Brooks: 1783 books
Finding My Voice
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Blessed with one of the richest and most distinctive voices in the music business, Elkie Brooks has been entertaining people around the world since the age of fifteen - and even longer, if you count the weddings and bar mitzvahs at which she was asked to perform in her native Manchester as a young...
The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger
Performing Past and Future between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Nadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and...
2030
The Real Story of What Happens to America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Is this what's in store?
June 12, 2030 started out like any other day in memory—and by then, memories were long. Since cancer had been cured fifteen years before, America's population was aging rapidly. That sounds like good news, but consider this: millions of baby boomers, with a big natural...
The Producers (Songbook)
Piano/Vocal Highlights
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This fabulous collection features 15 selections from Mel Brooks' classic blockbuster that swept the 2001 Tonys, winning a record 12 awards including the coveted Best Musical and Best Original Score! The songs are in standard piano/vocal format with the melody line in the...
by Colette Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
An award-winning kaleidoscope of a book that "shocks and stirs the urban heart," capturing city life on the edge of the twenty-first century.
What kind of person is a city person?
This is a question of increasing importance, Colette Brooks suggests, as the city begins to spread,...
Valley Animals
True Stories about the Animals and People of California’s Santa Ynez Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The animals of Santa Barbara County’s Santa Ynez Valley are plentiful and varied. Some fly, some swim, some slither; others gallop, or trot, or ride in the back of pickup trucks. Some are wild and others domestic; some are workers while others are pets; there are prize winners and there are bandits;...
by Brooks Eason
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Brooks Eason and his best friend, Bobby Ariatti, live in the flatlands but love the mountains. They have explored the outdoors together for two decades, taking annual hiking trips to the mountains of the American West. This is the story of their first six trips. Their travels begin in Yosemite National...
Victors in Blue
How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Make no mistake, the Confederacy had the will and valor to fight. But the Union had the manpower, the money, the materiel, and, most important, the generals. Although the South had arguably the best commander in the Civil War in Robert E. Lee, the North's full house beat their one-of-a-kind. Flawed...
by Juanita Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders...
Era of Persuasion
American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
Pre-eighteenth century America was a uniquely pragmatic, utopian society—a new world in which the expectations of a new beginning brought by explorers, traders, and settlers often conflicted violently the Native Americans they encountered. In Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture 1521–1680,...
An Ace and His Angel
Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
This story was written by Herbert Brooks Hatch, Jr., one of America's living Fighter Pilot Aces from World War II. Hatch flew a P-38 with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, out of Salsola, Italy. Except for a brief deployment to Corsice to cover the invasion of Southern France, he flew...
London at War
Relics of the Home Front from the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The two world wars of the twentieth century seem so distant from us now, a lifetime ago, in a different age. Yet in London the evidence of these conflicts is around us, near at hand, in the many relics and reminders that are scattered across the fabric of the modern city. And, as Alan Brooks demonstrates...
The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland
A Journey Through the Center of America's New Food Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Portland, Oregon, is a city that’s screaming "Hey, world, check me out!" and Karen Brooks is its food-writing doyenne and ambassador. The Mighty Gastropolis is her insider's look at this exciting food scene. The book is part guidebook and part handbook, painting colorful pictures of the...
The Sorcerer's Daughter
The Defenders of Shannara
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The world of Shannara is brimming with untold stories and unexplored territory. Now bestselling author Terry Brooks breaks new ground with a standalone adventure that’s sure to thrill veteran readers and recent converts alike.
The mysterious, magic-wielding Druid order has existed for long...