Jones: 7670 books
Burnley “Rocky” Jones Revolutionary
An Autobiography by Burnley “Rocky” Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
“The life, work and activism of Rocky Jones are central to African-Canadian history and the civil rights movement in Canada. Canadians lost a great soul, with the recent death of Rocky Jones, but his autobiography — co-written by James Walker, a close friend of Rocky Jones and one of our foremost...
A History of Silence
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
From New Zealand's greatest living writer, A History of Silence is a moving and devastating memoir unlike any you have ever read before.
A History of Silence is a book about a country and a broken landscape. It's about the devastation in Christchurch, after the 2011 earthquake. It's about how...
Rifftide
The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists AssociationThe things that I have, I’ll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jones—or as the world better knows him, Papa Jo Jones....
by Gail Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019
The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their...
by Katheen B. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Kathleen B. Jones brings a scholar's insights and a lyrical voice to this philosophical memoir about her thirty-year fascination with Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century's most controversial thinkers. With Arendt as her guide, Jones recounts stories from her own life interwoven with Arendt's life...
by Stephen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
For twenty years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been recognized as the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Now, with one story from each year in which it has been published, from 1989 to 2008, representing the work of dozens of authors, many of them acknowledged...
A Radical Line
From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family.
Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil rights...
by Rod Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
In 1917, while the world is at war, Alma and her children are living in a sleep-out at the back of Mrs Lovett's house in working-class Footscray. When Alma falls pregnant, her daughter Molly is born in secret. As Molly grows up, there is a man who sometimes follows her on her way to school.
Anna...
Have You Met Miss Jones?
The Life and Loves of Radio's Most Controversial Diva
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
“Even though I’ve tried to wear glass slippers, somebody has deliberately knocked them off my feet. Because of that, I have walked the earth emotionally barefoot, and expressed my lack of self-esteem and rage in ways that clouded my judgment. I was a participant in a lot of drama. Didn’t mean...
Beyond the Messy Truth
How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—from the CNN host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” (The New York Times), now seen on The Van Jones Show
Van...
The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years
Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section...
by Isabel Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Discover Steve Jones: Secret of the Red Emerald(Adventure Book for Boys 9-12)
Are You Ready To Get into the Adventure of Steve Jones: Secret of the Red Emerald
Here is the Prologue
“Steve Joans-daring, bold, and a kick with the ladies.” The horse whinnied unintelligently....
Mastering the Game
Strategies for Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
There’s nothing more frustrating than playing a game without knowing all the rules. Lawyer and diversity consultant, Sharon E. Jones, can attest to this in her professional life. In her decades of professional experience, Jones has learned how to navigate the complexities of corporate culture and...
by Eliza Henry-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The much anticipated new novel - about how a family, and a rural community, recover from a terrible bushfire - from a stunning young Australian writer, Eliza Henry Jones.
A year ago, a devastating bushfire ripped Annie's world apart - killing her grandmother, traumatising her young daughter...