William T : 386 books

**"The reading experience of a lifetime ..."--The Washington Post The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians** In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans...

**A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award. ** In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on...

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective...

I discovered that I liked girls one afternoon that summer. I was on my way home after mowing a couple of yards, when I ran into two older girls from my elementary school. I could tell that they were far wiser than I was. They were very pretty and I was impressed, because they were both smoking cigarettes....

When we arrived all the customers and employees were standing outside of the restaurant on the sidewalk. The short order cook, with his white apron and his white cook’s hat, cocked at a jaunty angle, told us that a big black guy was in the diner and he had been using Kung Fu on everyone. He had...

After the local government made her shut the nudist colony down she decided to get her revenge by turning it into a summer camp for juvenile delinquents from New York City.I was looking forward to meeting some New York City hoodlums, especially the girl hoodlums. I assumed they were much wiser than...

Back then the big old house was heated with an old coal furnace. One of my winter chores each morning before walking to school, which was only one block away, was to go down to the basement and shovel coal into the furnace fire box from the coal bin. It was a big responsibility for a six year old boy.

Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry—an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher. Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of ranching in general—and Goodnight...

His wounds were nearly healed from the unfortunate beating he had suffered at the hands of an old blind man with his white cane in the bus station waiting room last month. He was still getting a hard time about it from the other officers. A sharp pain briefly crossed his forehead over his left eye....

The son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agents and with presidents and other high officials in Washington, facing the classic dilemma of a leader...

It's hard being a rookie police officer when your training officer is insane. A humorous story about what it was really like to become a police officer back in 1970.

In To Be and To Serve, Deacon William T. Ditewig explores the important topic of identity for permanent deacons by reflecting on the place of deacons within the local community and the universal church. Noting that “it’s all about relationships,” he takes readers on a journey through church...

That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its...

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.