Alicia: 826 books

Structured like an old-school mix-tape, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately is Alicia Cook's lyric message to anyone who has dealt with addiction. "Side A" touches on all aspects of the human condition: life, death, love, trauma, and growth. "Side B" contains haunting black-out remixes of those poems.

Christmas – what does it mean to you? This little book is full of quotes about the festive season from many familiar and some less familiar personalities. There are funny, cynical, reverent, irreverent, reflective, thought-provoking and even a few controversial ones. With plenty...

Leonard Bernstein touched millions of lives as composer, conductor, teacher, and activist. He frequently visited homes around the world through the medium of television, particularly through his fifty-three award-winning Young People’s Concerts (1958-1972), which at their height were seen by nearly...

Do you second-guess your appeal? Are you in a relationship that is no longer working and havent found the strength to leave? Are you consumed with self-doubt? The answers may be yes, but the real solution lies in how you deal with the situations. Author Alicia Marie Rivers coined the phrase, You are...

The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd . . . Four rising star authors celebrate the love of the game with these sweet and seductive baseball romances. Trade Off by Elley Arden: Traded and jaded, catcher Ben Border is considering stepping out from behind the plate. Then he runs into former...

“Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture  (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she ‘studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking...

"What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror," asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche,...

Una villa lussuosa, sei ospiti che si incontrano per la prima volta. Un’estate da trascorrere assieme, come in una danza felice, incalzante e finale. Il romanzo forse più coraggioso e irriverente di Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, una delicata lezione di libertà, una commedia letteraria e provocatoria, di dolce ed euforica malinconia.

Some people do not believe in organized religions, others feel that they have outgrown the social conformity, there are those that neglect it until a holiday arises and/or for secular or non-secular reasons. Regardless of the many reasons people tend to stray from God, we are all still spiritual beings...

Why do women still earn less? What keeps them from achieving success, negotiating a good salary or, simply, assuming authority? Alicia E. Kaufmann, Professor of Sociology and renowned expert in gender issues, examines the familial, social and cultural aspects that condition the full development of...

'I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.' - Woody Allen Death, for reasons that are quite understandable, has become somewhat of a taboo subject in everyday conversation. Though it is the most certain aspect of life, it goes largely unmentioned until the day...

When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro’s revolution—the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin America and elsewhere—would soon be gone as well....

Christina has waited her whole life to make it big. And now she's ready-to be the star of the Texas Twisters, on her way to becoming the first Junior Elite all-around champion at the American Invitational. The pressure is on, and there's no turning back. But practice takes a turn for the worse when...

Louise is a beautiful young lady who has everything a woman could ever want or need, however Louise holds a dark family secret that is eating her alive. Find out how Louise deals with the secret that almost destroys her and her family.