Alexandra: 2078 books
The Astor Orphan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The Astor Orphan is an unflinching debut memoir by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, Alexandra Aldrich.
She brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family’s Hudson Valley Mansion; and...
by Alexandra Heminsley
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Gedesillusioneerd door het krachthonk en het geyoga beu besloot Alexandra Heminsley te gaan hardlopen. Ze koesterde hoge verwachtingen: de billen van een atlete, de taille van een supermodel en de snelheid van een gazelle. De eerste poging verliep niet bepaald goed. Zes jaar later heeft ze op twee...
Honoring Grief
Creating a Space to Let Yourself Heal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
If you know someone who has suffered loss and is experiencing grief, simply sending a card or flowers may seem insufficient. Many people are unsure how to comfort a friend or loved-one in times of loss. This special book is filled with inspirational wisdom, practical self-help for healing, and makes...
The Man Who Designed the Future
Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes.
A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama,...
by Alexandra Chreiteh
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Alexandra Chreiteh's Ali and his Russian Mother is at once an ordinary and extraordinary story of two young people in Lebanon. At the outbreak of the July War in 2006, the novel's unnamed young protagonist reconnects with her childhood friend and develops a little crush on him, as they flee the bombs...
by Alexandra Silber
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A powerful and luminous story of grief and coming-of-age and a beautiful tribute to the relationship between a father and daughter.
Alexandra “Al” Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long battle with...
Fantastic Stories Presents The Vampire Super Pack
Over 225,000 words of startling Vampire fiction by writers such as Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Robert E. Howard, Jay O'Connell, John William Polidori, and many, many more!
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthrall us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you’ve been waiting...
by Alexandra Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
In her second book, Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of Canada to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals-on the streets, by rivers, in museums, on playgrounds, in their own homes, in the ill-starred town of Lockerbie-Oliver reflects on issues of exile, memory and identity, while traveling back into her own past.
by Alexandra Onuf
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp in simple, unembellished compositions....
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Sensible Graffiti is the art of writing on your own walls -- what are the implications when you speak from the heart?
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism,...
Dangerous Science
Issue Gamma: The Paper Crown Fallacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Why paper crowns measure nothing -- but why people fight for the chance to wear one anyway.
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism, and Consumer-isms in 12...
by Alexandra Andrianova
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Paradox is generally understood as seemingly contradictory statements that may nonetheless be true. This exhibits inexplicable or contradictory aspects or it may be an assertion that is essentially self contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises.
In author Alexandra...
Neon Soul
A Collection of Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Alexandra Elle writes frankly about her experience as a young, single mother while she celebrates her triumph over adversity and promotes resilience and self-care in her readers. This book of all-new poems from the beloved author of Words From A Wanderer and Love In My Language is a quotable companion on the road to healing.
by Alexandra Zapruder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This stirring collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust reflects a vast and diverse range of experiences-some of the writers were refugees, others were hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos. The book offers the first comprehensive collection of such writings,...