Alexandra: 2078 books

As a society, we are geared to worship work and to treat it as paramount to our identity. When you meet somebody new, one of the first things you get asked typically is, "What do you do?" or "Where do you work?" While this commitment to a work mentality and ethic is excellent, it is not without its downside....

Jack is cajoled into a skiing holiday to accompany his best friend Mark's attractive but somewhat annoying younger sister, Suzanne. The location is idyllic, the log cabin perfect, but the sex is unfortunately functional and Jack longs instead to bed Janis, Mark's latest in a long line of ephemeral...

In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping...

When Alexandra Kuykendall became a mother it was the beginning of a soul-searching journey that took her into her past and made her question everything she'd experienced--and a lot of what she hadn't. The only daughter of a single, world-traveling mother and an absent artist father, Alexandra shares...

Un témoignage bouleversant, qui relance la polémique sur les victimes des violences conjugales, encore insuffisamment prises en considération par la société. " J ai voulu montrer le calvaire que vivent des femmes comme moi. Dénoncer le silence de ceux qui savent mais se taisent....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. “This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek “By...

Famed traveler and mystic Alexandra David-Neel, the first Western woman to see the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet, examines Eastern concepts of the afterlife in this classic study. The question of what occurs to the individual personality after death is fundamental to the human experience....

Recounts one woman's discovery of her ability to heal through contact with spirits and reveals how others can awaken this same gift in their own lives • Explains how reconnecting with our inner sense of joy is the first step in healing • Shows how to rid our life of the traumas from...

Après le meurtre de la famille impériale à Ekatérinenbourg, en juillet 1918, on recueillit, entre autres objets lui ayant appartenu, un coffret de bois noir, aux initiales N. A. (Nicolas Alexandrovitch). Ce coffret contenait des lettres de Guillaume II à Nicolas II, publiées il y a quelques...

When military intelligence officer, Col. Powe, is stricken with dementia, it quickly becomes a family affair. For more than a decade, it would turn out, Powe had been keeping a very non-classified secret from his family -- his wife had Alzheimer's. Daughters Michelle Powe and Alexandra Allred are...

Shipwrecked! Murder and mutiny in remotest Patagonia by Alexandra Pratt Published by Moriarty Press It's 1740, and a British warship is wrecked on a remote island in Patagonia. But that is only the first of Midshipman Isaac Morris's problems. When mutiny among the crew leads to murder,...

The Stories Non-fiction: The Sensibility Revolution: Why the rebels are now sporting white hair and wrinkles – and why they are history’s greatest rebels. Bonus, Non-fiction: The View from the Sparrow’s Nest: How to create everyday magic with persistence, patience, bravery, creativity, and a...

4 character-driven short mysteries set in frontier Canada and steeped in whimsy **From award-winning author Alexandra Amor** Over 350 pages of quirky charm and old-fashioned values, with some modern themes for good measure, the Town Called Horse short mystery collection is the love child...

With her 25th book, lifestyle philosopher Alexandra Stoddard offers simple steps for taking charge of your life—your way. In brief essays filled with useful examples and optimism, she reveals 50 choices you can make to live joyfully in pursuit of what is true, good, and beautiful. Her essays help...