Michelle: 5349 books
Culture of Corruption
Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Barack Obama's approval ratings are at an all-time low. A recent Gallup poll found that half of the Americans polled said Obama did not deserve a second term. Weary of the corruption that gushes from the White House faster than a Gulf Coast oil spill, voters are ready to put a cap on smear campaigns,...
by Michelle Schlicher
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
A hiking and outdoor enthusiast, fifty-year-old Fern Conrad can’t imagine spending her time doing anything else, much to the dismay of her daughter, Colby.
Kara Dawson, a twenty-five-year-old student therapist, has shut life out to focus on her sister’s illness. That is, until a chance...
by Michelle Winters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A tender but lively debut novel about a man, a woman, and their Chevrolet dealer.
Agathe and Réjean Lapointe are about to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary when Réjean’s beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned at the side of the road—with no trace of Réjean. Agathe handles...
by Michelle Moreland
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
I grew up all over Illinois. My life experiences contribute to my poetry and now I would like to provide you the opportunity to share some of those experiences with me. Some of you may relate to it and some of you may not, we all have different situations that occur in our lives as we grow up but...
by Michelle Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
From debut author Michelle Adams comes a novel of psychological suspense, where a woman returns to her family's home to learn the truth and escape her sister's influence.
If you knew my sister, you’d run too…
First there was the Robert Kneel incident.
Then what happened to Margot...
by Michelle Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Passing, the time, giving way to freedom,Letting the mind float through space, parting through the stars into eternity, Deep thoughts into the darkness of one mind, the journey into abyss. Reaching out from the eye of my mind.
Guantanamo's Child
The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A prize-winning journalist tells the troubling story of Canadian Omar Khadr, who has spent a quarter of his life growing up in Guantanamo Bay. Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002 at the age of 15. Accused by the Pentagon of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. soldier Sgt. First Class Christopher...
Decade of Fear
Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Decade of Fear is a darkly entertaining journey through the complicated, often bizarre world of national security since 9/11. On that night, Toronto Star journalist Michelle Shephard watched the remains of New York’s World Trade Center fall from the sky, wondering what much of the world was asking:...
Bloody Murder
The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. Bloody Murder is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in children’s literature. Through rereadings of...
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
Miles of Stare
Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision...
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...
by Michelle Ann Kratts
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Niagara Falls, both a natural wonder and a tourist destination, played a prominent role on the homefront during the Second World War. Many men and women worked diligently stateside in wartime industrial plants. One of the area's largest employers, Bell Aircraft, produced P-39 Airacobras and P-63 Kingcobra...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...