Jenny: 1832 books
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor
Working with Bletchley Park, the SDS and the OSS
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario...
Cunero 12
Cinco Meses en la UCI Neonatales
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Cunero 12, la apasionante biografía de caricaturas de Jenny Jaeckel, describe los intensos detalles de una madre, una recién nacida, y una estancia de cinco meses en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales (UCIN). Un rutinario examen prenatal revela un problema peligroso, y los padres se encuentran...
Scottish Girls About Town
And sixteen other Scottish women authors
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Meet the Clanswomen...
International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the lives of Scotswomen, Scottish Girls About Town revels...
Sour Heart
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for...
Would Everybody Please Stop?
Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
"One of the funniest writers in America."
That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred,...
As Night Falls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
From the acclaimed author of Ruin Falls and Cover of Snow comes a breathless new novel of psychological suspense about a dark, twisted turn of events that could shatter a family—a read perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard.
Sandy Tremont has always tried to...
by Jenny Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson One Summer Night at the Ritz is the enchanting fourth story in Jenny Oliver’s delicious Cherry Pie Island series. For Jane Williams, balmy August evenings are usually spent swimming in the river or lounging on her...
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
“Raw, dark, and powerful . . . Southern Gothic at its best. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake puts one in mind of Erskine Caldwell and Flannery O’Connor.”—Fannie Flagg
Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in...
Skinny Bitching
A thirty-something woman mouths off about age angst, pregnancy pressure, and the dieting battles you'll never win
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
In her acclaimed books I Do. I Did. Now What?! and What Wendell Wants, Jenny Lee hilariously chronicled the milestones of getting married and getting a dog. Now she takes on the most terrifying milestone of all: getting older.
Tackling everything from the peer pressure to have children to resisting...
Kiss My Asterisk
A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Grammar has finally let its hair down! Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it’s fun, flirty, and covers only the most important bits. Its lessons, which are 100 percent free of complicated grammar jargon, have been carefully...
by Jenny Robin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
The Treaty of Waitangi had been in place for only two years when the London set out from England with a full shipload of wannabe pioneers. Driven by a variety of motives, many of them related to poverty and lack of positive expectations, they responded to slick advertising and set out for a new life...
No Mercy
True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off.
But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort...
Mr. Lear
A Life of Art and Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A sparkling biography of the poet and artist Edward Lear by the award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow
Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, “I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present.” He was...
by Jenny Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Being a woman in any field is challenging and women in the engineering sector face an uneven playing field—constantly surrounded by men and held in the minority. These women are often operating at a level below their capabilities and are worried about getting access to developmental opportunities,...