Leslie: 2389 books
by Leslie Stainton
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
With a rare blend of grace, warmth, and scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garca Lorca. Drawing on fourteen years of research; more than a hundred letters unknown to prior biographers; exclusive interviews with Lorca's...
Failing Up
How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Leslie Odom Jr., burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the...
Tricky Treats
Three Halloween Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Tricky Treats collects three previously published Halloween stories by Mark Leslie that feature unworldly visitors who show up on All Hallow's Eve to unleash the strange and eerie onto our world.
BUT ONCE A YEAR
On Halloween, the dead are allowed to leave their graves and roam around. But one...
by Leslie Meisels
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When 17-year-old Leslie Meisels insisted that his mother and two brothers join a transport leaving Debrecen, Hungary, to go who knows where, that decision luckily put them among the roughly 20,000 “exchange Jews” whose lives had been bartered for cash and military equipment in a secret deal with Adolf Eichmann.
When Anything Goes
Being Christian in a Post-Christian World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Since the beginning, every age has produced apologists who defend and define the Christian faith against current ideas and trends that threaten it. Today’s defenses come while congregations are dwindling, God is removed from schools, and those still looking for answers to faith questions are being...
Fabulous Flying Boats
A History of the World's Passenger Flying Boats
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The history of the development and operations of flying boats in the early twentieth century is a vibrant one, full of colourful characters and experimentation. In 'Fabulous Flying Boats', Leslie Dawson captures this spirit of dynamism, reminding us of the most successful early pioneers of the seaplanes...
Forces for Good
The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last....
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
Bending Toward the Sun
A Mother and Daughter Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacy—forged in the terror of the Holocaust—that has shaped three generations of lives. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie tells the story of her mother, Rita, who like Anne Frank spent years hiding from the Nazis, and whose...
Music Therapy
An art beyond words
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Music therapy is recognised as being applicable to a wide range of healthcare and social contexts. Since the first edition of Music Therapy: An art beyond words, it has extended into areas of general medicine, mainstream education and community practice. This new edition revises the historical...
by Leslie Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A touching and hopeful look at the underworld of the office temp from hilarious author Leslie Carroll.
Meet Alice Finnegan: 30-something, single, and stuck in a cycle of horrific secretarial temp jobs. She's trying to fulfil her childhood ambitions of on-stage stardom while sharing an apartment...
Sand, Sun...Seduction!
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE WRONG MAN THAT FEELS SO RIGHT?
ENTICED by Stephanie Bond
As if attorney Kimber Karlton’s life wasn’t stressful enough, she’s a day late and a boat short for her own romantic getaway at a secluded island retreat. Enter rugged rogue Finn Meyers: ship’s captain,...
by Leslie A. Sprout
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultural battle that reflected the war itself. German occupying authorities promoted German music at the expense of French, while the Vichy administration pursued projects of national renewal...
The Recovering
Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A)
"Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe
"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing...