Downs: 208 books
Letter to a Great Grandson
A Message of Love, Advice, and Hopes for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
''When you are a great grandfather you will experience something so much more powerful and meaningful than being a father or a grandfather, that you will look at the march of generations with new eyes.''
When his great-grandson Alexander was born in 2002, Hugh Downs suddenly gained a rare perspective...
Boss Life
Surviving My Own Small Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
****A Forbes Best Business Book of the Year, 2015**
**Winner of the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship****
When columnist Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business...
Why Does This Keep Happening To Me?
The Seven Crisis We All Experience and How to Overcome Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2002
I Can't Believe This Is Happening to Me...Again!
"Why does this keep happening to me?" is the question most commonly asked by those entering psychotherapy for the first time. Whether we can't stop dating the wrong guy or taking the wrong job, gaining and losing weight, or getting into debt, it is...
Sick from Freedom
African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking...
by Annie F. Downs
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Annie Downs is honest. She’s sincere. And she’s funny. In this two-book ebook bindup of her bestselling titles Perfectly Unique and Speak Love, Annie takes on two topics central to every teen’s life: how we see ourselves when we look in the mirror, and how we use our words in everyday life to...
by William Downs
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Cars and Capers takes a nostalgic look back at one man’s life told with reference to the cars he has owned and the adventures he has had in them, We all remember learning to drive and the thrill of passing the driving test and purchasing our first car. In his book William Downs takes us through the...
by Jerry Downs
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A book about remembering what we knew as children, why it was important to forget and how great it is to remember.I'm Dewitt Jones. I've made my living as a National Geographic photographer wandering around the globe seeing all kinds of wonderful places and meeting all kinds of extraordinary people....
by Graham Downs
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
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"Graham Downs opens the door to a fantasy world in his short story, A Petition to Magic, a world of emotions, trust, self-searching and enchanted characters that will definitely...
Heaven and Earth
Paranormal Flash Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Every purchase of Heaven and Earth comes with a free book! Make sure you read it to the end for details.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
Demons, witches, extra-sensory perception, possessed...
Declarations of Dependence
The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations...
The Truth About Our Schools
Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
"A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths about our education system that are all too often used to attack it. Melissa Benn again proves why she is one of country's most formidable education campaigners - and why the powerful should fear her.
Owen Jones, Guardian columnist...
by Hugh Downs
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
Hugh Downs, legendary broadcaster at 20/20 and The Tonight Show, describes how an endlessly creative childhood lead to his career as a radioman and broadcaster. Topics examined include: his father’s wayward attempt to automate their entire family home (down to the plumbing), a boyhood attempt to manufacture...
Stand by Me
The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s
Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started...
Speak Love
Making Your Words Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Through funny stories, Scripture, and a challenge that could help you change the lives of every person you see, tweet, or message for the better, Annie F. Downs explores the difference you can make when you speak love to others, to God, and to yourself.
Do you still remember a mean comment...