Jeremy: 2147 books
Your Call
What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'Full of glorious examples of caller wisdom [with] laugh-out-loud anecdotes' Allison Pearson
Having taken over 25,000 listener calls on his BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show, Jeremy Vine decided it was time to take stock of the wisdom his listeners have imparted over the airwaves. And it is clearer...
Through Dust and Darkness
A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From childhood through college, Kroeker attended Christian schools...
by Jeremy Yudkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal...
by Jeremy K. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The Adirondack region has long been a favorite of skiers, as its beautiful mountains and deep snow cover provide it with the perfect landscape. Downhill ski areas developed during the Great Depression, when New Yorkers looked for an affordable escape to beat the winter blues. Over the coming decades,...
Murder in the Family
The Inside Story of the Jersey Murders
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
On the beautiful island of Jersey, the wealthy Newall family were the epitome of success; Roderick, the eldest son, was a handsome Royal Green Jackets lieutenant, his younger brother, Mark, was a financier. On the night of 10 October 1987 Nicholas and Elizabeth Newall went out to dinner with their...
by Henry Fairlie, Jeremy McCarter, Leon Wieseltier
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Henry Fairlie was one of the most colorful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term “The Establishment,” sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and caroused with Kingsley Amis, among many others....
by Jeremy G. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Style matters. Television relies on style—setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on—to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In this book, Jeremy G....
This Is Not A Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
Shoot First, Pass Later
My Life, No Filter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In this honest, no-nonsense book by one of the greatest American stars the NHL has ever known, Jeremy Roenick showcases his skill as a hockey storyteller In his one-of-a-kind way, Roenick shares stories from his 20-year career with the Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los...
Blackwater
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
The groundbreaking bestselling expose of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's name.
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree,...
Dr James Barry
A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club
The Times Book of the Week
Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military...
by Jeremy Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
BOSTON IS IN RUINS
Jon Hudson, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal division, is haunted by Boston’s destruction at the hands of Nemesis, a three-hundred-foot tall monster with the heart of a murdered little girl, Maigo. In the time since Boston fell...
Air Power
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars...
The Stone Crusher
The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build...