Howard: 4650 books
How Not to Write a Novel
200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted.
"Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'"
"But how shall I absolve this dilemma?...
Writing for Social Scientists
How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has...
Lord High Executioner
An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty.
In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment from medieval England and early Canada to...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
How many Psalms are there in the Bible? Nobody knows. Psalms are scattered all through the Old Testament, but this new translation is concerned only with the Psalms in the Biblical book of that title. Even here, however, the actual number is uncertain. Some Psalms have been duplicated, some have been...
by Howard M. Sachar
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to...
Life on the Color Line
The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here
As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the...
The Heritage
Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism
Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal
It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church...
by Josh LaJaunie Jr, Howard Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
If you’re overweight or obese...
If you’re constantly tired, bloated, constipated, achy, sluggish, depressed, or anxious...
If you’re diabetic or pre-diabetic...
If your doctor keeps warning you about the risk of cancer, heart disease, or other lifestyle- reversible calamity...
If you’re constantly...
by Marco Polo, Howard Mittelmark
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
His journey through the East began in 1271—when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His acceptance into the court of the great emperor Kublai Khan, and his service to the vast and dazzling Mongol empire, led him to places as far away as...
by Jenna Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
As the daughter of rock royalty, Kate Jennings is far from a princess. After her mother died of a drug overdose, Kate went to live in her father’s mansion. However, her life was nothing like her childish dreams. Unwanted and neglected, she struggles to adapt to her new life. Then one New Year’s...
by Linda Howard
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Travel to the sultry bayou in this sizzling and suspenseful romance from New York Times bestselling “queen of romantic suspense” (Booklist) Linda Howard!
Sheriff Jackson Brody knows folks get a little crazy under a full moon, especially in steamy backwater country. But on the trail of a...
by Michelle Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
)Previously published in the Bound By Heat anthology)
Rylin thought he’d lost everything when his mate left him to bond with another. Then in a surprising twist of fate he inherited the mantle of leadership. Now Rylin rules the Black Dracol but it’s a lonely life. With hopes of finding...
by Howard Andrew Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A thrilling, inventive follow-up to The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones, a "rare master of the storyteller's art" (Greenmanreview.com)
As a snowfall blankets 8th century Mosul, a Persian noblewoman arrives at the home of the scholar Dabir and his friend the swordsman Captain...
by Howard Andrew Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Dabir and Asim return! From acclaimed historical fantasy writer Howard Andrew Jones comes this collection of the short adventures that launched his career. Venture into the time of the Arabian Nights with stalwart Captain Asim and the brilliant Dabir as they hunt an unseen killer that craves only...