Nancy: 4645 books
The Oprah Effect
25 Ways to Find Peace, Happiness and Personal Fulfillment in a Post–Oprah Show World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Inspiring wisdom gained from watching Oprah Winfrey, the woman who changed her own life—and millions of others.
Oprah has contributed to the well-being of the planet in extraordinary ways by imparting heart and knowledge and overall belief in the ability of us all to continually grow and...
by Nancy J. Devin, Richard V. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
With Tiverton and Little Compton, authors Nancy Jensen Devin and Richard V. Simpson invite you to travel historic roads, to explore late-nineteenth-century life in town, on the farm, on the sea, and at leisure. The reader will delight in sweeping views of the Sakonnet River and the Portsmouth shore...
Wayne and Ford
The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today.
For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning...
by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
AMERICAN EMPRESS is the best-selling history of the dramatic life of heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of breakfast-cereal magnate C.W. Post, founder of the Postum Cereal Company.
As a girl growing up in the Midwest, young Marjorie Post helped glue cereal boxes in her father’s...
One Day in December
Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Celia Sánchez is the missing actor of the Cuban Revolution. Although not as well known in the English-speaking world as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Sánchez played a pivotal role in launching the revolution and administering the revolutionary state. She joined the clandestine 26th of July Movement...
Four Queens
The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone’s thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling—and shaping—thirteenth-century Europe
Set against the backdrop of the thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, troubadors, knights...
by Nancy Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
The Eleventh Victim, from former prosecutor Nancy Grace, is a tense thriller depicting a battle of wits between a lawyer, a serial killer, and the NYPD
As a young psychology student, Hailey Dean's world explodes when Will, her fiancé, is murdered just weeks before their wedding. Reeling, she...
Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation....
by Nancy Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Brilliant . . . a must read for veterans and those who seek to understand them."—Huffington Post
The Untold War draws on revealing interviews with servicemen and -women to offer keen psychological and philosophical insights into the experience of being a soldier. Bringing to light...
Afterwar
Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries--guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged-elude conventional treatment. Georgetown philosophy professor...
American Pandemic
The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American...
Making Men Moral
Social Engineering During the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German...
In Defense of Women
Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
From a “Human Rights Hero,” a memoir of her illustrious career litigating groundbreaking cases
In the boys' club climate of 1975, Nancy Gertner launched her career fighting a murder charge on behalf of antiwar activist Susan Saxe, one of the few women to ever make the FBI's Most Wanted List....
by Nancy Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Instead of talking about the rights of women, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own words-through letters and articles of the time-of adventure, independence, foolhardiness, failure, and freedom.