Jenkins: 1299 books
Simple Gifts
Memoirs of a Hometown Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Against the advice of experienced doctors and mentors, Dr. Harold Jenkins returned to his rural Virginia hometown to hang out his shingle as a sole practitioner in family medicine. Dr. Jenkins loved his hometown - its pace, its setting near the mountains, and the unique individuals who make up its...
Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence...
Textual Poachers
Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory.
Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview...
The First One to Die
An unputdownable crime thriller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
‘I was hooked from the start and suffered sleepless nights because I just couldn't put it down. Brilliant!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
She tried to break her fall, twisting desperately, but there was nothing to catch hold of, nothing with which she could stop herself. Her single scream...
by Beverly Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
“Beverly Jenkins is renowned for her historical romances.” –Romantic Times“Beverly Jenkins has reached romance superstardom!” –Detroit Free PressKansas, 1884Abandoned by her husband, Elizabeth Franklin is struggling to keep up with the chores on her 60-acre farm. Desperate to stay in the...
The Great and Holy War
How World War I Became a Religious Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis...
Unplayable Lies
(The Only Golf Book You'll Ever Need)
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments--and its most absurd. Filled...
Life At Number 10
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Neil Jenkins is the most prolific goal-kicker in the history of British international rugby. A match-winner with Pontypridd and Wales, a veteran of the Lions Tours – including the 2001 Tour of Australia – his crowning moment came with the Lions in South Africa in 1997 when his unerring accuracy...
by Dan Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world.
You Call It Sports, But I Say It’s a Jungle Out There is a collection of his best work from Sports Illustrated, Playboy,...
by Lyndon Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Sir Thomas Beecham is often described as having 'championed' the music of Frederick Delius, and this is no exaggeration. From the moment he heard Delius's music as a young man, Beecham was captivated by its strange, romantic beauty, and its hold on him remained firm. During the next 50 years, he promoted...
by M.L. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
An LSAT Prep Book with Perspective.
M.L. Jenkins, a practicing attorney and former LSAT instructor and tutor, provides advice on how he practiced for the LSAT (increasing his score from 150 to 179). Unlike similar books, Jenkins also devotes attention to explaining why a 179 is not necessarily...
Bubba Talks
Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Foot
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Among the provocative social phenomena of our time, few have caught the public fancy as profoundly as that quintessentially American species known as Bubba. The conventional notion of Bubba is a Southern redneck who thinks a rented movie and a six-pack are quality entertainment. According to Dan Jenkins,...
A Beverly Jenkins Romance Collection
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
USA TODAY Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins presents a collection of five sizzling Kimani classics.
You Sang to Me
Sassy streetwise crooner Regina Carson is still dreaming of her big break. And when Jamal Watts hears the stunning songbird, he’s ready to sign her to his label. The...
The Battle Rages Higher
The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
" The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9...