Donald : 3901 books
by Donald H Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Marilyn Monroe's death has been shrouded in decades of deception, conspiracy, and lies. Donald H. Wolfe has written a startling portrait of the twentieth century's greatest film star that not only redefines her place in entertainment history but also reveals the secret conspiracy that surrounded her...
Some of These Days
Black Stars, Jazz Aesthetics, and Modernist Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament of the Jazz Age than Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson. Electric, charismatic, and unforgettable, both ignited the modern imaginations of cosmopolitan centers across Europe. Unabashedly themselves,...
One Tough Marine
The Autobiography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
“Searing . . . An inspiring story.”—Publishers Weekly
“This is the . . . powerfully told story of an exceptionally determined human being.”—Booklist
On September 21, 1962, U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen’s life changed forever . . .
During a...
When the Center Held
Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.
In the wake of Richard Nixon’s...
Scary Close
Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
After decades of failed relationships and painful drama, Donald Miller decided he’d had enough. Impressing people wasn’t helping him connect with anyone. He’d built a life of public isolation, yet he dreamed of meaningful relationships. So at forty years old he made a scary decision: to be himself...
Journey To Hell
Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good and the work was easy - or so he thought. Then the truth was revealed: he had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone
Selected Poems 1946-2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Throughout his writing life Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, and includes...
At the Broken Places
A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity.
As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agree with her trans son’s decision to physically...
by F Donald Logan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
"Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful."
- Thomas Head, Speculum
"For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials...
by Donald L Hardesty
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847. When archaeologist Donald L. Hardesty and four colleagues—a historian and three other archaeologists—turned their collective attention...
The Best Day the Worst Day
Life with Jane Kenyon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall
In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made...
by Donald Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
When Barack Obama became America's 44th -- and first black -- President, the world rejoiced. Obama remains the most popular government leader anywhere -- except in his own country. There, his approval ratings have plummeted, his opponents have thwarted him at nearly every turn, and his own supporters...
The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow
The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
“Wonderfully evocative… Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read.” — Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice
"Astonishingly vivid." —James Tobin, Award-winning author of Ernie Pyle’s War
The story...
The Teachings of Don B.
Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A wildly inventive and deeply humorous collection of literary delights by one of the great contemporary masters of the short story.
A hypothetical episode of Batman hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed.
A game of baseball as played by T. S. Eliot and Willem Big Bull de Kooning.
A...