Rebecca: 4598 books
by Rebecca D. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In 1950, Ann was eighteen and Bob D twenty when he asked her to marry him and hit the road for West Texas. They packed their station wagon, left home and began a life of adventure together on Conoco's West Texas survey crew during the 1950s oil boom. Five kids, twenty-one towns and thirteen years on...
by Rebecca Binno Savage, Greg Kowalski
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004
Since the 1920s, Art Deco, or "The Modern Style," has delighted people with its innovative use of materials and designs that capture the spirit of optimism to create the style of the future. Although the Detroit metro area is primarily known as an industrial region, it boasts some of the finest examples...
by Rebecca Tsaros Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Out of nowhere, three weeks ago, I picked up the phone to the sound of his soft, dewy inflection drawing out my name. My knees buckled, inflaming the itch at the back of my neck. He didn’t have to identify himself. I knew.
This man’s hands encircled my hips like so many chains of love.
Then he cleared his throat and said the thing: “I have AIDS.”
Rescue Board
The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board,...
by Rebecca Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2011
"Love's Falls" centers around a dying small town so eager for excitement that when a mysterious string of arsons begin to strike, they lay down arms to watch the burn.
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house,...
by Rebecca A. Goodrich
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
In 1943, Robert Stewart Goodrich tries to enlist in the Air Force to fight the Nazi onslaught. Rejected due to an irregular heartbeat, he gets his father, an Air Force Colonel, to pull some strings and get him in anyway. Bob, a tail gunner, has the second most dangerous position in the B-17 Flying...
Did You Tell Them Who You Are?
A Hoskins Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In the early 1900s, Allen Lewis Hoskins and his siblings left Leslie County, Kentucky, and moved to Mingo County, West Virginia. After Al met and married Lucy Patterson from Franklin County, Virginia, he never could have known that more than a hundred years later, members of his extended family would...
The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, Second Edition
Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This new and revised edition of the IACP award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal, through 150 new and updated recipes.
Featuring science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and...
Another Place You've Never Been
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Long-listed for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "A wonderful debut . . . Undeniably moving and emotionally true." —Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
Most of us have experienced what it’s like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it....
Successful Interview Skills: How to Prepare, Answer Tough Questions and Get Your Ideal Job
How to Prepare, Answer Tough Questions and Get Your Ideal Job
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Everyone at some point in their life will have to attend an interview. Whether they are applying for a job, a promotion, a training programme or even a college course, the fact remains that a questioning process will occur and the need to create a good impression is essential. Now in its fifth edition,...
Strategic Sisterhood
The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the march's male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings....
Burial for a King
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, riots broke out in 110 cities across the country. For five days, Atlanta braced for chaos while preparing to host King’s funeral. An unlikely alliance of former student radicals, the middle-aged patrician mayor, the no-nonsense police...
Kickdown
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order. But what she finds derails her: the Dunbar ranch is bankrupt, her sister is having a nervous breakdown, and the oil and gas industry has changed the...