Les: 827 books

Brief, that place in the year when a blossoming pear tree with its sweet laundered scent reinhabits wooden roads that arch and diverge up into electronic snow city. --"Brief, That Place in the Year" In Poems The Size of Photographs, Les Murray deftly maneuvers through familiar themes--the...

A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry Everything widens with distance, in this perspective. The dog's paws, trotting, rotate his end of infinity and dam water feels a shiver few willow drapes share. Bright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beans then rapidly...

This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection-named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australia-exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any...

Where does terror begin?A clothesline at night, warm bath, doctor’s waiting room, antique bed, peaceful office, hospital bed, cab in a storm?But wait… a figure among the washing, unexpected noise downstairs, creepy doctor, a bed growing bigger, workers suddenly becoming agitated,...

LOOMING DESTRUCTION FROM SPACE! It's the beginning of a new golden age of space exploration. Finally, humanity is taking the commercialization of space to the next level—mining asteroids. The new gold rush of the commercial space era has begun. Another commercial venture, an attempt...

Hey. This is a tale of adventure like no other, for young readers, both girls and boys, age 10 and older. Parents are encouraged to read it too. "Young Elizabeth," the short title, is the story of a fifteen year-old girl in the summer before her sophomore year in high school...

Tea, Drums And Speed is just one of a set of short stories; it tells of a 1960s pop band metamorphosing. Elsewhere, there's a story speculating on how those bizarre rumours about 'celebrities' actually start, another about what flashes through the mind in the moments before a car accident and the...

Mutual global wellbeing clashes up against conservative international business-as-usual climate change policies. In a speculated near future, a consortium of High Impact Climate Change Countries opts to leverage geoengineering, the artificial cooling designed after natural volcanic eruptions, when...

Making concrete furniture can be both enjoyable and gratifying and more so if it is for the first time.As you are taken through the stages of turning gravel, sand, cement, and water, into a concrete masterpiece - the end result of your first concrete seat project will be your most anticipated, as...

NYT best-selling authors Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott reveal new techniques based on extensive research that help couples manage conflict constructively - that's the "good fight."

Choosing who to date - and ultimately finding true love - is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. This book is a terrific tool for making your dating life manageable, meaningful, and marketable. Les hits upon the key to a successful dating relationship: That no person can meet all...

The Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women will help you uncover and understand the unique shaping factors you bring into your marriage both as a woman/man and as an individual. Prepare for some surprising and helpful insights, for honest, intimate, and enjoyable relationship-strengthening...

No matter how good your marriage is, it’s not invulnerable. Bad things happen to the best of marriages. The question isn’t whether you’ll face struggles as a couple, but how you’ll handle them when they come. When the going gets tough, what does it take to preserve--and in the long run, even...

Today more than ever, people long for connection. In an age marked by isolation and loneliness, they measure riches in terms of belonging, acceptance, vulnerability, honesty, closeness, and commitment. And what they most want to know is how to make bad relationships better and good relationships great....