Amy: 4691 books
Streetcar to Justice
How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Starred reviews hail Streetcar to Justice as "a** book that belongs in any civil rights library collection" (Publishers Weekly) and "completely fascinating and unique” (Kirkus).*** *
An ALA Notable Book
Bestselling author and journalist Amy Hill Hearth uncovers the...
Kicking Sick
Your Go-To Guide for Thriving with Chronic Health Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Has a chronic health issue taken over your life? More than half of us in the US are struggling with at least one.
Amy Kurtz gets it. Starting in her mid-teens, she endured two perfect storms of illness that progressed into her twenties. It earned her the label “the sick chick”—and the...
by Amy Clampitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
When Amy Clampitt’s first collection, The Kingfisher, was published, it was hailed as that rare first book that “signals a major poet in full bloom” (Los Angeles Times). Its author was sixty-three years old. Over the next eleven years, Clampitt produced four additional, major collections. Now,...
Ready to Live, Prepared to Die
A Provocative Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Are you afraid of dying?
Are you hesitant to talk with those who you love about your last wishes?
Do you avoid the tasks that help you prepare for the future?
Or, are you helping someone--a spouse, parent, friend, patient, or client--who is working through the issues of death...
by Amy Marschak
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
A collection of poems by Amy Marschak. They are simple poems that will make you think. Here's what other reader's have said:
"I just finished re-reading your poems 'Poetry for All Those Breathing' for the fourth time since I bought it...it is a fantastic collection..." ...
by Amy Stewart, Tim Folger
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. “But at the end of the day, we’re all writers . . . We’re here to play...
Renegades Write the Rules
How the Digital Royalty Use Social Media to Innovate
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Learn the rules to building loyal (and lucrative) digital followings
Renegades Write the Rules reveals the innovative strategies behind the social media success of today’s top celebrities, brands, and sports icons, and how you can follow their lead.
Author Amy Jo Martin is the founder...
by Amy Liptrot
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“It’s wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent … highly recommended.”—The Millions
After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s inspiring recovery as she walks...
Political Tribes
Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home
Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of...
My Fair Junkie
A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...
by Amy Jarecki
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Four award winning, first in series Scottish historical romances from bestselling author Amy Jarecki:
The Fearless Highlander: Against the odds, Charlotte Hill loses her heart to Hugh MacIain, heir to the most notorious Jacobite clan in the Highlands.
Knight in Highland Armor: Governed...
Telegrams and Teacakes
A heartbreaking World War Two family saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
‘There was no denying it, being cheerful was a challenge. You just had to be grateful for small mercies: a sunny day, a night without an air raid, an extra rasher of bacon from the butcher.’ England, 1942: 23-year-old Betty runs away from Bristol to make a new life for herself. Betrayed...
by Amy Lee Coy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
"From Death Do I Part" is written for all addicts and their loved ones, but especially for those who have not been helped by Alcoholics Anonymous or drug and alcohol rehab. Amy shares with us in such a way that not only is the reader engaged in her often gripping, always revealing stories,...
Arguments with Silence
Writing the History of Roman Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves. Amy Richlin, among the foremost pioneers in ancient studies, gives voice to these women through scholarship that scours sources from high art to gutter invective.
In Arguments...