Lesley M M Blume: 10 books
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...
Let's Bring Back
An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The Huffington Post's "Let's Bring Back..." columnist, Lesley M. M. Blume, invites you to consider whatever happened to cuckoo clocks? Or bed curtains? Why do we have so many "friends" but have done away with the much more useful word "acquaintance"? All of these things,...
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...
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,...
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. But when a glamorous neighbor named Virginia Somerset...
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
When her grandmother dies and the once-majestic family estate is sold, eleven-year-old Julia Lancaster and her aunt Constance must take to the road to find Julia’s long-lost mother. They bring with them only the most practical travel things—silver candlestick holders, a few Oriental carpets, some...
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted the talents of the town's only piano teacher and seems destined to...
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins might just be the most extraordinary contribution to the study of the earth's past since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. In the incredible pages of these thought-to-be-lost diaries, Dr. Wiggins—whom we now must consider the greatest paleozoologist...
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
It’s 1932, the Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere. Tennyson Fontaine and her sister Hattie live in a rickety shack of a house with their mother and father and their wild dog, Jos. There is no school, only a rope swing in the living room and endless games of hide-and-seek...
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Perhaps you think fairies are figments of the imagination, or even relics of an ancient past. You may even think all fairies are lovely winged creatures, who dance in bluebell fields, granting wishes to anyone who should encounter them.
You would be wrong on all counts.
Fairies are very much alive...