Richard: 17762 books
A Burning in Homeland
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
A Burning in Homeland is
...a wonderfully written, crazily romantic story of intense love and devastating betrayal
...a stunning debut of a remarkably gifted young novelist
...a Southern novel that captures the beauty, madness and mystery of both place and time.
In what can only be described...
by Anton Chekhov, Richard Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
“Spectacular…This new Vanya has a conversational smoothness that removes the cobwebs sticking to those other translations that never let you forget that the play was written in 1897… One of the most exquisite renderings of Uncle Vanya I’ve encountered.” —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“Quietly...
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting...
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.
As various forms of social welfare were dismantled though the last decade of the twentieth century, many thinkers argued that human well-being was best served by a focus on potential, not need.
Richard Sennett thinks differently. In...
by A.W. Richard Sipe
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Who among us is ready to face death with eyes and heart completely open? Who among us is ready to account for all that we have said and done, for all our battles lost and won? Who among would have the courage to pause at the very fulcrum of life and death and carefully consider whether it is time to...
by Richard Hugo
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1992
Of Richard Hugo's Making Certain It Goes On, David Wagoner has written: "Richard Hugo spared himself (and us) no pains or joys in making the wonderful, vigorous original poems brought together in this single collection. His was and is a very important voice in modern American poetry."
Hugo...
by Richard Herley
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Richard Herley's introduction: Here are ten short pieces of non-fiction, some about reading and writing; most have already appeared on my blog. I hope you enjoy them.
by Richard Mead
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
A Discourse on the Plague Richard Mead, english physician (1673-1754)
This ebook presents «A Discourse on the Plague», from Richard Mead. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION...
by Richard Steele
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Isaac Bickerstaff Physician and Astrologer Richard Steele, irish writer and politician (1672-1729)
This ebook presents «Isaac Bickerstaff Physician and Astrologer», from Richard Steele. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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by Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
8 works of Mary Baker Eddy Founder of Christian Science, a new religious movement that emerged in New England in the late 19th century (1820-1910)
This ebook presents a collection of 8 works of Mary Baker Eddy. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected....
I Confess
How a Very Religious Catholic Boy Learned Dirty Words Sex and Celibacy Avoided Suicide Embraced Death Found Love God & Himself Not Necessarily in That Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Throughout his remarkable life, Richard Sipe has followed one simple yet demanding dictum: Tell the truth. He has done so as a priest, a mental health clinician, and a writer exploring the trials of celibacy and the tragedy of child sexual abuse. Today, Sipe is best known for his work with clergy who...
An Underground Education
The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew Ab out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge.
Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South...
by Richard North Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Richard North Patterson’s masterful portrayals of law and politics at the apex of power have made him one of our most important writers of popular fiction. Combining a compelling narrative, exhaustive research, and a sophisticated grasp of contemporary society, his bestselling novels bring explosive...
Dark Lady
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.
In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent...