Ted: 1458 books
Chasing the Rising Sun
The Journey of an American Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century.
Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun"...
Trophy Child
Saving Parents from Performance, Preparing Children for Something Greater Than Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Written for every mom who helps too much with homework just to impress the teacher and every dad who takes credit for his daughter’s soccer success, Trophy Child will give parents the encouragement they need to nurture their kids into who God created them to be.
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Our culture’s...
Pocket Kings
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A “highly entertaining” story of a frustrated novelist who finds fame, fortune—and trouble—in the world of online poker (The New York Times Book Review).
When Frank Dixon, a writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack...
by Pat Stanton, Sir Alex Ferguson, Ted Brack
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Pat Stanton is a Hibs legend. With his silky skills and natural leadership, Pat captained Hibs to three trophies and later went on to manage the team. Now this lifelong supporter chooses his ultimate Hibernian Dream Team. In Pat Stanton's Hibernian Dream Team Pat devotes a chapter to each position...
by Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
At one time every station in Chicago—a maximum of five, until 1964–produced or aired some programming for children. From the late 1940’s through the early 1970’s, local television stations created a golden age of children’s television unique in American broadcasting. Though the shows often...
The Columbia Comedy Shorts
Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood’s finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews...
Stan Without Ollie
The Stan Laurel Solo Films, 1917-1927
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Long before his momentous teaming with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel (1890–1965) was a motion picture star in his own right. From his film debut in Nuts in May (1917) through his final solo starring effort Should Tall Men Marry? (1928), Laurel headlined dozens of short comedies for a variety...
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows
From Shock Theatre to Svengoolie
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Although the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television, by the late 1950s, studios saw the medium as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had long been gathering dust in their vaults. As these films found their way to local TV stations, enterprising distributors...
by Ted Dalbotten
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
To Bear Witness is a series of essays plus other material having to do mainly with persons no longer living who have left an indelible imprint on the life of the writer, though he has known most of themonly through their work. They include among others Martha Graham, Ruth Draper, Isadora Duncan, Louis...
by Eric Luther, Ted Henken
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
The Critical Lives series takes a biographical look at pivotal, fascinating people and a critical look at the work and accomplishments that, rightly or wrongly, made them unique, influential, and enduring. Discover the events that shaped their lives and how they came to shape our worldChe Guevara...
Dam Busters
Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
National Bestseller
Foreword by Peter Mansbridge
“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and Mail
It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took...
The Footnote Historian’S Trilogy
George Washington's Boy, the Journals of Osborne P. Anderson, Lady Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Lights down to half on Anderson. Lights up on Brown standing before a noose. Lights up to half on John Wilkes Booth; he is standing in front of a Confederate flag. He is dressed as a Confederate soldier and holding a rifle. Osborne is standing in front of the Fort Sumter Union Flag. The figures of...
by Ted Riccardi
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return.
What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's “great hiatus” after his supposed death and triumphant return three years...
by Richard J. Sommers, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Ted Tunnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The fourth book in the Virginia at War series casts a special light on vital home front matters in Virginia during 1864. Following a year in which only one major battle was fought on Virginia soil, 1864 brought military campaigning to the Old Dominion. For the first time during the Civil War, the...