Kate: 6210 books
by Kate Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on theTitanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views...
Human Croquet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a...
Because I Said So
33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In June 1997, Camille Peri and Kate Moses launched the daily website Mothers Who Think on Salon.com for women who, like themselves, were starved for smart, honest stories about motherhood -- personal and intimate stories that went beyond tantrum control and potty training to grapple with the profound...
The Obama Victory
How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In The Obama Victory,...
Bad Companions
Six London Murderesses Who Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book features the cases of six London women, each very different in temperament, age, and status, who resorted to murder. Their reasons were varied: in the case of the surly maid Kate Webster, sheer temper seems the likely cause; avarice seemed to spur Catherine Wilson to murder an estimated...
First in Line
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world—the vice presidents of the modern era—from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.
Vice presidents occupy...
by Kate Elizabeth Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans. Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American...
by Kate McCord
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
The author speaks the local language and has interviewed and conversed with hundreds of Afghans, both men and women. She listened to their stories and lived among them. And in the midst of all of that, she found Kingdom responses to the beliefs Afghani Muslims hold to be true.
Riveting and...
Ruin Nation
Destruction and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation...
by Kate Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during...
The Switchers Trilogy
Switchers, Midnight's Choice, and Wild Blood
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A special three-in-one edition of Kate Thompson’s Switchers fantasy trilogy, including Switchers, Midnight’s Choice, and Wild Blood
In Switchers, thirteen-year-old Tess has a secret power—and it just might save the world from disaster.She is a Switcher, able to change into any animal...
Pajama Mom Drives Again
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This is the unfortunately true story of Pajama Mom, a desperate woman just trying to get her kids to school, while trying to steer clear of her arch nemesis, Perfect Mom.
Pajama Mom Drives Again is a humorous 950 word essay.
by Kate Zambreno
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order―pretending an objectivity where...
The Sisters
A gripping story of dark family secrets from the bestselling author
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Wealth and privilege can't buy you love... or keep your secrets safe.
The de Santoval sisters are heiresses to a glamorous fashion house, and the darlings of LA society.
Violetta is the hottest reality TV star of the moment, with a fierce press interest to rival Hollywood's A-list.
Carlotta...