Pamela: 2478 books
Rock Bottom
Dark Moments In Music Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1996
The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only...
by Pamela Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical community, and a way of seeing the world, Epicureanism had a centuries-long life in Athens and Rome, as well as across the Mediterranean.
The Invention...
Fast Times in Palestine
A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
For much of her life—like many Westerners—most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, she found herself thrown with dizzying speed into the realities of Palestinian life.
Fast Times in Palestine...
Only by the Grace of God
One Family’S Story of Survival During World War Ii as Prisoners of War in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Three siblings from the Philippines wrote down what they remembered about being imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II.
Pamela J. Brink, Robert A. Brink, and John W. Brink all survived the ordeal, but only one of themPamelais still alive today. She shares their experiences in this memoir...
by Pamela Horn
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1931 domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen. However, it was seen as the perfect...
by Pamela Horn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed. Pamela Horn sets the various activities enjoyed by the Victorians...
by Pamela DuMond
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
My name’s Annie Graceland.
Three things you should know about me: 1. I’m a Midwesterner living in L.A. 2. I run my own baking business. 3. I talk to dead people and I’m not all that happy about it.
When Dr. Derrick Fuller -- the know-it-all, self-help guru who ruined my marriage...
by Pamela Ditchoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Phoebe’s Way is the story of a Saint John Ambulance therapy dog whose unsentimental lessons on aging propel this powerful work of fiction from author Pamela Ditchoff. Phoebe’s cross is carried throughout the rooms of Mersey House, a nursing home in Safe Harbour, Nova Scotia. Each chapter represents...
Star Struck
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2005
Take a walk on the wild side...
Star Wood Leigh is star struck in life and love. A hasty secret marriage to rock 'n' roll bad boy Jimi Deed triggers a chain of events that changes both of their lives. Together they soar to the heights of stardom and explore the dark side of celebrity. As their lives...
Elvis Presley
The Man. The Life. The Legend.
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
That voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls...Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture when, at the age of twenty-one, he became the world's first modern superstar. A Memphis Beau Brummel even before he found fame, Elvis had a personal style that, like his music, had such a direct...
Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott
Song of Pain and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
This dual biography of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott tells the dramatic story of two geniuses who met at the Royal College of Music in 1911 and formed an unlikely partnership that illuminated and enriched the musical and literary worlds in which they moved. Gurney's poetry and songs have taken their...
Couture Confessions ebook
Twentieth-Century Fashion Icons in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Late legendary couturiers of modern fashion speaking eloquently about life, design, and inspiration. Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, McQueen—these names define haute couture, and long after the designers have passed away, their influence on fashion continues to be profound. In an exceptional...
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
(Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2019
Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling...
Bébé Day by Day
100 Keys to French Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
À la carte wisdom from the international bestseller Bringing up Bébé
In BRINGING UP BÉBÉ, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. She set out to learn how the French achieve all this, while telling the story...