Frances: 2004 books
Women in the Middle Ages
The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.
Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial...
by Frances Mayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several...
Twilight of American Sanity
A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“Unravel[s] the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment.” — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker
A landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic): Allen Frances analyzes the nation, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic...
by Frances Partridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora and Lytton Strachey was one of the most tortured (Frances...
Love Sick
A Memoir of Searching for Mr. Good Enough
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Frances Kuffel wasn’t a Victoria’s Secret model, but she wasn’t so bad. Why couldn’t she find her Mr. Right? As Shakespeare said, the course of true love never did run smooth, but for Kuffel, it seemed like one pothole after another…
In this sharp and irreverent memoir, Frances Kuffel...
by Frances Smalkowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
What is it like for a person when all her dreams come true? Difficult for most to believe, for sure! But that is the story of Frances Smalkowski, CSFN -- nun, nurse, poet, very amateur guitarist/songwriter, psychotherapist, chaplain, spiritual director, and teacher. Imagine capturing some of the feelings...
The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) The Little City of Hope...
by Joseph Gies, Frances Gies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of this definitive classic on medieval castles, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.
“Castles are crumbly and romantic. They still hint at an age more colorful and gallant than our own, but...
A Medieval Family
The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies.
The Pastons were members of the English gentry—a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants,...
by Frances FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)
This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years...
A Year in the World
Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA
The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself—and her readers—in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Language: French
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, de son nom de jeune fille Frances Eliza Hodgson, née le 24 novembre 1849 à Manchester et décédée le 24 octobre 1924 à Plandome dans l’État de New York, est une romancière britannique, connue pour être l’une des pionnières du roman d’apprentissage pour...
by Frances Hesselbein
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
"Frances Hesselbein inspires people from all walks of life, from Fortune 500 CEOs to philanthropists, military general officers, young leaders, and nonprofit executives in every social sector. Leadership, she teaches, begins not with what you do, but with who you are."
--Jim Collins, author...
The Bee Cottage Story
How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Inspired by Frances Schultz’s popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house, Bee Cottage, what began as a decorating book evolved into a memoir combining the best elements of both: beautiful photos and a compelling personal story.
Schultz taps into what...