Shirley Shirley: 1496 books

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Hikers to Walk From East Coast to Vancouver This adventure tale celebrates five Canadians who hiked from Halifax to Vancouver in 1921. For a nation struggling with post-war inflation, labour unrest and unemployment, the 3,645-mile hike was a welcome distraction. Daily reports...

This is the first comprehensive account of African American secondary education in the postwar era. Drawing on quantitative datasets, as well as oral history, this compelling narrative examines how African Americans narrowed the racial gap in high school completion. The authors explore regional variations...

The book is a metaphysical jigsaw puzzle, based on Yeats’ Vision and filled in with the clues Yeats left in virtually all his work. This system brings the cycle the Phases of the Moon, out of general theory into the specific and the particular. This book describes each of the twenty-eight phases...

100 lessons to help you or your loved ones navigate and survive a difficult diagnosis. This book is a useful road map, of sorts, to the newly diagnosed patient and his or her family and friends to make their journey easier. The fewer surprises one has, the more confident and empowered one feels....

Lila’s life is going nowhere, slowly. Tired of everything, and caring for her sick father in a small town, she can barely allow herself to dream about the things she knows will never happen.But it’s hard not to dream about Jonathan Jackson.An encounter with a stranger changes Lila’s...

A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second...

This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World). With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting...

This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate...

Russell Courtney is tasked with finding Charley, one of six young female English croupiers he had taken to war-torn Beirut to run a casino during a long pause in Lebanon's civil war. Before long factional fighting flared up again and, with the imminent prospect of an Israeli invasion, they returned...

If you have a friend, lover, family member or colleague with an addictive personality, then you can’t afford not to buy this book! Consider the following questions: • Do you attract partners who are either needy or engulfing, or fear intimacy and are emotionally unavailable? • Do you...

Transforming Nursing Practice is a series tailor made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is: ·         Affordable ·         Mapped to the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters ·         Focused on applying theory to...

Three full–length novels about heroes who are mad, bad, and dangerous to love... Getting Wild – Sarah Barrie The Devil Wears Prada meets Man vs Wild in this fast–paced romantic comedy set in the no–holds–barred world of travel journalism. When Ella Jameson, editor–in–chief...

Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that...

The purpose of this book is to help people to know that guidance is always available to those who seek it.It is a simple explanation of how we are always guided by spirit, the unseen benevolent forces in our lives and our universe. We only need to be aware and to ask.This book describes...