Norman: 2081 books
Island Fortress
The Defence of Great Britian 1606-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The British Isles, it is often believed, have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years. In fact, as Norman Longmate reveals in this highly entertaining book (the successor to his acclaimed Defending the Island), foreign soldiers have landed on British soil on many occasions.In this definitive...
Called and Accountable Tenth Anniversary Edition
Discovering Your Place in God's Eternal Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Blackabys challenge every follower of Christ to explore the life-transforming, world-changing call that God gives each believer in this bold sequel to Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God—more than 7 million sold. This tenth anniversary edition contains fresh perspectives bookended...
The Happy Ant-Heap
And Other Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Experience the far reaches of the world in this eclectic collection of travel essays by acclaimed writer Norman Lewis
The Happy Ant-Heap is Norman Lewis’s powerful and stylish collection of decades’ worth of travel writing. Lewis’s deft social commentary captures life from all corners...
A Voyage By Dhow
Selected Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Consummate travel writer Norman Lewis’s most remarkable travel essays, collected in one volume
“You’d find it of immense interest, I assure you, and full of amazing adventures.” So says a British colonial official to Norman Lewis while imploring him to visit Yemen at a time when the...
Transatlantic Aliens
Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding...
The Complete Parkhurst Tales
Behind the Locked Gates of Britain's Toughest Jails
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1995
Revealing the secret world of one of Britain's highest security jails as no one on the outside could possibly imagine, Norman Parker has spent over half his life in prison. He was released from prison after 23 continuous years in prison. From his arrival in Parkhurst in the early 1970s as a category-A...
Natural Hazard
The Diary of an Accident-Prone Golf Watcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Norman Dabell, journalist, broadcaster and notorious jinx, has been covering the European golf circuit for over 20 years, though after reading this hilarious account of his mishaps, you may well come to wonder how he has managed to survive for so long.
Join Norman as he retraces his pursuit...
What Price Success
One man's 34 year search for his GI father
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Norman Spencer spent his young years believing his mother’s story that his father had been an English soldier, killed in World War II. It was only when he went through her papers after her death in 1976 that he realised the truth his father had been an American GI who had enjoyed a brief affair with...
Sweden's Dark Soul
The Unravelling of a Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation....
Dead Women Talking
Figures of Injustice in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures...
by Norman Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
This - as only Norman Collins can tell it - is the story of Stanley Pitts, a Contracts Filing Clerk in the Admiralty, a small man - small in stature, small in ambition and achievement, happy in his work and devoted to his hobby of photography. For Stan himself, his latest failure with the Civil Service...
by Norman Lock
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR
When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante,...
Every Man is a Dead Man Walking
a guide to living with women, well . . . sort of . . .
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Hello I’m Will,
And I’ve written a book for men, all about women…all the things that I think they need to know. However there is a problem - like a lot of men I started out clueless, and never really improved from there.
I speak as the authority…the authority on failing miserably...
by Norman E. Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Free: MANAGEMENT DECISION Another great tale set in Cowchip AlabamaDelightfully humorous, Twilight Zonish SCIENCE FICTION by Norman E. Morrison with a devilishly quirky twist. One in the Cowchip Alabama series of fine stories and books. Rated PG, and Darwin approved. It's genetically enhanced!The...