Alexandra: 2078 books
Sophia Tolstoy
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded...
by Kesia Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
short story: a middle aged man reminisces on his secret high school love.
by Alexandra Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A lively look at the English literary and artistic responses to the weather from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Keats and Ian McEwan
In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness England’s cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a...
by Alexandra Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
How does distance healing work? If you have a concept of how a smart phone works you can understand how distance healing works. There is no cord connecting you to the other person, but the evidence is there because you are having a conversation on your phone. We are connected through the sea of quantum...
by Alexandra Walsham
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier...
by Alexandra Grashkina-Hristov
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK This book includes a collection of essays and one short story ("The Simplest Thing in the World"). The first edition of the book was published by The World Publishing Company in 1969, The revised edition in 1975 added the essay "Art and Cognition. This was the first book Rand...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The Stories Fiction: The Case of the Status Woe: The Author must solve the mystery of time and space one small step for an author, and one giant putting her foot down on the ground for authorkind!
Bonus, Non-fiction: The View from the Sparrow’s Nest: Ideology’s true intentions and how...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
by Cassie Alexandra
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 14, 2018
La studentessa ventunenne universitaria, Adriana Nikolas, non sa cosa fare con Raptor, il motociclista sexy che sembra ossessionato dal voler far sesso con lei. Figo o meno, fin dal primo incontro capisce che è pericoloso, sia dentro che fuori dal letto.
Quello che vuole Raptor, Raptor lo...
People of the Volcano
Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon—to the city of Arequipa and its airport,...
Our Stories, Our Voices
21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including...
Sneaking Into the Flying Circus
How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Alexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and of Diary of a Political Tourist, makes her literary debut with an intimate look at the frenzied and grueling underbelly of presidential campaigning and the puppet role of the media. Pelosi went along on the campaign...
Colombia
A Rosen-Cooney Travel Story—No Passports Required: Bogota, the Coffee Zone, Cartagena, and Tayrona National Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The country of Colombia, emerging from the fog of its violent past, has been shedding its reputation as a dangerous place. For travel, it is still a little on the edge, with many of the countrys sites as yet undiscovered by tourists. In this travelogue, author Alexandra Rosen shares her experiences...
Twenty-Six Seconds
A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.
Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he ran home to grab his video camera on November 22, 1963 that this single spontaneous decision would change his family's...