Gene: 1036 books
So wird man Rockstar und Millionär
Mein Erfolgsrezept
Language: German
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Gene Simmons hat finanziell längst ausgesorgt. Kein Wunder, schließlich hat er mit KISS vor vierzig Jahren eine der erfolgreichsten Rockbands aller Zeiten aus der Taufe gehoben. Dass Erfolg im Rockgeschäft jedoch nicht zwangsläufig ein Garant für ein ausgeglichenes Konto ist, zeigt die Biografie...
Utah's Stolen Treasures
The Ancients Are Crying
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Utahs Stolen Treasures is a book that was inspired by three American Indian shields discovered by author Gene Covingtons grandparents in Wayne County, Utah back in 1926.----Using the discovery of the shields as a point of departure, Covington provides a multi-layered tale, based primarily upon facts...
Oscar Peterson
The Will to Swing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six...
The Fiddler in the Subway
The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable.
Millions...
by Gene Doucette
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Annie Collins is back!
Becoming an overnight celebrity at age sixteen should have been a lot more fun. Yes, there were times when it was extremely cool, but when the newness of it all wore off, Annie Collins was left with a permanent security detail and the kind of constant scrutiny that makes...
by Gene Carney
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to ôfixö the 1919 World Seriesùthe Black Sox Scandal. It has been touched upon in classic works of sports history such as Eliot AsinofÆs Eight Men Out, referred to in literary classics like W. P. KinsellaÆs Shoeless Joe, and has been central...
Beyond the Epic
The Life and Films of David Lean
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908--1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major...
With Their Bare Hands
General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division – men drafted off the streets of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia – from boot camp in Maryland through the final years of World War I, focusing on their most famous engagement: the attack on Montfaucon, the most heavily fortified...
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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The Slaves' Gamble
Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered diverse possibilities to slaves. In...
by Gene A. Sessions,
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this “pious yet...
by Gene Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
We all like stories. Sometimes we'd like something we could read in a few minutes while getting a cup of java at our favortie coffee shop or waiting for an appointment. This book includes seventy very short stories that fit that bill. Some may make you laugh, some may make you wonder, but hopefully all will entertain you.
Borges and His Fiction
A Guide to His Mind and Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichs, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing...