Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
by David Venable
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The beloved host of QVC’s In the Kitchen with David is back with a brand-new cookbook featuring 110 comfort food recipes that save on time—without skimping on flavor.
Time is the one thing everybody wants—and the one thing nobody has enough of. Time to spend with your family, time to...
The Taste of Conquest
The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize;...
Everyday Barbecue
At Home with America's Favorite Pitmaster: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
“Barbecue is a simple food. Don’t mess it up.”
As the winningest man in barbecue, a New York Times bestselling cookbook author, and a judge on the hit show BBQ Pitmasters on Discovery’s Destination America, Myron Mixon knows more about smoking meat than any man alive. And now he’s...
I Do It with the Lights On
And 10 More Discoveries on the Road to a Blissfully Shame-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
From the star of TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life and the YouTube sensation “A Fat Girl Dancing” comes an empowering memoir about letting go of your limitations and living the life you deserve. Right now.
Whitney Way Thore stands five feet two inches tall and weighs well over three hundred...
You Are Your Own Gym
The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
**From an elite Special Operations physical trainer, an ingeniously simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere program for getting into amazing shape
For men and women of all athletic abilities!**
As the demand for Special Operations military forces has grown over the last decade, elite trainer...
Delivered from Distraction
Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
“If you read only one book about attention deficit disorder, it should be Delivered from Distraction.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder....
Jumpstart to Skinny
The Simple 3-Week Plan for Supercharged Weight Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 21 DAYS!
In The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC’s The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weight loss and “thin maintenance.” But what if you have a big event looming—a...
Zero Belly Diet
Lose Up to 16 lbs. in 14 Days!
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Zero Belly Diet is the revolutionary new plan to turn off your fat genes and help keep you lean for life! Nutrition expert David Zinczenko—the New York Times bestselling author of the Abs Diet series, Eat This, Not That! series, and Eat It to Beat It!—has spent...
Ambition and Desire
The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
From CNN’s official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleon’s heart—and with it, an empire.
Their love was legendary, their ambition flagrant and unashamed....
Mistress of the Monarchy
The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide and excerpts from Allison Weir's The Lady in the Tower and Mary Boleyn.
Acclaimed author Alison Weir brings to life the extraordinary tale of Katherine Swynford, a royal mistress who became one of the most crucial figures in the history of Great...
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Discovering America's Hallowed Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga,...
After Elizabeth
The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Many volumes have been written about the long reign of Elizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new work that focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in which England lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggle ensued to find her successor.
December 1602....
If You Survive
From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."
So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried...
Ancient Mysteries
Discover the latest intriguiging, Scientifically sound explinations to Age-old puzzles
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What was the Minotaur? Did a Welsh prince discover America? Did Robin Hood really exist? How does the Star of Bethlehem fit into the science of astronomy? Is the Vinland Map a fake? Can archaeologists use spirit messages to guide their work?
For centuries, philosophers, scientists, and charlatans...