet! With explosions from the first sentence, this fast-paced, high-altitude short thriller will have you reaching for the oxygen mask." - Jane Ryan
When David receives a menacing phone call on board flight 69, he is told that the...
A Path with Heart
A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
“This important guidebook shows in detail and with great humor and insight the way to practice the Buddha’s universal teachings here in the West. Jack Kornfield is a wonderful storyteller and a great teacher.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Jack is helping to pave the path for American Buddhism,...
Sucker Punch
The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2006
"Everything that he has done
was against this country."
Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali
Part man, part myth, and all American, Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was "The Greatest" inside the ring, outside he...
Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby
Ancestry, Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600 - 1657) is the best remembered member of a family which for two centuries were overlords of an estate of 26,000 acres in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Thanks to his vivid and frank autobiographies, we know much in detail of an extraordinary life which ran from spendthrift...
by Jack R. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Jack R. Stonelawyer, banker, rancher, big game hunter, and former chairman of the powerful Texas Parks and Wildlife Commissionshares the humorous, informative, and sometimes dangerous events of his life. In Every Man Dies, Not Every Man Lives, he tells war stories from his law practice, dwelling on...
by H.G. Wells, Jack London, Robert Hugh Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
*Contains Jack London's The Iron Heel, H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, and Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, three dystopian novels that were published within ten years of each other and ushered in the genre.
*Contains an introduction by Luke Hartwell
*A perfect gift for yourself or your friends...
It's Getting Ugly Out There
The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Very little of my backstory qualifies as Hallmark Card material, but it may help you to make sense of the way I see and interpret what's going on around me. -Jack Cafferty For the millions who watch the "Cafferty File" on CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty stands for common sense-the...
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
One might expect daring of Jack London, an author who has been gold-miner, sailor, frontiersman, adventurer; whose writing can no more be trite or commonplace than can the narrative of his own life history. But no fictionist ever dreamed of daring to attempt what Jack London has done here--to plunge...
by Jack Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
“My Brother Was an Only Child” was Jack Douglas’ very first humour book, having written for famous radio and television celebrities such as Jack Paar, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Durante, as well as TV shows such as “Adventures of Harriet and Ozzie”, “The George Gobel Show”, and...
Hana's Secret
A Jack Davidson Medical Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2007
Jack Davidson, a general surgeon at Midsouth Regional Medical Center in Evansville, N.C. accidentally stumbles upon a plot involving sham surgery being performed at his institution.
Being Chief of Surgery at Midsouth, and driven by a high sense of responsibility to the Hippocratic Oath, he...