Jack: 7257 books

Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from? From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered with hundreds of common idioms borrowed...

There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have...

CONTENIDO: Grito de Gloria [Eduardo Acevedo Díaz] Doña Berta [Leopoldo Alas] Clemencia [Ignacio Manuel Altamirano] Vida Loca [Domingo Arena] La mujer del porvenir [Concepción Arenal Ponte] La pista de los dientes de oro [Roberto Arlt] El cura de Tours [Honoré de Balzac] Los despojos [Charles Baudelaire]...

From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo and many more.. Introduction   We all love a good mystery don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated at one time or another...

Five years of collected poetry

Harry Styles, a member of world-famous boyband One Direction is known as the heart-throb of a generation. This quick-read biography tells his story so far, from his days in the band White Eskimo at school to his recent involvement in 1D's world tour.In addition to the chapters on Harry's life so far,...

Build a classic, enduring, and affordable home. With Jack A. Sobon’s careful guidance, you can construct your own timber-framed house in the traditional hall-and-parlor style. From felling trees to cutting timbers, and frame construction to door selection, you’ll find Sobon’s professional advice...

Into the hustler’s paradise of pre-revolution Egypt comes an eccentric Englishman hell bent on making his fortune in a country where everything is late, nothing works and everyone is on the take. To pay off a savage mortgage, he leads a double life teaching in a posh school by day and haggling down the back streets of Cairo by night, trying to beat those wily Egyptians at their own game.

When Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.

What is my strength is a story about a little puppy to be special to get more attention from the family. the story moves on like what all it does and where it goes to learn something special from somewhere so it can prove itself better than its sister puppy. the story is catered for all ages kids...

These 17 stories first appeared in the Chicago Reader. From the Back Cover: The center of attention is a young man with at least twenty stab wounds in his chest. He looks scared all right, but even more than that he looks poor. Dressed in the clothes they died in, they all look poor...

On Thursday the 23rd of June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union after 43 years of membership. This excellent book guides the reader through what Brexit actually means, explaining everything from the history of the EU and the terminology...

In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party...

The banks of the Schuylkill once echoed with the hum of the steel mills, and immigrants came across the sea to transform Conshohocken and West Conshohocken into thriving industrial towns. When the storm clouds gathered in Europe, the neighboring communities proudly sent more sons and daughters per capita...