Jennifer: 8341 books
Oliver Mtukudzi
Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to...
by Ken Hada, Ryan Weldon, Daniel Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently...
Island Queens and Mission Wives
How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women:...
by Jennifer Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence....
Sisterhood of the Spectrum
An Asperger Chick's Guide to Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Spectrum gals, ever wished you had a handbook to help navigate the confusing world of teenage girlhood?
Look no further! Aspie-in-the-know, Jennifer Cook O'Toole provides just that with her inspirational guide to life for teenage girls with Asperger syndrome. Drawing on her own, real-life experiences...
The Fabled Coast
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions.
In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer...
The Good Living Guide to Medicinal Tea
50 Ways to Brew the Cure for What Ails You
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
More than just a warm and comforting drink, tea has medicinal properties that are widely underused in North America. Common herbs, spices, fruits, and barks have been scientifically proven to help relieve pain, menopause symptoms, high blood pressure, insomnia, stress, and digestive angst. When taken...
Bad Girls Go Everywhere
The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The biography of the revolutionary magazine editor who created the “Cosmo Girl” before Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw was even born
As the author of the iconic Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for over three decades, Helen Gurley Brown...
by John Churchman, Jennifer Churchman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Meet the adorable orphan lamb Sweet Pea and discover why her true story has become a picture book phenomenon and enchanted readers of all ages!
One cold winter night, Sweet Pea the orphan lamb becomes very sick. Everyone in the farmyard is worried about her! Under the watchful care of Farmer...
Found
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman’s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck’s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows...
by Jennifer Hancock
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2016
¡Te sorprenderá lo fácil que es la vida cuando haces de la ética una prioridad! En este libro encontrarás básicamente lo que es la ética personal, el porqué de su importancia, cómo la puedes aplicar a tu vida diaria y por qué hacerlo te ayudará a vivir una vida más productiva y feliz....
Write Naked
A Bestseller's Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Learn how to transform your passion for writing into a career. New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Probst reveals her pathway to success, from struggling as a new writer to signing a seven-figure deal. Write Naked intermingles personal essays on craft with down-to-earth advice on writing romance...
AWOL
Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
AWOL: absent without leave; absent from one’s post or duty without official permission but without intending to desert.
Originally a military term, it gradually entered the vernacular for when someone goes missing unexpectedly. Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan thought it fit well with the kind...
Food for Africa
The Life and Work of a Scientist in GM Crops
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Tracing through anecdote and science the development of a hotly contended area of research, this account expounds the dawn of genetic engineering in the United States in 1974, through the early stages of its uptake in South Africa, to the current situation, in which approximately 80 percent of maize...