Stuart David: 111 books

Belle and Sebastian have been making music to critical acclaim since their formation in 1996. They have played hundreds of gigs and won a Brit Award; their music has been featured in popular films; and their unsettling, often surreal songs, delicate melodies, and alternative approach to pop stardom...

Meet fifteen-year-old Jack “The Jackdaw” Dawson, a young man with a serious plan. Daydreaming in class one day, Jack gets an idea he knows can't fail: an app that stops you from daydreaming in class. (Ahem . . . ) Fame, glory, and tons of money seem just around the corner. But Jack runs into some...

Peacock Johnson’s got an idea that’s guaranteed to make him rich, and a friend who’s willing to invest in the idea.But Peacock’s having some difficulty laying the groundwork for his less-than-legal enterprise. Local homicide detective Duncan McFadgen is convinced that Peacock is responsible...

Award winning poet, David Stuart Ryan, explores the impact of a return to home after a round the world trip which has lasted some years.The impact of half forgotten places and people comes across in new and revealing ways as he explores what they still mean.But the lure of travel calls...

You are now entering the second of 'The Seven Worlds' in David Stuart Ryan's poetry series. 'The Conjunction of the Sun and Moon' explores the relationship of man and woman in startling images, poems and themes. As with his previous book, 'The Sphere of the Moon Goddess', picture and...

The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe. Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these...

Fresh out of college, David Stuart put off graduate school to take a job close to his West Virginia home as a counselor at the Youth Development Center at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Known locally as the Morganza, the facility was founded in the nineteenth century as a farm for orphaned boys. By the...

The amazing story of the rise of John Lennon's group - The Beatles - to fame and fortune.David Stuart Ryan carried out a great deal of original research into the true background to John, speaking to many of the characters who helped formhis intense view of the world. This was backed up...

A review from the Book Exchange about America - a guide to the experience "The book gives an up to date impression of America often with an emphasis on the slightly off-beat. All aspects of American life are covered, from cowboy country to the burial of the unknown soldier from Vietnam in Washington,...

This new autobiography of Marlene Dietrich succeeds in bringing all the threads together that made up such a variegated life.You travel in time from a Germany that was emerging from the settled feudal order of medieval times into the mechanised horrors of modern war.Then on to the glamor...

Author David Stuart Ryan first spent a year in India in 1968-9 and has made regular visits back there ever since.This is why he is able to give you an informative guide, illustrated with dozens of original color pictures, to the places that most tourists miss.By exploring further, off...

It has been a long time in the making but now the illustrated poems of David Stuart Ryan are being made available, just as they were created on a year long overland journey to India and then return to London. The poems and original illustrations in vivid entrancing colours reveal the full magic...

Over twenty-five years ago, David Stuart began writing award-winning newspaper articles on regional archaeology that appealed to general readers. These columns shared interesting, and usually little-known, facts and stories about the ancient people and places of the Southwest. By 1985, Stuart...

Explore the vast country of Australia with poet David Stuart Ryan. He is exploring his own roots and discovering the very essence of the land, in all its strange beauty. Original color illustrations further bring out the altogether difference of the southern continent, long occupied by man,...