Fred: 2346 books
by Fred Reinfeld
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A 21st-Century Edition of a Great Checkmate Collection! Ask most chessplayers from the “baby boomer†generation how they acquired and sharpened their tactical skills, and chances are a Fred Reinfeld tactics collection will be part of their answer. And now, for the first time, 1001 Brilliant...
101 Banjo Tips
Stuff All the Pros Know and Use
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
(Banjo). Ready to take your banjo playing up a notch? Renowned teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which banjo players of all styles and levels can benefit. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying audio provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including techniques, ear training, performance, and much more!
Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days
At Work with the Comic Genius
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
By the end of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had become the most popular actor in films, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. But no reporter had more access than Fred Goodwins. A British actor who joined Chaplin’s stock company in early 1915, Goodwins began writing short...
You Are Special
Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
The beloved host of PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, subject of the acclaimed documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and the forthcoming biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks, offers warm words of advice and encouragement, along with reflections on his own childhood
For...
Many Ways to Say I Love You
Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Inspirational words on parenting from the beloved PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, for new parents and those whose children are grown.
Fred Rogers has long been a wonderful resource for parents, offering their children entertainment and education through his enduring television show....
Historic Indianapolis Crimes
Murder & Mystery in the Circle City
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
From the 1954 “Dresser Drawer Murder” to the mass killing of seven people in 2006, the author of Forgotten Hoosiers chronicles Indianapolis’s dark history.
Hear tales from the Circle City’s murderous underbelly, from poor Silvia Likens, who was tortured for months by her foster mother...
Empty Casing
A Soldier's Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette went to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour of duty would be different from anything he had previously experienced. And it was. Doucette's tour quickly became an impossible task that took a huge toll on both the residents...
The Lions of Iwo Jima
The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys
Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units...
Flesh Collectors
Cannibalism and Further Depravity on the Redneck Riviera
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The acclaimed true crime author of Lobster Boy chronicles the brutal acts and eventual capture of two cannibalistic killers on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence met in a Florida hospital for the criminally insane, where both had been serving time for petty crimes....
by Fred Minnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Fred Minnick spent more than a year in Iraq as a U.S. Army public affairs photojournalist, covering the good, bad and ugly sides of the conflict. With a Nikon in one hand and an M-16 in the other, he accompanied combat troops on missions ranging from raids on suspected terrorist strongholds to public...
by Fred Vargas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2015
PREMIO LANDERNEAU POLAR 2015 «Fred Vargas ha alcanzado la cumbre de su arte». Le Figaro Littéraire «Una nueva demostración de su persistente capacidad para hechizar al lector». Libération Alice Gauthier, una respetable profesora de matemáticas de sesenta y seis años, aparece muerta en su...
by Fred Dubose
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the fascination with all things Civil War continues ever more strongly. With I Used to Know That: Civil War, snippets of history class will come rushing back as you recall that:
The mere election of Abraham Lincoln pushed seven Southern states...
The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military. Their aim was to build a new Army...
Dundurn Vietnam War Library Bundle
Guerrilla Nation / Indochina Now and Then / Cross-Border Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietnam itself. The three books in this bundle cover different aspects of the war and the region, from Michael...