Willis: 728 books

If your pantry was empty, your children hungry, your electricity cut off for nonpayment, and you saw no prospect of support, what would you do? For a decade in a rural Tennessee community, you went to a shabby building behind a church and found Laura Willis. Running a program to help the needy,...

"El Espíritu de la Navidad y otros relatos agrupa seis cuentos publicados en la revista Asimov's Magazine y dos totalmente originales: comienza con Milagro en el que una oficinista espera que su apuesto compañero se fije en ella en la fiesta de Navidad de la empresa donde trabajan, En la tienda...

Huel Williss adventure began on Boundary Street in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. He looks back at his childhood adventures, the lessons he learned growing up, and his failures and successes in this memoir. Growing up in the 1940s and 1950s meant attending a four-room elementary school with a view...

This book is a pragmatic and creative approach to legal and asset protection issues faced by investors in Texas real estate, particularly investors in residential and smaller commercial properties. It is not intended to be a textbook or comprehensive academic treatise. Rather, it contains practical...

Before The Cross, in the tradition of Ben-Hur and The Robe, is an epic tale of strife and conflict set in the Roman-occupied Mediterranean during the time of Jesus Christ’s principal ministry. Nicolaus, a young Syrian-Greek aristocrat, is falsely accused by the Roman authorities of sedition, condemned...

Travel with seven talented authors as they glimpse through time into Humanity’s future. Will mankind blossom and flourish, conquering the stars and time itself? Or, with selfishness, greed, and just plain bad luck send us all to the brink of destruction? The Cartographer by Samuel A. Mayo:...

Vi è in ogni biografia un punto di rottura, un prima e un poi. Vi è in tutte le narrazioni una perdita di equilibrio: può accadere che qualcosa irrompa o che, come nel caso di queste 14 storie, svanisca. Come avviene a Nathan, scrittore di provincia che abbandona il suo scrittoio in soffitta, sceneggiature...

Vamos partilhar consigo um pequeno segredo: se quer perder os quilos a mais, não precisa de se enfiar num ginásio horas a fio, nem de gastar inutilmente o seu dinheiro em produtos farmacêuticos ou em nutricionistas. Fazer desporto é óptimo, e muitos especialistas dão conselhos válidos. A questão...

The architecture of governance helps in a crisis but it is the values of honesty, transparency, good faith and trust that enables a board to cope when times are hard and to see things through together. A resilient director is one who has developed skills that include the capacity to deal with stretch,...

In this carefully detailed analysis of George Eliot’s life, Cooke  gives special  attention to early influences in her life on her work as novelist and poet:  her childhood, her education, her mother’s death, her changing religious beliefs, contemporary free-thinkers she knew, and the works of such writers as Lamb, Kant, Locke, Emerson, and Heine.

In the 21st century, most people know the life story of young Prince William who one day will be King. But what about the last King William? King William IV reigned from 1830 – 1837 and came to the Throne with a full family of children. However, none were by his wife. Who was this...

He defied an Emperor to be with her. She found the love she had been seeking in his arms. Their passion would ignite the imagination of an Empire. It sounds like a promotion for the latest romance novel, but this story is no work of fiction. Archduke Ernst of Austria, cousin of Emperor Franz...

At the height of their power, the Habsburg family ruled nearly two-thirds of the European continent, but their reign came to end nearly a century ago. Although they are not reigning any longer, there are over a hundred people living today entitled to call themselves Archduke of Austria. What has become...

Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices. More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security....