Jim: 5732 books
by Jim Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Nowhere in Ireland is there such a rich diversity of walks as Killarney. Thousands visit every year to walk in the beautiful landscape for which Killarney is renowned, and until now there has been no guidebook for these walks. Jim Ryan has compiled eighteen of Killarney’s most interesting low level...
The Good Fight
From Bullets to Bylines - 45 Years Face-to-Face with Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The year is 1969. The start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Jim McDowell, a rookie reporter, it was the beginning of a life at the heart of one of world’s most notorious and bitter conflicts.
His gripping memoir reveals what it was like to live under constant fear of attack and delves...
Jim's World of Creatures
Musings and Original Observations on Nature and the Creatures of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Jim Emerton is a philosopher, a poet and a nature lover as well as an internationally-known pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the rural environment near his home have given him endless food for thought about the natural world. These little pieces are his musings...
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Platero y yo es una narración lírica de Juan Ramón Jiménez que recrea poéticamente la vida y muerte del burro Platero, dedicada «a la memoria de Aguedilla, la pobre loca de la calle del Sol que me mandaba moras y claveles» y formada por breves capítulos. En 1914, la editorial La Lectura, de Madrid,...
by Jim Ring
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
For English read British which is not to quibble with the title but, as Jim Ring himself explains, 'During the period on which this book focuses, it was the custom - in the words of a Scot - ''to let the part - the larger part - speak for the whole.'' Those countries which received them - France,...
Rain on the River
Selected Poems and Short Prose
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Chapbooks, musings, poetry, and prose by a folklorist with a “wonderful imagination, eye for detail and command of language” (Publishers Weekly).
While Jim Dodge is internationally known for his fiction, his first and abiding passion is poetry. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously...
The Wonder of Birds
What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful—and surprising—ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planet
Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to any other wild creatures. They are found virtually everywhere and we love to watch...
Australia's Best Unknown Stories
and tales you thought you knew...
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
'Not only are there many things we don't know, we should never be too sure about the things we are sure we do know.'
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this collection of classic Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, the...
Faith, Angels and Overcoming Gbs
The Jim Mckinley Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In 2004, Jim McKinley contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome. He was trapped inside himself with only slight movements to acknowledge conversation. Many saw him during this time and believed the end was at hand, but God had other plans. Jim did survive and now tells you about his journey. He dealt with...
by Jim Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites--for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of poetry...
Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes
Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes distills thirty delirious, jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out of the Twin Cities. As a writer and musician, the ever-curious Jim Walsh has lived a life immersed in music, and it all makes its way into his columns and feature articles,...
Monster of the Midway
Bronko Nagurski, the 1943 Chicago Bears, and the Greatest Comeback Ever
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Jim Dent's Monster of the Midway is the story of football's fiercest competitor, the legendary Bronko Nagurski. From his discovery in the middle of a Minnesota field to his 1943 comeback season at Wrigley, from the University of Minnesota to the Hall of Fame, Bronko Nagurksi's life is a story of grit,...
The Playbook for Dads
Parenting Your Kids In the Game of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
On the football field NFL great Jim Kelly was a strong-armed passer, leading his team to victory after victory. In THE PLAYBOOK FOR DADS he passes principles instead of footballs, still using his talent to lead men, but now he leads them to greatness as fathers, in his view the world's most important...
The Kids Got It Right
How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
New York Times bestselling author Jim Dent pens the compelling story of how a black and white player came together to break the color barrier in Texas football in 1965. Jerry LeVias and Bill Bradley bonded as friends at the Big 33 high school all-star game, producing a dramatic finish that fans still...