Thompson: 3849 books
A Place of Refuge
A Call From God To Serve Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The vision struck like a bolt of lighting. Tom Thompson had to pull off the highway to avoid an accident.
His vision: an isolated rural farm where addicts could come and escape their lives, break free of addiction, and walk with God. They would learn to be sober and live out the scriptures...
by Renée Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Bird-watchers will love this journey back to the 1880s West Coast when vast populations of wild birds still filled the skies in annual migrations. But the birds were imperiled by plume hunters intent on personal fortune. This story of violence, love, and loss portrays the advent of the Audubon Society.A...
Teaching the Pig to Dance
A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee....
by Laura Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
AN EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FINALIST
**The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. **
It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created...
by Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
From the legendary journalist and creator of “Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern’s 1972 presidential election.
Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of...
Generation of Swine
The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.
Here, against a...
Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It
The Results-Only Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
Do you hate cramming all of your errands into the weekend?
Do you resent having to beg permission to watch your kid’s weekday soccer game?
Are you tired of seeing people who aren’t very good at their jobs get promoted because they arrive early and stay late?
There’s got...
by Flora Jane Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
In this book:
Lark Rise
Over to Candleford
Candleford Green
by Kevn Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
“This book is an essential tool in filling the knowledge gaps we have in being Agile on complicated projects. The other way to fill these gaps is through expensive and painful trial and error. From now on, I’ll recommend reading this book instead.”Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat SoftwareSolutions for...
Born on a Mountaintop
On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of...
The Canada Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“The Canada Exploration Anthology”, features texts from Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Rene-Robert Chevalier de la Salle, Samuel Hearne, Alexander MacKenzie, David Thompson, John Rae. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 7 books...
Learn to "Sell" and Stay Employed in Any Economy
Over One Hundred Proven Techniques for Sales No Matter What Your Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
No Matter what your career you can improve your ability to get hired or stay employed if you understand the sales techniques in this book!
Learn to SELL and Stay Employed takes you through real-life sales experiences and teaches you over 100 proven Sales Techniques.
James is one of those...
Working on the Dock of the Bay
Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers—black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant—in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the...
Kickflip Boys
A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys.” —Michael Chabon
“What a riveting, touching, and painful read!” —Maria Semple
“Fun, moving, raw, and relatable.” —Tony Hawk
What makes a good father, and what...