Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer.
He was from Pasadena and reminded me of limmy Stewart. Lou was tall and thin, with horn-rimmed glasses, and he always wore a bow tie. As for the shorthand, the only symbol I could remember was "Dear Sir," which was also the symbol ...
It seemed like a good idea at the time… Every summer three families take a trip together—this year it’s to a remote resort in the mountains of upstate New York.
It's a must read."Jesse's attention to detail made this book hard to put down. As a youngster, I grew up visiting the sets watching Jesse work with my father (a veteran stuntman himself).
This is an incredible entrance onto the YA scene, and will cement Kylie Scott as a must-read for anyone who picks it up.” —Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of The Illuminae Series “Heart-pounding, realistic and ...
In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the ...
Check. But nobody does complicated like the one percent. This is not your everyday rags-to-riches, knight-in-shining armor whisking the poor girl off her feet kind of story. No, this is much messier. “Rich Boy takes you on a literal ride!
Simpson, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, had turned to Robert Campbell for help. Campbell was of Scottish origin, born the son of a successful sheep farmer in Glenlyon, Perthshire, Scotland, on February 21, 1808.
Forgotten Fads and Fabulous Flops: An Amazing Collection of Goofy Stuff that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
These twelve essays present a wide-ranging methodological scope, from industrial histories to ecocritical approaches, auteurist analysis to queer and other ideological angles.