Jim: 5732 books
by Jim Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
With this collection, Bennett returns to his earlier topic of loss. Loss of time, opportunity, loved ones, and of life itself. A life reduced to memorial names or tags on museum exhibits. Loss includes loneliness on a subway ride, posessions melted in a fire, life long love turning a slow corner....
by Jim Trevis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Joe is the only son of George and Ruth Mitchell. Toiling endlessly on their dairy farm, he has rarely dated and has never participated in sports or other high school activities. Then a chance at love with Annie Jensen convinces Joe to join the track team. Freeing Joe from much of the dairy work at...
by Jim Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young...
Fuhrer for a Father
The Domestic Face of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
‘I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time...
Grampa's Left Arm and Other Stories
Tracing My Immigrant Roots from Galicia to Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A memoir and a history, Grampas Left Arm tells the story of Jakob Tirjan and Annie Kaufold, immigrants who settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Their village on the Austro-Hungarian eastern frontier faded into history when the province of Galicia came under Polish rule after WWI.
The...
by Ernest Mandel, Ted Richmond, Jim Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
From Socialisme No. 17 issue, translated from the French by Ted Richmond and Jim Peterson
Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush
More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
America in 2004 is color coded—and it’s not just a matter of red, white, and blue. The terror alert bounces from yellow to orange. The economy offers up a hundred shades of red ink. The environment is turning brown. National security is cloaked in gray shadows. And Jim Hightower covers it all...
Crossroads (2nd Edn)
A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this fully updated, second edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds two new chapters that bring Malaysia and Singapore into the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. The original text (which traces the complex currents of history and politics of Malaysia and Singapore—neighbours with a...
In My Room
The Recovery Journey as Encountered by a Psychiatrist
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Jim Lucey has been working for more than 25 years with patients suffering from mental health problems. When people at their most vulnerable present to his room at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, they reveal their fears, traumas, and very real human predicaments. Most of the assessments...
Watchlist
32 Stories by Persons of Interest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly
With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...
by Jim McAvoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Converting a lead into a sale can stump even star sales professionals. High-performing salespersons have compared the process to having teeth pulled without Novocain or gargling bleach! So when Jim McAvoy, with a quarter century of proven performance in maximizing sales, collates a treasury of actionable...
The Shape of the Journey
New & Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Here is the definitive collection of poetry from one of America’s best-loved writers-now available in paperback. With the publication of this book, eight volumes of poetry were brought back into print, including the early nature-based lyrics of Plain Song, the explosive Outlyer & Ghazals, and the startling...
Spirit Rising
Tapping into the Power of the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
For some of us being a Christian is harder than it should be. Discouraged, anxious, worn down, we wonder what happened to the power and the joy that Jesus promised. Jim Cymbala believes that many of us are missing something vital. Christianity, he says, for even the best-intentioned person or church,...
A Couple After God's Own Heart
Building a Lasting, Loving Marriage Together
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
New from bestselling authors Jim and Elizabeth George! Jim and Elizabeth come together to share from 40-plus years of marital wisdom and experiences to help couples grow closer to each other and to God. Husbands and wives will discover how they can enrich their marriages by looking at the lives of key...