Birmingham: 111 books
"Our Crowd"
The Great Jewish Families of New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America
They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side...
Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves
Featuring Over 150 Suicidal Pets!
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS.
SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS
A LITTLE TOO MUCH.
Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere...
Strong in the Rain
Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Blending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it. Following the narratives of six individuals, the book traces the shape...
The Late John Marquand
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Late John Marquand is an engrossing and well-studied literary biography of one of twentieth century America’s finest writers of fiction, by the bestselling protégé who took up his mantle.
by David Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. It remains the standard single-volume work on Portugal, studying the effects of the...
by John Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an exhilarating new urban fantasy series featuring monster-slayerDave Hooper and his magical splitting maul.
Kids, there are no monsters under the bed. They’re in the front yard.
As a hardworking monster-slayer, Dave Hooper tries not to...
by John Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes a heart-pounding new urban fantasy series featuring monster slayerDave Hooper and his magical splitting maul.
When you drop a monster-killer on the Strip, all bets are off.
Holed up in Las Vegas after the tumultuous Battle of New Orleans,...
by John Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Can a bunch of hapless losers hope to defeat such an unholy alliance?
When JB and his flatmates took in the new guy, they had their doubts. The Celine Dion albums, the fluffy hordes of stuffed animals and the plastic-covered floral-pattern love seat should have set their threat detectors singing....
Stalin's Hammer: Cairo
A Novel of the Axis of Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The future vs the past. F22 Raptors vs Zeros. Prince Harry (yes, that Prince Harry) vs Hitler and Stalin. Ten years ago a powerful Allied battle fleet was sucked into a wormhole and thrown back into World War Two. History was blown apart. The Soviet Union now controls half of Europe and supreme dictator...
A Protocol for Monsters
Dave vs the Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The hugely anticipated companion volume to Emergence, the story of Dave Hooper's superhero embiggening. When an oil rig drills too deep under the Gulf of Mexico it breaks the capstone separating our world from the UnderRealms - home to monsters, daemons and dark magiks. The nightmares of our long...
The Cruel Stars
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
With a ruthless sect of humanity intent on wiping out their species, five intrepid heroes must think like their enemies in this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica.
“Frenetic action viewed in a black fun-house mirror.”—Kirkus Reviews
The galaxy...
California Rich
The Lives, the Times, the Scandals, and the Fortunes of the Men & Women Who Made & Kept California's Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
California Rich is the entertaining and scandal-filled look inside the lives of the Golden State’s moneyed elite.
Using Research Instruments
A Guide for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Clear, accessible and practical, this guide introduces the first-time researcher to the various instruments used in social research. It assesses a broad range of research instruments - from the well-established to the innovative - enabling readers to decide which are particularly well suited to their...
by Walt Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Oscar is a guardian angel tasked with the care and later the guidance of a somewhat incorrigible character, Walt. Whom he tries with only limited success to lead down a straight and narrow path. Blessed with the patience and character of, well, an angel, he will need all his talents to accomplish...