Tom: 6300 books
Gil Hodges
The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Le gend
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A legend during the Golden Era of the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player and New York Mets manager Gil Hodges is at the center of this masterful sports biography, which delves into the life, achievements, and sterling character of one of baseball’s most overlooked stars.
Gil Hodges was...
by Tom Blackaby, Mike Blackaby, Daniel Blackaby
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
More teenagers than ever before seem to be spinning their wheels a long time before gaining any traction in life. Based on the world-renowned Experiencing God teachings of Henry Blackaby, Seven Steps to Knowing and Doing the Will of God for Teens provides students with relevant spiritual direction...
by Tom Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment, in Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
Sinatra in Hollywood
The Film Career of a Screen Icon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Hollywood legend, Academy Award-winning actor, and recipient of the Golden Globe Award for lifetime achievement in film, Frank Sinatra carved out one of the biggest careers in the history of Hollywood, yet paradoxically his screen legacy has been overshadowed by his extraordinary achievements as a...
The Purple Decades
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1982
Tom Wolfe's The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.
Hanging the Peachtree Bandit
The True Tale of Atlanta's Infamous Frank DuPre
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
On December 15, 1921, gunshots echoed across Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street moments before a handsome young man darted away from Kaiser's Jewelers. Frank DuPre left in his wake a dead Pinkerton guard and a missing ring. As Christmas shoppers looked on in panic, he raced through the Kimball House Hotel...
The Good, the Bad, and the Furry
Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Humorous and endearing, The Good, the Bad and the Furry is a heartwarming memoir about a man at the mercy of his unpredictable, demanding and endlessly lovable cats.
Meet The Bear—a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask,...
by Tom Cox
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018.
Tom Cox has 70k followers on Twitter and 25k on Instagram. He is also the man behind the enormously popular Why My Cat is Sad account, which has 300k followers.
He is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Good, the...
by Tom Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
We tell you how to have lucid dreams. These are dreams in which you know you are dreaming, and can take control of the reality of your dreams. Nights of adventure, problem solving, exploration and indulgence can all be yours on the wild frontier of your own consciousness.
Critical Studies 1
Patricia Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Patricia Cornelius is one of Australia’s most awarded and celebrated playwrights. She is known for her confronting plays that often deal with people living on the margins of society, struggling with poverty and prejudice. The Sydney Festival 2017 showcased three of Patricia’s plays, as well as...
My Stories and I'm Still Sticking to Them!
Fennimore...As I Remember. Volume Iv
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Some folks will often ask Tom what his columns in that Wisconsin newspaper are all about. He will answer, Do you mean the one in the Fennimore Times, called FennimoreAs I remember?As though there were any other. Then he will respond:
Oh, I write about a special place, friends and neighbors, happy...
Universal Horrors
The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count...
The Masked Man
A Memoir And Fantasy Of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Tom Wilson, the actor, comedian, and writer best known for playing "Biff" in the classic movie "Back To The Future," goes on an unplanned adventure after meeting fellow actor Clayton Moore, the man who played The Lone Ranger on T.V., experienced the pitfalls of pop celebrity, and most notably, died over...
The Tattered Tapestry
A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
"I am no longer a poet. I have lost all my words."
Vibrant, intelligent, and active, nineteen-year-old college student Karla Smith embraces the future with unbridled enthusiasm. But when she suddenly loses interest in everything she always loved, her family is understandably alarmed....