Jessica: 4351 books
Garden of the Lost and Abandoned
The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala—part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan—does...
The Chronicles of Downton Abbey
A New Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The Great War has ended, but Downton Abbey is far from peaceful...
"Americans can't get enough of 'Downton Abbey,'" said The Boston Globe. As Season 3 of the award-winning TV series opens, it is 1920 and Downton Abbey is waking up to a world changed forever by World War I. New characters...
by Jessica Hagedorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“Travel, history, and a little bit of lore . . . Transports you to the Philippines and is filled with riveting and sometimes dark stories of the capital city.” —Glamour
For the perfect definition of noir, look no further than Manila. The city itself is like a femme fatale: sexy, complicated,...
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Walker Percy (1916–1990) considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great ideas among a broad audience, and, more than half a century after they first appeared in print, his works of fiction continue to fascinate contemporary readers. Despite their lasting appeal, however, Percy’s...
The Mystical Science of the Soul
Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research...
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
College Football and the Politics of Rape
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Jessica Luther is one of the foremost experts on sexual assault and football. This book is based on exhaustive research on all documented cases of sexual assault allegations against college football players.
Luther is a fellow in the Texas Program in Sports and Media at the University of Texas...
Poison Penmanship
The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...
Good Germs, Bad Germs
Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Making Peace with Microbes
Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies...
by Jessica Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims.
Jessica...
Crow After Roe
How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard In Womens Health And How We Can Change That
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
2013 will mark the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one of the most divisive rulings ever to shape American politics. In recent years, attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade have reached a fevered pitch. Since 2010 hundreds of bills banning or creating roadblocks to abortion access, contraception, and...
by Jessica Barber
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Have you ever shared a story with family, or friends about your life and have them rolling on the floor with tears of laughter? I have, many times. Most of my stories contain large amounts of humour, small traces of tragedy, and a pinch of grossness.
It is not often that a person will admit...
by Jessica Buike
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Rhiannon awakes from a two year coma to find the world as she had known it prior to her accident shattered. Her parents are gone, and so is part of her memory. The same nightmare haunts her endlessly, and leads to a road of both discovery and pain as she works hard to uncover what happened so long ago.
The Fringe Hours
Making Time for You
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Every woman has had this experience: you get to the end of the day and realize you did nothing for you. And if you go days, weeks, or even months in this cycle, you begin to feel like you have lost a bit of yourself.
While life is busy with a litany of must-dos--work, parenting, keeping house,...