Susan: 10531 books
This Is Getting Old
Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over sixty, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she keeps her reader fully engaged. Among the pieces she has included here are an essay on the gratitude...
by Susan Dunlap
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Newly promoted detective Jill Smith confronts a traffic circle homicide
After six months of perfect weather, the people of Berkeley, California, have forgotten how to drive during a thunderstorm. Newly christened homicide detective Jill Smith is on her way home to a chocolate ice cream dinner...
Retracing a Winter's Journey
Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In...
Against Interpretation
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never...
Skin Deep
Black Women & White Women Write About Race
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black...
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
New York Times Bestseller
Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about...
A Cool and Lonely Courage
The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War.
When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering...
The Soul of Discretion
A Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Susan Hill—the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards—returns with a gripping new novel, the latest chapter in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic,...
Overexposed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Edgy Manhattan shutterbug Rachel Solomon can't wait to escape her difficult Midwestern Jewish family of doctors—and her crazy, condescending WASP friend and photography mentor, Elizabeth Mann. Not so easy when Elizabeth marries Rachel's surgeon-brother, moves to the Midwest, and becomes the daughter...
by Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Doug Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
The Essential Parenting Guide- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED!
In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they're able to talk. The result: Baby Signs, the groundbreaking technique...
The Rise of Enlightened Sexism
How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics,...
Conversations With Seth, Book 1: 25th Anniversary Edition (Delux Ed)
25th Anniverary Edition (Deluxe Ed)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
In 1963, Jane Roberts met a spiritual entity named Seth. He spoke through her and the lessons he taught proved timeless and crucial. From 1968 to 1975, Roberts held an ESP class, during which she channeled Seth. Susan Watkins was a member of that class. The knowledge gained from Seth helped Watkins...
What Her Body Thought
A Journey Into the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In this boldly intimate and intelligent blend of personal memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, Susan Griffin profoundly illuminates our understanding of illness. She explores its physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects, revealing how it magnifies our yearning for connection and...
by Susan Tomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Have you ever wondered whether musicians notice the audience or are influenced by them? Wanted to know how performers might learn particularly difficult pieces? Thought about the terms 'old' and 'young' in reference to music?
Using the letters of the alphabet as her starting point, Susan Tomes...