Patricia: 6176 books
Improv Wisdom
Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of the art of improvisation explains how to adopt the attitudes and techniques used by generations of musicians and actors.
Let’s face it: Life is something we all make up as we go along. No matter...
The Modern Castrato
Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic opera reform, and many forward-thinking...
Vent de glace
Une enquête de Kay Scarpetta
Language: French
Release Date: March 26, 2014
« La médecine légale et le détail qui tue : Vent de glace mêle paléontologie, sérial killer et plongée en eaux froides ! » Grazia
Le livre : Une éminente paléontologue disparaît d’un site de fouilles renfermant des ossements de dinosaures au fin fond du Canada. Un message macabre...
Behind Every Successful Psychopath
Why Karla Homolka was the perfect match for Paul Bernardo
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
"In my 1998 book No Claim to Mercy, about the controversial murder conviction of Robert Baltovich, I devoted quite a few pages to the infamous crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka because there was a compelling case to be made that Bernardo was the man responsible for the disappearance...
The Art of Dying
Facing Your Own Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
“The Art of Dying speaks to modern readers with refreshing frankness and wit. It covers the subject thoroughly, from how to inform relatives of impending death, to coping with pain and fear, to death rituals, to preparing for a possible afterlife or, depending on one’s viewpoint, the end of it...
Happy Ever After
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
International bestseller Patricia Scanlan explores the end of the honeymoon phase for a newlywed couple in this warm and evocative novel featuring “Scanlan at her best” (Irish Independent).
When the honeymoon is over, real life begins...
Newly married Debbie is at her wits’ end...
Forgive and Forget
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In Patricia Scanlan’s “evocative and entertaining read which deals with the tensions that can arise at weddings between modern day families” (Irish Post), a family must work to ensure that an upcoming wedding will bring them together—rather than tear them apart.
There's nothing like...
Pen Portraits
Women writers and journalists in nineteenth century Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1988
Pen Portraits tells the story of the achievements of Australia's earliest women writers.
Despite being confined to a life within the home in a frontier society, some talented (and very determined) women in colonial Australia carved out careers as writers. Among them were writers of popular...
Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships,...
by Patricia Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Under the leadership of Samuel Adams, patriot propagandists deliberately and conscientiously kept the issue of slavery off the agenda as goals for freedom were set for the American Revolution. By comparing coverage in the publications of the patriot press with those of the moderate colonial press,...
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet’s regime (1973–1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman...
by Kathryn Shay, Patricia McLinn, Judith Arnold & Julie Ortolon
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Let best-selling authors Kathryn Shay, Patricia McLinn, Judith Arnold and Julie Ortolon take you on the life-changing journeys of four men who find their soul mates in four very strong women. Four complete novels in one volume.
COP OF THE YEAR, Book One of the Bayview Heights series--When Captain...
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
A Home Child Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of...
by Patricia Monaghan, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
More Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the World Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded history,...