Barbara: 8138 books

A black woman and single mum, starting over. A white man who wants something more. Will they take a chance on each other? Everyting gonna be alright? London, 1960. Rose is looking for a new start. Thousands of miles away from her Caribbean home, she scrapes together money to send for her children...

Whoever said opposites attract must have been talking about Kate Marlow and Barrett Fox. Her life's work was bringing people together, and his was tearing them apart. The pretty wedding consultant and the sexy divorce lawyer should have hated each other on sight, and—well, they did. But from that...

In De kanonnen van augustus, inmiddels een klassiek boek, beschrijft de Amerikaanse historica Barbara Tuchman het politieke voorspel en de eerste oorlogshandelingen van het bloedige treffen dat in korte tijd zal uitgroeien tot een wereldbrand, de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Op boeiende wijze vertelt zij...

Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American...

Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world’s most powerful military order, the Templars. At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years, the tragic...

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE? Where, and maybe more importantly, how do you want to live once you've escaped the 9-to-5? Barbara Corcoran has built her career on knowing where people will live even before they know it themselves! Now she turns her keen eye toward predicting...

How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all--at least not as the word is currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman,...

Die Stadt der Medici ist allbekannt. Aber was war vorher? Wie in einem Laboratorium der Moderne begann vor über 700 Jahren in Florenz jener Prozeß der Urbanisierung, jene bürgerliche Kultur, die dem Westen seine zivilisatorische Gestalt gab und heute das Gesicht unserer Welt prägt. Die Historikerin...

“If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you’ll devour the feisty and fun memoir” (Elle magazine) by James Beard award-winning chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch as she recounts her rise from her rough “Southie” childhood to culinary stardom. Celebrated chef...

She showed you the secrets of loving.  Now discover the secrets of living. Use the power of passion to live the life you've always wanted. Every day holds the promise to be wonderful. Every life has the potential to be great. Every person has the power to live each moment to the fullest....

所有的生靈都是共謀者 「如果母親和她的孩子這天沒有走這條小路， 那被擰斷的樹枝便會長得更粗壯，肥碩的蜘蛛也會活下來。 每個生命的軌跡都變了， 就因為你走了這條路，觸動了歷史。」 《毒木聖經》—— 一部「黑暗大陸」版《聖經》，一部以生態視角反思文明的重磅小說， 既是飽滿細膩的家庭史詩，也是磅礴銳利的歷史寓言！ 《紐約時報》「年度最佳小說」、亞馬遜「一生中必看的100部小說」、 歐普拉＆希拉蕊最愛的10本書、美國高中生指定必讀經典 ——小說家芭芭拉・金索沃代表作首度引入台灣！ 馬奎斯、昆德拉之後，你為這樣一部好看的經典小說等了多久？ ★創造出版神話，全美狂銷400萬冊，售出14國版權 ★名主持人歐普拉「千禧年以來最愛的10本書」 ★《紐約時報》「年度最佳小說」、《出版人周刊》「年度小說」 ★亞馬遜網路書店「一生中必看的100部小說」，讀者熱評逾3000則 ★美國高中生「必讀的26部經典」 ★雄踞《今日美國報》暢銷書榜逾2年半 ★作者獲頒美國人文領域最高榮譽「國家人文勛章」；被譽為當代美國文學最特殊的聲音、最受愛戴作家 【封面設計理念說明】 ◆封面由插畫家朱疋繪製設計，以精細筆觸描繪熱帶密林神秘、野性的氛圍。 ◆畫面精巧安排書中具象徵意義的㺢㹢狓、綠曼巴蛇、灰鸚鵡與非洲動植物，繁茂枝葉間有獵食者潛伏環伺。 【本書簡介】 這裡，是神祕未開發的蠻荒大陸，是康拉德筆下難以馴化的黑暗之心； 這裡，也是鑽石象牙黃金橡膠棕櫚樹之地，是西方貪婪之眼必取的珍寶與礦脈。 Bangala，班加拉，剛果語，指珍貴之物；當發音微異，指毒木，白色樹液含劇毒。當美國白人牧師對著非洲剛果人布道時高喊「耶穌是班加拉」時，眾人聽到的卻是「耶穌是毒木！」——讚美主，哈利路亞！因為耶穌會使你騷癢難耐！ 白人牧師堅信自己不講其他，只講真理和福音，但在這非洲紅土之上每時每刻寫下的，卻是一部「毒木聖經」。 一九五九年，美國浸信會白人牧師普萊斯帶著妻子和四個女兒來到比屬剛果傳教，欲在這片暗黑之地「拯救」非洲人的靈魂，迎來的，卻是一家人失序的開始。隔年，比屬剛果宣布獨立，突如其來的自由與生搬硬套的選舉制度，讓這塊土地上兩百多個非洲部族陷入了混亂；一年後，美國為了自身利益，隔海策劃了一場暗殺新總理的行動…… 蠻荒、文化、政治、暗殺的衝擊動盪，捲動了每個人的生命；自然中一物吃一物，人也只是其中的一種。危機悄然潛伏，瘟疫般的暴雨與嗜血的政治獵殺，在同一天展開…… 這五名被歷史與罪責俘虜的女性，她們的雙眼看見了什麼？ 該如何穿越命運的叢林，走出自己的救贖？ ◎五位女性的故事，是非洲的聲音，也是自我的覺醒 作者芭芭拉‧金索沃（Barbara...

Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world. After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says “don’t,” incorporating...

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of...

Barbara Hulanick has written a new foreward to her best