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Journey Into the Mind's Eye

Fragments of an Autobiography

By: Lesley Blanch

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Journey Into the Mind's Eye

Fragments of an Autobiography

By: Lesley Blanch

A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler—swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Fabergé eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia—came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.

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New York Review of Books

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1681371936

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9781681371931

THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE

THE STORIES OF FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN WHO TRAVELED EAST

By: Lesley Blanch

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THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE

THE STORIES OF FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN WHO TRAVELED EAST

By: Lesley Blanch

Ideal reading for anyone looking for adventure and romance in unusual settings. Lesley Blanch writes about four strong women in The Wilder Shores of Love. Turning East, away from 19th Century Europe and conventional living, they found emancipation through escape and adventure. Isabel Burton married the Arabist and explorer Richard Burton; they worked together on his translation of A Thousand and One Nights; Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty), had four husbands and numerous lovers, including Honoré de Balzac and King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She ended up living in the Syrian desert with a young Bedouin chieftain; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery was a French convent girl who was captured at sea by pirates and became the consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid I; and Isabelle Eberhardt was a Swiss linguist who went to Algeria where she lived among tribesmen in the Sahara, converted to Islam, and dressed as a man. ANAIS NIN — “I read The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch and became completely devoted to her writing. It is a book of great vitality, superb storytelling. She is herself Scheherazade telling about four remarkable women. I was fascinated by the charm and with which she tells biographical facts. The four women became my heroines. I read the book several times. My admiration for her was total. The Wilder Shores of Love would have made colourful and entrancing films.” CARSON McCULLERS — “The Wilder Shores of Love is a book of such radiance and strength.” FREYA STARK — “A book as excellent as its title.” WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD — “Love, wanderlust, faraway places – all that Romance implies – make up this delicious book.” NEW YORKER — “Four seething but most enjoyable studies in headlong nonconformity.” DAILY TELEGRAPH — “Enthralling to read.”

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0993092799

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9780993092794

The Wilder Shores of Love

By: Lesley Blanch

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The Wilder Shores of Love

By: Lesley Blanch

Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan’s harem; and Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss woman who dressed as a man and lived among the Arabs of Algeria.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439197342

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9781439197349

Bavel

Modern Recipes Inspired by the Middle East [A Cookbook]

By: Ori Menashe,Genevieve Gergis,Lesley Suter

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Bavel

Modern Recipes Inspired by the Middle East [A Cookbook]

By: Ori Menashe,Genevieve Gergis,Lesley Suter

From the acclaimed chefs behind award-winning Los Angeles restaurant Bavel comes a gorgeous cookbook featuring personal stories and more than eighty recipes that celebrate the diversity of Middle Eastern cuisines. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME OUT • “Ori and Genevieve manage to pull off a style of cooking that is both familiar (and therefore comforting) but also new (and therefore fresh and exciting). This is the sort of food I could live on.”—Yotam Ottolenghi When chef Ori Menashe and pastry chef Genevieve Gergis opened their first Los Angeles restaurant, Bestia, the city fell in love. By the time they launched their second restaurant, Bavel, the love affair had expanded to cooks and food lovers nationwide. Bavel, the cookbook, invites home cooks to explore the broad and varied cuisines of the Middle East through fragrant spice blends; sublime zhougs, tahini, labneh, and hummus; rainbows of crisp-pickled vegetables; tender, oven-baked flatbreads; fall-off-the-bone meats and tagines; buttery pastries and tarts; and so much more. Bavel—pronounced bah-VELLE, the Hebrew name for Babel—is a metaphor for the myriad cultural, spiritual, and political differences that divide us. The food of Bavel tells the many stories of the countries defined as “the Middle East.” These recipes are influenced by the flavors and techniques from all corners of the region, and many, such as Tomato with Smoked Harissa, Turmeric Chicken with Toum, and Date-Walnut Tart, are inspired by Menashe’s Israeli upbringing and Gergis’s Egyptian roots. Bavel celebrates the freedom to cook what we love without loyalty to any specific country, and represents a world before the region was divided into separate nations. This is cooking without borders.

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Ten Speed Press

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039958093X

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9780399580932

Simply Dairy Free

Fresh & simple lactose-free recipes for healthy eating every day

By: Lesley Waters

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Simply Dairy Free

Fresh & simple lactose-free recipes for healthy eating every day

By: Lesley Waters

Millions of people are lactose intolerant - meaning they lack enough of the lactase enzyme to digest milk products properly. It is a common digestive problem that affects an estimated 9.5 million people in the UK alone. Others simply prefer to eliminate dairy as part of a "clean" diet. So, what to eat? In Simply Dairy Free, Lesley Waters provides more than 100 fresh and simple lactose-free recipes for healthy eating every day. Recipes range from White Bean Creamy Hummus with Broad Bean Salad & Dukkah to Coconut Rice Pudding with Griddled Pineapple, with cheats and swaps along the way so that die-hard dairy lovers can enjoy favourite dishes they're missing.

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Hamlyn

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0600634833

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9780600634836

Complete Book of Baby Names

The Most Names (100,001+), Most Unique Names, Most Idea-Generating Lists (600+) and the Most Help to Find the Perfect Name

By: Lesley Bolton

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Complete Book of Baby Names

The Most Names (100,001+), Most Unique Names, Most Idea-Generating Lists (600+) and the Most Help to Find the Perfect Name

By: Lesley Bolton

The Complete Book of Baby Names: The Most Names (100,001+), Most Unique Names, Most Idea-Generating Lists (600+) and the Most Help to Find the Perfect Name "If you've got an occasion to bestow a name, and you're looking for the widest possible range of choices, you can't go wrong by bringing home a copy of The Complete Book of Baby Names." phantomscribbler.blogspot.com Every year, hundreds of thousands of expectant parents turn to The Complete Book of Baby Namesas their essential, indispensable guide to choosing the best name for their child. Helpful and full of creative inspiration, this #1 bestseller gives you all the best ways to find your favorites and decide on the perfect fit. The Most Names, Most Lists, Most Help to Find the Best Name: More Names AND Richer Definitions The Most (600+) Creative Lists to Inspire You The Most Idea-Sparking Celebrity Baby Names The Most Popular-and Unique-Names The Newest Trends, Including What Makes the Perfect Name! More than 600 Fun Lists to Help You Choose, Including: Intellectual, creative names from literature and the arts Strong, respected names from sports and politics Unique, under-the-radar names that hit the right notes Packed full of more than 100,001 baby names with origins, variations, and richer definitions, The Complete Book of Baby Names makes choosing your baby's name a joyful act of love. Everything You Need ... The most up-to-date list of popular names - plus top twin names Selecting sibling names that make sense for your family Great gender-neutral names - plus the top 61 names Adding a middle name - or two! 18 essentials in choosing the perfect name... And what not to name your baby All the top baby boy and baby girl names! Plus all the best variations and nicknames All You Need in One Complete Book! MORE PRAISE FOR THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BABY NAMES: "The Complete Book of Baby Names is a great resource if you are naming a baby, and, it's also an interesting read. Busy Girl has been using it to inform all her friends what their names mean.Most importantly, though, it covers what NOT to name your baby. I'll let you check that one out yourself." BusyMom.net "Since this is my third child, I've been through my share of baby name books, about 2 a pregnancy. This one I found as my favorite, not just the first few chapters but the list of names are wonderful and broken not just into boy and girl categories but lists of popular names by country, twin names and hordes of other lists. You'll be amazed, as I was." snowboundintheyukon.blogspot.com "If you're going to choose one baby name book and get the most bang for your buck, this is a good one to go with. It's more complete and helpful than any other single book I've seen out there and short of turning it into an OED-style multi-volume set, I'm not sure there's much more the author Lesley Bolton could pack in." daringyoungmom.com "The Complete Book of Baby Names is so fun too. It isn't just a list of names - it is like a course in baby-naming! With chapters on baby-naming history, naming trends, the attributes of a perfect name, middles names, etc. as well as 276 fun name lists like popular names in different countries, and bizarre lists such as the names of models, First Ladies, Reality TV Stars and more, this book could keep me going until I deliver!" 5minutesformom.com "We've seen a lot of baby name books in our time, some good, and some not so good. This one's a good one...It has the big list, so that you can look up the definitions of the names that you're considering. But, it also teaches you how to pick a really great name for your little bundle of joy... So, if you just want definitions, this book's got those. If you just don't know what name you want, or if you're scared of choosing the wrong name, this book can help." thefamilylog.com

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402253958

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9781402253959

Halloween Nation

Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night

By: Lesley Pratt Bannatyne

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Halloween Nation

Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night

By: Lesley Pratt Bannatyne

America's leading authority on Halloween presents interviews with spooky rock groups, amateur vampires, haunted house creators, champion pumpkin carvers, and more, all in the quest of explaining the nation's unique love affair with this holiday. The collection of essays and interviews explores the pop culture phenomenon that is Halloween, and why we celebrate it the way we do today.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1589806808

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9781589806801

At the Japanese Table

New and Traditional Recipes

By: Lesley Downer

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At the Japanese Table

New and Traditional Recipes

By: Lesley Downer

The acclaimed book that demystified Japanese cuisine for home cooks returns with a newly designed cover as lovely as the photo presentations within. Over 90 exquisite recipes cover every aspect of modern Japanese meals from elaborate kaiseki dinners--to simply prepared noodle bowls for a casual family supper. The dozens of step-by-step technique illustrations make preparing even the most complicated dishes as easy as ichi, ni, san. Vibrant color photographs take fans of Japanese cookery on a culinary tour of the country, exploring the feasts and festivals, restaurants, sushi bars, street stalls, and even the temples for a taste of this intriguing land. Along the way discover why, as a result of their diet, the Japanese live longer than anyone else in the world. Itadaki masu! Enjoy.

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Chronicle Books

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0811832805

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9780811832809

The Book of Pasta

By: Lesley Mackley

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The Book of Pasta

By: Lesley Mackley

Perfect pasta dishes begin with perfect pasta, and this book contains a step-by-step guide to the various types of dried pasta available, recipes for delicious homemade pasta, and how to cook them. 350 color photographs.

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Penguin

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0895866412

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9780895866417

Charity

Where can she go with no-one left to care for her?

By: Lesley Pearse

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Charity

Where can she go with no-one left to care for her?

By: Lesley Pearse

A heartbreaking historical novel from the No.1 bestselling author of Stolen Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is. Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to London and begins to forge a new life.

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688

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Random House

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1446474453

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9781446474457

The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi

By: Lesley K. Twomey

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The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi

By: Lesley K. Twomey

First comprehensive survey of Isabel de Villena (Sor Isabel), the fifteenth-century Spanish nun and writer. Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) is one of the most fascinating women of the Spanish middle ages. Related to the royal family, she became abbess of the Poor Clare convent, the Santa Trinitat, in Valencia in 1462, a position she heldfor almost thirty years until her death. Her treatise on the religious life, Vita Christi, was the first book by a woman to be printed in the kingdom of Aragon. This is the first full-length survey in English of Isabel's life and literary works. The author pays particular attention to the way in which devotion to the Virgin Mary is manifested and described through material culture, on her rich fabrics, brocades, silks, shoes, and crown. The book thus highlights not only Isabel's distinctive contribution to the genre of the Vita Christi, but also reflects the status of Valencia as a centre for trade and producer of silks and velvets at the time, as well as its flourishing shoe-making industry. Lesley K. Twomey is Principal Lecturer, Hispanic Studies, Northumbria University.

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Tamesis Books

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1855662485

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9781855662483

Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition

A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

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Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition

A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

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, these delectable vintage cocktails are by turns fizzy and silken, sweet and tart, lethal and prim. Some of them are absurd, several are sentimental, while others are outright scandalous. They include: - Angel's Tit – Guaranteed to shock goody-goodies - Du Barry – To get your mistress into the mood - Green-Eyed Monster – To serve to frenemies - Monkey Gland – An unlikely fountain of youth - Runt's Ambition – Serve this to men with Napoleon Complex Throughout this illustrated tome, Lesley M. M. Blume divulges colorful cocktail history and barroom wisdom alongside one hundred and forty-four recipes that will delight aperitif aficionados for years to come. Whether you're toasting to an unexpected windfall, treating a malediction, or simply need an occasion to let your hair down, Let's Bring Back: The Cocktails Edition has the bevvy for you.

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Chronicle Books

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1452121281

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9781452121284

Ben Jonson's Antimasques

A History of Growth and Decline

By: Lesley Mickel

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Ben Jonson's Antimasques

A History of Growth and Decline

By: Lesley Mickel

First published in 1999, this volume examines how under the patronage of James I and then Charles I, Ben Jonson wrote no less than 28 court masques. Paying particular attention to the antimasque, Lesley Mickel discusses in detail those court entertainments which contributed significantly to the genre’s evolution and development. Her approach is innovative in that she examines these court entertainments in relation to Jonson’s poetry and dramatic works. This reveals some idea of the way in which Jonson perceived the relationship between satire and panegyric, as well as highlighting the related, if oppositional, views of state power which he expresses in the Roman plays and in the masques.

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333

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Routledge

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0429864442

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9780429864445

Margaret Preston

Recipes for Food and Art

By: Lesley Harding

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Margaret Preston

Recipes for Food and Art

By: Lesley Harding

Celebrated for her vibrant and distinctive pictures of indigenous flowers, artist Margaret Preston was an equally colourful and outspoken personality. Less well known is her legacy as a generous and insightful teacher and keen cook, and her deep sense of civic duty. She was passionate about the need for a modern national culture that reflected everyday life. For Preston, the building blocks of such a culture were not to be found in the Australian pastoral landscape tradition, but in the home and garden. Maintaining that art should be within everyone’s reach, she published widely on the methods and techniques of a host of creative pursuits—from pottery, printmaking and basket weaving, to the gentle art of flower arranging. She devoted much of her career to the genre of still life, depicting humble domestic objects and flowers from her garden, and often painting in the kitchen while keeping 'one eye on the stew'. Drawing on recipes from handwritten books found in the National Gallery of Australia and richly illustrated with Preston’s paintings, prints and photographs this book sheds new light on the fascinating private life of a much-loved Australian artist.

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335

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522870139

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9780522870138

The Book of Greek Cooking

By: Lesley Mackley

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The Book of Greek Cooking

By: Lesley Mackley

Includes illustrated recipes for cheeses, vegetables, lamb, pork, seafood, beef, veal, breads, poultry, and sweets

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130

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Penguin

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155788062X

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9781557880628

Tomorrow River

By: Lesley Kagen

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Tomorrow River

By: Lesley Kagen

From the national bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark. During the summer of 1968 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, eleven-year- old Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. As the first anniversary of their mother's disappearance nears, her father's threat to send Woody away and his hints at an impending remarriage spur a desperate Shenny to find her mother-before it's too late.

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Penguin

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1101187131

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9781101187135

The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

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The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

By: Lesley M. M. Blume

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 of all time—has divulged the secrets of the truly ancient animal world: a world before human beings; a world before dinosaurs; a world that, until now, existed well beyond the outer reaches of human imagination. From deadly Amazonian Whispering Vines (Vitus Sussurus) to curious creatures called Brittle Bones (Futilis Ossis) to a mysterious pet named Gibear (Chiroptera Vicugna Pacosis), the discoveries of Dr. Wiggins will forever change the way we think about the world before us.

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0375872183

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9780375872181

Make Every Dish Delicious

Modern Classics and Essential Tips for Total Kitchen Confidence

By: Lesley Chesterman

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Make Every Dish Delicious

Modern Classics and Essential Tips for Total Kitchen Confidence

By: Lesley Chesterman

Recipes, perfected. A repertoire of reliable, classic recipes and fundamental techniques that deliver gorgeous results, every time, for cooks of every ability, in the tradition of Genius Recipes and Barefoot Contessa Foolproof. Stop searching the web for what to cook for dinner. From the best roast chicken to the most sumptuous brownie, Lesley Chesterman’s perfected recipes have you covered—tonight, and always. When Montreal’s favorite food critic, Lesley Chesterman, was approached ten years ago to write a cookbook, she laughed and said: “The last thing the world needs is another recipe for carbonara.” She never forgot the editor’s reply: “True. But I think they might like your recipe for carbonara.” That comment resonated, because carbonara, like so many dishes, is a recipe Lesley has worked tirelessly to get just right. Returning again and again to recipes and making small tweaks or big overhauls is what Lesley loves to do. And the result of a lifetime of tinkering is Make Every Dish Delicious, a cookbook that offers a repertoire of foolproof modern classics and a wealth of cooking knowledge to give everyone a helping hand in the kitchen. Make Every Dish Delicious begins with deeply informative chapters on how to set up your kitchen and pantry, and how to work with fundamental ingredients and basics such as eggs, butter, stocks, and vinaigrettes. Lesley effortlessly demystifies multiple technical challenges (how to make an omelet, how to deep fry without fear, how to use—and not misuse—the all-important salt, and many more). From there, she takes you on a savoury and sweet journey of recipes encompassing modern classics such as her super simple carbonara, perfect pain de campagne, show-stopping salt-baked bass, crowd-pleasing standing rib roast, stunning black forest cake, and gorgeous Gascogne apple tart. Every recipe here is reliable, repeatable, and irresistible. Homemade no-knead bread and pizza dough? Yes, you can! Chicken Kiev (the easy way)? Of course! Cote de boeuf for two? Why not? Chocolate megamousse for a dessert sensation? Lesley’s got you. These are dishes to cook with total confidence for friends and family, every day. Let Lesley’s collection of perfected recipes become your very own.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982196378

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9781982196370

The Landlord's Survival Guide

The Truly Practical Insider' Handbook for All Private Landlords

By: Lesley Henderson

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The Landlord's Survival Guide

The Truly Practical Insider' Handbook for All Private Landlords

By: Lesley Henderson

This concise but comprehensive guide is for first time - as well as established - landlords. It is divided into sections, each of which is jam-packed with detail and insider tips. Most sections will only take minutes to read (although a few earlier ones take a little more) and each section tells you exactly what you need to do - and why - to get best results. It provides advice on: viewings - how to arrange and conduct them; making a realistic rent assessment before spending any money; knowing what agents should charge and should do; advertising - how to write, where to place, and how to respond to callers - plus using the response to assess tenants; selecting tenants and closing the deal; and, deposits - why they work and how they can fail.It also offers advice on: agreeing inventories, schedules of condition, and property profiles; assured shorthold leases - what they are, the exceptions, and where to buy them for a song; ending tenancies - the easy, and the hard way; the legal responsibilities that no landlord can ignore; particular aspects about houses in multiple occupation; property maintenance - realistic costs and useful advice; and, dealing with the tax man. Each section has tips, skills, time management ideas, and problem solving advice, plus supportive guidance and helpful websites and phone numbers. If you're looking for a bit of straight talking about your investment, or you're sufficiently interested to discover how to increase your own bottom line rather than some agent's, then this is the guide for you. Contents: Lesson 1 Learning the Ropes when Buying Property; Lesson 2 Mock Advertising; Lesson 3 Yields; Lesson 4 Selecting Agents - or not; Lesson 5 Assured Shorthold Leases; Lesson 6 Advertising; Lesson 7 Inventories, Schedules of Condition and Property Profiles; Lesson 8 Viewings; Lesson 9 Selecting Tenants and Tying Up the Deal; Lesson 10 Deposits; Lesson 11 Ending Tenancies; Lesson 12 The Serious Responsibilities; Lesson 13 Houses in Multiple Occupation; Lesson 14 Property Maintenance; Lesson 15 The Tax Man's Take; Index

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Robinson

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1848036582

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9781848036581

Rocky Mountain Romance

By: Lesley Ann McDaniel

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Rocky Mountain Romance

By: Lesley Ann McDaniel

SHEILA McINTOSH IS HEAD OVER HEELS FOR BEN JACOBS But they haven't spoken since his sister Courtney's wedding last summer. Now that they're back together again on Courtney's Montana ranch, Sheila's wondering if she only imagined that Ben cared for her--and their time together was just a beautiful dream. Ben's crazy about Sheila, but he's too shy to tell her, and he's praying for another chance to win her affections. Can this sweet computer expert overcome his shyness and show her that sometimes dreams really do come true?

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Harlequin

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0373486995

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9780373486991

The Handy Butler

Your Home Guide to Conversions and House Hold Queries

By: Lesley-Ann Stanghon

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The Handy Butler

Your Home Guide to Conversions and House Hold Queries

By: Lesley-Ann Stanghon

Pursuing the idea for this booklet in the beginning, I thought it would be a good idea to be in possession of a handy book that can be kept in the kitchen as a quick reference guide to every day queries and cooking conversions. Since then, it has become a lot more than that, with plenty of interesting information and tips for all genders of the household. Whether hosting a formal dinner party or caring for your Koi Pond or attempting Do-It-Yourself projects - to mention but a few, this booklet is able to make your situation a little bit easier if you encounter a problem. Some interesting subjects include: Sign Language, Signing and Braille as well as Morse Code and Navigational Flags and Navigational Lights. For those who ever wondered how to wrap a Turban or Sari or even wondered about the Hats from around the world you will find it in this booklet. If you need to know when the Islamic and Jewish holidays are, and their meanings - look no further, The Handy Butler has it all. In conclusion: The little obstacles in life are made easier when there is a Handy Butler to help you.

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AuthorHouse

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1449085989

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9781449085988

Manual of Perioperative Care

An Essential Guide

By: Kate Woodhead,Lesley Fudge

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Manual of Perioperative Care

An Essential Guide

By: Kate Woodhead,Lesley Fudge

Manual of Perioperative Care is a comprehensive manual of principles of care designed to support the clinical practice of perioperative practitioners, whether they are nurses or operating department practitioners. This book meets the needs of those studying perioperative practice as well as those who would like an up-to-date comprehensive reference on their bookshelf. It covers the fundamentals of perioperative practice, placing them within the wider context of modern surgical care. With a practical, accessible focus, aided by full colour illustrations, this book follows the journey that the patient makes through their surgical care, with sections on: The foundation for safe and effective perioperative care Infection prevention and control Patient safety and managing risks Different patient care groups Approaches to surgery This book is essential reading for all students on perioperative courses, as well as newly qualified perioperative nurses and operating department practitioners.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118302354

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Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing

Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

By: Diane Brown,Helen Edwards,Lesley Seaton,Thomas Buckley

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Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing

Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

By: Diane Brown,Helen Edwards,Lesley Seaton,Thomas Buckley

Perfect for: • Undergraduate Nursing Students • Postgraduate Specialist Nursing Pathways (Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing) • TAFE Bachelor of Nursing Program Lewis’s Medical–Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 4th Edition is the most comprehensive go-to reference for essential information about all aspects of professional nursing care of patients. Using the nursing process as a framework for practice, the fourth edition has been extensively revised to reflect the rapid changing nature of nursing practice and the increasing focus on key nursing care priorities. Building on the strengths of the third Australian and New Zealand edition and incorporating relevant global nursing research and practice from the prominent US title Medical–Surgical Nursing, 9Th Edition, Lewis’s Medical–Surgical Nursing, 4th Edition is an essential resource for students seeking to understand the role of the professional nurse in the contemporary health environment. 49 expert contributors from Australia and New Zealand Current research data and Australian and New Zealand statistics Focus on evidence-based practice Review questions and clinical reasoning exercises Evolve Resources for instructor and student, including quick quiz’s, test banks, review questions, image gallery and videos. • Chapter on current national patient safety and clinical reasoning • Over 80 new and revised case studies • Chapter on rural and remote area nursing • Fully revised chapter on chronic illness and complex care • Chapter on patient safety and clinical reasoning • Greater emphasis on contemporary health issues, such as obesity and emergency and disaster nursing • Australia and New Zealand sociocultural focus

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729583937

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Bitter Chocolate

By: Lesley Lokko

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Bitter Chocolate

By: Lesley Lokko

Three girls in search of a missing piece of their lives; three girls who will change their worlds to find it . . . 'A sexy, sophisticated page-turner' EVE 'A blockbuster with brains ... the ultimate guilty pleasure' BELLA 'Sheer indulgence' DAILY EXPRESS Laure, seventeen, beautiful and already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember, a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family name and fled to America; and then again by a handsome soldier who left her pregnant and alone, facing the wrath of her grandmother. Amelie, caught in a world where she's neither servant nor mistress, trapped between the St Lazare family she's always worked for and the simmering hostility of a country on the verge of meltdown. With a past she knows nothing about and no family of her own, she yearns to find a place that can be home. Melanie, the rock star's daughter who has everything money can buy except the love she craves. A daddy's girl caught in a whirl of damaging relationships, testing those closest to her. In one man she sees the chance to change her life for ever, but at what price? In a story that begins in the relentless heat of a Haitian summer and sweeps through the luxury of America's elite to the colourful chaos of East End London, BITTER CHOCOLATE is a glorious tale of the quest for love, marriage and finding a place to belong.

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Orion

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1409105598

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Laura's Year

By: Lesley Southgate

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Laura's Year

By: Lesley Southgate

In January 1976, it is an excited, but nervous family of four who board a Jumbo jet, to leave England to begin a new life in a small town, on the Persian Gulf in Iran. Adrian, an ex-Royal Naval Officer, thought this new job in Iran would be a chance to earn big money, and although neither parent had wanted to disrupt their children’s education, they thought it was worth the risk, giving them both valuable life experiences, and a chance to see ‘something of the world.’ Once settled in their new home, with the children happily enrolled in an excellent international school, they immediately made friends with like-minded ex-pats, and got involved in an active and well-established social scene, with parties and functions most weekends, and daily trips to their ‘club’ in town, which housed a bar, and swimming pool. Caroline and Alex, having made friends at school, as well as with some local children, who lived in mud huts, in the desert at the end of their road, also seemed happy with their lot, but Laura becomes pregnant, which threatens to disrupt their idyllic lives, and events that followed, appear to have changed Laura’s, once devoted and loving husband’s feelings towards her. But, had Laura changed? And that was why her previously, caring husband didn’t fancy her anymore. How was she to get their relationship back on track, when there were so many exciting distractions and choices which held his attention, which didn’t include her?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398497002

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Rich Girl, Poor Girl

By: Lesley Lokko

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Rich Girl, Poor Girl

By: Lesley Lokko

Friendship, ambition, betrayal - the brilliant novel from the author of BITTER CHOCOLATE. Nic, Caryn and Tory: three girls who form a friendship that should last a lifetime. Nic is the daughter of a white Zimbabwean business tycoon. Despite a life of jaw-dropping wealth and privilege, all she really wants is a bit of attention from daddy. Caryn never met her father - but growing up on a tough London sink estate, she had other things to worry about. Like getting out and moving on. Tory just yearns for some space to be herself. Living in the shadow of your dead sister is tough, particularly when she seemed to be everything you're not. Then beautiful, ruthless Estelle McKenzie appears on the scene. Estelle has a secret - and one way or another, she's going to make each woman pay a very high price for it.

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Orion

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1409105601

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9781409105602

Lesley’S Good Food

By: Lesley Rosa

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Lesley’S Good Food

By: Lesley Rosa

This book is planned to provide delicious recipes and imaginative meal ideas for all occasionsfood that is artistic, creative, easy to make, and delicious. I have shown in this book that anyone can cook with a little help from the imagination. I have added picturesque ideas for the simplicity in meals. I have always taken ideas from other recipes that I have made in the past and tried something different with all of them. I welcome anyone to do the same. I have also added some old and new ideas to this book from friends and family that have made it so simple to produce all these recipes. The reader will find recipes that range from simple family meals to dishes that are suitable for formal entertaining. In addition, I have added recipes for healthy smoothies that everyone loves! A table giving the conversion of dry ingredients from grams to milliliters is included under Weights and Measures. I have also added a variety of culinary stages of cooking. All these recipes are versatile and easy to use. There are various recipes for the health conscious as well. Readers will also benefit from these recipes as I have included dishes for all seasons.

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1524661066

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The Lesley Lokko Collection

By: Lesley Lokko

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The Lesley Lokko Collection

By: Lesley Lokko

Five stories of secrets, love and friendship from the bestselling author of A PRIVATE AFFAIR. Comprises: SUNDOWNERS SAFFRON SKIES BITTER CHOCOLATE RICH GIRL, POOR GIRL ONE SECRET SUMMER.

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1409139697

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9781409139690

Sunday's Kitchen

Food and Living at Heide

By: Lesley Harding,Kendrah Morgan

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Sunday's Kitchen

Food and Living at Heide

By: Lesley Harding,Kendrah Morgan

Sunday Reed was a passionate cook and gardener, who believed in home-grown produce, seasonal cooking and a communal table. Sunday's Kitchen tells the story of food and living at the home of John and Sunday Reed, two of Australia's most significant art benefactors. Settling on the fifteen-acre property in 1935, the Reeds transformed it from a run-down dairy farm into a fertile creative space for artists such as Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman. Richly illustrated with art, photographs-many previously unpublished-and recipes from Sunday's personal collection, Sunday's Kitchen recreates Heide's compelling and complex story.

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The Miegunyah Press

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0522857418

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9780522857412

Taking a Chance

Sprats To Catch Mackerels

By: Lesley M Francis

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Taking a Chance

Sprats To Catch Mackerels

By: Lesley M Francis

“Trust her to die happy! Just lying there in bed – all tranquil – not a care in the world, smiling sweetly, too, like she‘s taking a refreshing nap. Listening to the heavenly choir no doubt! And another thing, that’s a real smile… Well anyway, it’s not the usual allure-free rictus she pins on – the one that’s about as soothing as a ‘Jolly Roger’ suddenly hoisted on the only lifeboat responding to your may-day call...” Taking a Chance traces the relationship between Imogen and her mother, Ada, culminating in Ada’s death when Imogen is fifty years old. Imogen’s reminiscences start with her discovery of Ada’s death, revealing her quirky coping philosophy as she does so. Incredibly intelligent but maybe ‘too nice’, a shock discovery will have devastating consequences for her good nature... Ada, with a head chock-full of romantic illusions, needs to lose a husband in order to facilitate her dreams. Claiming that his death was a tragic accident, she is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment. Only her son, Robin, is convinced that she is a murderer – Imogen vehemently disagrees, at least at the beginning. It is only much later, after fear on behalf of her sick mother has taken hold, that she realises her mistake. On the night before Ada’s death, Ada confesses devastating new information that destroys their relationship and has the power to tear the whole family apart. In a shocked rage, Imogen fails to return her mother’s medication to the locked medicine cabinet as usual... Taking a Chance is a gripping, sometimes humorous tale of a family in turmoil. Similar in style to Maeve Binchy, it will appeal to fans of stories with shocking twists and unexpected endings.

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1785890212

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9781785890215

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