Sheila: 1246 books
Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters
More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered and Collected by the Queens of Comfort Food?
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
The Brass Sisters' James Beard Baking/Dessert Award-finalist cookbook contains the sisters' inimitable take on classic recipes for the sweet treats we all loved as kids.
Fond memories of sweet pies, quick breads, and cookies from a grandmother's or mother's kitchen are hard to resist. In Heirloom...
The Right to Be Cold
One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her...
Writing Personal Essays
Shaping and Sharing Your Life Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Writing from the truths in our lives seems difficult but personal essayist Sheila Bender provides a powerful methodology to reach more deeply into your personal experience and, therefore, to reach others deeply. You'll create eight styles of personal essays to examine your life events from different...
The Night is Done: A Durant Family Saga
Durant Family Saga, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Best Book of Fiction by the Adirondack Center for Writing
William and Ella Durant, heirs to a bygone fortune, are recounting the events that led to the Durant family downfall during the Gilded Age. In 1931 William returns to visit the estate he once possessed in the Adirondacks...
Imaginary Brightness: a Durant Family Saga
Durant Family Saga, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
William Durant and his sister Ella have spent most of their youth living abroad while their father, Dr. Thomas Durant, invests in land and builds a railroad empire in the wake of the American Civil War. They are provided with every opportunity that their father’s amassed wealth can buy: travel,...
by Sheila Jeffreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1997
Sheila Jeffreys examines the activities of feminist campaigners around such issues as child abuse and prostitution and how these campaigns shaped social purity in the 1880s and 1890s. She demonstrates how the thriving and militant feminism of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undermined,...
by Sheila Hollinghead
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
This short, seven-day devotional examines James 3:13-17, applying it specifically to the life of a writer, but don't let that stop non-writers from reading. The applications can be made to any Christian and is a great way to discover if we indeed have "wisdom from above." Topics covered include meekness, jealousy, ambition, boasting, and being false to the truth.
The Other Side of the Fence
American Migrants in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A growing number of Americans, many of them retirees, are migrating to Mexico's beach resorts, border towns, and picturesque heartland. While considerable attention has been paid to Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S., the reverse scenario receives little scrutiny. Shifting the traditional lens of...
Political Aid and Arab Activism
Democracy Promotion, Justice, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
What does it mean to promote 'transitions to democracy' in the Middle East? How have North American, European and multilateral projects advanced human rights, authoritarian retrenchment or Western domination? This book examines transnational programs in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Yemen, Lebanon, Tunisia,...
by Sheila Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
It’s hard enough to have your mate die suddenly, but even harder to discover that he had a second life, which included a mistress, and that their estate was largely depleted because of his gifts to his paramour. Peg must put herself back together again and do it rapidly. With beautifully worded...
by Douglas Barbour, Sheila E. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained...
The Best Diet Begins in Your Mind
Eliminate the Eight Emotional Obstacles to Permanent Weight Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
If you begin your day intending to stick to a diet only to eat something you shouldnt before noon, then its time to change course. Dr. Sheila H. Forman, Ph.D., an acclaimed clinical psychologist, identifies the emotional obstacles that may be sabotaging your weight loss goals in this guidebook to...
Love Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
An enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Becoming Jane Eyre. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available.
The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill, a South African woman...
by Sheila Simonson
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
When a landslide kills six people and destroys several expensive homes, Madeline Thomas, principal chief of the Klalos, and geologist Charlie O Neill know something is rotten in Latouche County: the land should never have been built on. Sheriff s investigator Rob Neill uncovers a suppressed hazard warning...