Owen: 1427 books
Thinking With the Blood
Scenes from Ukraine's revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This compelling short-read recounts award-winning author and correspondent Owen Matthews’ journey across war-torn Ukraine in the summer of 2014. But not only is this a professional journalist's account: it is an insightful and personal journey into the history of this blood-soaked land of curses...
Unseemly Pursuits
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
A deadly secret that won't stay buried…
It is the fall of 1896, and Miss Concordia Wells is hip-deep in the usual tumult of a lady professor's life: classes, clubs, student pranks, and the unending drama generated by the girls she lives with on campus. Complicating this normality is the new...
Unseemly Ambition
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #3
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
A murder…a missing boy…a secret society’s bold and deadly plot…
It is 1898, and Professor Concordia Wells has come to expect the hectic routine of classes, clubs, teas, and the inevitable student pranks at the women’s college. If only she could avoid the cantankerous dean, Randolph...
Beloved and Unseemly
The Concordia Wells Mysteries, #5
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A stolen blueprint, a dead body, and wedding bells….
Change is in the air at Hartford Women's College in the fall of 1898. Renowned inventor Peter Sanbourne—working on Project Blue Arrow for the Navy—heads the school's new engineering program, and literature professor Concordia Wells...
Never Sleep
Chronicles of a Lady Detective, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
An old flame…an assassin’s bullet…the event of the season….
November 1885
Although Penelope Hamilton Wynch doesn’t especially miss her estranged husband, she does yearn for the excitement of the old days, when they worked together on assignments from the Pinkerton Agency....
The Mystery of Schroon Lake Inn
Chronicles of a Lady Detective, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Missing jewels...a haunted inn...a long-held secret...
Penelope Hamilton Wynch, one of the few female operatives employed at the Pinkerton Agency in 1886, is sent to the Adirondacks to investigate the mysterious happenings at Schroon Lake Inn, newly renovated to cater to New York City's upper...
The Case of the Runaway Girl
Chronicles of a Lady Detective, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Lady detective Penelope Hamilton must navigate a labyrinth of 1880s politics, high society, and murder.
On a January night in 1887, trouble comes knocking at Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton's door in the form of a sulky young runaway. The girl turns out to be the grandniece of an influential...
by Jack Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Nazi dreams of conquest plus the greed of a Russian-American industrialist profiteer, partnered to swap munitions for gold at Jekyll Island, weeks before Pearl Harbor propelled the US into WWII. It could have worked except “Murphy's Law”, a crop-duster, a Redneck poacher, a society dame,...
by Samantha Owen
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Do you ever wonder about fate, or something like ‘cosmic balance’? Ru’thin’kanat should consider the possibility, because when she’s sentenced to death, the universe decides otherwise. She’s moved to an alien world where she must decide how she’s going to live her new life, if she’s going to right the wrongs of another world, and fight for her own life in the process.
Boudoir Lighting
Simple Techniques for Dramatic Photography
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Boudoir portraits are intimate by nature. The provide an intimate, private look at subjects and are intended for those who have a close emotional relationship with the subject-or in some cases, are made for the subject herself.Creating images that capture the romantic, sensual side of a subject requires...
A New Kind of Bleak
Journeys through Urban Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement...
Extra/Ordinary
Craft and Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount...
The Grammar of Ornament
A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts - The complete and unabridged full-color edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The complete and unabridged full-color edition
First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly...
by Mark Owen Lissick
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
The Inner Artistry of Outdoor Photography begins where all photographs have their origins – the photographer and the visualized image that comes from their creative inner artist. The book is an in-depth discussion of a creative process that begins with a visualized image and ends with building an image...