Beth: 2483 books
With a Little Help from Our Friends
Creating Community as We Grow Older
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker...
Condi
The Life of a Steel Magnolia
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
"One day I'll be in that house," said ten year old Condoleezza Rice as she gazed across the White House's expansive front lawn.
Of course, Condi made good on that promise. With poise and gracefulness?combined with an iron will and determination?rarely seen in Washington, Rice has...
Ladies Who Launch
An Innovative Program That Will Help You Get Your Dreams Off the Ground
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and to make the connection between starting a business and bringing creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness. The nationally acclaimed Ladies Who Launch program has enabled thousands of women...
Ghosts in the Garden
Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
?National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart’s new book is an enchanting midlife meditation on aging, identity, and memory set against the backdrop of Chanticleer garden in Pennsylvania. On the morning of her forty-?rst birthday, Kephart — a mother, a wife, and a writer pressured by deadlines —...
by Beth Teitell
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Short of spending every waking hour engaged in antiaging treatments, is there anything the average woman can do to shave even a few months from her appearance? Do any of the miracle creams, procedures, or magic potions actually make a person look more youthful? Does a woman have to worry about her...
Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Beth Lisick has a dedicated and enthusiastic readership. A member of the popular literary group, Sister Spit, Lisick has performed before audiences nationwide. She is dynamic on the stage, and audiences respond strongly to her work.
In 2002, Lisick was awarded a grant from the California Arts...
by Beth Hensen
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A fan's list of fun and historic facts about the Green Bay Packers football team.
William and Mary Brickell
Founders of Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Beyond the streets and buildings that now bear the name Brickell is the rich history of William and Mary Brickell, who worked alongside Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler to found Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Hollywood writer and director Beth Brickell has uncovered the history of this dynamic couple, from...
The Writing of Elena Poniatowska
Engaging Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Elena Poniatowska is one of Latin America's most distinguished and innovative living writers. Advocacy of women and the poor in their struggle for social and economic justice, denunciation of the repression of that struggle, and a tendency to blur the boundaries between conventional literary forms...
Gendering Radicalism
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying...
Truevine
Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.
The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia....
by Beth Ann Fennelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review).
With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable"—not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said...
by Stephanie McClellan, M.D., Beth Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Being "so stressed" has to be the most common description for a woman today -- no matter your age or marital status, whether you have a career or work inside the home. Stress is the gift of modern life that keeps on giving, because, even after you've gotten through a stressful day or week, the effects...
Jesus, Entrepreneur
Using Ancient Wisdom to Launch and Live Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
He didn’t work for money. He was willing to walk away. He invested his emotions wisely. He did sweat the small stuff.
Beyond work, beyond entrepreneurism, there is “spiritreneurism”—work that allows you to do well by doing right. In Jesus, Entrepreneur, Laurie Beth Jones, bestselling...