Walker Walker: 3764 books
Bruno and the Carol Singers
A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The fifth installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.
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In this exclusive eBook, St. Denis is experiencing its coldest winter in years—bringing the promise of snow and shared chocolats chauds in the village’s cafés—and Bruno is occupied with his...
Black Diamond
A Mystery of the French Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The third installment in thed elightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.
Something dangerous is afoot in St. Denis. In the space of a few weeks, the normally sleepy village sees attacks on Vietnamese vendors, arson at a local Asian restaurant, subpar truffles...
Most of 14th Street Is Gone
The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the *Washington Post'*s Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake of the riots of April...
29 Gifts
How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
After a devastating MS diagnosis, one woman shares her inspirational journey in gratitude and generosity--in this New York Times bestseller.
At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by an intensified struggle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that left her debilitated...
by Annette Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Annette Walker addresses complex education issues facing public higher education and public school systems, particularly in California. Walker provides explanations for hot topics such as, the states fiscal crisis, funding public schools, and President Obamas new Federal Education Reform Initiatives...
America Reborn
A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-six Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Here is the story of America in the twentieth century as told through the lives of twenty-six of its most remarkable and historically crucial men and women.
The people Martin Walker has chosen to portray are presidents, industrialists, artists, thinkers, entertainers, soldiers, spies, criminals,...
by Alan Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of...
Footprints in Aggieland
Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history. He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes...
by Marina Frolova-Walker, Jonathan Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The October Revolution of 1917 tore the fabric of Russian musical life: institutions collapsed, and leading composers emigrated or fell into silence. But in 1932, at the outset of the "socialist realist" period, a new Stalinist music culture was emerging. Between these two dates lies a turbulent...
Franz Liszt, Volume 1
The Virtuoso Years: 1811-1847
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has...
The Dreamers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.
“Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling,...
Producer
Lessons Shared from 30 Years in Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
For the past seventeen years, Wendy Walker has been the "woman behind the man" at Larry King Live. As King's senior executive producer, she has been responsible for landing exclusive interviews with the most important newsmakers and well-known celebrities from around the globe that have...
American Babe
A White Girl Problems Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Author of the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems and Psychos, Babe Walker, faces her most daunting challenge yet—suburbia—in the third caustically witty White Girl Problems book.
Babe Walker thought she had done it all. After all, she’s survived the highly exclusive social...
Return to Fort Apache
Memoir of an Nypd Captain
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
More than thirty years ago, Tom Walker published Fort Apache: New Yorks Most Violent Precinct, introducing the world to the 4-1, a South Bronx precinct that was home to more murders than the entire city of San Francisco. To this day, his story about life as police lieutenant in the 4-1 precinct remains...