Jay: 3078 books

What Does It Take to Be a Great Dad? Action! If being a great dad doesn't come natural to you, welcome to the club. No guy has fatherhood totally figured out, and that's okay. What matters are the small, consistent steps you take to show your kids you care and you are there. Bestselling...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter and accomplished playwright Bruce Jay Friedman is back with a compilation of some of his selected works. With sharp, black comedy and a punch of wit, his plays have delighted audiences since the 1960s and earned him rave reviews from The New York Times and The New Yorker....

In this laugh-out-loud travelogue, an average American man journeys to a country unlike any other: 1980s Japan Early one morning, Mike Halsey leaves his sleeping girlfriend and his house deep in the woods to go out and buy the morning paper. His favorite deli is closed, so he keeps driving...

Ashokan Farewell is best known as the plaintive theme from Kenneth Burns' highly acclaimed Civil War television documentary. In addition to Jay Ungar's authorized solo edition as performed in the documentary series, this folio contains the touching Civil War era Sullivan Ballou Letter and Lincoln's...

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates. Surveying a wide range of novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists from the past two centuries, Jay...

SPEED KILLS A feature film, SPEED KILLS, based on the book and starring John Travolta, premieres in 2018. He built the fastest boats -- for royalty, the rich, spies, smugglers, Feds and a former U.S. President. Then came six shots. Don Aronow's Cigarette boats were the symbol...

Honest, candid, and real emotions are set forth in this endearing poetry anthology by poet-author Jay Couture. Brimming with open sentiments and poignant words, Beautiful Pressure weaves Coutures experiences, memories, thoughts, and observations into one emotive and moving collection. He celebrates...

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George Balanchine, one of the twentieth century's foremost choreographers, strove to make music visible through dance. In The Art of Gravity, Jay Rogoff extends this alchemy into poetry, discovering in dancing -- from visionary ballets to Lindy-hopping at a drunken party -- the secret rhythms of our...

"The problem of growing old is the prospect of losing things. Jillian Anne Gilchrest was an old woman. And she was losing things." And after her husband of over forty years passed away and was lost to her, Jillian began a new life alone, secluding herself in the large two story...

Romantic Suspense Delia Weintraub has done something foolish with a business card that a beautiful woman dropped in the snow. On a whim, she handed it to an intensely handsome man, as if it was her own. Now, the woman whose name is on the card lies dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs,...

Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamiltons (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...

As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to human evolution and survival. Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin explore the more than 100 million years of evolution that led to the human placenta...

The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,'' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western...