Leon: 1324 books

They seek food, a soft place to sleep, a loving hand: the homeless cats of Lanzarote. As they do so, they have a host of different adventures, make new friends but also get into great danger. Freddy Leon once went to the Spanish island as a tourist on holiday. And stayed. Not because of the beautiful...

Brunswik is a great place to raise a family, to get a good education, to have a nice lawn, and to get murdered. Tiny but feisty Mayor Maggie Wellington finds her life and political career threatened when a developer of a shopping mall goes missing and an alderman dies in an arson.

Scorned and outcast from society, Jason has turned to the only thing he understands, the Dream World. He knows the rules, and he knows he's one of the few people who can manipulate the dreams of others, to force them to do things they would never have done while awake. And in the real, waking world,...

This early work by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains his analysis of Socialism, the Soviet State and Economics of Russia during the early twentieth century. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with...

Life Lines is the result of this authors continuing drive and desire to provoke thought in his readers. He seeks to do so by providing works that are creative in presentation and also intellectually and emotionally stimulating. His primary focus has been to share insights into his personal thoughts...

Subversive, edgy, and wildly entertaining, this short story collection is a unique encounter with fiction in Leon Rooke's characteristic style as he peels back the skin of social convention and embraces the chaos of life with characters and themes as unpredictable as an assassin who murders the words...

Letters to Africans is a life buoy that Leon Tuam sends to African people. Readers will discover that many poems remind blame Africans to have not done enough to get out of the deep mud they have been living in for centuries. African people are aware of this situation, but they have not decided yet...

In this anthology, Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia; the death of a husband spells more than loss; a father confronts foreign invaders; a Goldilocksian home invader must eat to survive; a colleague struggles over mixed signals; train passengers witness an accident, while another...

Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the...

Caterina Pellegrini, experta en ópera del Barroco, rastrea la existencia de una valiosa herencia en unos documentos hallados por los descendientes de un genial compositor vinculado a la Iglesia católica. Caterina se adentra en la Venecia de finales del siglo XVII, investigando, sin proponérselo,...

Anna or rivers of gold. Which will captivate his heart? The lure of the nineteenth-century gold rush calls to Erik, a civil-war veteran. He and Anna, his Aleutian bride, set sail for a new life together in Sitka. Anna stands strong against the adversities of the new land with its unfamiliar...

What if you purchase a book from a second hand bookstore and found a dying letter written on it? What would you do? Would you ignore it? Would you try finding the previous owner? This is the dilemma of Eric, a young D.J. of an evening segment to a radio station. He bought a book at a small...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...

Heritage Hispanic-American Style is a rich, entertaining bilingual cultural compendium of facts that surveys the vast Hispanic/Spanish culture, from its birthplace in Spain to the lands of the new world where its language, religion, and customs greatly influence two continents. An estimated 400 million...