Linda: 7121 books
No Place Like Home
Notes from a Western Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
In No Place Like Home, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the...
Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation
In Praise of a Plural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate:...
So You Want to Sing Light Opera
A Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
So You Want to Sing Light Opera is a concise handbook for performers, teachers, and directors who want to learn more about the delightful genre of light opera, including Viennese operetta, English comic opera, French opéra bouffe, and Spanish zarzuela. Award-winning opera director and singer Linda...
by Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Doug Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
The Essential Parenting Guide- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED!
In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they're able to talk. The result: Baby Signs, the groundbreaking technique...
Women at the Cross
Experiencing the Wonder and Mystery of Christ's Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Who were the women present at Christ's crucifixion? Why did they come, and why did they stay? What did they see? What did they hear? How do their actions speak to people today? In searching for answers to these and other questions, author Linda Lesniewski discovered that she shared a spiritual kinship...
The Marvellous Boy
The Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In 1770, at the end of his tether, the seventeen-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, penniless and starving, despairing of success and tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room.Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. In the dawning Romantic Movement, he...
The Last Thing She Told Me
From The No 1 Bestselling Author of While My Eyes Were Closed
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
'A chiller with a puzzling mystery that manages to be a tearjerker too. Prepare for sleepless nights' Grazia
Even the deepest-buried secrets can find their way to the surface...
Moments before she dies, Nicola's grandmother Betty whispers to her that there are babies at the bottom of...
by Linda Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The meow of death . . .
Whisker Jog, New Hampshire, is a long way from Hollywood, but it’s the place legendary actress Deanna Daltry wants to call home. Taking up residence in a stone mansion off Cemetery Hill, the retired, yet still glamorous, septuagenarian has adopted two kittens from...
Happy Homicides 1: Cozy Holiday Mysteries Vol 1
Happy Homicides Mystery Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Meet your new favorite author! The Happy Homicides Cozy Mystery Series is our way of introducing you to new talent and reminding you of old favorites at a reasonable price. You’ll love this huge collection of heartwarming, brain-puzzling, and character-driven traditional mysteries that'll keep you...
by Linda Swain Bethea
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Born to a struggling farm family in the deepest of the Great Depression, Kathleen enjoys a colorful childhood, enhanced by her imagination, love of life, and the encouragement of her family. She's determined to build a better life for herself, getting herself into hilarious situations all along the...
by Linda Andersson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From one of Sweden's most popular baking bloggers comes a cookbook containing the secrets of making scrumptious baked breads right in your own home. This reliable baking book will provide you with wonderfully aromatic, freshly baked bread for all occasions that even the inexperienced baker can prepare.
Within...
Dreaming Red
Creating ArtPace
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Since its founding in 1993 by the late Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, Artpace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, Artpace's goal is to give artists time and space in which to imagine new ways to work. Each year, nine...
Summers of Fire
A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Linda Strader is one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in the mid-1970s, she discovers fighting wildfires is challenging—but in a man's world, they became only one of the challenges she would face. Battling fire is exhilarating, yet exhausting;...
Suburgatory
Life Trapped Among The Manicured Moms, Barely There Dads, And Nightmare Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The original proposal for this book was picked up by...