Susan James: 148 books
A Cup of Comfort Book of Prayer
Stories and reflections that bring you closer to God
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
When life throws us curve balls, prayer is often our greatest consolation. In A Cup of Comfort Book of Prayer, ordinary people just like you share the prayers that have brought them closest to God. From Psalm 23 and the Sermon on the Mount to the inspiring words of Anne Bradstreet and St. Francis...
No Future for You
Salvos from The Baffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler.
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...
Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603
Authority, Influence and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity,...
Signposts
New Directions in Southern Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more...
George Washington
The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man...
Strangers Among Us
Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness…
2017 Aurora Awards (Canadian SF&F) Winner
2017 Alberta Book Publishing Award Winner (Speculative Fiction Book of the Year)
2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Anthologies)
2017 Aurora Awards Winner (Best...
by Delilah Devlin, Elle James, Layla Chase
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
When it comes to love...Blue Collar is better!
It's time to set aside those sexy billionaires and enjoy stories about the everyday, even sexier bad boys you meet in real life. They may have dirty hands and wear tool belts and jeans instead of Rolex watches, but they're earthy alpha males unafraid...
by Susan Orlean, John Updike, James Thurber
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Only The New Yorker could fetch such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man’s best friend.
This copious collection, beautifully illustrated, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. The roster of contributors...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
The Three Roosevelts
Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).
The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt,...
USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."
--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014
Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog
Included...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
In the Shadow of the Towers
Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“Powerful and interesting” short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly).
How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly...
Barack Obama and the New America
The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible...