Leslie: 2389 books
Looking for Trouble
One Woman, Six Wars and a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never told these...
by Leslie Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist...
At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas's story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble...
Love Affair
A Memoir of a Forbidden Father-Daughter Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
A searing literary memoir of a disconnected childhood, a multigenerational upbringing and incest— from the daughter of legendary jazz pianist Stan Kenton
Leslie Kenton was the only child of Violet, a stunning Hitchcock blonde, and the legendary jazz giant Stan Kenton. The story takes place...
Train to Nowhere
One Woman's World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
One of Hay Festival's 100 Best Books Written by Women in the Last 100 Years
**'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print' Robert McCrum, Observer
'If Evelyn Waugh's Mrs Algernon...
Irreconcilable Differences
Profiles of the Founding Fathers 1750-1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Our Founding Fathers are the great men that won our independence, framed our founding documents, and set this nation in motion.
Discover who they were, what they believed, and why they were willing to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in pursuit of America’s potential....
by Leslie Woodhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
An award-winning and highly distinguished documentary film-maker, Leslie Woodhead has written a funny, sad and highly atmospheric memoir of what it was like to be hurled into maturity amidst the peculiar circumstances of the Cold War.
In the spring of 1956, like two million other men of his...
Walter Benjamin
Overpowering Conformism
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2000
Esther Leslie’s path-breaking study of Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book presently available in English on Benjamin, in seeking to make a case for a more politicised reading of Benjamin’s oeuvre. In looking at the entirety of Benjamin’s work - rather than the four or five essays available...
The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ®
25 Modern and Classic Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK™ presents 25 modern and classic noir (and noir-inspired) and hardboiled tales by writers new and old. Included are: KIDNAPPED EVIDENCE, by Joseph J. Millard A RAT MUST CHEW, by Gary Lovisi A RIDE FOR MR. TWO-BY-FOUR, by Bruno Fischer BEDHEAD FRED’S, REDHEAD’S DEAD, by...
by Leslie Myers
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
At the age of 23, Leslie Myers, young and in love with life, was suddenly afflicted by Crohn's disease. Throughout her 22-year struggle with the disease she experienced chronic fatigue, excruciating stomach pain, countless hospital visits, bowel removal surgery, and an array of medications, often...
Set-Apart Motherhood
Reflecting Joy and Beauty in Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Being a mother is tough, and sometimes life can be hectic and disorganized. The truth is, moms don’t have to accept the chaos or resign themselves to the attitude of “this is just the way it is.” By God’s grace, every mother can purpose not to settle for anything less than His pattern for...
Answering the Guy Questions
The Set-Apart Girls Guide to Relating to the Opposite Sex
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Bestselling author and speaker Leslie Ludy follows up her powerful, ground-breaking release, Set-Apart Femininity, with the book every young woman has been waiting for. How does todays young woman handle the difficult questions surrounding guys, relationships, and waiting for the right one? Leslie uses...
by Leslie Langtry
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
From USA Today bestselling author, Leslie Langtry comes the latest Merry Wrath Mystery that will leave you dying of laughter...
What could be better for former CIA agent turned Girl Scout leader Merry Wrath than taking twelve little girls to Washington DC for a bit of summer fun? Almost anything....
by Leslie Langtry
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes a former CIA agent turned Girl Scout Troop leader, and a murder that will keep you guessing until the end!
Just as Merry Wrath’s former career as a CIA agent seems to be fading into a distant memory, the agent turned Girl Scout troop...
by Leslie Langtry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
From USA Today bestselling author, Leslie Langtry comes a mystery series of laugh-out-loud proportions...
When CIA agent Merry Wrath is "accidentally" outted, she's forced her into early retirement, changes her appearance, and moves where no one will ever find her—Iowa. Instead...