Diane: 2892 books

Part introspective soul searching, part cultural analysis, Tribal tackles the controversies plaguing college athletics, tracing the dubious historical underpinnings of Americans’ most popular sport, offering a visceral and often funny analysis of its tribal thrills and deep contradictions. Florida...

Kobe Bryant is an American basketball superstar who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers and has a net worth of $220 million. Kobe Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Joe Bryant, was a former player for the Philadelphia 76ers. His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe,...

Safe Text is the first in a series of books on helping parents and teachers to protect teens from the dangers of technology.This book covers the dangers and legal liabilities of texting, texting while driving, sexting, and cyber-bullying. The book tells parents what they can do to dialog with their teens about this topic.

Nestled in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago, Barrington offers a treasure-trove of fascinating history and area lore. Meet the passionate guardians of this bucolic landscape who embody the pioneering midwestern spirit. While the community maintains a proud tradition of civic improvement and conservation,...

Who might have need of this book?Those poor in spirit.The depressedAnyone fighting an illness, or helping someone who is.Mourning the loss of a loved one, money, home, or job.Those in need of comfort for enumerable reasons.Someone living in fear.The persecuted.Addicts...The list goes...

Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent. One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello’s life is changed...

The Screenwriter’s Path takes a comprehensive approach to learning how to write a screenplay—allowing the writer to use it as both a reference and a guide in constructing a script. A tenured professor of screenwriting at Emerson College in Boston, author Diane Lake has 20 years' experience writing...

For this book, author Diane Conway approached a police officer, a waitress, a politician, a lawyer, a cab driver, and many others, and asked them each the same question: "What would you do if you had no fear?" The results, chronicled in this book, were both surprising and enlightening. Her...

Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates...

The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...

Although it was illegal, secret, and against the express commands of his famously mad father, King George IV of England married twice--once for duty and once for love. While Caroline of Brunswick eventually became his lawful queen, it was the beautiful Maria Fitzherbert, recognized as his wife by...

A year after the sinking of the Titanic, four teens try to cope with memories of that horrific night It’s April 1913, and survivors of the RMS Titanic have gathered to remember those who didn’t make it onto the lifeboats. Debutante Elizabeth Farr, who had been in first class, lost her father....

...If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy’s life… THREE FULL-LENGTH NOVELS! Never Say Spy OMNIBUS ONE contains the first three books of the Never Say Spy series: Book 1: NEVER SAY SPY Despite her penchant for weapons and ripe language, Aydan Kelly’s resumé...

Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages -- poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the stigma of being unmarried in a man's world. Her...