L Smith: 638 books
It's Addicting
Status Updates, #3
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Obsessing over status, grades, exercise or a boyfriend could never become an addiction…could it?This third installment of the Status Updates series finds four college sophomore roommates finally getting comfy with the routines of dorm life. But Kat, Claire, Palmer, and Hannah soon begin to feel the...
The Predicament
How Did It Happen? How Bad Is It? The Case For Radical Change Now!
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In The Predicament, Dartmouth- and Stanford-trained economist and futurist David L. Smith reveals how the present domestic economic, financial and political dysfunctions emerged after the relatively balanced and prosperous Eisenhower years. In foreign policy, the author vividly describes the fulfillment...
by W.L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Imagine . . . a new lease on life? New York City , the near future: John Smith is a simple, 46-year-old artist who is lives a semi-reclusive existence in NYC. Stricken with cancer, Smiths undergoes a dramatic change when he falls prey to a covert, cutting-edge government project. Now, with his body...
Propel
Good Stewardship, Greater Generosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Pastors and other church leaders often feel ill-equipped in the critical area of stewardship and giving. Propel: Good Stewardship, Greater Generosity fills that need by offering a comprehensive course in church stewardship for the pastor, stewardship leader, or seminarian. Author Clayton Smith gives...
by Laura L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
There's a reason Facebook has the Status Update, "It's Complicated." Follow four college roommates, Claire, Palmer, Hannah, and Kat as they maneuver crushes, confusion, and the crisis when pushy boys go too far. Complicated as it is, these four friends will pull through, guided by the strength...
by Barbara G.Tarn, Dean Wesley Smith, Gerald Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Starships in all their glory! FTL drive, microgravity or stargates. Trapped, stranded or moving from place to place. Warships, space shuttles, generation ships. Shipwrecks, transports, intergalactic accidents.
Humor and drama across the Milky Way and beyond! 10 stories of starships and their...
Teaching Particulars
Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth grade—and any avid reader—in the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis; plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett; poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge,...
Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual
Or I Was Cursed by Polly Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
A 2015 Reader's Favorite Finalist, this tale of sex, loss, redemption and pharmaceuticals in the modern AIDS era that will make you laugh, break your heart, and inspire you. Leslie L. Smith's #SFCPT is a coming-of-age story - a teenage gay runaway turned hustler, David Matthews, is on a journey to...
Black Africans in the British Imagination
English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically,...
by Laura L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Originally published in 2010
Who do you blame when your world comes crashing down?
Watching her parents go through a divorce is devastating for Emma and has turned her life into a tailspin. She's angry at everyone around her--her siblings she always has to baby-sit, her parents for ruining her life,...
Humanomics
Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time...
Discovering Your Missional Potential
An Encounter with Ephesians 4 and How Jesus Lives It
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
This "village group" study (for a gathering of 6-12 people) isn't for those who have their "church stuff" together. It's for people who are willing to explore the life of Jesus and the Bible ... and to potentially become agents of change -- creating a world that looks more like...
Freedom's Frontier
California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific...
Stories from Afield
Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West’s most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the...