Jay: 3078 books
Robert Frost
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce...
by Jay Parini
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
Unholy Alliance
The Agenda Iran, Russia, and Jihadists Share for Conquering the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of ISIS exposes the dangers of radical Islam and the effects it has on the American way of life in this informative and eye-opening new book.
In Unholy Alliance, Jay Sekulow highlights and defines the looming threat of radical Islam. A movement...
The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1996
Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural...
Stern:
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1962, Bruce Jay Friedman’s acclaimed first fiction novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation.
“An...
A Mother's Kisses
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy
Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not,...
Manufacturing Hysteria
A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern America’s struggle to live up to its ideals.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria through the September 11 attacks and Arizona’s current anti-immigration...
The Federalist
The Gideon Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Written and published in newspapers in 1787 and 1788 to explain and promote ratification of the proposed Constitution for the United States, which were then bound by...
From Baghdad with Love
A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.–led attack on the “most dangerous city on Earth” in late 2004, however, is not an insurgent but a...
by P.O. Aircrewman Jay O'Donnell QGM, Humphrey Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
'The sky had gone: in its place was a wall of water, white horses on the top, readying itself to fall on me.'
What kind of man throws himself out of a helicopter in a storm?
Or dangles by a thread over mountainous waves?
Or strikes a panicking sailor to save his life?
Aircrewman Jay...
Legends of Winter Hill
Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
“At McCain Investigations, I’d be sent looking for people who didn’t want to be found, following guys who didn’t want to be followed, and entering neighborhoods where I was not at all welcome. There would be no commercials, no time-outs, no ‘do-overs’ if somebody got shot or stabbed or...
Fighter Group
The 352nd "Blue-Nosed Bastards" in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Jay Stout breaks new ground in World War II aviation history with this gripping account of one of the war's most highly decorated American fighter groups.
by Jay Hopler
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid...