Jake: 853 books
Wearing the Green Beret
A Canadian with the Royal Marine Commandos
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
With the authenticity of Jarhead and Bravo Two Zero and the straight-up narrative of Contact Charlie, this military memoir describes what really goes on in the training of an elite soldier and his tours in Afghanistan.
In 2004, Jake Olafsen signed up for the Royal Marines Commandos. He left...
Among You
The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken by War
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Among You is the gripping real-life story of a soldier serving on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an unforgettable, unflinching account of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jake Wood lives parallel lives: encased in the glass tower of an international investment bank...
by Orson Scott Card, Jake Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Authorized Ender Companion is a complete and in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in Orson Scott Card's Ender Universe. Written by Jake Black under the editorial supervision of Card himself, The Authorized Ender Companion will be an invaluable resource for readers...
by Jake Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' "interior house-sculpture" ("Merz Structure No. 2") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building...
Santa vs. Satan
The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
“Who would win between . . .” has through the ages been one of man’s most fundamental questions. Sadly, adult responsibilities like “earning a living” and “having a girlfriend” have conspired to make it impossible for men to devote to this issue the scholarship it so deeply deserves....
Down & Dirty
The Plot to Steal the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
Acclaimed journalist, Jake Tapper explains what actually happened, who got away with what and how both sides, Democrats and Republicans, plotted to steal the presidency in 2000.
Vice
Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
The riveting, disturbing exposé of the vice president who co-opted executive control over the U.S. government and became the “shadow president” of the George W. Bush administration.
Dick Cheney was the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He thrived alongside...
Understories
The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the...
Alaska Tales
Laughs and Surprises
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
You should buy this book. It will make you laugh. It is full of stories you'll want to read again, and again. You'll tell your friends about it. Thinking about it will make you smile during boring meetings. People will wonder what you are up to. On a bad day, when you've screwed up at work, your wife...
by Jake Vigliotti
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Quite simply the most challenging trivia you’ve ever tried. Pop culture, history, music, politics, sports all presented in 52 rounds to test your knowledge! 1325 questions that will present to you the greatest trivia hurdle you've attempted. It's a history lesson in every question!
One Kid at a Time
A Single Dad, a Boy in Foster Care and an Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
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"Dekker's ability...is striking. It would be easy for a memoir dealing with this subject to veer into an angry, ranting outburst, but Dekker's restrained writing conveys the chaos with refined dignity. Dekker is refreshingly honest...Which makes the story all the more poignant...
Igniting the Fire
The Movements and Mentors Who Shaped Billy Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Everyone knows Billy Graham. . .but who knows what propelled him to world prominence as the greatest evangelist of his time? Find out in Igniting the Fire. This brand-new biography focuses on Graham’s formative years, from his boyhood through college, to his bursting onto the national scene in 1949....
Alaska Flying
Surviving Incidents & Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
LASKA FLYING: Surviving Incidents and Accidents encompass many short stories about Jake's experiences gained from 1967 to the present as a pilot in Alaska. Though he logged time as pilot in command in other parts of the world, including Southern Rhodesia, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Hawaii, Arizona and other locations, the stories in this collection relate exclusively to Alaskan flying.
by Jamie Alexzander, Jake Stratton-Kent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Just as ‘goes’ is an ancient term for a magician working with spirits of the Underworld, so ‘pharmakos’ represents a magician working with herbs, alchemical processes and so forth. The types are not mutually exclusive, and accordingly there are spirits of the True Grimoire who work with alchemy,...