Lisa: 7533 books
The Dance of Politics
Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Election campaigns, political events, and national celebration days in Malawi usually feature groups of women who dance and perform songs of praise for politicians and political parties. These lively performances help to attract and energize throngs of prospective voters. However, as Lisa Gilman explains,...
by Lisa Maliga
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Former bakery employee Brenda Nevins is now a successful romance author of the Yolanda’s Yummery book series. Best friend and agent, Samantha Ho, has gotten her a movie deal and a reality TV show about her forthcoming bakery, named after her bestselling series. The frosting on Brenda’s cake is...
Carry On
A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In the spirit of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights comes a tender and profoundly moving memoir about an ESPN producer’s unexpected relationship with two disabled wrestlers from inner city Cleveland, and how these bonds—blossoming, ultimately, into a most unorthodox family—would transform...
by Lisa Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
His Victims. . .
A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive--and her last breath is a scream that no one but a sadistic...
Travellers in Magic
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Fifteen stories of ordinary lives that take fantastic turns
Robert never quite feels at home with Cassie’s family, a gang of eccentrics including a reptile smuggler, a worshipper of Osiris, and an old woman who believes her photographs can see into the future. When he breaks up with Cassie,...
Naked Came the Phoenix
A Serial Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Thirteen of today's hottest female crime novelists--one thrilling mystery: Naked Came the Phoenix
The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after...
Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
Memoir of a Borderline Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" - unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner...
14 Days
A Mother, A Daughter, A Two Week Goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How do you let go of a hand you've held your whole life?
When Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day weekend to turn into an extraordinary 14-day observance of her mother’s life – and ultimately – death. From a child’s first...
A Thousand Sisters
My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Lisa J. Shannon had a good life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened to the atrocities there—millions dead, women raped and...
Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen
An Ordinary Familys Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
International human rights activist Lisa Shannon spent many afternoons at the kitchen table having tea with her friend Francisca Thelin, who often spoke of her childhood in Congo. Thelin would conjure vivid images of lush flower gardens, fish the size of small children, and of children running barefoot...
by Lisa Howorth
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able...
How to Date Like a Grown-Up
Everything You Need to Know to Get Out There, Get Lucky, or Even Get Married in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
"Witty and smart, this is a must-read for any woman ready to find Mr. Right. Or at least Mr. Right Now."
Christopher Hopkins, Oprah's Makeover Guy and author of Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival for Women Over 45
By the time you hit forty, you have a pretty good idea...
Global Interests
Renaissance Art Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as "civilized," Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the attention of the powerful Ottoman Empire. Global Interests explores the historical interactions that arose from...
by Lisa Appignanesi
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In her quest she flew to Warsaw -...