Chris: 8154 books
Doggone Romance
A Main Street Romance Flirt
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
Welcome to Romance Virginia and the first Main Street Romance Flirt.
What's a flirt you ask? Think of them like an episode of a TV show bringing you snippets of life in your favorite romance world.
A weekend road trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains is just the escape Kelly Harrison...
Hardball
How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999
How politics is played by one who knows the game...
Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of...
The Inheritance of Rome
Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
**"The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK)
"A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary...
Admiral Byng
His Rise and Execution
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Born the son of George Byng, a favorite of the king and himself an admiral and member of the admiralty board (and later First Lord of the Admiralty), John Byng seemed destined for a shining career in the Royal Navy. He saw his first fleet action at Cape Passaro, the elder Byng's finest hour, as a...
The Interrogators
Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
An unprecedented look at the front line of the war against terror: the inside story of five American interrogators, thousands of prisoners, and the race for the truth. More than 3,000 prisoners in the war on terrorism have been captured, held, and interrogated in Afghanistan alone. But no one knows...
The Cell
Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In The Cell, John Miller, an award-winning journalist and coanchor of ABC's 20/20, along with veteran reporter Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell, takes readers back more than 10 years to the birth of the terrorist cell that later metastasized into al Qaeda's New York operation. This remarkable book...
Reform Acts
Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both...
The Rise of the Tudors
The Family That Changed English History
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a twenty–eight year old Welshman who had just arrived...
by Chris Spiller
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
The book is a factual investigation into the true origins of Christianity, with very controversial conclusions.
An intensive 6-year period of investigating and reviewing many historical documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls, University archives, USA microfilm, the Bible etc which conclude that...
The Gods of Battle
The Thracians at War, 1500 BC - 150 AD
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Herodotus described the Thracians (who inhabited what is now roughly modern Bulgaria, Romania, the European part of Turkey and northern Greece) as the most numerous nation of all - apart from the Indians - and said that they would be the most powerful of all nations if they didn’t enjoy fighting...
by Chris Dortch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook is considered the "bible" of college football, an annual preview that includes 3,000- to 4,500-word previews on all 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams. Blue Ribbon is read by avid fans, ABC, CBS and ESPN broadcasters, radio play-by-play announcers, FBS coaches and NFL scouts. See why the ESPN GameDay crew has to have Blue Ribbon.
Fresh Air
Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
We’ve all gone through times in our lives when we feel like we need a fresh breeze to breathe new life into us. But what is that energy-giving, life-breathing force that inspires and empowers us? How do we put the wind in our sails again, so we can get unstuck, reset our compass, and redirect our...
Roberto Bolaño's Fiction
An Expanding Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging...
Hoops Nation
A Guide to America's Best Pick-Up Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1998
Find out where to play and what to expect in this street-smart and entertaining b-ball bible
For the millions of roundball junkies who are not in the NBA or the new WNBA, hoop dreams are lived out on playgrounds and in old gyms, in informal games that can be every bit as competitive as their...