Thompson: 3849 books

LEARN WHAT IT TAKES TO FUNDRAISE EFFECTIVELY A Guide for Board Members and Staff of Nonprofits New to Fundraising It would be great to receive contributions from more people, and it would be really nice to get a few big checks from foundations—if only you could figure out how to fundraise. Does...

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics...

In a series of three eight page magazines of poetry and illustration, Christopher May teams up with Alicia Thompson to create an exploration of the Tyrant: the inner critic that holds us back from artistic and personal achievement.This triptych explores the Tyrant in a series of contexts. First,...

***Moving to a new city is difficult enough. *** New town, new school, new people, and now Sam Jackson has to deal with...super-powers?! Can't a guy catch a break?! After being forced to move because of his father's new job, Sam develops amazing abilities shortly after he and his family...

Bestselling author Tracy Price-Thompson returns with another steamy novel, packed with wife swapping, down-low desires, racial self-hatred, and sexual swinging. . . . Kevin Lawson has a secret. This hard-charging army sergeant is drawn to seedy sex dens, adult bookstores, and kinky encounters...

A powerful collection of novellas by four leading African-American women writers, each tackling the terror of domestic violence. In Other People’s Skin, Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, along with writers Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper, took on intra-racial prejudice. The second...

Berlin Alexanderplatz, English edition.   Translation by Anne Thompson of Alfred Döblin’s masterpiece set in 1920’s Berlin towards the end of the jazz and music-hall era of the Roaring Twenties. Franz Biberkopf is released after four years in prison for killing...

“There’s not a false note in this powerful, beautifully crafted exploration of the trade-offs in women’s lives.” —People From National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes a moving family saga about three generations of women...

Ted Thompson's shrewdly funny and finely observed novel about a man who must reckon with the high cost of the good life. Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix, directed by Nicole Holofcener, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco, and Connie Britton. For Anders Hill, long ensconced...

A New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson’s mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large. Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People magazine “Pick...

Capturing the essence of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Gonzo” style, short story Mescalito details his dark and miserably comic first mescaline drug trip. First published in Songs of the Doomed, Mescalito suggests the nascent ideas and energy of Thompson’s seminal work on the ‘60s experience, Fear...

Welcome to high school high society hell. As if senior year at Weatherford Preparatory School wasn’t hard enough, sixteen year old Alexis Bardolph had to add school outcast to the curriculum. A new found notoriety following a family scandal, her lacrosse star boy-friend dumping her...

Brie is an ordinary girl -- or so it seems.  Inside she is a cauldron of emotions and struggles.  When she is confronted with an unusual challenge, she accepts it and begins a journey which forces her to rethink everything in her life.

Jill Thompson's award-winning children's series Scary Godmother—widely known from the Cartoon Network animated feature—is back with more entertainment for readers of all ages in this complete comic-book collection! This volume collects Scary Godmother: Ghoul's Out for Summer; Scary Godmother:...