Rees: 503 books
The Anzac Girls
The extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never...
World War II Behind Closed Doors
Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since the opening of archives in Eastern Europe...
Lie in the Dark and Listen
The Remarkable Exploits of a WWII Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2006
Life is pretty dull for Ken Rees these days. At 17 he craved danger and excitement; fast planes and cars; rugby, speed and women. Then war came and by the age of 21 he had already trained to be a pilot officer; flown 56 hair-raising bomber missions, by night over Germany; taken part in the siege of...
The Leveller Revolution
Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution
The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings...
Never Ever Give Up
The Inspiring Story of Jessie and Her JoyJars
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
It started with a simple question: How can we help them? It became an international movement called NEGU: Never Ever Give Up. When Jessica Joy Rees was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor at age 11, she chose to focus not on herself but on bringing joy and hope to other children suffering from...
by Charlotte Harris Rees
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
A Chinese classic, the Shan Hai Jing, reportedly from 2000 BC claimed travels to the ends of the earth. However, today many, while accepting the antiquity of this account, believe it was just mythology. But was it?Testing the hypothesis that the Shan Hai Jing described actual surveys of North America,...
S.H.A.P.E.
Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Rick Warren’s bestselling book The Purpose Driven® Life describes God’s five purposes for every Christian. Now Erik Rees helps you discover God’s unique purpose for your life based on the way God has shaped you. He made you marvelously unique for a reason. Tap into that reason and into the...
by Charlotte Harris Rees
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Charlotte Harris Rees is an independent researcher, a retired federal employee, and an honors graduate of Columbia International University. She has diligently studied the possibility of very early arrival of Chinese to America. In 2003 Rees and her brother took the Harris Map Collection to the Library...
by Roberta Rees
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1992
Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi, a Vietnamese refugee, is this book’s associational matrix; playing...
Women Who Love Vampires Who Eat Women
Gender Dynamics and Interspecies Dating in Mystic Falls: An Essay on The Vampire Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From A Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls: Your Favorite Authors on The Vampire Diaries: Sarah Rees Brennan analyzes the effect of being a young, human woman involved with vampires in The Vampire Diaries.UPDATED from the original essay with Sarah Rees Brennan's thoughts on The Vampire Diaries seasons two and three!
by Sarah Miller, Melanie Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Sarah and Melanie met when they shared a big white house on an island, next to a passing place. They waded out, sang selkie songs to a seal they named Sir Douglas, shared stories, poems, wine and secrets, and decided to create something together. This is their potent and poetic debut collection....
Mozart's Last Aria
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Award-winning author Matt Rees takes readers to 18th centuryAustria, where Mozart’s estranged sister Nannerl stumblesinto a world of ambition, conspiracy, and immortal music while attempting touncover the truth about her brother’s suspicious death. Did Mozart’s life endin murder? Nannerl must...
The Damascus Threat
An ICE Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A former Middle East foreign correspondent, Matt Rees is an expert on the war on terror. With his new ICE Thriller series, he opens the door to a part of United States Homeland Security that has rarely been explored before.
ICE Special Agent Dominic Verrazzano’s vigilance pays off when he...
The Thai Smile
Thailand Take Two, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles.
But never assume that smiles mean the same as they do in the West. Smiling is quite automatic in Thailand. A monk once told me that Thais were boirn with smiles on their faces!
Matt Owens Rees discusses the many different types of smile and gives several real-life illustrations in this free volume.