Leah: 1160 books

Sarah Leah Chase, co-author of The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, knows that summer means long, lazy days of fun and getting together, of throwing the doors open and inviting over everyone you know for the pleasures of good company and good food. Now, cooks everywhere can create more than 250...

As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share...

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:...

A former senior mujahidin figure and an ex-counter-terrorism analyst cooperating to write a book on the history and legacy of Arab-Afghan fighters in Afghanistan is a remarkable and improbable undertaking. Yet this is what Mustafa Hamid, aka Abu Walid al-Masri, and Leah Farrall have achieved with...

Introduction to Criminology, Tenth Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the study of criminology, focusing on the vital core areas of the field—theory, method, and criminal behavior. With more attention to crime typologies than most introductory texts, authors Frank E. Hagan and Leah Elizabeth...

Victimology: The Essentials, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise core textbook that explores the effects of victimization in the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations. Drawing from the most up-to-date research, this accessible, student-friendly text...

Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed...

Four Texas Babies by Tina Leonard To save his parents’ ranch from falling into the wrong hands, Sam Johnston must marry. A quickie wedding to Lily Bartholomew brings more than he bargained for-including some shocking news about his new in-laws. But the biggest shock of all is that the baby...

Sixty-four years ago, the Blast changed everything.  The modern, interconnected world died and two disparate societies took its place.  The pioneers founded their own world in the frontier of the Fringe.  The rest crowded themselves into dome cities and cut themselves off from the world.  Fringer...

Halloween Night. The scariest and most fun night of the year. A night where our imaginations fill with images of blood thirsty vampires, broom flying witches, evil wizards casting enchantments on us, undead mummies seeking revenge, and flesh ripping werewolves attacking us from the shadows. Be prepared...

It’s been seven years since a depraved act of maniacal egotism altered a family, a whole town, and a young man’s life forever.  It shouldn’t even have been possible, and the implications of such a brazen crime rocked the very foundations of life in the Fringe.  A sheltered, privileged boy abducted...

Second born.  The heir’s spare.  It’s been Oron’s position for his entire life.  Suddenly, he’s ripped from his adventurous pirate life, summoned back to Sehaann.  The princess is dead and Oron is next in line for the throne.  Reluctant, resentful, the prince feels obligated in his duty. ...

Legend says there’s a treasure hoard larger and more valuable than any ever seen on Syndraya.  It’s fabled as the wealth of an extinct race, concealed and enchanted, undiscoverable.  Legend says no one is worthy of claiming such a prize, that the treasure is cursed, that it’s destined to remain...

Life was so much easier when Teagan was only expected to hunt treasure.  But now everyone expects her to be their savior.  She’s not even sure how to survive each day through the uncertainty and doubt that consumes her; she can’t possibly be the beacon of hope they all need.  They look to her...