Patrick: 6740 books
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Jean B., the narrator of Honeymoon, is submerged in the world where night and day, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his entire adult life making documentary movies about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere....
Chronicles of a Rochester Major Crimes Detective
Confronting Evil & Pursuing Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Patrick Crough served more than twenty years as a Monroe County Major Crimes detective, where he investigated some of the region�s most tragic crimes. They include horrifying acts, like that of a Valentine�s Day killing rampage that left four people dead, as well as the case against Ed Laraby, the...
by Patrick O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1995
"A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel."—Kirkus Reviews
Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination,...
by Patrick Woodcock
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A poetic journal looks at life in a war–torn country
After two years spent in the Kurdish North of Iraq, Patrick Woodcock has returned with his eighth collection of poetry, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains.
Resisting both summary gestures and grief tourism, these poems form a sustained...
Winston Churchill
The Great Man's Life in Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
In the welter of popular and well-known stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and figurehead to a nation and its allies. For in spite of his many and varied successes, Britain's last great...
Inside the Red Box
North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
North Korea's institutional politics defy traditional political models, making the country's actions seem surprising or confusing when, in fact, they often conform to the regime's own logic. Drawing on recent materials, such as North Korean speeches, commentaries, and articles, Patrick McEachern,...
Nation and Novel
The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by tracing...
by Patrick Bouchet
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2019
Avignon. Un cadavre gisant dans son sang et une jeune femme amnésique sont retrouvés dans la chapelle des Pénitents Gris. La Brigade criminelle n’a qu’un seul indice, un médaillon représentant l’archange Saint Michel sur lequel est gravé le nom d’un ancien membre de la secte du Temple...
Cathedrals of Science
The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
In Cathedrals of Science, Patrick Coffey describes how chemistry got its modern footing-how thirteen brilliant men and one woman struggled with the laws of the universe and with each other. They wanted to discover how the world worked, but they also wanted credit for making those discoveries, and...
Chasing Che
A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And...
by Patrick J. Leach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
So often in my life I’ve felt lost, alone, at the mercy of huge and powerful forces. The universe was hostile, dangerous, vast and complex. I frequently felt helpless, depressed, fragile, and ultimately out of control.One night I was camping out, lying on the grass in total darkness in a...
A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps
The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A revised and expanded edition of the recovery classic by Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., a leading expert on addictive behaviors.
It was out of his reverence and respect for the wisdom and therapeutic value of the Twelve Steps that Carnes wrote A Gentle Path through the 12 Steps, now a recovery classic...
Three Wise Men from the East
The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen—produced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline...
Constantinople to Chalcedon
Shaping the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to...