Smiley: 122 books
Doing What's Right
How to Fight for What You Believe--And Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In Doing What's Right, Tavis Smiley shows how each one of us can battle complacency and fight for the causes we support. Smiley is the host of "Black Entertainment Television Tonight with Tavis Smiley," a one-hour nightly talk show that reaches fifty-five million households, and his political...
by Tavis Smiley, Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor. Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Dr....
Fail Up
20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
"Failure is an inevitable part of the human journey," says award-winning television and radio broadcaster and New York Times best-selling author Tavis Smiley. Smiley steps from behind the curtain of success to share intimate stories of his missteps, misdeeds, and often highly publicized...
Follow the Roar
Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
With his career at a standstill and his golf game a shadow of its former mediocrity, TV writer and ESPN.com contributor Bob Smiley decided the time had come to turn to the one person who might be able to help: Tiger Woods. So, in January of 2008, Smiley set out to follow the game's greatest player...
50 for Your Future
Lessons from Down the Road
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult, but rest assured you’re not the first one to walk this path . . .
On these gorgeously illustrated pages, media mogul and social entrepreneur Tavis Smiley shares 50 nuggets of wisdom he’s gleaned while rising from humble roots to become...
Hope Unseen
The Story of the U.S. Army's First Blind Active-Duty Officer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The inspiring, unflinching true story of “blind” faith, as Major Scotty Smiley awakes in a hospital bed and realizes his world is permanently dark he must stretch his faith like never before. Courageous, heartfelt, and honest, Hope Unseen challenges readers to question their doubts, not their...
by Tavis Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage
When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often,...
Horse Heaven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2001
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
"A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY
STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." --People
"ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery
of craft and an uncompromising vision that grow...
Dinner with the Smileys
One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
They say you are what you eat--but apparently, with whom you eat is pretty important too. Current medical research bears this out. But wellness was not what motivated mil-blogger/Navy wife and mom Sarah Smiley to invite one guest every week for 52 weeks to have dinner with herself and her three young...
Charles Dickens
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2002
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As "his novels shaped his life...
Smiley!
A Laughing Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Smiley Anders's first book, "Best of Smiley," published by AuthorHouse, presented humorous excerpts from his six-day-a-week newspaper columns in the Baton Rouge, La., Advocate published between 1979 and 1990. This book not only contains funny stories from his columns published between 1991...
Market Cities, People Cities
The Shape of Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen
How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson...
by Paul Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Tells the beginning of a story of a complicated sex addict suspected of homicide and infected with an experimental virus.
This book is intended as the first part of a multi-part series where the author wants to split a longer book into many separate, smaller, books.
The author would...
by Jane Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed,...