Cook: 1663 books
by Kristina Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
From nationally bestselling author Kristina Cook comes an award-winning historical romance set in Regency England--first time in digital!All Lucy Abbington wants is to get through her first London season without losing sight of her true ambition—gaining some informal training in veterinary...
by Kristie Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Paranormal Romance by bestselling author Kristie Cook ** Mature Content ** Recommended for ages 16+ due to sexual situations and language
Discover how the Amadis began in this fascinating prequel to the award-winning Soul Savers Series!
While the land of Ancient Greece is plagued...
Then and Now
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
One of the greatest American singers and actresses of her generation looks back on a magical and turbulent life spanning a half century of theatrical history from the golden age of the Broadway musical to the present day.
A legend of the American theater, Barbara Cook burst upon the scene to...
Vimy
The Battle and the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
**#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2018 JW Dafoe Book Prize
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Runner-up for the 2018 Templer Medal Book Prize
Finalist for the 2018 Ottawa Book Awards
A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War,...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3
The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016
One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016
"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted."...
The Penguin Jazz Guide
The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked...
by Gary Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
'I was dissatisfied with the history of New Zealand we were taught at school... I always felt short-changed. I couldn't understand why the Maori accounts were not an accepted part of the past, part of a truth that revealed a deeper history.'
Thus speaks Gary Cook, who has made many intriguing journeys...
Running North
A Yukon Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1999
What happens when a woman and her husband move their family from New Hampshire to Alaska to train a team of purebred Siberian Huskies for the world's toughest dogsled race, the Yukon Quest? They endure thousands of miles of lonely training in the Yukon trying to avoid thin ice, wolves, and rogue moose;...
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion...
The Cultural Revolution on Trial
Mao and the Gang of Four
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to create the China that we know today. This spectacular show trial was a curious...
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays...
by David Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
First published in 2005, Understanding Jihad unravels the tangled historical, intellectual, and political meanings of jihad within the context of Islamic life. In this revised and expanded second edition, author David Cook has included new material in light of pivotal developments such as the extraordinary...
Hands Up
Or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
HANDS UP;
OR,
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF DETECTIVE LIFE IN THE
MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS.
Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky
Mountain Detective Association.
Compiled by John W. Cook.
A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West.
This edition features
• illustrations
• a...
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports
NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence.
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams...