Erika: 836 books
Angel Island
Immigrant Gateway to America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this was the real gateway to the United...
A Chick in the Cockpit
My Life Up in the Air
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard your flight. As you step onto my aircraft, take a quick glance into the cockpit. Yep, that’s me sitting in the captains’ seat, and that’s my first officer laughing about how he accidentally locked himself out of his hotel room. Naked. Again.We’re both a...
The Party of Your Life
Get the Funeral You Want by Planning It Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The Party of Your Life is a lively, irreverent guide to putting the F-U-N back in funeral. This upbeat book will appeal to adults of all ages who want a send-off that reflects their interests, achievements, and taste.
The Party of Your Life will help readers explore the full range of creative,...
Fighting for Road Apples
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Author Erika C. Stevenson was just six years old when, after World War II, soldiers expelled more than three million Sudeten Germans from their ancestral homes in the Sudetenlands of Czechoslovakia. In Fighting for Road Apples, she tells the story of how she was indelibly marked for life as a refugee.
In...
by Erika Janik
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's...
The Importance of Being Little
What Young Children Really Need from Grownups
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**“Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and...
by Erika Johansen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 18, 2017
La emocionante conclusión de «La Reina del Tearling», una aventura adictiva que ha hechizado a los productores y a la protagonista de las películas de Harry Potter, así como a legiones de lectores de todo el mundo.
«Johansen es una talentosa creadora de mundos de fantasía, que logra...
The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Girls
All you need to help your daughter develop confidence, achieve self-esteem, and improve communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Raising a girl in today's world is more complicated than ever. How do you help your daughter navigate through her world of school cliques, confusing media messages, and pressures to be a "good girl"?
Newly revised and updated, this guide gives you smart and comprehensive advice on the trials...
The Conscious Parent's Guide to Raising Girls
A mindful approach to raising a strong, confident daughter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The tools you need to foster a positive, supportive relationship with your daughter!
Raising a confident, self-assured girl in today's world is complicated, but it can be done--with the help of The Conscious Parent's Guide to Raising Girls.
Inside, you'll find the strategies you need...
Bandersnatch
An Invitation to Explore Your Unconventional Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
IDENTIFY THE EXPECTATIONS AND LABELS THAT CRAMP YOUR SOUL.
Contemporary Christianity seems to be suffering from an epidemic of sameness. Uniformity. Monotony. Those trapped inside are often afraid to step beyond established norms and innovatively express themselves, or they simply don’t know...
Come Up and See Me Sometime
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
With Mae West as her ingenious guiding spirit, Erika Krouse introduces us to thirteen young, single, geographically and emotionally nomadic women looking for self-knowledge and trouble.
"I like to sleep with other women's husbands," says the narrator of "The Husbands" by way of introduction;...
Privileged Mobilities
Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris,...
Memorial Mania
Public Feeling in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of...
by Erika Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
It was a quarry that easily yielded a novel and much-appreciated variety of sandstone that we called grindstone. Then it became the seat of a developing quarry village. Methodists came; they built a seminary and then a college. The college grew, welcomed women and then black people, and became a small...