Norman: 2081 books
by Jessye Norman
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Het leven van sopraan Jessye Norman is net zo bewogen en aangrijpend als die van de vele operarollen die ze vertolkte. Norman groeide op in het zuiden van Amerika, waar ze te maken kreeg met racisme en de civil rights movement. Al op jonge leeftijd ontdekte ze haar liefde voor muziek en opera, die...
A Miraculous Life
An unending search for freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
By an absorbing collection of events this book tells the life of Norman Bodek, who has contributed highly to develop the knowledge of the western industrial world. The “miracles”, as Norman calls the events, intertwine with reflections and meditation about his own life and the events of the world...
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
“Some books celebrate the human condition; others commiserate with us. This memoir does both.” —Helen Oyeyemi, NPR
This spellbinding memoir by the National Book Award–nominated author of The Bird Artist begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a midwestern boy’s summer...
In Fond Remembrance of Me
A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling,...
No Laughing Matter
How I Carried On
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
For the first time, in NO LAUGHING MATTER, Norman Hudis, who wrote the first six Carry On movies, reveals his hitherto secret, decades-long and quixotic writing-activity since he left the series. It's this: He Carried On Writing Carry On stories in the hope that, one day, he'd be asked to return and...
Mind of an Outlaw
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s...
Confessions of a Vintage Guitar Dealer
The Memoirs of Norman Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Confessions of a Vintage Guitar Dealer, Norman Harris tells how he became the world's leading seller of vintage guitars. As founder and owner of the legendary store Norman's Rare Guitars, he has sold some of the finest fretted sting instruments to the biggest stars in the world, including George...
Ask Me About My Uterus
A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues
In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly...
by Norman Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Everyone has fish stories. But not every fish story you've heard can teach you the do's and don't's of fishing - for trout! This How To book deals with specific lures and baits, techniques, and even a few stories that will teach you that there's more to fishing than just the...
On God
An Uncommon Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
“I see God,” wrote Norman Mailer, “as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks.” In these moving, amusing, and probing dialogues conducted in the years before his death, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, rejecting both organized religion...
The Gospel According to the Son
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his...
The High-Impact Sales Manager
A No-Nonsense, Practical Guide to Improve Your Team's Sales Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Managing a sales team is one of the most important and challenging positions in a company, and it requires a unique set of skills. Unfortunately, many sales managers spend much of their day putting out fires, and moving from problem to problem. Their days consist of an overwhelming number of activities...
by Howard Norman
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
“[An] ingeniously plotted novel . . . Norman knows how to weave an enticing and satisfying mystery, one tantalizing thread at a time.” — New York Times Book Review
A witty, engrossing homage to noir, from National Book Award finalist Howard Norman
Jacob Rigolet, soon-to-be former...
Norman Hall's Postal Exam Preparation Book
Everything You Need to Know... All Major Exams Thoroughly Covered in One Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
The United States Postal Service is the nation's largest civilian employer. Yet 80 percent of all applicants fail the test. That's why readers look to Norman Hall's classic, comprehensive guide to the Battery 460 and 473 exams. This revised and updated third edition offers new test questions and exercises....