Gerald: 1985 books
Kopfsprung ins Herz
Als Old Man Coyote das Schulsystem sprengte
Language: German
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Noah, Lehrer und Single, ist frustriert. Der Schulalltag engt ihn ein und in punkto Liebe tut sich nichts. Gar nichts. Und er hat Angst. Denn seit einiger Zeit fühlt er sich verfolgt. Doch dann wird alles noch viel schlimmer. Ein Mann mit Kojotenschwanz und Cowboyhut sitzt plötzlich auf seinem Sofa,...
Rosy Is My Relative
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
“An ‘almost true’ tale” of a man’s adventures inheriting an elephant, so “lovingly embellished . . . you’ll almost wish that you had a Rosy in your family too”—from the author of the Corfu Trilogy (Kirkus Reviews).
When his uncle passes away unexpectedly, young Adrian Rookwhistle’s...
by Gerald M. Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This landmark 1971 classic is reprinted with a new preface, chapter-by-chapter commentary, and straight-from-the-heart observations on topics that affect the professional life of programmers.
Long regarded as one of the first books to pioneer a people-oriented approach to computing, The Psychology...
Hitler's Children
Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
“A mesmerizing, blood-chilling book . . . The contrast between innocent childhood experience, and the awful understanding of that experience that came with time, is enough to make you weep"
– Los Angeles Times
Göring. Hess. Mengele. Dönitz. Names that conjure up dark memories...
The Corfu Trilogy
My Family and Other Animals; Birds, Beasts and Relatives; and The Garden of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The complete trilogy that inspired Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu in one volume.
The tales of a naturalist and his family, who left England for the Greek island of Corfu—where they interacted with fascinating locals of both human and animal varieties—these memoirs have become...
by Gerald Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu, a Masterpiece production on public television: A naturalist’s account of his childhood on the exotic Greek island.
When the Durrells could no longer endure the gray English climate, they did what any sensible family would do: sold their house and relocated...
by Gerald Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Part of the trilogy of memoirs that inspired the television show The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s adventures with animals—and humans—on a Greek island.
When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts...
by Gerald Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A British naturalist and his wife acquire a menagerie of animals and set up their own zoo in this delightful memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy.
For many years I had wanted to start a zoo. . . . Any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first...
There Will Be No Miracles Here
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK
"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside...
by Gerald Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island.
In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against...
by Gerald Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Journey to South America on a search for endangered species with the author of My Family and Other Animals.
In 1950, Gerald Durrell set off for British Guiana (now Guyana) to collect native wildlife and bring it back to his Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the English...
Dispatches from the Eastern Front
A Political Education from the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
How does one arrive at a life in politics and policy? What happens to ones ideals when confronted with the reality that the only way to get things done in Washington is compromise? Who are the men and women who help shape our national agenda, and what drives their work? Dispatches from the Eastern Front...
by Gerald Rivinius
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
One man’s life story can be another person’s lesson plan for life. Gerald “Jerry” Rivinius spent more than 40 years in retail in several states, from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains. In his memoir, “Crazy Days,” he shares those life-long experiences with others who can relate to...
Negro Comrades of the Crown
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against...