Julie: 4248 books
New Orleans Noir
The Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“Explores the dark corners of our city . . . set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . harrowing reading, to be sure, but it’s pure page-turning pleasure, too.” —The Times-Picayune
Residents of the Big Easy are proud of its unique history and character. Resourceful and resilient, they are...
Our Stories, Our Voices
21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including...
A Little F'd Up
Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Young women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They’re sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by their overwhelming apathy about important social and political issues....
by Julie E. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on their prowess as hunters of prized game to advance personal status, solidify power, and establish links with the historic battlefields and legendary deeds of their ancestors.
The Canal Builders
Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view
The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic...
Sold on Language
How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
As citizens of capitalist, free-market societies, we tend to celebrate choice and competition. However, in the 21st century, as we have gained more and more choices, we have also become greater targets for persuasive messages from advertisers who want to make those choices for us.
In Sold on...
A Few Good Eggs
Two Chicks Dish on Overcoming the Insanity of Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Insight and frank, friendly advice on overcoming infertility -- from two women who have lived through it all.
We are bombarded by images of blissful older mothers, such as Madonna and Celine Dion. But 'Hollywood' articles about pregnancy and fertility at middle age gloss over the tremendous...
O God of Players
The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College—a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia—made history by winning the first three women's national college basketball championships ever played. A true Cinderella team, this unlikely fifteenth-seeded squad triumphed against...
by Julie Behrend Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
“Growing Food in the High Desert County” is a comprehensive gardening book with emphasis on growing vegetables. The author seeks to help the high desert dweller cope with the problems of raising plants in a dry land. From practical experience, she learned that her familiar East coast gardening...
The Unprofessionals
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection Do the Windows Open?, is a triumph of tragicomedy. The book follows the odd friendship...
The Herbalist's Bible
John Parkinson's Lost Classic Rediscovered
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A lost classic of Western herbalism-rediscovered and restored with 200 full-color images.
Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson (15671650) was a master apothecary, herbalist, and gardener. Famous in his own lifetime for his influential books, his magnum opus, the Theatrum Botanicum,...
by Julie Clark Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Fresh, funny, and blatantly honest, Live in the Moment holds the secret to harnessing the power of the present. A practical book about creating one’s own life experiences, author Julie Clark Robinson’s words of inspiration will help you to create your own mental treasure chest. Live in the Moment...
by Julie R Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
While my husband and I lived in Uruguay, I wrote. Not only did I maintain our blog, “Because the World is Round...,” but I found myself composing poetry, to my own surprise. It was a contemplative time, and as I tried to identify what it was about Uruguayan culture that I found so beguiling, as...
The Other Catholics
Remaking America's Largest Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Independent Catholics are not formally connected to the pope in Rome. They practice apostolic succession, seven sacraments, and devotion to the saints. But without a pope, they can change quickly and experiment freely, with some affirming communion for the divorced, women's ordination, clerical marriage,...