Susan: 10531 books
by Susan Wiggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs sweeps you away with this beloved story of a fairytale holiday romance…
Ace reporter Jack Riley loves his job, or at least he did until Madeleine angston took over as publisher for the Courier. The perfect blonde ice queen is a daunting presence...
An American Radical:
Political Prisoner in My Own Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
On a November night in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat in the passenger seat of a U-Haul as it swerved along the New Jersey Turnpike. At the wheel was a fellow political activist. In the back were 740 pounds of dynamite and assorted guns.
That night I still believed with all my heart that what Che...
The Betrayal of Trust
A Simon Serailler Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
In The Betrayal of Trust, she has written the most chilling and unputdownable book yet. Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England. The small cathedral town of Lafferton is underwater, and a landslip on the moor has closed the roads. As the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave““and...
The Risk of Darkness
A Simon Serrailler Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
We met Simon Serrailler first in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart. Susan Hill's third crime novel, The Risk of Darkness-perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors-explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, whose derangement turns...
The Education of a Teacher
Including Dirty Books and Pointed Looks
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
In 1968, at age twenty-one, I was sure I had all the answers I needed to know about teaching five classes a day in a real high school I had no idea how nave I was! Every teachers career is a journey of discovery that begins with rookie insecurities and moves toward self-confidence and understanding....
by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan S. Lanser, Catherine Burgass
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third...
Birthing a Nation
Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Birthing a Nation is about national identity and the American West. If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what happened if you were female? Most past interpretations of western American literature have echoed Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier hypothesis,...
Grotesque Relations
Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state...
Kremlin Rising
Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents.
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet...
The Benefactor
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream...
by Susan McCreery
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
‘This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity, offers a shining resilience, personal insight and shared comfort…we are enjoined, a chorus.’ – Les Wicks Few poets express the meeting of nature and emotion as tenderly as Susan McCreery. Her poems open with images of nature and draw...
When Heroes Love
The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women."...
Just Breathe
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
What happens when a cartoonist’s life gets turned upside-down? Find out in this contemporary romance by New York Times bestseller Susan Wiggs!
Sarah Moon tackles life’s issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing...
Coco Chanel
Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco’s development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent...