Robert Butler: 67 books
Had a Good Time
Stories from American Postcards
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
For many years Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century-not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Using these brief...
The Longevity Revolution
The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term ageism” and made Alzheimer's” a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, and the growing number of people over age sixty-five.
Alarmingly,...
by Robert Olen Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana” (People).
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories...
by Robert Olen Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
**“A cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot . . . Butler’s elegant writing elevates the book.” —**Tampa Bay Times
In the first two books of his acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul,...
Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
Silent Night, Ring Out Wild Bells, The Three Kings, Old Santa Claus, Christmas At Sea, Angels from the Realms of Glory, A Christmas Ghost Story, Boar's Head Carol, A Visit From Saint Nicholas…
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert...
The Greatest Poems & Carols for Christmas Time (Illustrated Edition)
Silent Night, Angels from the Realms of Glory, Ring Out Wild Bells, The Three Kings, Old Santa Claus, Christmas At Sea, A Christmas Ghost Story, Boar's Head Carol, A Visit From Saint Nicholas…
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
This meticously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) Angels from the Realms of Glory (James Montgomery) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas...
Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales
The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F....
by Stan Trybulski, Wayne D. Dundee, Ron Fortier
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
BATTLING BOXING STORIES presents 15 of the most intense and hard-hitting stories about the puglisitic arts collected in one place and written by some of the best of today's new crop of exciting writers. The stories in this book highlight all types of boxers and all aspects of the sport, from amateur...
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
CONTENTS: A.A. MILNE 1. A Hint for Next Christmas ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 2. The Ghost in the Picture Room ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 3. The Kit-Bag ALICE HALE BURNETT 4. Christmas Holidays at Merryvale ANDY ADAMS 5. A Winter Round-Up ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 6. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle CECIL FRANCES...
Prejudicial Appearances
The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2001
In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories...
A Small Hotel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes this “fascinating . . . intense portrayal of the collapse of a marriage . . . [that] delivers a surprising charge” (Jane Smiley, The Washington Post).
An O, The Oprah Magazine “Summer Reading List” pick
Set in contemporary New Orleans...
Fair Warning
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “strange and finally beautiful tale about obsession and modern love” (Beth Kephart, The Baltimore Sun).
Fair Warning is acclaimed novelist Robert Olen Butler’s enthralling glimpse into a Manhattan auction house that caters to the shopping pheromones...
Tabloid Dreams
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
There are a dozen ways the American Dream can go awry in this “unrepeatable . . . tour de force” of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Washington Post Book World).
“[With] touches of Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, and Gabriel García Márquez” the Pulitzer Prize...
by Annie Roe Carr, Alice Duer Miller, Berthold Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...