Sweeney: 385 books
Reading Is My Window
Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.
Foregrounding the voices of African American...
Goodbye Fatness, Hello Gorgeous!
Tips and Tricks for Overcoming Healthy Eating Obstacles
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
As an overweight child, author Lori M. Sweeney was ridiculed and called a loser by children and even certain family members. Her weight increased over time and cruel treatment continued. She inherited new names, including the name, Fatness. A major car accident resulted in two knee surgeries and a...
Gun Digest Book of the AK & SKS, Volume II
Complete Guide to Guns, Gear and Ammunition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
"Things that are complex are not useful. Things that are useful are simple." --Mikhail Kalashnikov
In Gun Digest Book of the AK & SKS, Volume 2, Patrick Sweeney picks up where Volume 1 left off and brings Kalashnikov's timeless firearm designs--the AK-47 and AK-74--plus their...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 1: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
The Prophetic Literature
Interpreting Biblical Texts Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Biblical Studies
Biblical texts create worlds of meaning, and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are often strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the Interpreting Biblical Texts series is to...
by Jean Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A little larceny, a lot of New-Age paranormal and some shaman-induced mysticism pull audacious art teachers Hope Bloom and Dottie Stout into the remarkable world of Vincent Van Gogh. Following the discovery of a woman’s body in a flooded Sedona, Arizona wash, they bumble their way through time travel...
by Jean Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Hope and Dottie, the time-traveling teachers from Sedona, Arizona’s Garnet Canyon School of the Arts, experience the unexpected and the macabre when they find themselves thrown into Edgar Allan Poe’s nineteenth-century Baltimore, a city said to have a past more significant than its future. Why...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
by Emmet Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historian Emmet Sweeney persuasively intertwines history and literary references with hard science from archaeology and anthropology to genetics and geology to prove the existence of an ancient trans-Atlantic link between the Old World and the New. Sweeney examines: The geological...
by Jean Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Hope and Dottie, the time-traveling teachers from Sedona, Arizona’s Garnet Canyon School of the Arts, indulge their craving for adventure and passion for classic movie musicals when they travel to 1934 Hollywood and the set of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ latest song and dance collaboration....
by Allan J. Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Background
Allan Sweeney studied creative writing in a University of Kent Diploma course, and mustered merits without bluster or bribes (he exudes ethical codes).
General
Here is a harmony of human existence, a making and breaking of the caring and sharing cake of life. Be prepared for laughter,...
Headlock
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A killer combination of high-interest plot and unforgettable characters
"All kinds of people. Little kids, a lot of men, even people your age come to the shows."
"They come to see acrobats pretending to wrestle with each other? Kyle is this some kind of sexual thing?"
"No!...
Prelude to the Dust Bowl
Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation’s...
by Julia Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
“I took so long to assemble my lovely family. If only they would disappear.”
While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer and performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist. Happily for us, the past few years have provided her with some rich material....