Kent: 1460 books
Have a Nice Conflict
How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
How to successfully navigate and prevent conflict
From the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success—he's his company's top revenue driver,...
Mark Twain for Kids
His Life & Times, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Nineteenth-century America and the world of Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, come to life as children journey back in time with this history- and literature-laden activity book. The comprehensive biographical information explores Mark Twain as a multi-talented man of his times, from...
by Kent Babb, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied
All 66 Books Explained and Applied
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Know Your Bible is a concise, easy-to-understand guide to God's Word-giving you a helpful and memorable overview of all 66 books. For each Know Your Bible provides data on the author and time frame, a ten-word synopsis, a longer (50-100 word) summary, thoughts on what makes the book unique or unusual,...
Great White Hopes
The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
In Sydney, Australia, in 1908 the brash and talented black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was an immediate storm of protest. Writers, including Jack London, and politicians feared the accession of the fearless and outspoken Johnson...
by Graeme Kent
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Boxing has a long and eventful history and its drama, excitement and humor are covered in this fascinating account of the noble—and sometimes ignoble—art all over the world. It covers the bare-knuckle days when the Duke of Cumberland callously abandoned his protégé Jack Broughton when the latter...
The You I've Always Dreamed Of
Finding Family, #3
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
He's having a hard time minding his own business when it comes to the one woman he's never been able to get out of his head…or his heart.
Eva Channing had no idea that a trip to see an old friend, to visit old haunts, to relive a past she'd been too young to appreciate and too inexperienced...
The Legacy Guide
Capturing the Facts, Memories, and Meaning of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
The ultimate guide and companion for anyone who wants to record the story of his or her life or that of a loved one.
Have you ever wondered about an ancestor you know only as a compelling face in a faded family photograph? Imagine discovering an entire book on this ancestor's life -one that...
by Kent Lamarc
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Everything seems cool when you have a hot girlfriend next to you. Men look at you with jealousy and water in their mouth, wondering what you have that they don’t. But it’s not cool when, inside walls, she’s a bitch dragging you down and destroying you completely, both mentally and physically,...
On a Sea of Glass
The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold...
A Certain Style
Beatrice Davis, a literary life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert, and Hal Porter, becoming a literary tastemaker in the process....
Brian Dickson
A Judge's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas...
by Elisha Kent Kane
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
In May, 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a "North-West Passage," or water-communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the north of the American Continent. No intelligence was received from him after...
Eva's Story
A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Many know the tragic story of Anne Frank, the teen whose life ended at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. But most people don’t know about Eva Schloss, Anne’s playmate and stepsister. Though Eva, like Anne, was taken to Auschwitz at the age of 15, her story did not end there. / This incredible memoir...