Harold: 1768 books
by Jan Harold Brunvand
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago Tribune
A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in...
by Jan Harold Brunvand
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic.
Jan Harold Brunvand—''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian]—tracks the most fabulous tales making...
More Davids Than Goliaths
A Political Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his father’s Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at...
by Harold Ivan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
A mother's death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother's last breath inevitably changes us. Drawing on his own experience of loss, as well as those of others, Harold Ivan Smith guides readers through their...
A Square of Daffodils, Capitalism, and Why Children Don’T Learn
The Story of Building a Wonderful, Loving Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Harold Doerrs life was shaped by many and varied forces. In this memoir, he shares the stories and experiences that helped him become the man he is today.
Using a three-part approach, in A Square of Daffodils, Capitalism, and Why Children Dont Learn, Doerr talks about the subjects most dear...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous...
Married And Still Loving It
The Joys and Challenges of the Second Half
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Long marriages are a gift… but they aren’t always easy
You know yourselves better. You’ve learned to cherish the small things. You’re past keeping up with the Joneses.
And yet, anxieties over grown children, worries about money and health, and feelings of disappointment can challenge...
The Devil's Gentleman
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an...
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the...
When Your Heart Cries Out to God
Finding Comfort in Life’s Trials
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Throughout life’s wide range of emotions and experiences, whoever and wherever you are, God is there and cares about you.
When Your Heart Cries Out to God by beloved Bible teacher Harold J. Sala supports this truth with 125 brief essays and related scriptural passages on a spectrum...
Why Britain is at War
With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world"
First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In simple terms it...
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face).
In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped...
Lincoln President-Elect
Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency -- there would be no compromise on slavery or...
by Harold Holzer, New-York Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War
From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly...