Michael Collins: 82 books
The Keepers of Truth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001
The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the Truth, the moribund local paper. He yearns to write long philosophical pieces about the American dream gone sour, not the flaccid write-ups of bake-off contests demanded by the...
by Michael Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Michael's close friend Tara just passed away, only no one from her family came to the funeral. So Michael, his brother Jonathan, along with a few friends from college decided to throw a remembrance party and pass out fliers in Tara's home town in hopes that someone close to her past would show up....
Death of a Writer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
For E. Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, and during his long convalescence, a novel is discovered hidden in his basement: a brilliant, semi-autobiographical...
Journey
An Illustrated History of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery-from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyager missions.
Human journeys arise from all manner of impulses, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity,...
Voices of the Bulge
Untold Stories from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
The powerful German counteroffensive operation code-named “Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine) launched in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought from December...
Lost Voices
The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
2017 is the 100th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America’s involvement but it cannot be underestimated by any means. It was the reason that brought Germany to it is knees and forced them to accept an armistice that...
The Fighting 30th Division
They Called Them Roosevelt's SS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and Georgia and Tennessee, they were one of the hardest-fighting units...
The Likes Of Us
A Biography Of The White Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Once they were portrayed as the salt of the earth. Nowadays, they take to the streets when paedophiles and asylum seekers are in their midst; they expose their lives in TV documentaries; they love Gucci and hate the Euro; the broadsheets cast them as xenophobes and exhibitionists and mock their tastes...
St George and the Dragons
The Making of English Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
St George's Day has become a topic of debate as more and more organizations promote celebrations on 23 April and more people wave the flag of St George to proclaim their allegiance and identity. But who was St George? How did this Near Eastern martyr become England's patron saint and an icon of English...
by Michael Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This book is concerned with developments in three main areas of monetary history: domestic commercial banking; monetary policy; and the UK’s international financial position. For ease of analysis the 160 years under study are arranged into three clear chronological divisons. Part 1 covers the years...
Problem Solving for Healthcare Workers
How to Get Better - Lessons Can Be Learned
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
While most healthcare facilities have an extremely high success rate at the most challenging lifesaving work and we all know of friends and relatives who have had supreme care, mistakes are still made and patients’ lives have been put at risk and lost.
How often have we heard politicians...
by Michael Collins, Earl Derr Biggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Charlie Chan, visiting San Francisco to make a speech, finds himself swept into one of his most puzzling -- and dangerous -- cases! A cult known as the Golden Horde is running a spiritual retreat, helping the disturbed and the depressed find inner peace. Benny Chan, who worked for the Golden Horde, is...
by Michael Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book is a journal or diary of a man who rescues an infant from a psychotic father who determined the child to be his threat and murdered the mother with poison while intentionally hiding his crimes from his family. Andreas Munch rescued the infant in question and raised another mans child from...
by Michael Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
the Tree is a story of a tiny seed that grew to be a great tree. This wonderful tree became a very sad tree, as it was fashioned into a symbol of suffering and shame. Still it again became a wonderful emblem, an icon to remind all men of our freedom purchased on this tree.
For over two thousand...