Pickard: 81 books
The Virgin of Small Plains
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
“Engrossing . . . beautifully written and carefully crafted . . . [a] work that explores the healing power of truth.”—The Boston Globe
For seventeen years, a rural community in Kansas has faithfully tended the grave of an anonymous teenage girl christened the Virgin of Small Plains. And...
by Nancy Pickard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
"Nancy Pickard pushes at the presumed limits of [crime fiction]" said the Los Angeles Times Book Review, praising the award-winning creator of the Jenny Cain mysteries. Now, Pickard blurs the line between fiction and reality in a novel of gripping intensity, and premieres a superb new heroine: true-crime...
Agape
Lessons from My Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Author M. R. Pickard spent years collecting thoughts and ideas, storing them away in the back of her filing cabinet in a nondescript manila folder labelled BOOK. Years of staring into the faces of her studentsteenage boys in desperate need of good male role modelsinspired her to jot down one jewel...
Don't Pay for Your MBA
The Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Get the Business Education You Need
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The average debt load for graduates of the top business schools has now exceeded $100,000! For most young professionals, this means spending the first half of their career in the red and feeling pressure to take the first position offered to them so that they can start paying off their debt. But it...
Insides
Dragonscale Delvings, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
In 2014 Freya Pickard was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
Insides is her inner journey, charting her progress through colostomy, removal of the tumour and chemotherapy.
Dealing with the dark matter of cancer and facing death three times in six months, this collection is a positive affirmation...
by Nancy Pickard
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
Sex, violence, evil, and betrayal -- the shocking murder case splashed across the Florida headlines has all the right elements for true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot's next bestseller. And tell the tale she does, in a book that reveals the secrets of a love affair gone fatally wrong. But there are...
by Nancy Pickard
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
With The Whole Truth and Ring of Truth, award-winning author Nancy Pickard introduced the intrepid Marie Lightfoot, a gutsy and charismatic true-crime writer, and kicked oV a sensational new series that sealed her reputation as one of today's top practitioners of "chilling, fast-paced, and original"...
Xmas @ Camelot II
Dragonscale Diffusions, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Ten tales from Freya Pickard's weird and wonderful imagination.
Find yourself in a Freudian prison or in a Virtual Reality Game where the dragon suffers from indigestion in Turning Point and Norsemare.
Feel the release of freedom when prisoners are set free in Trapped and Ariel.
Enjoy...
Silver Fire
The Kaerling, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
When Otta and Erl are banished from their village for angering the gods, they embark on a peculiar quest.
Commanded by a wandering god, Otta is obliged to follow the strange, elusive "unicorn's trail." Her twin brother, Erl, has lost his memory and is struggling to discover who he...
Rediscover The Bible
Or Discover It For The First Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Bible is arguably the most influential book ever written, and it remains the best-selling book in America every year. Yet increasingly, in our secular age, the Bible remains on our bookshelves, unread. In Rediscover the Bible—Or Discover It for the First Time, Pastor Michael Pickard offers...
by Michael Pickard
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
The Bible is arguably the most influential book ever written, and it remains the best-selling book in America every year. Yet increasingly, in our secular age, the Bible remains on our bookshelves, unread. In Rediscover the Bible—Or Discover It for the First Time, Pastor Michael Pickard offers...
Naked Came the Phoenix
A Serial Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Thirteen of today's hottest female crime novelists--one thrilling mystery: Naked Came the Phoenix
The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after...
Academic Labor
The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
USC Annenberg Press has published The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies, edited by Jonathan Stere. This collection features the work of 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. Twenty-one authors take on difficult questions...
Remaking the News
Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.
The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable...