Collins: 3183 books
by Gloria Linda Lewis Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Gloria Collins was the fi rst child born in the U.S.A of the Lewis family, immigrants from the small country of Wales. Gloria, at the age of 18 married S/Sgt. George P. Collins, her high school sweetheart who had just returned from fl ying 25 missions over Europe during World War 2. They settled down...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? A celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa...
Warrior Mother
A Memoir of Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals that Heal
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother’s fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. When Sheila Collins’s best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to...
Gesammelte Krimis
Mysterythriller-Klassiker: Der Mondstein, Die Frau in Weiß, John Jagos Geist & Blinde Liebe
Language: German
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Krimis" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller. Er sollte zu einem der populärsten Autoren...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Today, readers enjoy Collins' intricate and suspenseful plots, and his penetrating social commentary on the plight of...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.
Born...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.
Born...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.
Born...
Scuttled
The Sinking of The Palmer Cay
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
“In some respects, Palmer & Cay was too good to be true—a great place to work with snowballing success. Good leadership, talented personnel, personal freedom, and generous compensation contributed to the overall success of The Ship. This is a story not of evil wrongdoing, but of runaway egos,...
Morning, Noon, and Night
Living the Creative Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
Creativity is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out the corners of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest and to which we cannot give a name. When I was young, I heard the voice, the ticking, had the dream,...
Mania
The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory...
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs
The Making of a Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger,...
Great by Choice
Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories,...
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book...