Books from Anchor Books
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I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother : a Novel
By Allison PearsonKate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance--often unsuccessfully--on the tightrope of work and home.
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Polk's Folly: An American Family History
By William R. PolkThomas's replacement as commissioner general was one of the army's most dashing commanders, Colonel William R. Davie. Davie also wanted to fight rather than to become a quartermaster, and in trying to evade the assignment, ...
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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
By Juliet EilperinJanette and Jacques du Toit make their living by targeting game and reef fish off the coasts of South Africa and Mozambique, and they're well aware of the danger they face in the water. They've had friends attacked by sharks—a spear ...
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Return to Laughter
By Elenore Smith BowenHe would, he announced, send Lam. Immediately I resolved to go along; this was the first I'd heard of Lam's return and I wanted to hear more about Atakpa's marriage; I still didn't know how one forbade a stomach ache.
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School Processes, Local Governance and Community Participation: Understanding Access
By Sara Humphreys, Máiréad Dunne, Kwame AkyeampongThe specific focus of this review concerns research on the relations within and between schools, communities and local governance institutions and their combined influence on access within local contexts.
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The Birds of Berkshire: Atlas and Avifauna
By Colin Wilson, Neil Bucknell, Brian ClewsThe Birds of Berkshire: Atlas and Avifauna
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Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and Lives It Ruled
By John DeMontI based much of the summary of the mass migration from Scotland to Cape Breton that follows on Stephen Hornsby's book, Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton, A Historical Geography (Montreal and Kingston, Ont.: McGillQueen's University Press, ...
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Inferno
By Dan BrownIn the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and ...
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Discover English 5
By Catherine Bright, Elizabeth Kilbey, Liz KilbeyDiscover English 5
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The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America
By Addison GayleThe hero , John Pearson , is a realist living in an environment haunted still by the ghosts of Harris , Dixon , and Page . It is one in which the images created long ago are still adhered to by Blacks and whites alike and the dramatic ...
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Paye: A Practical Guide 2012-13
By Sarah BradfordPaye: A Practical Guide 2012-13
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
By James WolcottThe menu included four dips and second helpings of Justin Timberlake shaming. One attendee said, “I would like to go on record that no one else in this room actually owns the Justin Timberlake CD. At St. Ann's we're too cool for popular ...
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Charles Kuralt's Flr
By Charles KuraltCharles Kuralt's Flr
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
By Karen ArmstrongThe award-winning author of A History of God shares practical recommendations for promoting world peace by cultivating one's intrinsic tendencies for compassion, outlining a program for achieving mindfulness and engaging in acts of kindness ...
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Dracula in Love
By Karen EssexIn the interim, I was busy caring for Jonathan, who suffered a relapse upon our arrival when he discovered that Mr. Hawkins was ill. After years of enduring painful ailments brought on by severe ulcers, the old man had been diagnosed ...
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The Case Against Sugar
By Gary TaubesIt was Willis who appended the term “ mellitus ” ( “ from honey " ) to the name of the disease . * Willis attributed the diabetes he was seeing among his wealthy London patients to “. * Willis's testimony stands as an exception to the ...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
By Karen ArmstrongInformed by Armstrong's sweeping erudition and personal commitment to the promotion of compassion, Fields of Blood makes vividly clear that religion is not the problem.
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The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: the Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime
By Jason Turbow, Michael DucaTake someone like Hugh Casey, who was never able to become a fulltime starter over his nine-year big-league career in the 1930s and '40s, but was nonetheless one of the most feared pitchers in the game, a reputation owed mostly to his ...
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You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a Twenty-First-Century Soldier's Mission to Bring...
By Bryan BenderAs a toddler at Fort Carson, Colorado, George S. Eyster V (shown here with his father) was surrounded by the trappings of Army life. Eysterfamily photo George, pictured in 1997 with his father and Grandma Harriet,
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Geology of the Bu Hasa 1: 100 000 Map Sheet, 100-25, United Arab Emirates
By A.R. Farrant, J.E. Merritt, G.A.T. DullerGeology of the Bu Hasa 1: 100 000 Map Sheet, 100-25, United Arab Emirates