Leslie: 2389 books
by Leslie Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry
The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.
by Leslie Gilbert Elman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
A kicky sassy way to learn about incredible women and their amazing accomplishments The Ladies' Room Reader Quiz Book offers thousands of bits of trivia around the lives and work of women including: Senators Rock stars Cooks Sports heroes Nobel Laureates The book offers many different kinds of...
Do More Than Give
The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
How donors change the world through the six catalytic practices of high-impact philanthropy
Do More Than Give provides a blueprint for individuals, philanthropists, and foundation leaders to increase their impact. Based on Forces for Good, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how the six practices...
by Leslie Truex
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger pushed her daughter in a stroller past a vacant lot in Los Angeles, California. She was on her way to pick up a pair of repaired shoes for her husband when she saw the body of Elizabeth “Betty” Short lying just off the sidewalk. Bersinger...
Phoenix Rising
Stories of Remarkable Women Walking Through Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
How do you go on after you’ve lost everything? True stories of surviving the Colorado wildfires and finding hope for the future.
Over several terrifying summers, deadly wildfires raged across Colorado. Lives were lost, and the flames destroyed thousands of homes. When the smoke cleared and...
Jazz Books in the 1990s
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. International in scope, the books included range from such places as Finland, Slovakia, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa, as well as Canada,...
by Leslie C. Dunn, Katherine R. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England....
The Gangster's Wife
An Empire Built on Cards
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
For almost four decades, Margaret 'Mags' McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband, Tam, the notorious 'Licensee', amassed a fortune by leading a safe-cracking gang before masterminding a spectacular £50-million drugs racket.
Mags was a devotee of Tarot cards and fortune telling, so when...
Wish You Were Here
An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A snarky, fact-filled look at the people and places that made the indie/punk scene what it is today
The American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!):
In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye...
by Leslie Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
She'd Heard of Brotherly Love
Window dresser Chloe Weston doesn't believe in lust at first sight-until she catches her boss, Troy Langtree, reveling half-naked in a rainstorm. So owhen she finds herself alone, on a secluded beach, with the object of her nightly fantasies, she decides to go...
by Leslie Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When life throws you a curve ball...
Venus deMarley has just been hit with a wild pitch. At forty she's finally found the perfect fiancé, when Sophie—the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago—suddenly reappears. Venus has another crisis on her hands as well: her eccentric...
Behind the Burly Q
The Story of Burlesque in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
“A well-researched, intimate portrait of burlesque and the women who teased and seduced their ways into the hearts of the American public” (Nancy Powell, Shelf Awareness).
Burlesque was one of America’s most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century....
Royal Affairs
A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarch y
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain?s royals.
Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts?history has never been so much fun.
Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating...
The Wonder Years
40 Women over 40 on Aging, Faith, Beauty, and Strength
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Women past a certain age often feel like they are fading into the background of life. The nest is emptying, limitations are increasing, and fear about aging and the years ahead grow. Even women of faith can feel a waning sense of value, regardless of biblical examples of godly women yielding fruit...