Burns: 965 books
Taming the Wicked Wulfe
The Rogue Agents, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Rebekah is forced into a proxy marriage to a man she despises for the sake of her orphaned niece and nephew. Her new husband, Thorn Wulfe, holds the key to all the secrets of her long-buried past.
Thorn, considered the Wicked Wulfe by many of the ton, operates one of London’s most notorious...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The second volume of Burns’s acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government...
The Three Roosevelts
Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An “immensely interesting” account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).
The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt,...
Gilded Age Richmond
Gaiety, Greed & Lost Cause Mania
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Richmond entered the Gilded Age seeking bright prospects while struggling with its own past. It was an era marked by great technological change and ideological strife. During a labor convention in conservative Richmond, white supremacists prepared to enforce segregation...
Diving for Starfish
The Jeweler, the Actress, the Heiress, and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Both a history of fine jewelry coming out of Paris in the Golden Age and a tour through the secretive world of high-end, privately-sold jewelry, Diving for Starfish is a stylish detective story with a glittering piece of jewelry at its heart.
In the mid 1930s, in the workroom of the famous...
Wrapped in Plastic
Twin Peaks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed up to create a television show that would redefine what the medium could achieve in a one-hour drama. With Twin Peaks, the duo entranced...
by Rex Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
As in Volume 1, fables of the frogs to entertain children and adults. The sometimes wry, often witty short tales address issues of value and relationships in life.
Infamous Scribblers
The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and renonwned media historian Eric Burns tells of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Sam Adams-the leading journalists among the Founding Fathers; of George...
The People's Victory
Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
by Lord Byron, Golden Deer Classics, Christina Rossetti
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson...
Best poems from Best Poets - 1
Love Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That’s sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:
Till...
The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl
Real-Life Career Advice You Can Actually Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A useful and fun book for any woman who has ever wanted, needed, lost, quit, hated, or loved a job. Working Girl” (a.k.a. Karen Burns) has held a total of 59 jobs (so far), including housekeeper, cigarette girl, paper boy”, model, ditch-digger, bank teller, editor, brochure writer, artist,...
The Naked Trader's Guide to Spread Betting
How to make money from shares in up or down markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Have you dabbled in shares or the stock market? And wondered what spread betting was all about and whether you should be doing it? Perhaps you thought it all looked a bit complex or was just for City boys? Now here is a new beginner's guide that explains - in plain English - how to do it, and how to...
by R. M. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
My lesbian partner died suddenly in 2010. There was very little in the way of lesbian support and I had to seek comfort from the people in my lifestyle. I want to change that; hence, this book. It is a true story about my journey through immense grief. I have also included a poem I wrote about grief.