Gail: 1480 books
Cancer Is a Bitch
Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Gail Konop Baker was a runner, yoga practitioner, doctor's wife, and lifelong subscriber to Prevention magazine. But right before her forty-sixth birthday, she heard the words that would forever change her life: Just to be safe, I think we should biopsy. It was the beginning of her yearlong battle...
by Gail Louw
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Blonde Poison is based on the true story of a Jewish woman during World War II who betrayed up to 3,000 fellow Jews. Gail Louw’s powerful play examines the motivation of evil. Stella Goldschlag was living illegally in war-torn Berlin when she herself was betrayed and tortured. When offered the chance...
Slaughterhouse
The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years — particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation — have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the...
Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition
Gossip, Celebrity, And American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians...
by Gail Mazur
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
from “Mount Fuji”
A draughtsman’s draughtsman, Hokusai at 70
thought he’d begun to grasp the structures
of birds and beasts, insects and fish, of the way
plants grow, hoped that by 90 he’d have
penetrated to their essential nature.
And more, by 100, I will have reached the stage
where...
One Continuous Mistake
Four Noble Truths for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, One Continuous Mistake teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice.
In this unique guide for writers of all levels, Gail Sher—a poet who is also a widely respected teacher of creative...
The Black Calhouns
From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
“A history cum memoir by Lena Horne’s daughter tells the story of her forebears . . . eloquently conveys . . . how politics and prejudice can shape a family.” —The New Yorker
In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history,...
Dialectical Passions
Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical...
by Gail Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
“Gail Collins is the funniest serious political commentator in America. Reading As Texas Goes… is pure pleasure from page one.” —Rachel Maddow
As Texas Goes . . . provides a trenchant yet often hilarious look into American politics and the disproportional influence of Texas, which has...
Grief Cottage
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 (Top 10)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2017
Indie Next Summer 2018 Pick For Reading Groups
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail...
I Lost Two Boobs and Gained Two Balls
One Woman’S Journey to Finding Her Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
As a healthy fifty-eight-year-old woman, a cancer diagnosis rocked author Gail Rognans world. In I Lost Two Boobs and Gained Two Balls, Rognan shares how she moved from fear and doubt to strength and serenity. She offers a raw, candid account of how she grew a pair and found her voice, realizing that...
by Gail Grace Nordskog
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
You have a call on your life. My desire is to encourage you to live life in fulfillment of that call. Following the example of Joan of Arc, you can be inspired to live out your purpose in first hearing from God and then taking your stand in following Him. Just as Joan of Arc could step forth in full...
Peasants under Siege
The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail...
by Gail Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In the pages of this book you will read about a little girl who was raped at eight by her biological dad, hurt, rejected and demoralized. Although, in her mind, she had a legitimate reason to end her life, but somewhere deep inside her was a [never-give-up-spirit] so she continued to fight. She sold...