Jennifer: 8341 books
God Stories
Inspiring Encounters with the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
“The idea first came to me when a minister asked if I had any ‘God Stories.’ I asked her what she meant, and she explained that a God Story was a miracle-like experience that proves God exists. . . . I did have stories. I hadn’t dared to tell many people about them, but I definitely had had...
Inside Rikers
Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
Rikers Island--just six miles from the Empire State Building--is one of the largest, most complex and most expensive penal institutions in the world, yet most New Yorkers couldn't find it on a map.
Jennifer Wynn, the director of the Fresh Start program at Rikers, takes readers into the jails...
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism
Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899--1971),...
Jedward: Our Story
The Official Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The story behind the fascinating Irish twins who are singing with Vanilla Ice and dancing with Lady Gaga
Fully authorized, this book takes an in-depth look at the two fascinating lives that constitute the newest pop phenomenon. Author Jennifer O'Brien has had exclusive and unlimited...
The Aqua Net Diaries
Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Jennifer Niven quit her job as a television producer to write the true story of a doomed 1913 Arctic expedition in her first book, The Ice Master, which was named one of the top ten nonfiction books by Entertainment Weekly, and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. She received high praise for her...
by Jennifer Close
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry,...
Faith
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times
"We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced...
The Secret Daughter of the Tsar
A Novel of The Romanovs
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
A compelling alternate history of the Romanov family in which a secret fifth daughter—smuggled out of Russia before the revolution—continues the royal lineage to dramatic consequences
In her riveting debut novel, The Secret Daughter of the Tsar, Jennifer Laam seamlessly braids together...
by Jennifer Niven
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
"A do not miss for fans of Eleanor and Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe."--Justine Magazine
**A New York Times bestseller
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!**
A 2016 Zoella Book Club Pick!
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The Art of Rube Goldberg
(A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg was no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, and in a 72-year career he wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoons. Goldberg (1883–1970) was the most famous...
Practically Perfect in Every Way
My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help--and Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
From Dr. Phil to the Fly Lady??A level-headed, laugh-out-loud tour of the loopy world of self-help.?( Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood and If You?ve Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything)
Jennifer Niesslein has an okay life. But, dogged by a sense of dissatisfaction and a yearning...
by Jennifer Ouellette
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Physics with a Buffy the Vampire Slayer pop-culture chaser
In the tradition of the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek, acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette explains fundamental concepts in the physical sciences through examples culled from the hit TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Climate Change
The Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.
Highlights...
by Jennifer Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Contents
Introduction
The Kennedy Family
The Bhutto Family
The Brando Family
The Hemingway Family
The Lee Family
The Osmond Family
The Monaco Royal Family
Curse of the Kennedys investigates famous bloodlines from the Bhuttos to the Brandos, and examines...