Guest: 114 books
Second Lives
A Journey Through Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited...
Cornelia Guest's Simple Pleasures
Healthy Seasonal Cooking and Easy Entertaining
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Daughter of fashion icon C. Z. Guest and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, polo champion and heir to the Phipps steel fortune, Cornelia Guest resisted eating animal products from childhood because of her passion for critters.” When her mother became ill, her research compelled her to take the...
by Glenda Guest
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
After forty-five years in Sydney, Cassandra Aberline returns to her home town in the Western Australian wheat belt in the same way she left: on the Indian Pacific train.
As they cross the emptiness of the vast Australian inland, Cassie travels back through her memories, too, frightened that...
by Edgar A. Guest
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Fantastic Poetry
When you get to know a fellow, know his joys and know his cares, When you've come to understand him and the burdens that he bears, When you've learned the fight he's making and the troubles in his way, Then you find that he is different than you thought him yesterday. You find...
by Paul Guest
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“A Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way.”
—Dallas Morning News
Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest’s My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge...
The Shackled Continent
Power, Corruption, and African Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable,...
The Shackled Continent
Africa's Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the past three decades. Why? Robert Guest's fascinating book seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Using reportage, first-hand experience and economic insight, Robert Guest takes us to the roots of the problems....
The Tarnished Eye
A Novel of Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2004
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary People comes a gripping novel of suspense, exploring fragile family dynamics in the aftermath of tragedy...
Acclaimed author Judith Guest makes a triumphant return with this poignant and powerful novel that's sure to add luster to her reputation...
by Rigoberto González, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats....
by Edgar A. Guest
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The Best Works of Edgar A. Guest
A Heap O Livin
All That Matters
Just Folks
Over Here
The Path to Home
When Day is Done
Curvy Yoga®
Love Yourself & Your Body a Little More Each Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
“Finally. A book that puts our culture’s destructive body-shaming to rest and gives women the tools they need to forge a new, more loving relationship with their bodies.” —Linda Sparrowe, former editor-in-chief of Yoga International, and author of Yoga At Home: Inspiration for Creating Your...
Steps Toward the Mark of the Beast
The Christian's Guide to the How and Why of the Coming Cashless/ RFID Economic System
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Did you know that you will soon be living in a world where: There are no checks, coins or paper money? All your money will exist only as electronic ones and zeros stored in computers? There is an impenetrable wall between you and your wealth? There is no privacy? All buying and selling must...
by Judith Guest
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1982
One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore
In Ordinary People, Judith Guest’s remarkable first novel, the Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider...
The Last Party
Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of New York City’s most famous and exclusive nightclub
In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger...