Wendy: 2322 books
by Wendy Glidden
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This is the second volume in my life series. It takes you from age 17 to 23. To give you a general idea of what stories I share in this book, I will confide I originally referred to them as my dark ages. I am not proud of many things I did of my own accord but I did them. Your story is your story....
by Wendy Glidden
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This book is the beginning of my true life story. It takes you from my earliest memories all the way through my sixteenth year. It is full of everything you could put into a romance or fiction novel about a preteen.From learning about God to trying to outsmart Him, as well as my first love...
The Children of Chinatown
Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.
Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a...
The Chinese Kitchen Garden
Growing Techniques and Family Recipes from a Classic Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
“A delightful and approachable guide to Chinese kitchen gardening.”—Fuchsia Dunlop, author of Land of Plenty and Land of Fish and Rice**
The Chinese Kitchen Garden, by Wendy Kiang-Spray artfully blends the story of her family’s cultural heritage with growing information for 38 Chinese...
All Is Not Forgotten
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama...it is, in a word, unforgettable." --William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOB
Wendy Walker's All Is Not Forgotten begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect.
Until...
Born Survivors
Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to...
The Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser’s call for original essays on the subject of language–the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the...
by Wendy Lustbader
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.
When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410"...
by Wendy Lesser
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writer Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and...
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading.
Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal—it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor...
Jerome Robbins
A Life in Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company....
by Wendy Lower
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia examines the contents and context of a rare diary written by a Jewish man from Nazi-occupied Poland. Serving as both a record and an artifact of Samuel Golfard’s life, the diary details his attempt to make sense of and resist the event that...
How to Create the Perfect Wife
Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. But after being...
by Wendy Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Julie Hall is finally adjusting to her new career: locating dead bodies with dowsing rods.
The crime scene is drenched with blood, but the body is nowhere to be found.
When a grieving mother requests Julie’s help tracking the body of her missing daughter, Julie is hesitant. Not only...