Lisa: 7533 books
Split
A Counterculture Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
In Split, Lisa Michaels offers a strikingly textured portrait of her days of communes and road trips, of antiwar protests and rallies --- and of what came after, for her parents and herself --- as the radicalism of the 1960s and '70s gave way to conservative times. As a young child, Michaels visited...
by Lisa Gardner
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Em uma noite quente de verão, em um bairro de classe média de Boston, um crime inimaginável foi cometido: quatro membros da mesma família foram brutalmente assassinados. O pai — e possível suspeito — agora está internado na UTI de um hospital, entre a vida e a morte. Seria um caso de assassinato...
by Lisa Gardner
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 25, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 25, 2018
"Lisa Gardner é uma das melhores autoras de suspense" Harlan Coben Após uma tragédia que o separou por oito anos de sua irmã mais nova, Sharlah, o jovem Telly ressurge como o principal suspeito de uma onda de assassinatos. Só uma pessoa é capaz de desenhar o perfil do criminoso: o hábil ex-agente...
The Archive Thief
The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs...
The Sorcerer's Apprentices
A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
WHAT GOES ON BEHINDTHE SCENES AT ELBULLI?
Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, elBulli is where chef Ferran Adrià’s remarkable cuisine comes to life—with dragon cocktails that make the drinker breathe smoke and caviar made from tiny spheres...
Career Comeback
Repackage Yourself to Get the Job You Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Unfortunately, getting older can be a career killer. That's what entertainment journalist Lisa Johnson Mandell discovered when she sent out a resume that made her sound like an aged veteran. Her new career makeover guide-expanded from the Wall Street Journal article about revamping her "older"...
Dogs of Courage
The Heroism and Heart of Working Dogs Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
A celebration of the amazing canines who perform feats of bravery every day
Dogs don't just make lovable pets. They also work at an incredible number of jobs, helping humans in countless ways. From working with search-and-rescue teams to find missing persons to helping patients recover from...
by Lisa Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In the wake of an oil-rig disaster, a widow tries to rebuild her life in this novel by “an astonishing writer” (Richard Ford).
Inspired by the tragic sinking of the Ocean Ranger during a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982, February follows the life of Helen O’Mara, widowed...
by Lisa Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This is story #1 from Holiday Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories. Each of these fun, sexy shorts is 8,000-12,000 words in length. The stories are connected by a loose thread that ties up in a fab happy ending, bringing together characters from all the stories.
Individual stories are .99 or buy...
by Lisa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and...
Vancouver Is Ashes
The Great Fire of 1886
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
On the morning of June 13, 1886, a rogue wind fanned the flames of a small clearing fire—and within five hours, the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, had been reduced to smoldering ash. Vancouver is Ashes: The Great Fire of 1886 is the first detailed exploration of what happened...
Before I Met You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
“Lisa Jewell leaves the chick-lit tag firmly behind with Before I Met You, a poignant story about a young woman uncovering her grandmother’s bohemian life in 1920s London—and finding her own place in the world in the process.”—Good Housekeeping (UK)
“Jewell’s moving novel immerses...
"Multiplication Is for White People"
Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the MacArthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People’s Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America’s public schools
As MacArthur Award–winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as...
The Unbanking of America
How the New Middle Class Survives
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenching. A significant contribution.”—American Prospect
Why Americans are fleeing...