Rowan: 385 books
by Kate Wolford, J. Patrick Pazdziora, Lissa Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Winter is not coming. Winter is here. As unique and beautifully formed as a snowflake, each of these fifteen stories spins a brand new tale or offers a fresh take on an old favorite like Jack Frost, The Snow Queen, or The Frog King. From a drafty castle to a blustery Japanese village, from a snow-packed...
The Caroline Complication
A Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet Variation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Convinced that he isn't destined to fall in love, Fitzwilliam Darcy proposes to Caroline Bingley and plans to live a proper, if loveless, life. However, when his friend Charles Bingley moves to an estate in Hertfordshire, Darcy meets a witty young lady that he can't get out of his mind. Which will...
Compact Houses
50 Creative Floor Plans for Well-Designed Small Homes
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Discover the huge possibilities of a small house! Whether you’re building from scratch or retrofitting an existing structure, these 50 innovative floor plans will show you how to make the most of houses measuring 1,400 square feet or less. Gerald Rowan presents creative and efficient layouts that...
First Dogs
American Presidents and Their Best Friends
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," Harry Truman once said. Perhaps that's why, for much of our Republic's history, there have been two top dogs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—one with two legs, one with four. First Dogs, by distinguished journalist Roy Rowan and researcher Brooke...
Why We Build
Power and Desire in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today.
We are living in the most dramatic...
by Iain Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Life jumps the rails, runs away from you and there’s no catching it up. Not ever.
A free short story from Iain Rowan, winner of the Derringer Award for best short crime story.
"I mean it," the gunman shrieked, and he pointed the revolver at Ward, the end of the barrel moving...
Slow Burn City
London in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With a new introduction for the paperback.
London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.
London...
Whispers of a Heart from the Other Side
The End of the Life of Betsabe Showed That Her Immortal Spirit Is Still with Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Whispers of a Heart from the Other Side is an amazing story about a girl named Betsabe, who made contact with her closest family and friends after she left her earthly life unexpectedly.
Author Maria Rosario Rowan has since been visited by her departed niece and an accompanying spirit of light,...
My Husband and My Wives
A Gay Man's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
My Husband and My Wives: A Gay's Man's Odyssey is the memoir of a man looking back over eight tumultuous decades at the complications of discovering at puberty that he is attracted to other men.
The ordeal of remaining true to what his libido tells him is right, in the midst of a disapproving...
MY DARK SHONE OUT
Poems by a rapper
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
South African rapper Ro, has taken the most vulnarable pages out of his lyrical diary, literally the content too daunting to be released in song, and opened up to expose even more of himself to the fans.
This book poetry mostly follows typical Hip-Hop rhyming form, with a few exceptions. Jam...
by Jane Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
"People don’t make up things like that for fun."
That’s what Jane’s therapist tells her when Jane reports fragmentary memories from her childhood that hint at sexual abuse. A busy, successful scientist, Jane at first fights the implications, but finally has to admit that something...
Sabotage
America's Enemies within the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror . Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has...
by Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei - Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed -Great Astronomers:...
Where God Happens
Discovering Christ in One Another
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
The place "where God happens," according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other. It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of alienation that has become endemic to...