Jessica: 4351 books
Asking for a Friend
Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice--from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners
Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and...
Claude Rains
An Actor's Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains "was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself." Given his childhood speech impediments and his origins in a destitute London neighborhood, the ascent of Claude Rains (1889--1967) to the stage...
by Jessica Westhead
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The Lesson presents a self-absorbed wedding DJ as the newest addition to Jessica Westhead’s trademark cast of offbeat protagonists. This posturing narrator is showing a new recruit the ropes, but what begins as a monologue full of blue-collar bravado grows more menacing over the course of the night....
Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal
A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Developing a Mixed Methods Proposal by Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby and Paul A. Schutz is a practical, hands-on guide helps beginning researchers create a mixed methods research proposal for their dissertations, grants, or general research studies. The book intertwines descriptions of the components of...
Looking for the Big B
Bollywood, Bachchan and Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
'Jessica,' he pronounced, 'you have known me for seven years. My life has changed seven times. You will never finish this book.'
There is no reason why Amitabh Bachchan and I should appear in the same sentence. He is India's most legendary film star - a mixture of Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino...
The Rhythm of Thought
Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust,...
by Jessica Mills
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Includes Several Delicious and Healthy Vegetarian Recipes for every meal including snacks and appetizers and dessert.
The vegetarian recipes in this book are a mix of mainly Vegan recipes with a few Lacto-ovo vegetarian recipes included. Vegan substitutions are provided for all recipes that...
by Jessica Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A rich collection of poems that take the reader on a deep tour of the psyche. Charting and moving across politics of language, Bell explores love, pain, failure and redemption from a variety of angles. Most of the poems sit at the fragile threshold of instinct and meaning, using symbol and sensation...
Exploring Grace Together
40 Devotionals for the Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Children need more than behavior modification.
They need the gospel.
But every parent knows how hard it can be to communicate the truth of God’s Word and the message of God’s grace in a way that engages the hearts, minds, and affections of the little ones we love so much.
Assisting...
I Love Your Laugh
Finding the Light in My Screwball Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
*The three years I spent in prison taught me to hate. Fork fights and throat punches were my pastimes. But that's how it goes when you've raised yourself on spite and envy.
OK, that wasn't me. Not all comedians come from a dark place. . . .*
In this hilarious memoir, Jessica Holmes,...
Your So-Called Life
A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler, the acclaimed authors of The Hookup Handbook and Friend of Frenemy?, comes Your So-Called Life—a must-have, hilarious, and absolutely unique bible for any woman in her late 20s and 30s who’s making the big move into real adulthood. With invaluable ideas...
Downton Abbey - A Celebration
The Official Companion to All Six Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes’s evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate,...
by Jessica Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
"A tale of forbidden love in epic proportion...Brilliant”—Corinne Michaels, New York Times Bestselling Author
It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. He...
by Jessica Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Floured Felonies, Donut Mystery #27 in the New York Times Bestselling Series by Jessica Beck.
When an ice storm hits April Springs, it freezes more than the trees and power-lines as one of the town’s residents perishes outside. But soon Suzanne and Grace learn that it wasn’t the cold...