Pearl: 495 books

Killing Time is a novel that's based on real people, places, devices, and events such as the newly elected U.S. President firing the FBI Director. The story combines technologies from robots to rockets and locations from Seattle to space, with wry comment on the contemporary social and political scene. The...

Katie finds a four-leaf clover and instantly her perspective of the world changesshell have good luck forever: her dad will stop drinking and her mom will get out of her sickbed. Bursting to tell her mother the good news, she finds her dad waiting to tell her that her mother has died. Katie is left...

Homeschooling began with energetic creativity and descended into boring, over organized drudgery. The Big Book of Homeschooling by Debi Pearl takes you back to the successful foundations of the home schooling pioneers. The Big Book of Homeschooling is the most entertaining, imaginative and helpful resource...

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether you’re designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI design principles, helps you choose...

To Train Up a Child, first published in 1994, began as a letter to a homeschool mother in answer to her question, How did you train your children to be so happy and obedient? Mike did not consider himself to be an author, nor did Debi possess the means or the knowledge to publish a book. They realized...

Historically, Christians have been divided on the issue of divorce and remarriage; many institutions and theologies coming down on the side that it is adultery to remarry while one's former spouse is still alive. This is consistent with the words of Jesus in Matthew and the words of the Apostle Paul...

Miss Rosa Fanthorpe knew that she was a catch. Not as a simpering, more-ringletted-hair-than-brains debutante, but more in the way that a thirty thousand pound fortune and being the only daughter of a wealthy business man can bring. However Rosa is determined to marry a husband of her choice. And...

Gamma2: a newly terraformed planet. Crashtown: a place created out of the shards and rubble of a crashed space ship. Titus: the lonely firstborn of Crashtown. Titus has only one friend: Bad'bot, whose attitude is to “steal, dismantle or break things", so the Crashtowners can't wait to...

The magical sequel to Pearl North's critically acclaimed debut novel, Libyrinth On a world light-years away, Earth is long forgotten, except for the knowledge protected in the vast libyrinth. But that knowledge was threatened by the Singers, who for generations beyond remembering have relied...

A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex assessments of Welty’s journalism, book reviews,...

"Robert Pearl, a well-known DBA in the SQL community, explains his holistic vision of a database instance that needs regular check-ups and gives the tools, scripts, and best practices he has collected over the years." Alberto Bolchini, Computing Reviews, May 9, 2016 Healthy SQL is...

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no...

Mental illness is very hard to classify and understand. Unlike a person on a wheelchair who you can see has a disability, mental illness is a hidden disability.This book is about living with a person with severe depression. It looks at the seven-year journey of uncertainty and anguish in seeing someone...

There is a reason for the existence of every single person in this world. It doesn't matter where you come from or what your history is. Growing up, I always knew there was something special about me; I knew I was not like most children; I knew mydestiny was different to that of everyone else...