Lesley: 835 books

Katy Speed tem 23 anos e o sonho de viver em Londres, longe da pequena cidade de Bexhill-On-Sea e do temperamento difícil da mãe.Enquanto não consegue escapar, acompanha avidamente a vida de Gloria Reynolds, a simpática e glamorosa vizinha da frente. Para Katy, entediada com a pacatez do seu dia...

"Ao se aproximar, David percebeu, para seu horror, que era uma mulher. Suas pernas desnudas ainda estavam dentro da água e, quando as ondas chegavam, levantavam a saia do vestido e faziam com que se agitassem. A cabeça não ficou visível até que ele se aproximasse, e David percebeu que ela...

No início da primeira guerra, Jimmy, o marido de Belle Reilly, é levado para as trincheiras mortais do norte da França e Belle percebe que não pode ficar de braços cruzados quando tantos estão sacrificando suas vidas. Armada de coragem e boa vontade, ela se torna voluntária como motorista da...

Londres, 1842. Bastará uma boa acção para levar Matilda Jennings das ruelas lamacentas de Londres rumo às cintilantes luzes da América...Aquele podia ter sido um dia como tantos outros na vida de Matilda, uma pobre vendedora de flores. Mas aquele é o dia em que Matilda salva a vida de uma criança...

This book is about the difficulty of endings, but it is also about learning from the endings that we know have gone wrong as well as those that have worked well. It sets out how the psychological therapist can help a person to live well while life is available, and to face the endings that confront...

Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our food supply and contributing to the air we breathe, but they are easy to take for granted and have received insufficient attention in the social sciences. This book advances understanding of human-plant relations using the example of...

Herbs and Natural Supplements, 4th Edition: An evidence-based guide is an authoritative, evidence-based reference. This two-volume resource is essential to the safe and effective use of herbal, nutritional and food supplements. The second volume provides current, evidence-based monographs on...

Before children are readers and writers, they are speakers and listeners. This book provides creative, hands-on strategies for developing preschoolers' speaking, listening, and oral comprehension skills, within a literacy-rich classroom environment. Each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes;...

We are brought up in a world where living in fear is both encouraged and accepted. Its normal to feel doubt, to feel guilt, to feel anger, to feel a failure. Its normal to lack enjoyment, self-confidence, and fulfilment. Its normal to live our lives according to what other people want of us, or what...

Have you been refused legal aid and can't afford to pay a lawyer? Do you need to represent yourself in a civil law case and don't know where to start? You're not alone. Since the government slashed entitlement to legal aid in 2013 there has been a 60% increase in people acting as their own...

Compiled by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, the World Food Programme, the World Bank and the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development, this is the first sourcebook of its kind to document government-led school feeding programmes in low and middle income...

Acknowledged and accepted by all as the son of Arthur, Mordred struggles with insecurity, wishing he wielded one of the great talisman gifts from the god Emrys. He wants the world to know he too is special, that he is his own man and more than a progeny, but he doesn't realise that once accepted the gifts cannot be returned, however hellish they are.

Dopo Wondrous Strange (2009) e Darklight (2010) si concludono qui le imprese e gli amori di Kelley Winslow, principessa del mondo delle fate e del suo amato Sonny Flannery, che senza saperlo ha il potere di connettere il mondo dei mortali con il regno degli essere fatati. Il loro amore, fattosi strada...

Time heals all wounds. Except hers. Will immortal Viper overcome the power surging within herself even as Queens of Britain try to control her? To enhance the life-magic of the people she feeds upon, Viper ensures Tudor Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen of England. The villainous immortal also...