Hachette Books: 1744 books
Ballet Beautiful
Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Ballet-inspired fitness for every woman!
You don't have to be a professional ballerina to look like one! With Mary Helen Bowers’ Ballet Beautiful, forget beating yourself up in the gym and suffering through starvation diets for some unattainable goal. You can achieve your ideal body and...
Acting Techniques for Everyday Life
Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult, Real-Life Situations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Most people can name at least one situation-a business presentation, a job interview, a cocktail party, or a blind date-in which they felt uncomfortable, nervous, or simply self-conscious. Jane Marla Robbins, a successful stage and film actress and teacher for almost forty years, found that she could...
by Muffy Mead-ferro
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Parents who are fed up with the pressure to turn their children into star athletes, concert violinists, and merit scholars-all at once!-finally have an alternative: the world of Slacker Moms, where kids learn to do things for themselves and parents can cut themselves some slack; where it's perfectly...
House of Havoc
How to Make--and Keep--a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap Spouses, Messy Kids, and Other Difficult Roomm
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The cupboards are overflowing, the linen closet holds towels and tools, and your once tidy family room might as well come with a ringmaster. But that's called living, right? Wrong! Marni Jameson is here to prove that you can turn a hectic home into a haven-and do so without being voted off the island....
Marcus Aurelius
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Marcus Aurelius (121180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity whose life and words still speak to us today. His Meditations remains one of the most widely read books from the classical world, and his life represents the fulfillment of Plato's famous dictum that mankind will prosper only when...
The Patton Papers
1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
One of World War II's most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies' spectacular 1944-1945 sweep through France, Belgium, and Germany. Martin Blumenson is the only historian to enjoy...
The Thing You Think You Cannot Do
Thirty Truths about Fear and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
What are we afraid of and what can we do about it?Fear--of change, of intimacy, of loss, of the unknown--has become a corrosive influence in modern life, eroding our ability to think clearly. Exploited for power by politicians and for money by the media, it has become embedded in the way we think...
The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky
The Buddhist Path through Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can't Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor,...
Gluten-Free Small Bites
Sweet and Savory Hand-Held Treats for On-the-Go Lifestyles and Entertaining
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
100 irresistible one-bite recipes-for everything from parties to portable meals
You know those days where dinner is grab-and-go, but you're not sure what to grab? The older kids have a soccer game, a ballet lesson, the little one has a kazoo party, and they all need to be fed? Or maybe you've...
Cancer Is a Bitch
Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Gail Konop Baker was a runner, yoga practitioner, doctor's wife, and lifelong subscriber to Prevention magazine. But right before her forty-sixth birthday, she heard the words that would forever change her life: Just to be safe, I think we should biopsy. It was the beginning of her yearlong battle...
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus).
Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or...
The Quotable Hitchens
From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk...
The Velvet Rage
Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it
In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately...
Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included)
How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.
But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed,...