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365 Steps to Self-Confidence by David Lawrence Preston
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Confidence is crucial to a happy and fulfilling life. And yet many of us lack confidence and self-belief. As a result, we are less adventurous and less likely to get the most out of life. This book is a carefully structured, daily programme covering the following areas: - Deciding to be confident - Harn ...Show more
5 Minute Plays by Lawrence Harbison
Category: Plays | Series: The Applause Acting Series
The plays in this volume of 5-Minute Plays are geared toward adults. Some are comedic, some are dramatic, some are realistic in style, while others are more unconventional. Their length makes them perfect for scene work in class. A few of the plays are written by playwrights who have established quite a ...Show more
5 Minute Plays for Teens by Lawrence Harbison
Category: Plays | Series: The Applause Acting Series
The plays in this volume of 5-Minute Plays for Teens are perfect for production by high schools, in that each play contains only teen characters, and the subject matter will appeal to aspiring young actors, making it easy to connect with the characters and situations. Some of the plays are comedic, some ...Show more
9 Kilometers by Claudio Aguilera; Gabriela Lyon (Illustrator); Lawrence Schimel (Translator)
Category: Picture Books
A memorable, compelling story about the perseverance of a child and the human right to education. The sky is still dark when a young boy leaves home for school. He has a long path ahead: nine kilometers--over five-and-a-half miles--through the mountains and rain forests of Chile. But the boy doesn't mi ...Show more
A Big Life in Advertising by Mary Lawrence
Category: Business
The first woman president of an advertising agency and the first woman CEO of a company on the New York Stock Exchange tells her "riveting story: How she shattered every glass ceiling and became a Madison Avenue legend."* From her role as fledgling copywriter at Doyle Dane Bernbach -- the agency that m ...Show more
A Choice of Enemies by Lawrence Freedman
Category: History
The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has seen unrelenting intercommunal violence; and the Taliban have got back into Afghanistan. George W. Bush will almo ...Show more
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: FICTION
Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Some of his most famous poems from this collection such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato" were created for jazz accompaniment. Written in the conservative post-war 1950s, his poems still resonate, ...Show more
A Coney Island of the Mind Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Poetry
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's - as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
A Cook's Tour of Scotland by Sue Lawrence
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Award-winning food writer Sue Lawrence has taken up the baton in praise of Scotland's produce. Travelling the length and breadth of Scotland, she seeks out all the great raw ingredients Scotland has to offer. From cockles harvested on Barra and venison from the Highlands, to seaweed picked on Auchmithie ...Show more
A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence
Category: Fiction
First title in a thrilling new trilogy by Michael Lawrence, author of the best-selling Jiggy McCue books.A Crack in the Line is a thought-provoking, intriguing story, full of mystery and suspense. Sixteen year old Alaric lives with his father in Withern Rise, a huge old house that was once home to Aldou ...Show more
A Crack in the Line (The Aldous Lexicon - Part 1 ) by Michael Lawrence
Category: Fiction
When his mother died in a terrible train crash, Alaric Underwood's life began to unravel. Two years on and now sixteen, Alaric still isn't over the loss, and on the anniversary of the tragedy he stumbles into an alternative version of his reality. In this reality his place has been taken by a girl calle ...Show more
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse Matt Scudder 9 by Lawrence Block
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Matthew Scudder Mysteries
P.I. Matthew Scudder follows a murder into New York's deadly, sex-for-sale, porn underground, in this gritty, provocative, and intense crime novel from Mystery Writer of America Grand Master Lawrence Block.