Norman: 2081 books

At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature,...

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their...

The inspiring autobiography of the world-renowned minister and revered self-help giant whose positive thinking techniques have bettered the lives of millions of people In his 95 years, Norman Vincent Peale made a profound difference. The son of a minister in Lynchburg, Ohio, he went on to preach...

In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a...

This book is designed to give the reader a deep understanding and thorough working knowledge and of all types of cumulative preferred, fixed income, equities, and how to make them a profitable and important part of your portfolio. To best accomplish this I have also sprinkled in a series of articles,...

El primer prontuario general de seguros-segurpedia del mundo, en lengua española. Su objetivo es lograr que tanto el "vendedor" del contrato de seguro como su "comprador" tengan a mano toda la información precisa para establecer una póliza de seguro que, siendo del coste de...

 "Emotional Intelligence: How To Quickly Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Complete Guide To Improving Your Emotional Intelligence Today". Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet. The ability to control and express our own emotions is important, and so is our ability to respond,...

A majority of dividend investors are conservative by nature. I am. I have no special trading talent, no crystal ball, nor do I have access to insider information. Therefore, I have little expectation of prospering by consistently buying low and selling high. In fact, my trading history boasted the...

El escritor es siempre el «sospechoso», el exiliado por excelencia. En el caso de Norman Manea esta definición coincide plenamente con el contenido de su biografía y de su obra. Deportado de niño a un campo de concentración desde 1941 hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial por su condición...

George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military...

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, Dark Harvest by Norman Patridge is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw...

The Halloween Children are watching—they’re always watching in this chilling novel of suburban horror from Bram Stoker Award winner Norman Prentiss and Brian James Freeman of Cemetery Dance Publications. ** ** The accommodations at Stillbrook Apartments aren’t exactly glamorous, but they’re...

Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the...

"The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced....Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book....There can no...