Bryson: 215 books

Life is simple when you are a rock living on the river. Yet everything can change when a magical gnome visits the river and offers this simple rock anything he desires. What will he become? How will he change? And will it make him happy? Read along and find out what happens when magic wishes find A Simple Rock!

“Have you ever been to outer space? Well, it’s a very beautiful place.” What if you went to sleep one night and realized your bed had turned into a spaceship? Follow the adventures of a young boy who flies off to space, becomes a space cadet and explores the galaxy with old friends and new aliens. Join us as we find out what happened on The Day I Went to Space!

“Do you currently live in a house? Then you are luckier than this mouse.” Join us for the heartwarming tale of loss, hope and new friends. When Mouse loses his home to a tornado, a group of animals come together to help him rebuild. Along the way he makes some great new friends and learns a lot about what it means to be selfless.

What’s the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors for...

Upon Studying My Exhalation by Bryson W. Hatfield   Upon Studying My Exhalation observes the progression of time based on the author’s own experiences.  Within these pages, he explores a range of human circumstances, beginning with the journey to a new city and...

Cosa significa crescere nell’America degli anni Cinquanta? Molte cose sorprendenti, se a raccontarle è Bill Bryson, il brillante autore di Breve storia di (quasi) tutto, che ha il dono di saper trasformare un’infanzia felicemente normale in un percorso di formazione irto di ostacoli tragici e...

Whoring Around, a novella in six stories. Prologue Blowing It Between Whores Dreaming of Glory A Sense of Propriety More and more we lunched at his tennis club. He had recently become its honorary treasurer. I remember an afternoon, with the washed blues and faint yellows of early winter,...

In Rage, Rebellion - A volume comprising three feature pieces: Backstage at the Revolution While the African National Congress was a banned organization in South Africa, and the white minority ruled with gunfire, the ANC theatre troupe Amandla toured the world. Amandla is Power. Every performer...

Brilliant Artists in Trio A volume of three feature pieces. Janet Baker, the Wind in Her Hair. Opera's Dame Janet, now retired from the stage to song performance, takes to sea on a yacht, the better to understand the rhythms of Elgar's Sea Pictures, of which she is already the world's...

A volume, four stories of Enric, his boyhood as a child undercover agent in the Spanish Resistance to Fascist rule after the Civil War. Fiction based on the true life of Enric Torres, narrator in the novel To the Death, Amic Hospice Enric, the boy of To the Death, Amic works as a smuggler for...

Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania. 1.Pride of the Crayfish Fleet. Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron. THE CRAYFISH I HOLD in my hand is forty years...

The Personality of War - A volume comprising five pieces. Dresden. Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden. For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things went right, for the destruction of a graceful city,...

Stories of Laughter and Lament, set among the filthy rich and the dirt poor, seven stories first selected and published by Penguin Books. Widows Charles Rand fell off his yacht, somewhere in the middle of the bay, on one of the first pale blue evenings of autumn. Later, the Coroner would be...

Feminist theory is a challenging and often deeply divided body of thought that raises issues which affect us all. In this, her third edition of the highly successful Feminist Political Theory, Valerie Bryson provides both a wide-ranging history of Western feminist thought, from medieval times to the...