Parker Parker: 3170 books

Ellis Parker Butler ( 1869 –  1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment...

Helios is a collection of short stories by author Che Parker that skillfully sheds light on the writer's many varied interests, including a fantastical tale of a single mother with a daughter dying from cancer, a future tense telling of revenge and murder, several humor pieces and an essay reliving...

Kirkus Review says, Parker’s novel opens with beaucoup intrigue! and, the start of what could be an invigorating series. **Action/Romance-Suspense/Thriller-Military** G.E.M.S- (Genetically Enhanced Medical Soldiers) The normal human intelligence Cell is from a 7 to 9. Those...

Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah Parker's thorough compendium on the reception...

With a long list of stirring novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a spellbinder. Soldiers Of Conquest has received high praise from Booklist and Publisher's Weekly.American-Mexican War 1846 -1848. President Polk, desiring to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean, orders General Zachary Taylor...

From the award winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a story of a Louisiana woman stuck in the wrong city with the wrong man.Mira longs to return to the bayou, to sit on her grandma's lap again and watch the fireflies dance through the air. But she ran off with Charlie, and now she's...

One of the New York Times' most popular journalists presents groundbreaking scientific news about marriage. And, surprise: It's good news. We've all heard the statistic: Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. It's enough to make many couples give up when the going gets rough, thinking that's...

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan...

In The Theorist's Mother one of our subtlest literary theorists turns his attention to traces of the maternal in the lives and works of canonical male critical theorists. Noting how the mother is made to disappear both as the object of theory and as its subject, Andrew Parker focuses primarily on...

Gavin Mathis is ready to settle down. He’s quit his job and come home to Shadow Maverick Ranch to do just that. Too bad his decision caused his beautiful former colleague to lose her job. Lauren Delgado is a no-nonsense businesswoman. She’s had a crush on Gavin for years, but has a strict...

Of all economic recessions experienced by the United States in the postwar period, the Great Recession that began in 2008 was the deepest, longest, and most destructive. Nevada was among the hardest hit states, its people reeling from the aftereffects, and the state government also experiencing a...

You have a business built on your energy and passion which drive you forward. You have a unique view of the world and you want to make a difference through your business. And you want financial success to support your dream. Enter Live Networking Alive!, a down-to-earth guide book with a winning...

“Who would spend millions for a job that pays $250k? Parker’s answer will surprise you. Required reading for Congress jocks.” —Michael C. Munger, Duke University “A unique and interesting approach to the study of legislators and legislative institutions.” —David Brady, Stanford...

COMBINATION LOCK is the autobiography of C. Wayne Parker. His story begins in 1962 with him as a short, skinny, shy, fatherless, high school kid with a pet dog and hope. He grew up in the small, lower-middle-class Burlington community of east Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a simple boy living in a simple...