Anita: 1504 books
Idols Behind Altars
Modern Mexican Art and Its Cultural Roots
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Art critic, historian and journalist Anita Brenner (1905-1974) is acknowledged to be one of the most important and perceptive writers on the art, culture, and political history of Mexico. Idols Behind Altars is her influential historical and critical study of modern Mexican art and its roots. It was...
Coyota in the Kitchen
A Memoir of New and Old Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This book of stories and recipes introduces two eccentric families that would never have eaten together, let alone exchanged recipes, but for the improbable marriage of the author’s parents: a nuevomexicano from Taos and a painter who came from Texas to New Mexico to study art. Recalling the good...
by Anita Lahey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Like the laundry that greets readers at the start of Anita Laheys astonishing debuthanging on clothelines and bodied out in breezesthe poems in Out to Dry in Cape Breton exist in a state of thrumming levitation. Laheys scampish play with idioms, her accelerated sense of traditional forms, and her...
by Anita Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In Pocketdoodles for Girls, Anita Wood gets girls doodling as only a girl can–about boys, clothes, sleepovers, friends, road trips, dreams, and more! Inside this fun activity book are interactive picture and word prompts that will encourage youngsters (and adults) to write, doodle, draw, and color...
by Anita T.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Albert Pujols is the type of ballplayer who quietly goes about his business, which in his case means putting up offensive numbers unparalleled in baseball history. Thus far in his career, he has been a better hitter than baseball giants Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Babe Ruth....
Koh-i-Noor
The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world.
On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the...
The Plant Hunters
True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth-...
by Anita Davison
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political tensions, and with war looming Flora Maguire wants to keep her family safe.
So when her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she's determined not to leave the investigation to the police. Flora has...
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this first collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire, and elsewhere.
Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some...
by Anita Brookner
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited...
by Anita Loos
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power—more relevant today than ever—can come in the most alluring of packages.
This delirious 1925 Jazz Age classic introduced readers to Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, who has become one of the most timeless characters...
by Anita Tsuchiya
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Lance Edward Armstrong, born in Plano, TX, on September 18, 1971, had a difficult childhood. His mother, Linda Mooneyham, was a high-school student with dreams of joining drill team and going to college. Instead, she found herself a newly married, 16-year-old dropout. Lance’s...
Death on Hold
A Prisoner's Desperate Prayer and the Unlikely Family Who Became God's Answer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did. "Forget him," the last line of the story read. But Burt wrote Mitch a letter and discovered a man more interesting and intelligent than the article revealed.
Burt...
The Wind that Swept Mexico
The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs,...