Patrick: 6740 books
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1993
With “a style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor” (People), Patrick F. McManus delivers another stellar collection of witty cautionary tales of the great outdoors in The Good Samaritan Strikes Again.
Gathering together twenty-four of his hilarious essays—originally...
Images for a Generation Doomed
The Films and Career of Gregg Araki
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Over the past two decades, independent director Gregg Araki has emerged as one of the most intriguing auteurs of contemporary U.S. cinema. A leading figure of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Araki is known for his innovative, eye-opening, and at-times-controversial films aimed primarily...
So Much Wasted
Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which...
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This essay, the third in the "6 Miracle Essays" series, recounts the author's experiences with changing homes and considers both the spiritual and political dimensions of homelessness. Originally published by THE SUN and later excerpted in the anthology WHERE THE HEART IS: A Celebration of Home.
The Book of Practical Faith
A Path to Useful Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
More than ever before, many of us are struggling to cope with the trials and tribulations of modern life. In this concise and eloquent volume, D. Patrick Miller inspires us to meet these challenges with a practical faith, which he describes as "the way out of misery, the way into self-knowledge,...
We've Already Gone This Far
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A heartfelt, vital collection; the debut of an exciting new talent already hailed as one of George Saunders' "favorite young American writers"
In Patrick Dacey's stunning debut, we meet longtime neighbors and friends--citizens of working-class Wequaquet--right when the ground beneath...
by Patrick F. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1990
America’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Outdoor Living.
Patrick F. McManus’s hilarious and comic stories of camping and other...
Foundations of Korean Martial Arts
Masters, Manuals & Combative Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Most of what are referred to as Korean martial art styles are actually derived from Japanese/Okinawan karate systems or find their roots in Chinese boxing. The Korean peninsula has existed as a fragile territory between China and Japan and thus shared many cultural elements...
First SEALs
The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell, the untold story of World War II's first unit of special operations combat swimmers-precursors of today's US Navy SEALs
Tom Dumoulin
Wielerlegende in wording
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Het raadsel Tom Dumoulin verklaard
Tom Dumoulin is een van de grootste sporthelden van deze tijd, door allen geliefd, maar ook een groot raadsel. Benaderbaar en ook altijd op afstand. Charismatisch en toch ook vol raadsels. Charmant en ook soms bijtend en ruziënd. Een ijzersterk lichaam en toch ook...
The Last Hundred Days
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Once the gleaming "Paris of the East," Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia, in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews, grocery shelves are empty, and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis, a young...
The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership....
Honor and Betrayal
The Untold Story of the Navy SEALs Who Captured the ""Butcher of Fallujah""--and the Shameful Ordeal They Later Endured
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
THEY JUST CAPTURED IRAQ'S MOST WANTED TERRORIST.
NOW THEY HAD TO DEFEND THEIR HONOR.
On a daring nighttime raid in September 2009, a team of Navy SEALs grabbed the notorious terrorist Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi, the villainous Butcher of Fallujah,” mastermind behind the 2004 murder and mutilation...
A Perfectly Good Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The bestselling British novel about love, marriage, family, secrets, and how the power of faith can transform lives even in the midst of inconsolable loss
After being paralyzed in a rugby accident, twenty-year-old, wheelchair-bound Lenny Barnes feels he has nothing left to live for and is putting...