Leslie L Smith: 13 books
Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual
Or I Was Cursed by Polly Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
A 2015 Reader's Favorite Finalist, this tale of sex, loss, redemption and pharmaceuticals in the modern AIDS era that will make you laugh, break your heart, and inspire you. Leslie L. Smith's #SFCPT is a coming-of-age story - a teenage gay runaway turned hustler, David Matthews, is on a journey to...
Leaving the Rest
Gay Men on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
In Leaving the Rest, gay men open up and share their own personal experiences of being a gay alcoholic/addict and living as a sober gay man, including experiences leading to and following recovery.Addiction and recovery are often life-changing and lifelong issues for many gay men.
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Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
by Fiction River, Ron Collins, Diana Deverell
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Forget the old adage that cautions against wishing. The sixteen stories in this latest Fiction River contain just the right amount of heart, magic, pathos, and even hope. From a daughter hoping to save her father with a crash-course in wishery to an unfortunate victim at the wrong end of someone else’s...
Laboratory Lifestyles
The Construction of Scientific Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....
Crimes, Capers, & Rule-Breakers
20 Tales Of Mischief and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Sometimes, you gotta be bad.
Steal away with this bundle of thieves and miscreants and join them on their criminal adventures! From burglars to assassins, grifters to con artists, these are mysteries from the other side, from the criminal point-of-view.
Break some rules and snag the...
by Fiction River, Dean Wesley Smith, Annie Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In this latest volume of Fiction River, editor Dean Wesley Smith pulls together an eclectic but cohesive group of stories filled with difficult decisions. From a man who must question the line between justice and vengeance to a teenage fixer fighting hypocrisy to a post-apocalyptic survivor’s mission...
Heroic Tales
A Collection Of 19 Great Tales- Novels, Novella, And Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Imagine: you are seated about a blazing campfire, your and the other bards. Tales of Achilles, Beowulf, Alexander, Odysseus, Conan, Tarzan, Joan of Arc and other heroes are told, along with new ones that carry on with the Jungian archetypes so central to our very nature. Men and women who brave the...
Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....
by Fiction River, Mark Leslie, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Editing an anthology can prove tricky business. Wonderful stories sometimes find themselves on the rejection pile simply because they do not fit in the editor’s vision of that anthology. So, editor Mark Leslie decided to save some of those amazing stories for this latest volume of Fiction River:...
by Fiction River, Kerrie L. Hughes, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Alchemy changes more than dross into gold. It changes steampunk stories into stories of magical transformation. These thirteen stories combine science and magic into do-not-miss alternate history stories that span the globe. Travel with a soul-stealing carnival, meet the Grand Dangoolie, put on some...
Radical Conflict
Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical...
Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction
An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally. This book is the final and major project of the Association of Teacher Educators' (ATE) Commission on Teacher Induction...