Gerald: 1985 books
The Masquerade Ball of Life
Therapeutic Poetic Verse Reflecting Majestic and Mysterious Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
The Masquerade Ball is Geralds fourth book of poetry; its a collection of both poems and some expressions dealing with life issues. Like the first three books, this book again explores aspects of life that most people shy away from. Besides being a tool for dialog between mature adults, it dives into...
by Gerald R Stanek
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Seventy poems by visionary author Gerald R Stanek, bringing his unique insights and narrative style to free verse.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Grenadier Guardsman
Gerald Griffiths His Life and Military Background
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The record of military service of Gerald Glyn Griffiths, who served with the Grenadier Guards from August 1, 1961, until July 31, 1970 (discharged on July 31, 1973; service number, 23862933; rank, lance/corporal). For Crown and Country
Necessary Conversations
Between Adult Children And Their Aging Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
In this timely book, family counselors Gerald and Marlene Kaufman urge adult children and their parents to have direct conversations about the decisions that lie ahead as parents age. The Kaufmans suggest that families use their parents' retirement as the benchmark for having the first discussion...
The Velvet Lounge
On Late Chicago Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a...
Slavonic and Romantic Music
Essays and Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Gerald Abraham's reputation as an authority on Russian music has tended to obscure his deep interest in the music of Poland and Czechoslovakia, and of the nineteenth-century generally. From a lifetime's devoted scholarship in these fields Abrahams selected his best work to make up this volume (first...
Irving Howe
A Life of Passionate Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
A New York Times “Books for Summer Reading” selection
Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for History
By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century’s most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular...
by Gerald Kersh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
"How easy Mr. Kersh makes it all seem! How admirably he sets the scene, the atmosphere . . . very neatly done." - The Observer
"Three short, rough novels, hard-hitting, battering the emotions without compunction . . . Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody...
Carson Reno Mystery Series - The Beginning
Carson Reno Mystery Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Revised with a new format and new illustrations, these are the first 3 novels from Gerald Darnell's Carson Reno Mystery Series. 'Murder in Humboldt', 'The Price of Beauty in Strawberry Land' and 'Killer Among Us' are offered as one complete book. Follow Carson from the beginning and the introduction...
Operation Iceberg
The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Gerald Astor, author of THE MIGHTY EIGHTH, draws on the raw, first-hand accounts of marines, sailors, soldiers, and airmen under fire to recount the dramatic and gripping story of the last major battle of World War II.
On the sea the Japanese rained down a deadly hail of kamikazes. On land...
A Lifetime on Clouds
Text Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s, the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever.
Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his...
by Gerald Murnane
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape…From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape.
Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald...
by Gerald Facciani
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
“In the style of the great bards, Gerald Facciani’s thought-provoking poems evoke smiles, melancholy, and most certainly introspection. With emotions at times thinly veiled and creativity at times fully revealed, this is love, loss, and life at its best.”
- Suzanne Giesemann...
by Gerald Stern
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1997
"For over two decades, no one has equaled Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation at being alive."—Library Journal
The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog," named for a beautiful street woman...