Lesley: 835 books
by Lesley Choyce
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks and the record books of...
by Lesley Crewe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest?
Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she’s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d’Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who’s not even her husband....
by Nicholas Royle, Guy Ware, Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...
Hitchcock's Stars
Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Studio System
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Although he was a visual stylist who once referred to actors as cattle, Alfred Hitchcock also had a remarkable talent for innovative and creative casting choices. The director launched the careers of several actors and completely changed the trajectory of others, many of whom created some of the most...
by Lesley Crewe
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her welloff aunt, the only other normal person in...
Congress and the People’s Contest
The Conduct of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...
Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition
A Compendium of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful Words, Phrases, Praises, Insults, Idioms, and Literary Flourishes from Eras Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Too often, when struggling to find just the right turn of phrase, exclamation of joy, or witty barb, it's easy to forget that history is positively brimming with rich words deserving of rejuvenation. Lesley M. M. Blume gathers forgotten words, phrases, names, insults, and idioms, plus fascinating...
by Lesley A. Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
“Arthur Hildersham is, to a large extent, a forgotten Puritan. Since Samuel Clarke compiled a thirteen-page account of his life in the seventeenth century, there has been no biography of Hildersham. But during his lifetime, Hildersham was one of the most revered and prominent Puritan figures. His story,...
Empires of the Plain
Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
"Well-told story of a life dedicated to scholarship, with great adventures and derring-do an unexpected bonus." - Kirkus Reviews
From 1827 Henry Rawlinson, fearless soldier, sportsman and imperial adventurer of the first rank, spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan...
The War for All the Oceans
From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
A brutal, action-packed account of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War by the author of the bestselling Nelson’s Trafalgar and co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)
As he did with his much lauded Nelson’s Trafalgar, Roy Adkins...
Everybody Behaves Badly
The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.” — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
*“*An essential book . . . a page-turner. Blume combines...
by Lesley Choyce
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. He writes of his love for the rugged coast and tells tales of the ordinary and the extraordinary. His story includes accounts of what it’s like surfing in the...
by Lesley Maroni
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Understanding 4-5-year-olds gives a thoughtful overview of the challenges that children face as they gradually move away from a strong attachment to their families and turn towards the wider world of school and life outside the family.
Lesley Maroni discusses the critical social and emotional...
Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition
A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart
At last, here's your excuse to catch up. Introducing Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition, a compendium of long-forgotten libations due for a revival. Culled from ancient times through the 1960s,...