Leigh: 2826 books
Roumeli
Travels in Northern Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece—stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past.
Roumeli describes Patrick...
Any Ordinary Day
Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing...
WikiLeaks
Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Published to coincide with the forthcoming film, The Fifth Estate, starring Beneditct Cumberbatch, this tie-in edition contains two new chapters on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and a foreword by Alan Rusbridger.
It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest...
Words of Mercury
Tales from a Lifetime of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler—and travel writer—of the twentieth century.
The adventures of Patrick “Paddy” Leigh Fermor, Britain’s most beloved traveler, began in 1933, when he embarked on a walk from Holland to Constantinople—the entire length of Europe—at...
The Traveller's Tree
A Journey Through the Carribean Islands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes...
In Tearing Haste
Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Now in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence.
In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore...
Through the Veil
One Woman's Journey as a Sensitive
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When author Rhonda Leigh was just six years old, she experienced a medicine dream-a gift of significant knowledge. At the time, she didn't understand the true meaning, but it gave her a glimpse of her life's work. In Through the Veil, Leigh shares her experiences of being a sensitive and how it has...
Phenomenal
A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love
“What a cool and fascinating ride. Leigh Ann Henion has tackled one of the great questions of contemporary, intelligent, adventurous women: Is it possible to be a wife and mother and still explore the world? Her answer...
by Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between...
Kiss Me, Cooper
A Hale Street Novella
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Georgia Montgomery left behind a promising future when she left home following a tragedy. As a paralegal at an up-and-coming law firm on idyllic Hale Street in Nashville, Georgia buried her past – and her dreams – to build a new life. Convincing Cooper Quinn, a reclusive and cranky-but-oh-so-devastating...
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 18, January 2016 - Featuring Leigh Bracket (scriptwriter for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
Galaxy's Edge, #18
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 18: January 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Robert J. Sawyer, Lou J Berger, Rene Sears, Janis Ian, Robert T. Jeschonek, Jack Skillingstead,...
Write Home of the Sunset
Twenty Days in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Twenty days in a country is not long. But in twenty days you can smell spices, taste coffee, hear the call to prayer, and see mosques and minarets. Visit the Gallipoli peninsula and feel a hundred years on what it must have been like to be an ANZAC in 1915. When it comes to impacting the senses, Turkey...