Barry: 2877 books
Dave Barry's Money Secrets
Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Did you ever wish that you really understood money? Well, Dave Barry wishes that he did, too. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing this book. In it, Dave explores (as only he can) such topics as:
• How the U.S. economy works, including the often overlooked role of Adam Sandler
• Why...
Lessons From Lucy
The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**In this “little gem” (**Washington Independent Review of Books), Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Timesbestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.
As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog, Lucy,...
by Dave Barry
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
"One of the funniest peole ever to tap tap on a PC."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Not since George Bush's memorable dinner with the Japanese prime minister has the Land of the Rising Sun seen the likes of a goodwill ambassador like Dave Barry. Join him as he belts out oldies in a karaoke bar, marries...
The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim...
City Lights
Stories About New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
With a poet's clear eye and a journalist's curiosity about how a city works, Dan Barry shows us New York as no other writer has seen it.
Evocative, intimate, piercing, and often funny, the essays in City Lights capture everyday life in the city at its most ordinary and extraordinary. Wandering...
Lessons in Humility
40 Years of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Lessons in Humility is the bizarre story of Barry Dickins' life as a teacher. He gained his Diploma of Education at The Melbourne State College forty years ago although he failed Classroom Management. He has taught Drama and Creative Literature to cherubs at a primary school and prayer-composition at...
by Barry Nicholls
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Deeply personal, always amusing, YOU ONLY GET ONE INNINGS is the story of thousands of cricket tragics growing up in the Australian suburbs in the 70s and 80s. As a young boy growing up in the 1970s in the suburbs of Adelaide, Barry Nicholls was negotiating the dreadful haircuts and unrequited infatuations...
The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head
Why Democrats Suck At Communication, And How They Could Improve
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
"Barry Eisler is this generation's tech-savvy new media incarnation of Graham Greene." -Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
By internationally bestselling thriller author and syndicated political blogger Barry Eisler, THE ASS IS A POOR RECEPTACLE FOR THE HEAD is a must-read for anyone interested...
My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old
and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Dave Barry isn't just funny. His wit cuts right to the core of life's absurdities. In "My Teenage Son's Greatest Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old" and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry, Dave shares his hopes, fears, and insights about his own stint as a father. "Most people...
Ten Caesars
Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)****—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives...
Without a Net
A True Tale of Prison, Penthouses, and Playmates
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Starving and certain that I would die in my dingy jail cell in Spain, I made a deal with God. I fell to my knees, promising to give up all drugs and criminal activities. I prayed out loud, witnessed only by the urine-soaked walls and huge rats that shared my cage. My desperation was raw and naked....
Piety & Politics
The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The Reverend Barry Lynn explains why the Religious Right has it all wrong.
In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, the Religious Right insisted that George Bush had been handed a mandate for an ideology-based social agenda, including the passage of a “marriage amendment” to ban same-sex...
The Joy of Living
Postponing the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The Joy of Living is a story that touches the soul and gives us heart-warming, fascinating and deep insights on the hard road from diagnosis to treatment and eventual survival from throat cancer.Barry Eaton, author and radio presenter, describes the careful preparations he made for his journey, using...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays
In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and...