Thomas French: 11 books
Juniper
The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists.
Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head...
by Thomas French
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The night she was attacked in her Florida home, Karen Gregory let out a scream so piercing that it carried for several blocks. More than a dozen neighbors heard her, but none called the police. By the time her body was discovered, thirty one hours later, the trail was already cold. The detective assigned...
Zoo Story
Life in the Garden of Captives
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
"This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for...
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories, Whodunit Tales, Suspense, Occult & Supernatural Stories in One Premium Volume (Mystery & Crime Anthology)
The World's Finest Mysteries by the World's Greatest Authors: The Purloined Letter, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Safety Match, The Black Hand, The Rope of Fear, Number 13, The Birth-Mark…
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
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The Book That Made Me
A Collection of 32 Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.
What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they...
Philosophy and Poetry
Continental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...
by Gill Paul, Claudia Carroll, Beth Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Love Valentine’s or hate it, we have a story for everyone. **A 272 page ebook short story collection** From heart-wrenching proposals to naughty little Chihuahuas; unexpected secret pregnancies to wicked love-potions; serendipitous brief encounters that change the hands of fate to bitter ghostly...
Honor in the Modern World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism,...
Well... It's Your Cow
An Anecdotal Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.
That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from that story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the...
Play and Performance
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from...
by Professor John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
`The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully...