Ivan: 1319 books
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...
by Ivan Vladislavic
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavić, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist interested...
by Dale Ivan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Mathilda Brandt is one of the Empowered: men and women who possess extraordinary abilities that set them apart from the rest of humanity. The rare few who do become Empowered face a stark choice. They must either join the Hero Council, following any and all orders in the service of protecting humanity,...
A Year of Movies
365 Films to Watch on the Date They Happened
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
While watching a movie, how many viewers notice some of the finer details of the film, such as the time of day during a scene—or even the date itself? For instance, does anyone remember what day detention is served by the high schoolers in The Breakfast Club or can guess when aliens first make their...
Fighting Blind
A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper’s post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro’s life as well....
Black Warriors: the Buffalo Soldiers of World War Ii
Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe During World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II, author Ivan J. Houston recounts his experiences,...
Surviving the Reich
The World War II Saga of a Jewish-American GI
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Ivan Goldstein is a 19-year-old green-as-grass soldier heading into his first battle: the Battle of the Bulge, World War II's fiercest engagement between the American army and Hitler's army. A bow gunner on a Sherman tank, Private Goldstein is only hours into his first battle when his tank is hit...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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Winter Brothers
A Season at the Edge of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1982
A blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (The New York Times Book Review).
The author of the acclaimed This House of Sky and Mountain Time provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through...
by Ivan Bunin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944...
New Orleans Connection Series
Books 1 - 3
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Meet three sexy alpha heroes and the women they can't resist. Spend a little time soaking up the flavor of The Big Easy with all the romance, suspense, and colorful atmosphere the city provides. This romantic suspense boxed set contains the first three books in the New Orleans Connection Series and...
by Ivan Vladislavic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa has almost vanished. Standards, he...
The Dangers of Dissent
The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
While most studies of the FBI focus on the long tenure of Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), The Dangers of Dissent shifts the ground to the recent past. The book examines FBI practices in the domestic security field through the prism of 'political policing.' The monitoring of dissent is exposed,...
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Manifesto for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world....